Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-08
THE LETTER BOX
FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS
Help for the Helpless-Kindness to
All Dumb Things"

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No letter written on both sides or
paper printed.
All letter not to exceed $50 to 200
words.
Dear Children: We are going on
with our story of the Indians
household furniture and utensils,
also firearms. This verse from H1a-
watha gives you a good idea of the
arrow heads:
made his arrow-heads of sandstone,
Arrow-heads of chalcedony,
Arrow-heads Of flint and jasper,
Smoothed and sharpened at the
edges, =.
Hard and polished, keen and costly"
For their fishing and hunting
and planting the Indians used wood,
skin or stone. From wood the tribes
which lived by fishing made fish
clubbers, fish spears, sealing shafts,
whaling harpoons, and raft-iike
boats; from the fibers of wood they
wove nets; from bones they made
hooks. From wood the tribes that
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arrows and canoes. The latter were
either made by following out a sin
gle log, or by covering a frame of
poles with bark. From animal skins
the hunters made strips of sinews
for their bows and fashioned snow
shoes with which they could travel
as far as forty miles in a day, over
taking deer and moose; from bone,
flint or stone they made arroW-heads,
mauls, hammers, axes or toma-
hawks. From wood, shell or stone
the tribes which lived by planting
made their simple digging sticks or
hoe. knives were common to all In
dams and were made oIt of stone.
The art of striking fire, by friction
Of pieces Of flint or hardwood sticks,
the process Of making calabash rat
ties from gourds and drums from
skins were practiced by most tribes.
Net week we will have Indian
Clothing" Lovingly,
AUNT JULIA.
Kind Aunt Julia: This is Sunday night,
and I am all alone in the dear old home
tonight This is November IS, and is the
first day of Educational week for 1923, and
only eleven days until Thanksgiving and
thlrty-sepen days until Christmas. On
Thanksgiving day I expecting the teach
and pupils of two public schools the pu-
pills teachers and officers of one Sabbath
school to come and spend the day with me.
Several other friends are also expected to
spend Thanksgiving day with me. All who
come will bring dinner. There will be
Thanksgiving exercises, speeches, recita-
housckeeper almost q week, as my sister is
visiting away from home. She will return
home some time this week. l am the
youngest of eleven children. seven boys and
girls All Of Is died my o..
est sister and myself. I an old bach
eor, e. years months and 10 days young.
My birthday is May 80. G. A. r. Decoration
day for my birthday. whether I have big
birthday times or not; but I've had some
dandy birthday parties and have enter
tanned hundreds of my friends on such oc
casions. 1 have many relatives in the dear
old southland l do not take The Tr
Weekly Journal. but one of my nephcws
takes it and l. read it quite regularly and
enjoy the letters and much other good
reading matter to be found in it. So far
as / know, l have no aunt alive. ! have
no uncles living; one sister alive. and !
have about sixty-four nephews and nicces
living. My parents are dead. 1 have a
nice collection of almost 400 post cards,
and l am always glad to receive post cards.
have two nieces older than !. Perhaps
aunt Julia will let me call myself her
iephew. &. A STAKELY.
Route 6, Madisonvile. Tenn.
Dear Aunt Julia: Here comes two lonely
boys TO join your happy circle of girls and
boys. We are from the dear old Berry
school, and we get very lonesome some
times, but always enjoy reading The
Journal, and some of the wonderful letters
tlat we see in it. What are you kids
do you all like best? 1t wouldn't do for
us to begin to tell what we like best, for
we like almost any kind of sport, like
baske tball and football and boat riding. We
surely have a grand place to boat ride. We
have lake that covers fifteen acres. We
had our fieldday November s. We had n
grand time. Our class took nearly all first
years of age. I. Ernest, am twenty years
or age. We would like to hear from some
of you good-lookins Cousins. We will an
swer all letters that We receive, so we will
the Cousins.
JOHNNIE FAwCErT.
ERNEST CARROLL.
Mt. Berry, Ga, November Ii.
Dearest Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will
YOU please admit two Georgia kids into
and like country life fine. For several
years We have been constant readers of the
dear Old Journal. and it seems as if an in
definable something. keeps urging us to
any longer. l. Fannie. am twenty years
OLD ]. Lula, am eighteen. Boys and girls,
come on with your letters. We will promise
to answer all letters received.
(MISS) FANNIE REECF.
(MISS) LULA BEARDEN.
Jacksonville, Ga.
Dearest Aunt Julia and Cousins I won
der if you would admit an old cousin who
has not paid the Letter Box visit in five
long years. l wrote to the Letter Box
just a short time before l sailed for Eu-
rope, so ! did not have time to answer very
many of the interesting letters you cousins
wrote. How many of you cousins like t.
travel? l surely do. Travelled over alt
the western states last year and enjoyed it,
There are so many interesting things to be
seen. II you cousins will come. we will
take journey over the west here at home
For l have collection of kodak pictures |
made on my round, so 10 the first one to
write / will send them a picture Of the
capitol building Of California. Wishing ev-
cry one merry Christmas and happy New
year. From an old cousin
(MR.) f. L. MADDO.
Winder, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will You
please let Nerth Carolina girl enter your
happy band of boys and girls?
We take The Atlanta Journal. and like
to read the letters from the cousins Of diff