Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-13

first summer TO ever spend in Florida and
| think it is just fine. As it is almost sur
rounded by water, 1t causes cool breeze
! in summer and warm breeze in winter.
Ny home town is Collinsvile Ala. | think
Alabama is dear state, and shall forever
love it, | would be glad to hear from any
of the cousins. If 1 admitted probably
III come again when the oranges are ripe,
Your new cousin,
.ARDATH AYERS.
Mount Dora, Fla.
Dear Aunt Julia: Will Won please let
girl from the Land of Flowers" into your
happy band of. girls and boys? This is my
third trial, but both other attempts were
in vain, but 1 guess Aunt Iulias Letter
Box would take up the whole Journal it
she printed every letter she received, so
We must wait for our time. l have been
swimming this afternoOn-some fun. Some
of yon cousins better come and go with
me the next time. Say, Florida girls and
I,boys, wake up. We are letting everyone
else get ahead of MS. Florence Badger,
from Alabama. please write to me again.
lost your address. My age is between
fifteen and nineteen. Everyone try and
guess. I would likeNto hear from everyone
of the cousins. Listen, will some of you
please send me the song. when You and
L Were Young. Maggie? Your cousin
MISS 'CORNELIA THOMPSON.
DeLand, Fla, L, 0. Box SO7.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Wonder
il Aunt Julia and the cousins would let
| another Florida girl in for lust minute .
My daddy take The Journal and ! find
much pleasure in reading the cousins let
ters and thought / would write to you all
Cousins, / agree with all of YOU who think
Aunt Julia a dear aunt. What do you
boys and girls do for pastime? I read
work at my flowers and go in bathing, for,
you see, live near the bay. Hattie Smith
of De Funiak, L was surprised to see a
letter from YOU; come again. Oh, Aunt
Julia. didn't meaen to stay so long So
a you cousins write to a fifteen yea + old
girl. Lovingly,
ESTHER HARRISON.
st. Augustine, Fla, Box 224.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Would you
please admit two Mississippi girls in'0
! your. happy band of boys and girlsE We
| certainly enjoy all the letters in the Let
| ter Box. How are all of YOU enjoying this
nice shower this afternoon? We don't mind
the shower If it will only quit so we can
| go to church tonight. How many of y0d
like TO 20 to protracted meetings? We
surely 90, and we 90 to all that are
near enough.
| Some of you cousins come over to see lis
and we will 80 horseback riding and kodaA-
! ing. We certainly enjoy kodaking We bo;n
have kodak 50 you know we have plenty
! of GOOd-loOking pictures. l. Lillian am
visiting Carrie this afternoon. We surely
have some fun together. We and few
other girls. We will not describe ourselves
! for fear we might brighten all OF Won
! away. We will leave our ages for YOU
j to guess. I, Carrie, am between u and
/ 20 l. Lillian, am between 10 and IS. TO
tne one guessing our age correctly We
/ will send our picture.
Well, | guess We have about written
! as much as Aunt Julia will allow. All Of
l. You good looking children write us and
| and answer all We can. Wishing you much
MISS LILLIAN TATE.
MISS CARRIE BOILING.
/ Senatobia, Miss, Route 2, Box 49,
Dear Aunt Julia and Host OF Readers
I Perhaps it may seem somewhat rude and
/ selfish for me to ask for space again 81
! soon, but please, auntie, allow me the priv
! llege of speaking a few words and then
! viii try TO make my visits few and far
| between" l don't think | ever received 81
many nice long letters in all my life as
| have since nay last letter was printed Let
me thank You one ardAall for writing, and
those who didn't get answers please remem.
| Der it was from lack OF time and not merely
because | didn't want to answer. Please
| auntie, just let me speak few words on
eyoiuton,'' which, seems to be the topic
| OF the day. What do you cousins think
about it. anyway: | think it's all foolish
ness and no sense in it. Why, the very
first book of the Bible condemned it whe
| 1t said, God created man in His owl
image Darwin was, as we all know, one
OF the greatest scientists of his day hui
ne went 100 ldF~ Nhen he began 10 lDtCCdut
ms theory of mans ancestry, and / think
| TINS teaching should be cast out of tht
C0llegeS at once. How many agreeg Now
don t think m knocking science; far from
| ~ th,nk 1t one of the most important
I subjects we have. but there's a line to h
drawn in all things. is there not? jus;
what do Won think this world would be Xix,
! in the short course Of two years If every
one threw away their Bibles and took Oar
wins books instead? What would the,
care what they did, or what became o
thehm, If everyone believed that he de
! scended from an ape, and that there was NJ
heretofore nor hereafter? Why should they
! care II they thought that this life wos tee
| end and that there was no heaven no Goo
nor anything but this world and what S III
1T? But, tell me, l pray, from where die
| TINS monkey family come from from which
| we are supposed to have descended: Grea
! suffering eats! l must hush before some
one slaps me SO hard I'll turn back to one
of those great big, grinning, ugly apes. lie,
! me ask favor, please: Will some one wht
has the book. 'As it Is in Heaven" plea Sc
| lend it TO me? Write first. All you cousin,
write me and tell me just what you thin
about evolution thoth sides). Then I viii
! write again and tell you which side lead
out. So III he INV Journey and il any
! of the Cousins have the hook and will IenC
/ i. III return it in good condition or senC
another in the place of it. Marci bier
auntie' for your kindness. Lovingly.
ETHEL MKAY.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here come
two jolly south Mississippi girls We botl
! like to read and our fayorte authors are
lanes CurWood, Zane Grey and Harold Bel
| Wright. We like to do all kinds of fancy
york. such as crochetIng, taltiug ana EN-
| broidery. We are reader. of the dear ole
journal, and like it very much. especial,
Aunt Julias Council page. Isn't this
grand place for girls and boys to gel
acquainted through dear Aunt Julia? W.
rave about forgotten to tell the cousins on
AGES, but We are sweet sixteen We woulf
Ike to. hear from cousins in all the states
Fleose, Aunt Julia, print this letter, We
'an surprise ourselves and friends Two
new cousins,
MISS CONNIE M'LE0D.
MISS AGNESS SMITH.
Leaf. Miss.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will yot
please admit = little Tennessee girl into
your happy band of boys and girls?
like most most of you cousins. live on the
farm and like farm life fine. ] wrote tC
the Letter Box n few mon his ago. hut WASH