Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-16

Aunt Julia viii. print this letter right away,
and thus relieve me of my obligations to
you. | hope you liked the poem Your
| friend always,
WILLIAM MORLEY.
| Marshall, n. c.
| Hello. Dear Aunt and Cousins: Please
aoid Mr.. Wastebasket while | slip in. There,
let him go! I'm in. IN occupy seat by
! My hobby is reading. Like most of the
cousins. my favorite author is Zane Grey. l
have read nearly all his books. have not
! read The Lone Star Ranger would be
glad If some Of you would send it to me.
viii return the favor in anyway possible.
| For pastime help daddy hoe and to-
| bacco. All YOU cousins and aunty visit me
this summer. Will take you to the ''coun-
| ty playground" The cooperative farmers
will have picnic there July IA. All you
cousins be sure and come. Now, aunty,
| be sure and print this as I want that book.
| All you little cousins write a long let
ter. Your new cousin.
RUBY CARTER.
Reidsville, N. C., Route 2.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit a lonely North Carolina boy
| into your happy band? ] have been a silent
| reader Of the Letter B2x for some time, and
| decided to write. I live on farm, two
| miles from Wilson. n. C. l. am eighteen
years young. Hush. | believe hear MIR.
". B. coming. but hope he's taking va
| cation today. Every one who wants an.
swer' write to me. SINCERELY.
| JOHN +. tOWAN.
Wilson. N. G.. r. r. u. 3, Box 20.
Good Morning, Aunt Julia and Cousins;
! Will YOU admit girl from the state of
North Carolina l have been reader of the
| Letter Box for a long tine, and enjoy
reading the cousins letters very much. !
have thought of writing many times, but
! just lacked courage, | hope | will see
! this in print Come on. North Carolina
cousins, and let's get ahead Of the other
states How many of you cousins like good
| books? do for one; and pretty flowers, ]
certainly do like them. too. Will some one
please send me these songs: May | Sleep
in Your Barn Tonight" ''Oh Little Girl"
win surely be appreciated. Who has my
birthday, March %? | am sixteen years
old. Will close by asking all of you to
write to me. Address your letters to
NIISS) PAULINE MAYS
TaylorsviIle. n. G.. Route 1. Box 1l9.
Dear Aunt Julia: I read very much in the
Iri-WeekIy about you being so good. so I
am going to ask favor of you please ask
some of the cousins to send me the song.
! Casey Jones' and l will return the favor
any way l can.
! Cave City, Ark. Route ? Box 81.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit two Alabama girls into your
happy circle? We live on a farm aud enjoy
| farm life fine. We are first cousins ana
surely have jolly times together, although
both go to high school. !. Gladys, have been
going to Alexandria Consolidated High
| school, but will enter Etowah County High
| school next term, and Will be a senior. ],
| Ida nellie, am also a student of Etowah
County High school and will be a sophomore
next term. How many of you cousins ENJOY
music and reading? We surely do. All OF
| you cousins write to MS for we surely enjoy
leceiving and writing letters as we get
lonesome sometimes Well. we bad better
close as this is our first attempt to write
f+nd
we stay too long. We will leave our ages
| Cor you to guess. They are between -FOUR
teen and twenty. Hoping to reserve Ietters
from both boys and girls from very state
We "'e '' CMiss) IDA NELLIE GUEST.
Alexandria. Ala. ,,,,,s.,r
Attain, Ala. Route I.
Hello. Auntie and Cousins: Please let me
| in. quick. for heard Mr.. W p, knocking
There. I beat him, | got here flrst. a!n
| from the state Of South Carolina and doh
! see many letters from this state. come on,
ahead of us. Mabel Blanton, of Weir. Miss;
your letter was fine. You gave such gooo
! advice or course all the letters are JUST
I fine. ! hope l will be admitted, Here ~
a cure for those who can't take two ounces
! of plain old ia Shioned work. add one Once
Of confidence. flavor well with commonsense,
color with dreams of greater and petttl
things eliminate all waste aid worry. sieuA
! science mix well and take morning hoon
and night the year around. slipped from Ine
slver-lined spoon of optimi sn, held I,r t,,ar
| in steady hand, this couc0ctlon IS sua
| anteed TO cure. Aunt Julia, please PRINT inns
because there are not many letters 'ro~
south Carolina. ] am fifteen years !oun L9,
My birthday is Dec f99er ~ Pin I JONES.
| write. $500 1'''D
noor Aunt Jnia and Cousins Please add
onntbsr Parry Heel to the list OF cous-
ms, for l anxious to JON olh Inc me I ani"v
Who wouldn't be? Who would hol GnJ1S
reading the nice letters from the good looh
ing coIisins? And, say, Aunt Jul1a, want
to read few hundred of those nice lettera
direct from the writers. SO II you win .eo
this letter get into print TO aovet'lse .o r,e
| melon in the pa tch. But don't tell ahyoou!
I tried to bribe you: Listen girls; L he
sort of tired OF seeing so much sslu "pT }i
vour Dsintinc and powdering am ms
sort Of fellow: If you want to paint your
foce carry the indispensable powder pun
with you, bob your pretty hair or wear d
three-Guarter- piece bathing SUIT wheh !u''
60 bathing; it is simply your own JUS,
| ness not mine IL | were you, and wanted
to do those things, l would simply do them
| 1t is a. free country. But when II comes
to the smoking Of cigarettes glrlS. rnnhe
YOU should draw the line. do not smoke
| them myself 1t is common. useless thing
to do even for boys And tor glriS-rlul t
uIous is putting it mildly But l iorgot
| /
need TO be told about that, for they are
not smoking girls. No, | am not an Ola
man, young friends. I am just past TWEEN
ty. But l have Tamnled anomo some f o,S
things | did not know before. BOYS let
me tell ycu that the city is not the heaven
you may think it to be, Don thlnK nome
is so bad il mother or sister does not nave
your suit pressed and ready every time
Won want it, or if they forgot to sew but
ton on the front of your shirt; or got the
side. DO you nay them for these Jobs?
| If not then you should go easy. when
you are away from home you pay for them
and pay dearly. If there, were not such
chance to take l would tell you how to
learn to appreciate home and mother, or
sister. Just get off a thousand miles from
home. where nobody knows you or cares
whether YOU live or die, and try keeping
| without knowing any trade to begin with.
Then when YOU are forced to return home.
after saving your money for months to pay
| your fare, you come walking mp to the
front gate with a few cepts iingling in the
pocket of your Impressed pants, Juggling
| your belongings in an old suitCase-Oh, how
sweet it is to see them all come out on
the porch and from the field to welcome
you back! That's when you begin to real
tze what home and loved ones are. Stand
by them, boys. Say, folks, l never never, yet
don't be afraid your letter will not be vel
come [ will take basket along to get
them. Love to everybody.
DONNIE BENSON.
Atkinson, \. C.,
Dear Aunt Julia will you please give
enough room for little girl? l am eleven
years old, have brown eyes and black hair.
like to GO to school very much. | am IN
the sixth grade. l like all my studies but
arithmetic is my choice. | keep very busy
during vacation helping mother. and | also
put my Overslls and help my father on
the farm. He calls me his little boy. We
live on farm, five miles from town. 1
like country life much better than city life.
The country affords me plenty room to romp
and play. MARY BERRY.
Franklin, \. c.. r. No. A.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: will YOU
accept q Georgia girl into your happy band
IF boys and girls? ! promise not to stay
long. have been silent reader of the