Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-24
TRI1 WEEKLY CHILDREN
MAKE GIRL HAPPY
WITH CHRISTMAS GIFT
Continued From Pagee 1.

OF scores OF boys and girls IN
the United States-scattered from
Maine to California and from the
Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico
all of them comrades in the banG
That become friends through "Aunt
Julia Letter Box in The Tri-Week-
ly-Joined in giving the sum of S1OO
toward paying for the education of
little Inez last year.
1nez came under, the shelter of
the Berry schools and out of a life
OF hopelessness through the SYM
pathy of Miss Martha Berry. Hun
dreds of other Georgia girls have
found the same salvation, Just what
the chance meant to Inez may be
learned by heading the story told by
MISS Berry in a letter printer later
herein. Inez, consequently, will for.
ever be grateful to Miss Berry.
And she will be grateful to Aunt
Julia" because it was Aunt Julia, ~
who conceived the happy thought of
making Inez the beneficiary of the
gift of the Letter Box boys
and girls. Aunt Julia" visited the
Berry schools this year and Tri-
Weekly readers will remember the
splendid story of what the schools
are-doing for Georg:a's future man
hood and Womanhood.
For several years past Aunt
Julia S" nieces and nephews have
made UP a fund for someone who
needed it. A forlorn little French
orphan was cared for a long time
IN this way. And others have bene
fitted, too. This year it was decided
to help a Georgia girl-somebody
closer home. So the pennies and the
nickels and the dimes have been
coming in for months until almost
on Christmas eve the goal of 500
was reached.
These gifts from hundreds of chill
dren meant innumerable cases of
sacrifice and self-denial to the Civ
ers. And to emphasize the worth
of unselfishness and kindness,
Aunt Julia" offered prizes to the
boy and the girl who wrote the best
letters telling how much good it
had done the givers to do good for
someone else.
The priZe-Winning letters-and one
that won honorable mention-are
printed above. Evelyn Dempsey,
Adairsville, Ga. earned first prize
among the girls with her simple ard
forceful thoughts. Lewis Rollins,
Central, S. c., led the boys with his
touching account of what it meant
to him to be kind to a grandfather
who is gone. Matte Blessit, Adrian,
Ca, was a formidable contestant,
with fine letter. Evelyn received a
beautiful handmade handkerchief
and Lewis two handsome neckties
as rewards. They were victorious
over hundreds of competitors.
That the army of young folks who
have made Inez happy may know
how noble work they have done,
the following letter from Miss Mar
tina Berry is printed. .And both
young folk and old folk are earnest
ly asked to note one particular par
agraph printed in black type The
paragraph says that seventeen girls
at the Berry schools are threatened
with the disaster of having to leave
the school next year. Lack of mon
ey is the reason. Any Tri-W >ekly
reader who realizes just what that
means to the girls, to their families.
to their communities and to the ma
ton should feel the urge to help.
A contribution to Miss Berry will
help save the day. Or letter to
Miss Berry will bring facts showing
how great the need is.
Here is Miss Berry's letter to Mrs.
Alice V. S. Grant, far better known
to Americas younger generation as
Aunt julia"
Dear Mrs. Grant: I am SO glad
to know that the children have
raised 500 and want to help one
of the little girls at Berry. we
have Just taken little girl, twelve
years old, and 1 am inclosing her
picture. She has long, golden curls,
and is a bright, pretty child.
THE story is a pathetic one. a
year ago we took q little boy, Leon
ard, at the Mountain Farm School.
and he has often asked me if L
would not take his two little sisters.
I felt that it was walking out on
the plank of faith to take Leonard,
and there were so many calls on me
and so many needs to meet that L
did not feel that L could take any
more of the family. l finally told
him that his mother and sisters
could come to see him sometime, but
would not promise to take the
girls.
Imagine my surprise when a
few days ago I found the mother
and three children waiting on the
steps of my office to see me when L
came in. I brought the little Wom-
an into my office, and she told me
that she had been at the schools
since Saturday, three days, and that
she spent. all the money she had for
tickets and walked out from Rome
to the school. The teachers had
given her a room and sent to the
Mountain for Leonard, to take dim
ner with his mother III Sunday.
"She had a pltiuble story of cruel
ty and abuse to tell. She did not
think it safe to leave the older girl
alone in the house with the step
father. She wept and pleaded with
me to take the children and give
her work so she could support her
self and little -year-old boy.
sent them back to their room and
tried to decide what / could do, and
the next morning l told her 1 would
take the little girls and keep the
boy, Leonard, at the Mountain Farm
School. We then gave her 4 ticket
back to the little town, where she
thought she would find work to do.
1 afterward found out that she had
told several that she and the little
girls cried and prayed, when I sent
them back to their room, that Il
would keep them.
1.-THE girls are IA and IL, Pauline