Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-07

Dear Children: DO You believe In
fairies? 1 believe in the little fairies
who are mothers and fathers girl
Or boy, and who wants to be
fairy to the parents who are 81
good and loving.
Do you want to know how you
can be this fairy? Well. it's just
this way. If you pick up your play
| things after you have finished With
| them, so the house and yard can
| look SpicK and span without mother
| ana father having extra work to
| do; if you come when you are first
| called, get up on time, come to the
table with clean hands and face,
| then you can be sure that mother
and father will indeed think you airs
their fairy. You do not know how
happy yoI will be if you just try
this. Lovingly,
AUNT JULIA.
Dear Auntie and Cousins: Here come
smile, yes. Cousins. how about writing
something that We are thinking when we
are all alone? Here is what l going
to write, il | can think just right. There
if was in the middle of grass-grown
country road-a piece OF common blue
grass. But how beautifully it caught the
rays Of the morning sun and what won
derful prisms of color radiated from it, I
stopped to look at it. 1t was just a piece
of common blue grass. but how it illuminnd
aud glOritied the buffalo grass. and the
cactus with which it was surrounded, and
as L stood there with the sun lighting up
and making lovely that piece of common
blue grass. / fell to thinking of the great
human fsmily--thinking and realizing
that we. TOO. can shine in little
sphere; thinking, too, how mnch better it
is to make the best Of things. instead of
always grumbing and complaining. Why
NOT smile and not frown? And il we
cheerful about it. Common blne grass! W.
do not care. It's fine to get IN in the
morning and get the milk out of the re-
frigerator, stir up the Ruftins and fry
with a chocolate cEE8. We don't belong
to the ruby and dismSnd world. We haven't |
cnef or yacht, and we never expect
to see Europe. We'Je just common blue
instead We are going 10 shine and radiate
with cheerfulness, kindness, and high think
ING. and make the very best OF life. And
il our farm never reaches farther than our |
next door neighbours house we're still 60 |
ing to be happy. l am glad ] saw that |
piece OF common blue grass in the middle |
or that grass-grown country road 1t was |
Just as pretty as the costliest gem shining |
there in the rays of early morning sun |
Received many nice letters before. Ger
1 wnitS appreGiated each and every one.
all that send photos. Lovingly,
D..., FANNIE DALEY. l
Bennettsville, s. C., R. No. 2.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here
comes new member to join your happy |
l am Florida girl and like it very mncb
We certainly have hot weather in the sum, |
mer and many Of the Florida people go |
norm norm during the bot months. Our little |
town is large strawberry center. and |
also. large orange district. Many car |
Ioads or oranges are shipped from here |
every day during the orange season. We |
ing nulit and 1t is to be completed soon.
Jessie Mae Adkins, your letter was fine
ana yon said You wanted some cousin who
IL lived where oranges grew TO please write
10 you, ana ! had intended writing you but
lost the paper and I do not know yonr nd
dress only know that yon live in North |
Carolina. Well, must close as nv letter
is getting lengthy and this il nv frat
visit. Hoping 10 hear from Aunt JnIis sna
all the causins,
Plant City, Fla. A''D
+. s.-Who has my birthday, March 10?
this, as 1 like to read the Letter Roy
mamma takes The Journal and we ALI like
It, | am little girl. eleven years old. |
am In the sixth grade at school. have
tnree niue sisters and one little baby broth
er, also one brother in heaven. He has beea
aead four years. | saw letter from Lois
Snider. at Mitchell Ca She is mamma
sister live long ways from all NV lit
ne cousins now and don't see them often.
nope TO visit grandma this summer I help
mamma cook, milk and keep house. 1 must
go, so S0od-by. Your little cousin.
TRUDIE HATHAWAY,
Alamo, Ga, Route /.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: viii you |
permit a lone northwest Florida girl to join |
your jolly circle Of boys and girls? | have |
beeh reader Of the Letter Box for long |
Time and have written once before, but Mr. |
W: II. caught me. | hope Aunt Julia is |
gong gong to Jet me join her happy band this |
Time. will tell you cousins something of |
the beautiful land in which live: 1 live on |
u farm OF $40 acres, two miles from Fair. |
tleld and seventeen miles of Ocala, the |
county seat OF Marion county. l. like most |
all you cousins, think that my state is the |
best in the whole Union. Now don't get |
disgusted. am going 10 tell You more |
ABOUT it. Florida has many beautiful lakes, |
springs and health resorts, and all kinds vt |
citrus fruits grow here. Cousins, come to |
see me and help me est oranges this fall |
HOW many of you like TO ride horseback |
All OF you, OF course. surely do. L am |
also lover Of flowers and music. NV favor |
lite flowers are roses and lilies. Be pa
tent! l am going. but want 10 ask favor |
Of some of the cousins. IL any of you have |
the song, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine"
and Will send it to me 1 will return the |
favor in any way L can. If any of tho
cousins care to write to Dixie girl of sew |
enteen summers I will assure you an answer. |
Please send photo. J will go, with oceans
of love. new cousin,
BESSIE WILLIAMS.
Rlddick, Fla, Route ], Box Is.
Dearest Auatie and All: l really wonder
IL I'm going TO have the honor OF being !
admitted into Your happy circle Thanks,
Aunt Julia l knew you were the best |
sweetest aunt in all the world. | have |
wanted to write long, but hesitated, as |
| feared Mr.. w. b. might happen to be
Aangry when my letter arrived but as I've
at last gotten up courage enough to write, |
/ hope he's ont. ] live in the country, but |
don't have very much time to get lonesome |
as mother is dead and l have all the
receiving and writing letters, so I want !
every one OF you cousins from every state |
to write me, and I'll answer them every |
one. Who has my birthday, June IS? l
will not describe myself. ] am afraid I |
wouldn't get any letters if | did, and I'm |
expecting lots OF them. | want TO near
from all the Waldens especially, also Bar |
fields, as my mother was a Barfield be-
fore her marriage. Auntie, please pardon |
me. l didn't intend to stay so long. Best |
BERNIcE WALDEN.
r. l, Box &c. DeFuniak Springs Fla.
Dear Aunt Julia and All the Cousins: !
have been wondering If you have room for |
one more cousin. il so, will you let me |
enter for a few moments. Thank you. for |
/ like TO make, friends. Well, what |
gre you MI uoihg theSe warm summer days! |
Swimming. boating and other amusements, |
l guess. Well. it won't be long till school |
days and suppose everyone likes to SO
to school Well, ] surely do. and l think |
everyone should do their best in school !
days, for We can't always have the chance |
of going to school, for when school days |
are gone happiest days are vanished |
But if we do not do best in school, |
and idle time away. why, some day we |
will look back over the golden hours we |
wasted and think il we only could live our |
school days over again, would study so |
hard. But we can't go over this rugged |