Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-20

Would like to exchange flowers with some
cousins, would like to get some ferns.
am between fifteen and twenty Who
san guess? Your cousin.
(Miss) LE0LA WESTBR00K,
Gainesville, Ca, Route 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here I come
from the dear old state OF North Carolina. I
have been reader of The Journal for some
time, and like it fine. I guess most of the
cousins are going to school now. How many
of you cousins like to read? I surely do.
Who has my birthday, March IL? Ny age
is between eighteen and twenty-three.
will leave it for you to guess. Have 1 a
twin? If so, please write to me. / will not
| describe myself this time. If any Of you
want to know how 1 look, just write me. 1
| have been wanting to write, but didn't have
the courage. Now, cousins, here is what
helped me to decide to write: When a
cousin wrote and in asking others to write
/ them, they always said, cousins, please
| write me-" They didn't say, If there was
| silent reader, you may write, too. If they
| had, 1 would have written. 1 surely do love
readers write to me. l must be going be-
fore I break Aunt Julia's rules. Hoping
! Aunt Julia will print this. and will try to
write more interesting letter.
(MISSD MAMIE STILWELL.
| Connolly Springs, n. c.. Rt. 1, Box 104.
| Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins Here comes
a girl from the dear old state of North Car
| OllHa, knocking at your door TOT Ambulance
| into your happy band of boys and girls.
have been reading the Letter Box for long
| time, and surely do like it. / live a
| farm with my father, brother and sister.
| My mother is dead. / will not describe my
self this time; will only say l am bru-
| nette, age fourteen and in the tenth grade.
| am going to ask favor of You cousins:
Will somt one send me the recipe for
! kiss cake?" l will return the favor in
any way 1 can. Well, cousins. 1 will bid
you adieu and run away. All you boys and
| girls write to and please send photos.
L will answer all letters cards. new
| cousin,
(MISs) PMATIDGE sEWEL.
| Mddletown, n. G.
Dear Auntie: Here I come again. Oh.
say, cousins, will you please move over and
| let ME have seat by auntie? AS l have
written before, l will not describe myself.
l was in Georgia when l wrote before, but
am now in the rugged Rocky mountains of
! Wyoming. Oh, auntie, l wish you and all
the cousins could come and spend Christmas
with me. AS all of the cousins have some
certain subject, l guess will tell you
about my Home" Auntie, it is most
! beautiful out here in the snowy mountains.
! | wish [ could send you all the views when
! everything is covered with snow. We have
been having warm weather aud there isn't
any snow, for 1t has melted. Listen,
cousins, what are YOU all going to do Christ
mas? For myself l don't know just yet
what I will do, for everything out here is
so strange to ne do not yet understand any
of the people. But, aunte, don't get lone
come: ! get good many letters from my
! friends back in Georgia. Daddy said
| could 80 back to Georgia next winter to
| spend our vacation. | live on a farm OF
GAO acres of land. Daddy said when he
/ could sell lis land we would go back to
Georgia to make it our home. hear all the
! cousins and aCntie saying, eff she doesn't
! leave L will run her out in the snow aud
cold" will write again and tell you
! how beautiful Wyoming is in the spring.
| Cousins. will you all please write me? Your
! old cousin,
(MIss) RUTH SMITH.
Marshall Wyo.
My Dearest Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will
you please open the door for an old South
Carolina cousins to come into your circle :?
| AS this is my first attempt to write, l am
little bashful. have been taking The
! journal for short time and l must say it
is great pleasure to read TIVE nice interest
| ing letters in Aunt JuliaS council. l live
on the farm and enjoy farm life fine. l go
| to nice country school. | arr sixteen years
old and 1 am in the tenth grade 1 enjoy
| going to school. Who has my birth lay
June p? Cousins, what do vol do for pas
time? like to read good books and do
! homework. | would like to get a letter
from every cousin. SO, who will be the
| first to write? 1 will answer all letters
| received, and if you can please send me
MISS MARY LOUISE REYNOLDS.
Switzer, S. G.
Dear Aunt Julia; Here comes another
Georgia girl to join your happy band cot
! boys and girls. My father has been taking
! The Journal for quite while, and l enjoy
| reading the letters from all the cousins from
different states. 1. like most of the cous-
| ms, live on a farm and like farm life fine
am great lover of flowers and music Have
! a good selection of box flowers for iaponica
or red jestschia. You cousins need not
run for I'm not going to tell you how l
| look this time. My age is between sixteen
ana Twenty-Five. Guess l will say gOod-by.
Hope Aunt Julia will print this Wishing
all merry Christmas and a happy New
Y ear. Your new cousin.
MISS GEN1A WARREN.
Jesup, Ga, Route A, Box -.
| Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I have been
n silent reader of the Letter Box a long
| time, without courage to write, but could
| not resist the temptation any longer. Most
| Of the cousins live in the country. l do,
too, although l do not live on a farm
am lover Of the country.
| 81 love the flowers and trees,
Humming birds and honey bees"
live In Georgia, my native state. Al
| though have lived several years in Florida
| love Georgia. think it is the best state
in the Union. love the hills of Georgia; I
| long to live in the hills of Habersham
county. Do all the cousins like to read
poetry? 1 do. I think that all poets or
poetesses must have gentle dispositions to
have such beautiful thoughts. Do you all
like Sidney Lanier. our Georgia poet? l
think he wrote some OF the most beautiful
poems l have ever read How about 1.-The
Son gof the Chattahoochee? 2" 1 think every
girl who works should have short hair. My
age is fourteen. I will tell you next time
how 1 look, All the cousins write to me.
Lovingly,
HELEN SWEARINGEN.
Clyde, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you let
a Mississippi girl, between twenty and TWEEN.
tythree. join your happy band for a cha .!
| see that most all of the girls and boys
take a subject in writing 1 will do the
same. I'm not much Of a writer, you
will know when have finished, but would
like to say a few words in regard to 'Char-
acter." Good character is the making OF
boys and girls. Watch your character tc
keep patch off of it. If once mended, il
always wants mending, Some people will
ask you to do some dishOnorable thing tt
get You to put hole in your character
Although the hole in yours is not large
as theirs it will grow larger. Mat. Ala
Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into
the wilderness to be tempted of the devil
but BE answered and said, Man shall MOI
live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God" As
Of white paper: if blotted, there will
always he a stain. Although You may rub
it will never come ont. If anyone cares t.
write. come on and ~ answer. Your new
cousin, MISS MARY BIGGS.
Raymond, Miss. II. F. d. l.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins. wonder
II you all will admit Georgia girl in you
merry circle Although I have written be
fore. it has been some time. 1 wonder
what you all are doing for pastime toni ght
As for myself, I'm sitting by the fire trying
to write. 1t has been raining here most al
the week and, my! my! rainy weather
surely does give me the blues. 1 want t.
thank Aunt Julia for printing my other let
tiers, and hope she will be kind enough t.
keep this one out of the wastebasket.
wonder what has become of Mae Pittmar