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FORCE, A TEMPORARY
PROTECTION

An avenger for wrath to him
that doeth evil.-Romans 1874.
The suppression of evil by
force is only a temporary relief.
a protection for the moment.
It does not touch the root OF
the matter.
You send the murderer out of
the world by a regulated flash
of lightning.
But you do not send murder
out Of the world.
To do that you must reach an
change the heart of Cain.
You put thu thief in prison,
but when he comes out he Will
be ready to steal again unless
you can purify his conscience
and control his will.
You overthrow some bad S. 81
tenn of misgovernment. and
turn the rascals out"
But unless you have something
better to substitute, all you have
done is to make room for a new
set of rascals-a new swarm Of
mosquitoes with fresh appetites ant
larger capacities.
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lie SVndicate)
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day year after year, they get on
ones nerves and become unendura-
BILE.
Nor do the husbands and wives
who get divorces invariably hate
each other and consider each other
villains. On the contrary they often
express sincere admiration for each
others good qualities, and have the
friendliest feelings toward each other
so long as they do not have to suf-
fer from the faults that got on their
nerves. .,,sAss. hi za2
It is the terrible closeness Of peo
pie to each other in matrimony that
is it's bane. 1t is the helplessness OF
those bound together for life that is
matrimony's undoing. 1t is the OPP
portunity for persecution it gives
that makes marriage SO hard to en-
dure. Take these away, and you
would take the curse from it. Many
a man and woman would like each
other well enough and would be able
to get along in peace and harmony if
only they were not married to each
other.
To these people the suggestion of
the man who proposes to exchange
the role of husband for that of star
boarder should be signboard point
ing the way out of their difficulties,
and along road that blossoms with.
the flowers of duty we'll done instead
Of being strewn with the skeletons
of scandal.
The man would not have to give
up his home, he would not be sepa-
rated from his children, he would
still be ministered to by a wife who
knew his taste in cooking, and to
these blessings he would have added
personal liberty.
For no landlady would dream of
not giving her star boarder a latch
key, nor would she feel called upon
to regulate his hours, or nag him
about his little personal peculiarities.
Far from it. The star boarder is
the gentleman who pays the rent and
who gets the white meat of the
chicken, and the top Of the cream
bottle; who is listened to with re-
spect when he speaks, and all of
whose jokes are greeted with up
roarious laughter.
To be catered to, and fIattered, and
treated with respect and admiration
band, but it is the invariable attitude
of the landlady toward her best-pay-
ing boarder. IL every woman treated
her husband as she would treat
profitable boarder, there would be
fewer divorces.
And many woman would be
lucky enough to exchange a husband
for boarder. 1t would solve the
money question for her, because the
boarder would expect to pay ade-
quately the woman who works to
make him comfortable. 1t would
| cure the kicker, for no boarder would
dare to say to his landlady the things
many man says to his wife. And
1t would go long ways toward keep.
ing husband at home just to know
that his wife regarded him as a
boarder whose goings and comings
were of no interest to her.
Often the star boarder and the
landlady fall in love with each other.
The boarder husband and wife would
do the same, and they would live to-
gether happily ever afterward if they
had learned their lesson about not
trying to tyrannize over each other.
copyright. 1929
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lonely. I hope all the little cousins will
write to me. l assure you that all who
write VIII get an early reply. "A brown.
eyEu cousin. 0REVA CAIN.
Pelham, Ga, Route 2 Box 1870.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will YOU
please admit two jolly girls from North Car
Q OH :, IN your happy group of boys and girls
we I'VE IN the country, three miles from
the little town of Lumber Bridge We like
country life fine, and would not exchange
IL Tor any city girls or boys life. What
40 you cousins DO for pastime? We ride
nroseback, go bathing and read good books
nave any of you cousins our birthdays ::
Myrtle Chason, August 13; Maud Jones. JuIy
- Some Of you cousins write to u.s. We
VIII answer all letters received. Hoping to
see this In print, your nieces and cousins
(MISS) MYRTLE CHASON, +
(MISS) MAUD JONES.
Lumber Bridge, N. G.
Dearest Aunt and Cousins: 7 have been
reading the Letter Box long time, SO de-
clded would try to write a few lines, as
am blue because l can't start to school
have to help grade tobacco. l am not going
to take subject, for if I did 1 could not
discuss it. Who has my birthday, Decem-
Der 81? / will be sixteen. l want to ask
favor of the cousins. Who will send me
the song, 'Meet Me Out in the Moonlight
AloneY l will return the favor any way
| can. l have five brothers and two sisters.
The baby is one month old. His name is
Lester Clifton. He is just as bad as he
can be. l am afraid I will break the rules,
so | will close by asking every cousin to
write me letter
tMIss) ROSA LEE HILL.
Blounts Creek, N. C.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: wsnder If
you will admit me again so soon? AS my
letter was printed before, l decided l would
come again. l received many nice letters
from girls and boys. l thank you for an.
sWering my letters. They surely were fine
Cousins, many things have happened since
wrote last I am teaching school about
three miles from home. I surely do enjoy
teaching. l have the best bunch of boys
and girls in the country. How many Of you
boys and girls help the farm? l was
raised on the farm. but / will admit l don't
love the work so very much, but the only
way to get rid of hard work is to strive
for higher things. l will have to brag on
our dear old state. We have the most
beautiful scenery in the world in western
North Carolina. Come on, boys and girls,
don't let the other states get ahead of us.
North Carolina is going over the top at
last. 1t leads the union in many different
things. 1t leads the union in pretty boys
and girls. You cousins would think So too,
If you could see them. Aunt Julia, pardon
me for staying long. Hope | will see
my letter in print. All you cousins write
to lonely girl I will answer all letters
Walter Williford, you were the only one
that guessed my age. Let your letters come
to
NELLIE GLADSON.
Culberson. N. c.. Route 2. Box SO.
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At this the woman is greatly
agrieved, but it seems to me that it
is a wise solution of difficult prob
lem, and one that many other I'M
congenial couples might adopt with
profit instead of flying to the divorce
courts, and breaking up homes, and
leaving a lot of helpless little chill
dren half orphans. For the real
crime of divorce is against the chill
dren.
A woman, enfuriated at her hus-
band, rushes off and gets a divorce,
thereby depriving his children Of the
adequate support their father would
have furnished them, of the educa-
ton, the position in society, the start
in life, he would have given them.
Worst of all, depriving them of a
fathers control, of his influence and
guidance, for no mother, no matter
how she loves her children has che
strength and firmness to cope, single.
handed with headstrong youngsters.
A man with a grudge against his
wife divorces her. If the court Civ, IS
him the children, he must farm tCem
out to relatives, Or put them in
schools, or have them reared by serv-
ants, and no devotion on his part
can give them the two strongest in
fluences for good in the world, y
home and a mothers love and pray
ers.
Statistics show that nearly 80 per
cent of the youthful criminals are the
children Of divorced parents. or come
from unhappy homes. This being
the case, the two people who are re-
sponsible for the life of a child are
in duty and in honor bound to help
him make the best Of that life, no
matter at what cost to themselves.
The theory that men and women
never divorce their wives and hus-
bands unless the party of the first
part has committed some unforgiva,
BILE crime against the party of the
second part is ridiculous. The real
things that lead to divorce are nag
ging, and petty tyranny, and stinS7,
ness, and fretting and whining, and
slovenliness, and laziness. When one
has to endure these things day after
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on his way. "Those Bob Whites
flew over onto Farmer Browns
land,' chuckled Reddy. "That will
be the place for me to look tonight"
He watched the hunter until the lat
ter disappeared. Then he once more
curled up on the flat rock and fin
ished his interrupted nap.
AS soon as the Black Shadows had
crept down over the Green Meadows
that night Reddy trotted down from
the Old Pasture and straight over
toward that part of the Green
Meadows where the hunter had been
when Farmer Browns boy drove
him away. Then, just as the hunt
er's dog had done that morning,
Reddy began to go carefully over
the ground, back and forth so as to
cover every bit Of it. For a long
time he found no trace of the Bob
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- 4AciS 1llcy az c1AAI1 Sc " L41Cll VA AA4Ss
-Reddy Fox.
Reddy Fox is one of those who
are shrewd enough and smart
enough to try to know all that goes
OH in the hope that they may turn
something to their advantage. He
had been taking a sun bath on flat
rock in the Old Pasture when the
hunter and his dog had found the
flock of young Bob Whites, and the
hunter had shot twice. Reddy's
eyes flew open instantly. He knew
the meaning of that sound. He sat
up with ears cooked and eyes wide
open. He could look across the
Green Meadows. In the>distance be-
yond Farmer Browns land lay a
wheat filed and in the middle of
that he saw the hunter with his ter
rible gun.
1.-THE hunting season has begun!"
exclaimed Reddy. IT thought it was
about time. That hunter must have
found Bob White and his family.
wonder if he killed any of them: I
hope not. Every one killed by
hunter is one less for me to have
chance to catch. But if he wounded
some of them it is another matter
altogether. I hate hunters with their
terrible guns! But just the same
they make it possible for me to get
many a good meal. It won't do for
me to go down there now, but to-
night I'll look over the ground
down there"
Reddy saw the hunter climb over
the fence onto Farmer Browns
land. Then family he heard the
shout of Farmer Browns boy and
grinned as he watched the hunter
hurriedly climb back over the fence
off of Farmer Browns land and so
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Dear Children: Our first rain in
months came today, that is, the first
real rain, and what a joy it is!
On my way in on the car there
were a number of children, and [
wish you could have seen them,
noses pressed to the windows watch
ing the drops trickle down the glass,
and screaming with delight when we
passed a really big puddle and they
could see drops fall and spring back
like so many fountains. How those
children wanted to get out and play
in the rain, and I could well under.
stand their feeling!
Lovingly,
AUNT JULIA.
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IL SAt% SA%'AA04AAp G%1
husband a n d
wife, but that
he does not wish
q divorce or want
to go away and
leave his chill
dren, to whom he
is devoted.
Therefore, he
wishes to remain
in the home. He
wants the family
life to go on as
usual, except that
his wife shall
treat him as a
boarder instead
OLA husband.
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Dear Aunt Julia aud ousins: l have often
thought / would write to Aunt Jula's Letter
Box so here / come, aud hope I may gain
admittancc. l am young man twenty
three years old. and live in the northern
part OF Alabama in a mountain country.
Cousins, what makes SO many of our. young
folks leave their country homes for the large
cities? | think this is the wrong thing to do
You will have better success with your work
among the folks who know you best and love
you best. I have several fine photographs
of caves and huge rocks. would like to
exchange photos with the cousins, fact is.
am a photographer, and do quite a lot of
work | do kodak finishing, too. You cous
ms must write and send me your photo, or
negative ard will make one for you and
one for myself. new cousin.
OSK0 WILLIAMS.
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Feels Like Girl Sixteen

Rochester, N. Y" After my twin
girls were born I was all rundown.
Iy neighbors thought | was going
to die. saw your advertisement in
the paper and bought Lydia p. Pink.
ham, s Vegetable Compound. The first
bottle helped me and / kept on taking
it. I only weighed ninety pounds
when I began taking it, and / have
gained in weight and feel like girl
of sixteen. Inever can say enough
for Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. Mrs. NELLIE DoREYs
16 Skuse Park, Rochester, NY.
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have, and this al
fected my nerves.
Forovert woyears
i suffered this
way. then Ireadin
he'Bufalo Times;
about Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound
and have taken it
with very good re-
suits. / am very
much better and
IC1 s.,-AsG@I ~
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Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I have been
reading The Journal today, and found 1t TO
be exceedingly interesting as well as enter
tanning, so 1 thought | would try nv luck
writing TO the Letter Box. Aunt Julia you
are so kind to read all of our letters Don't
sou think so, cousins? And, cousins. do you
not think this is good world in which to
live? I do, even if it does feel lonely some.
times. 7 am between thirteen and eighteen
years old and attend high school am not
gong to describe myself this time, but will
try 10 send photo to all who write me
personally. Aunt Julia, please print this
letter for me. this is the first time I've
written and I want to get acquainted with
the cousins. Everybody please write to me,
especially the Marys MARY is such a com
mon name, isn't itD. Who has my birth
day. August Z? Boys, you must write, too.
Must bid you adieu. Wishing for you many
years Of success, an Alabama girl
MARY KLEPAC.
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CHILDREN CRY FOR "CASTOR|A"
A Harmless Substitute for Castor Oil, Paegorc, Drop
and Soothing Syrups $3.50 No NarcotlcS

Mother! Fletcher's Castoria has
been in use for over 80 years TO re-
Iieve babies and children of Constipa-
zion, F'latulency. Wind Collie and
Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness arts
ing theref .)m, and. by regulating the
stomach and Bowels, aids the assim-
iation of Food; giving natural sleep
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F cit Hats

Felt hats are increasingly popu-
lar and one of the shops is show
ing an interesting variation of the
close fitting cloche. This is an Eng
lish hat of fine felt that turns
abruptly off the face and is caught
with fancy pin.
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BaScom,

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here comes
North Carolina girl, knocking al the door
or admi,tance. | don't guess I'll have any
Carolina. I, like most of the cousins. live
a farm, hut do not farm, Ny father
owns ha rher shon in tia ctr. am crazy
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THE LETTER BOX
FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS
"Help for the Helpless-Kindness to
All Dumb Things"
letters printed.

No unsigned letters printed.
No letter written on both sides OF
paper printed.
All letters not to exceed $50 to 200
words.
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Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit three jolly Alabama girls into your
happy band of girls and boys? What do
YOU cousins do for pastime these days? We
make tattng We arc between sixteen and
twenty wears old. All rou -ood-looking hoyS
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Logan. Ala.

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: wonder II
YOU all will let me in your happy bandF
I've been thinking I'd write the Letter Box
for some time, but just didn't hsve time
I'm going TO school now ana am In the fifth
grade. Ny teachers name is Miss Mae
Peacock. I live in a small town and like
it fine. The population is about 600.
have two brothers and four sisters. One Of
them is school teacher l would like 10
hear from lots of the cousins. VIII answer
all letters received. Who has my birthday,
November 8? Sincerely,
(MISS) NELLIE ETHERIDGE.
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BERTHA PITTMAN.
MARY RUTH HERRIN.
GlpnmOre Ga.

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Perhaps it
may seem somewhat rude and selfish for
me to ask for space again so soon, but
please, auntie How me the privilege of
speaking a few words and l win try to
make my visits "few and far between"
l don't think / ever received so many nice
letters in all my life as l have since my
last letter was printed. Let me thank
you one and all for writing, and those who
didn't get answers please remember it was
from lack of time, and not merely because
| didn't want to answer. Please, auntie, let
me thank you very much for printing my
letter.
I guess most of you cousins are going to
school by this time. / am. l think every
boy and girl should work for good educa-
ton. 1 study the tenth grade this year.
If any of you cousins would like to CORE
spond with an Alabama girl. just let your
letters come to
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praising the Vegetable Compound to
my friends and neighbors who suffer
from anything of the kind. Mrs.
VIM. H. ADKINS, 81 Erin Roads
Medina, N. Y.
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WOMAN SICK
TWO YEARS
Caused by Troubles Women Often
Have-RelIeved byLydia E.Pink-
hams Vegetable Compound

Medina, New York. -"Ihadagreat
deal of trouble such as women often
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&. Il. BROUnS, l. oek for trademark
Inventor bearing portrait and
signature of C. Z. Brooks which appears
on every Appliance. None other genuine.
Full information and booklet sent free in
plain. sealed envelope. BROOKS APPLI-
ANCE CO, 25S State St., Marshall, Mich.
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THE QUESTION BOX
FOR EVERYBODY
Rules

Rules
1. All questions must have full
names and addresses signed. If it
is desired that names do not appear
in the paper, add your initials or
some chosen name in addition to
your full name.
2. All questions must be written
on ONE SIDE of the paper only.
3. No legal or medical advice can
be given, either in the Question Box
or by personal letter.
4. All letters requiring personal
reply MUST inclose stamped, self-ad
dressed envelope.
S. Letters for the Question Box
MUST NOT be included in letters for
Aunt Julia's Letter Box. The Ques'
tions must be sent separately and
must be addressed to Aunt Julia's
Question Box, The Atlanta Tri-Week-
ly Journal, Atlanta. ia.
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ABOUT country life. There Is so much more
enjoyment in country life than in city
life. l go to school in the country, to new
school. just finished last December. and
ride about seven miles on the truck. Well.
guess III close or I'll break the rules
Edgar Sheedy, come again. Your letter
was fine. I'll tell you I'm sweet sixteen
Address your letters to
SADIE JOCKEY.
Fayetteville, n c.. r. F. n. G.
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LET ME PROVE THIS FREE

Ny internal method FOR the treatment and
permanent relief of piles is the correct one
thousands upon thousands Of grateful letters
testify to this. and I want you to try this method
at my expense
No matter whether your case is OF long stand
ing or recent development, whether it is chronic
or acute, whether 1t is occasional or permanent.
you should send Tor this free trial treatment.
No matter where you live. no matter what
piles. my method will relieve you promptly IN
| especially want to send it to those apparently
hopeless cases where all forms OF ointmeEp..
salVes and other local applications have failed
l want you to realize that my method OF treat
ing piles is the one most dependable t-estmsrxE
This liberal offer Of free treatment is too i'm
portant for YOU to neglect single day Write
now Send money. Simply mail the co,Inon
but do this now TODAY
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Dearest Auntie and ousins: May l enter
your happy band of boys and girls? I have
been reading Aunt Iulias Council long
time and l just could not resist the tempta
ton any longer. What a dear auntie Aunt
in This paper. ! go to school and am in the
seventh grade. My birthday is March 16.
Who has my birthday? I am between fif-
teen and seventeen. l will close hoping to
hear from all the cousins. Boys and girls.
am your new cousin,
ATHERINE HUGCINs.
Greenville. Fla, Route ..
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Thelma Turner. Killen. Ala, Ri. 2:
The dearest little kitten I ever had
[ called 'Muffles," after a story I
once read. I'd like to think your
little black kitty had the same name.
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DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART. AND HOME

III You Are COntempIat' Divorce,
Try the "Star-Boarder Plan"
First-YOur Children Will
Have a Ho-..1 and a Fa-
TIERS Care. and Yc~r
Husband Ay Fall
i'm Love With You
All Over Again
a WOMAN writes me that her
= husband tells her that he mas
ceased to loYe her and that he
wishes to sever tAeir relationship as
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Mrs. s.: Indeed you can get an
Annie Dennis cook book. We are
delighted that you and your neigh
bors have found it so helpful. 1t has
been added to greatly. Miss Dennis
herself has done this. A book con.
Germ of Atlanta is writing you con-
corning this.
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Dear Auntie and Cousins: I wonder II you
will let me in for a few minutes. Anyway,
I'm asking for admittance. I'm a little
girl, ten years old, and live on farm, in
the dear old state of Georgia, and would
not exchange homes with any of the city
cousins. l, like most of the other cousins,
so to school, and enjoy nothing better. Our
school started the third Monday in Septem-
Der. My favorite study is reading. l like
animal stories best. I'm a flower lover also.
like to watch the pretty butterflies as they
fit from one blossom to another. If l have
a special subject it will be Kindness, - for
we can do nothing better than being kind.
kind to everything and everybody. espe-
cially to the aged. All aged people like for
us to he kind to them: it makes them glad
word will renchE II sl,o--. 10" al ?r1