Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-25
THE LETTER BOX
FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS
"HeIp for the Helpless-Kindness to
All Dumb Things"

| Rules
No unsigned letters printed.
No letter written on both sides OF
paper printed.
All letters not to exceed $50 to 200
words.
My Dear Children:
I had a personal request for in
| formation about MAY baskets"
and L thought it might interest you
all to hear a little about that pref
! ty custom.
The custom of carrying May bas-
kets is followed more in the east
than in the SOUTH On the first day
Of May, very early in the morning,
baskets of flowers, large or small
as your taste and means dictate
are carried to the home Of friends
and quietly put on their doorstep or
| hung on the front door knob If the
shane and size of your basket will
hermit. One instance I knew about
was that of an old lady who had
been sick quite a long time. Inc
Young people of her neighborhood
fixed the basket, and in the center
they placed a lovely dish OF fruit.
OF course, this required a medium
sized basket.
You leave the basket secretly as
YOU would a valentine. How would
| YOU like to fix May baskets for some
1 folks in your neighborhood? 1t Is
quite usual for boys to leave them
on the door steps Of the girls they
particularly like. If any OF you
carry these baskets this year, please
write us about them.
Lovingly,
AUNT JULIA,
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: enjoy
reading the Letter Box very much' ana de-
cided to write and see If my letter woulu
ba nrinted. I am seventeen years OLD.
will graduate from the Hiram Junior High
4 school in May. 1 will welcome any Ietters
from the boys and girls and will answer al
rncnived. Best wishes to all from your
cousin, e,nu 111pps
Doar Amt Julia and Cousins: Will you
let a little Mississippi girl join your HaPpS
| band? 1 have been reading the cousins re-
tiers for long time. think IT. IS M
nica thing to have letter box. Don
ro,, cousins think so? l think it IS tlme
fha Mississippi boys and girls were WAXING
IN. 90 to the Gloster High school. anu
like it fine. We are decorating 1or leu
day Friday. We are going to nave races
reading and spelling matches anu Ina+ oil ~ dav
other things. 1t is going to last al G4S
| 7 wish some of you cousins could De wild
me. I know we would have nice Tine.
Well I had better be going. Wouiu l me
to correspond with some OF you cousins -. W
| I think it is nice to write to frlends from
o+bor narts of the country. Yours truly,
Gloster. Miss. Rt. 2. VERA HAYNES.
naor Aunt Julia: I am at school today
T like to 30 to school very. much. L am
| in the sixth grade. 1 live in the count a9c
about four miles from CIeveIanu. Ia 1dN +beV
the mountains from where i've, anu my me
Snrn are pretty. / won't tell you my age,
If is between twelve and seventeen. II
any of you cousins care to wr1te' sehu your
letters anu Gurus ORA LEE AUTRY.
Cleveland, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: How are
YOU all enjoying these winter DAYS! We
love spring days, with pretty ho S"Ioo1 " to.
! gether and have. nice time. l, ldeil' an
/ in the fourth grade, and Bessie Is IN cne
fifth. We are both about the SANE e+,I 49,
| Won cousins guess our age, we are between
twelve and fifteen. Would be glad 10 near
/ from any of you cousins. Your new co US
IDBLL DORSEY and BESSIE GLASS.
| Cleveland, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here comes on les
| another Georgia girl to join your happy band
! of bows and girls. What do you cousins
90 for pastime? I practice my music ana
| 60 to school. Am in the seventh grade
Ruth Hamilton, Rosa Belle Barfeld, Ruby
Yeamans and Sudie Hall, whose letters ap-
| peared in the letter box not long ago, are
my next birthday. Who can guess what
month? Yes, Luther Huff, will give
you drink of cool water. If any OF yon
cousins like to correspond with me. VIII
try to answer all mail received. Your new
cofsin, OTHA WARNOCK.
Route 1, vidalia. Ga.
I Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Hello, ev-
erybody; won't you let me in for just lit
| tie chat? AS this is my first attempt to
write, hope 1 will be admitted will not
describe myself Will only say / am
farmers girl. My age is between 16 and
| 20 years. 1 work in the field. l can do
! any kind of work on the farm, and also
| homework 1 live in about a quarter of
! mile of the Chattahoochee river and be-
| lieve me 1 enjoy going fishing and l go
| very often in the summer. How many OF
| you cousins like music? 1 do. When ]
| get lonesome 1 play the organ and violin. If
any of you cousins want to write to on me-
| address NAL fAhh'
Gainesville, Ca, Rt. z.
| Dear Aunt Julia: Will you permit
| North Carolina boy in with your band OF
cousins? l live six miles east of Fayette-
vile. My occupation is farming. l like
| farm life fine. AS you can have plenty OF
anything you wish to eat, and all the fresh
air desired and best Of all, be free man.
Well, 1 will describe myself: I have light
hair and blue eyes and am between twenty
and twenty-three years of age. All cou-
sins who are not afraid to write to Cum
berland boy with big head and little foot,
write to JESSE d. ALPHIN.
r. F. D. No. 5, Fayetteville, N. G.
Good Morning, Aunt Julia! Hello Cousins!
What has everybody been doing this winter?
Going to school, though l need not ask.
mean most of US are. l, for one, am going:
Our school will be out in two months, and
I'll be glad when it is out, for then it will
be nearly summer time, and summer brings
so much pleasure that you can't enjoy in
winter. There's kodaking, berrying, fishing
and lots of other nice things, and who
live in the country have much nice fruit
and so many kinds of vegetables to eat. If
there isn't any more cold now to freeze
our peaches, we will have more than we
know what to do with, as the saying goes.
SO, cousins, come to see me this summer and
you can have all the peaches you want to
eat; and if you don't already know, I'll
HAMR0NFS MFNTTATIONC