Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-20
The Letters That Come to Me

Our clever postman who is al
ways courteous and obliging has
been telling me for some years that
l receive the heaviest mail that
comes to any private citizen in our
burg.
Since I was United States senator
for a few brief weeks 1 can bear
testimony that my mail has been
the largest by considerable figures.
One day l had an entire pouch full,
lis by actual count. Many days
along from fifty to seventyeight,
etc. Many We're special delivery
letters. They came from all over
the United States, some from Can
ada, Cuba, Costa Rica; also from
Paris, London and a good many
from Germany, one from Norway
and one from South America.
1 had a time of it trying to send
a few lines to each. Unless one
has tried it without a secretary they
cannot appreciate the strain of such
labor.
[ am getting. large number of
letters still, and today 1 was struck
with the requests that come in these
letters. The most of them came
II Clll 1COA . IclIl>s OAL LlS1C WCLC a
few from Texas and South Caro-.
lima.
The dear women who are far re-
moved from the usual sights about
a town or city, are trying to get
in touch with people who will buy
fancy work, needle work, tatting
quilts. counterpanes, women's espe-
cial handiwork. How 1 wish
Pn1116 Hirnnt than +n u n
ers, but L am totally unable to point
them out to them.
Then I am asked about when and
where Thanksgiving day came to be
established. Then, who founded the
first women's clubs in Georgia, etc,
etc. A dear soul has found an lad"
in a Ohio paper, where stamped work
with good pay will be handed to
women who do fancy work.
How glad would [ be if I could
fix things of this sort, but [ am near
ly 88 years old and cannot find time
to properly rest, when | am very
tired. | enjoy their confidence in
my willingness and in my experience,
but it would require a PERSONS entire
time and strength to attend to all
these requests; and one in the me-
ridian of life might do so, not an
octogenarian, lacking only a few
years of the century mark.
I received also letter today from
a young mother who is twenty-five
years old, has been married six
years and has four children--the
youngest nearly six months old.
Her duties are so many-she is
crowded with work-and has little
recreation, if any, outside of her poor
neighborhood, and she Graves
change! She Graves an education
had only a country school when she
was a girl, and she pours out her
heart to me! What can I do? I GER
tainly can tell her that these little
tots may be the browning blessing
Of her old age, if they grow up to
be what she hopes they will be. Also,
that God has promised to hear and
little family, etc.
too we'll to try to shirk any duty re-
quired for their comfort and good
health.
= What more could I say?
l can tell the inquirer that Thanks
giving day was of Puritan-New
England origin, also that the first
known of the Georgia Federation of
Woman's clubs came along around
the year 1894, that Women's Mis-
sionary societies were in existence
many years previous, that the Wom-
ans Christian Temperance union
was not a womans club, but a great
organization of Christian women,
who were trying to save the youth
Of the country from the liquor curse.
The suffrage cause was a sequel to
the w. c. 7. u, because the women
could not get rid of the liquor evil
until it was voted out. etc, etc.
AS the day outside is raw and