Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-14

| write to us. So long.
EMMA SMITH.
BESSIE MINOR.
Chappells, s. G.
| Dearest Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please let a little girl from the dearest
state in the word-South Carolina-join
your happy band of boys and girls? / have
always wanted to write to Aunt Julias
! Letter Box and get acquainted with the
| cousins. l hope l won't wear out my well
come with my first visit. For pastime 1
read and Nplay the piano. [ will finish
school in May. I aW going to ask favor
| of some of you dear cousins: Will some one
please send me a thesis? 1t doesn't make
any difference what the subject is, just
| it is pretty long. I certainly will appre
| ciate it and will return the favor in any
way can. 1 will not describe myself this
| time for fear L will not be admitted. I
| would also like to exchange music with some
of the cousins. If this letter is printed L
y, will come again and tell of my trip to the
mountains. Hoping to hear from all Of
you cousins, 1 am a new cousin,
LILLIAN CULP.
Edgmoor, S, C.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins viii you
| permit a little South Carolina girl to join
| your happy band of boys and girls? I have
! been A silent reader of the Letter Box for
long time, and enjoy reading the letters
! fine. [ live on the farm, and like country
! life fine. l am twelve years old and in the
fifth grade in school. 1 like to go to
| SCnGoI very uUcn. nave Two sisters ana
no brothers. The oldest one is sixteen and
| is in high school. The youngest is five. We
! nave lots of yfun playing together. Our
| nome is about one and a half miles from
the E9islow river and we go there to fish
! trles In the summer and have lots of fun
! Wadlng on the sand bar 1 go to church
and Sunday school every Sunday. We live
| one mile from the Methodist church. How
many Of the cousins like music? I for one
like it very much. I play the piano some,
and my daddy picks the banjo. I like to
! iced the chickens for mamma and the pigs
Tor daddy. l think we ought to like to help
our mothers and daddies all we can. Some
! OF you cousins come visit me and we will 20
|, 10 ride with daddy in the tin lizzie and have
big time. With much love to auntie and
| an the cousins, 1 will say good-by Your
/ new niece and cousin.
CLARA MAE Proctor.
Dearest Auntie and Cousins: May be ad.
| tnitted INTO your happy band again? 1t has
! oeen almost six months since | wrote TO
your jolly band. I want to thank auntie
Tor printing my other letter. and ali who
! wrote to me. l answered every letter 7 70.
celved. 1T kept me busy for a long time.
Some of the cousins still keep I'D a corre-
| Spohdence with me. Retha Bryant of DarI-
1ngton. s. c., your letter was fine if YOU
see this, write me. Listen, all of you cous.
ms, write me long letter or a card. I'll
answer all mail received I hope can get
some more correspondents, as 1 am lonely
at times. Your old cousin.
ELMA CLARK.
Dear Aunt Julia: have been wonder.
ing some time if married folks were eligible
to your charming circle. So am going to
try my luck any way. see by reading the
letters that the girls are interested in the
same things that interest me, books and
flowers, and some are interested in hope
DoX and it has not been so very long since
/ 1yiR,nr lot,
eles for my own hope box. and dear girls
let nfe tell you, you will be proud of that
box some day. l recently made two quilts
for the hope box of a girl friend. I will
take flowers for my subject, Of which we
have so great variety, that with all kinds
of berries and fruit our home has acquired
the name of Little Eden" 1 dearly love
all kinds of flowers, but make a speciality
of roses. l have put out over 100 cuttings
that will be ready for sale next fall. AL
ways. until now. I have grown flowers for
my own and my friends pleasure, and yet
feel a delicacy in commercializing them
but | had so many calls for them have de-
cded to see what I can do in that line.
Flowers are. such gay and sympathetic conf
panions, and it is such keen enjoyment, to
watch them through all their interesting
stages of growth and developments, the
humbest home can be made a home beauti-
full by a judicious planting Of fruit and
flowers. I would especially recommend
floral planting of old Fashioned bulbs, such
Z
require little care and repay with such
wealth of beauty and perfume. l have those
planted by the hundreds and you can plant
them out any time of the year. l set out
a long row when they were in full bloom
and l think sometimes they bloom more
: freely than any l have. beleVe IN CIV
ing flowers to the living as well as the dead
and my friends all know when there IS
weddings or death where to send for flow
ers My flowers have gone to brighten
homes in many states from Washington TO
sunny Florida. I can never say all WISH
TO saw on this my favorite subject. so VIII
saw in conclusion. that 1 have a variety of
flower seed The letter box of March the
10TH was just fine. Such writers as Nor,
man Lee Billie Bailey, Walter Phelps ana
Eunice Gilstrap make our page worth while
must go before break the rule, thanking
auntie in advance and hoping TO hear from
many flower lovers, | am sincerely
MRS. 81. ?. SANDERS,
Sebastopol, Miss. Box H.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Hello.
friends! How's everybody? Why, there
Alma! Glad to see you again, little 1rlend.
How are you? Listen, girls, I've something
to tell you, then l must run along. sup
pose you were way back in the Great Smoky
mountains. where bears are plentiful
"Gee! I'd be scared" (Oh, hush, lrma;
she is going to tell us something interest
and boys are bashful. What would you do?
I'D come home"
But what II you were Teaching sChOOl anu
couldn't very easily leave?"
well, the next best thing would be a
lot O. nice, CHEEKY letters from friends"
You are right Alice and I'm going to
las and mail to her present address, which
is Cosby Academy, Cosby, Tenn.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins Will you
permit a little Mississippi grille to join your
happy band of boys and girls? 1 will take
for my subject Jefferson Davis. He was
the first and only president Of the o Confed-
crate states. He was born in 1908. His
father settled soon after in Wilkinson
county Mississippi. He received his early
education in Jefferson college and Wilkin-
son County academy. He died in New Or
leans in 1889 and was borne to the tomb
by governors of seven states Four years
later the people of Richmond and the south
transferred his body to Hollywood Gene
terry, in Richmond. 1 will go before
break auntie's rules. All you girls near
my age (Which is eleven ears) write to me. |
Your new niece and cousin,
ERNESTINE M'CULLAR.
Water Valley, Miss, Star route.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: My papa
has been a subscriber to The Journal for a
long time and L have been a reader of the
Letter Box, and certainly do enjoy reading
the letters l am thirteen years old. Who
has my birthday, August 81? 1 go to school
and study the seventh grade. My teacher
says 1 will be ready for the eighth grade
next, session. Now, L have selected "OId
Folks for my subject as I love old folks
and think We young people should treat
them as We would like to be treated if we
were old. Some day we will be old, too
live in the country, We own a farm of 100
acres, but dad works for the 1. C. Rail
road company, 1 guess we will move ia
town very soon. l guess I had better close
hoping to receive many letters. Your new
cousin,
CHRISTINE M'CULLAR.
water Valley, Miss, Star route
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will Won
PIease move over and let me come in for |
litte CHAT? I have been a silent reader of
aunt Julia's counsel for a long time and I |
greatly enjoy reading the many different
letters. l live in the country and wouldi't
exchange with any city kid" 1 think the
There is large cliff near here where we
go on picnic trims some tinans IEhat go |