Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-19
THE LETTER BOX
FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS
Help for the Helpless-Kindness TO
All Dumb Things"
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All Dumb Things"
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No unsigned letter printed. =.
No letter written on both sides of
paper printed.
All letter not to exceed $50 to 200
words.
Dear Children:
! We are leading our letters this week
with a communication from some
cousins in far away Australia.
/ know that you will enjoy hear.
ing from these cousins and hope that
they will make some good friends
in our country.
Lovingly,
AUNT JULIA.
Barbon Hill, Yam Yean.
Victoria, Australia.
! June End.
| Dear Aunt Julia:
| We have just been reading your
| letter. box and enjoyed it so much
that we have decided to write to you.
| There are nine children in our fam
| lily, five boys and four girls. The
eldest is twenty-three and the
youngest is ten years old. We live
on a farm, but we grow fruit most
| ly. We have some more land about
| forty miles from here. We have ali
| left school except two brothers and
sister. Our eldest sister is a
| teacher of domestic economy. I.
| Lily, teach two children every morn
| ing from o'clock We both learn
music, we 80 every Friday to Whit
| lesea. II is nine miles from here, SO
we have to either ride or drive
| Muriel will be seventeen on the 18th
Of September and Lily eighteen on
| the oath of July and we would like
to get letters from any OF the
| cousins about our own age.
Please write to each separately
Anyone who would care to write,
write to
Miss MURIEL B. DRAPER
| Miss LILY E. DRAPER.
Dear Auntie and Cousins: Here I come
| Tor admittance again. My other letter was
printed and | thank Aunt Julit very much.
think Aunt Julia is the dearest lady on
meet lots of friends, don't you, cousins
think soE On, L hear some one over in
the corner saving, what kind of a looking
thing is she: l have light hair and its
bobbed, grey eyes, fair complexion and am
! twelve years old. l guess most of you
cousins are going to school L have been
| going. to school, but school is out now. 1t
was out in May, and | was promoted to the
! seventh grade.
I live on a farm and like it fine.
don't know how l would feel in town: We
live two miles from Villa Rica and / go to
school there. Warren Keaton, come again,
your letter was splendid. have some rela-
! of Luka. Miss, l want You to write to
me. think you and / can come to be
jttCf nal ,ifn fpin 1A+e Of
| Smiths up here where / live. | wonder if
You Of their relatives. You are
lnst one year older than l. l received a
letter from a girl OF my age named Alline
Paulk, of .Alapaha, Ga. to the first let
ter l wrote. will not take a subject this
time time as IN. my letter is getting Lengthy l
| paper will be out in Just one more month,
but / hope we Will renew our subscription.
swer all received. Il any one has the song,
| The Story Book Ball. send it to me and
] will return the favor any way l can.
MISS LUCILLE EAsTERwOOD.
Villa Ricg@ Ca: Route ,, Box IS.
! Dear AurfT Julia and Cousins: Let us twin
| girls away down in Bleckley county, Georgia,
| join the band of cousins. We are fifteen
| years old and are so very much alike that
our teachers do not know us apart. |, Alma,
was in the contest for reading and got the
medal. Ny teacher congratulated my twin
! sister on getting the medal, and thought it
| was me, as we were dressed alike and didn t
| know it was the wrong one until she told
| her it was 1 that got the medal. We live
| five miles i'll the country and drive to the
| A. and NJ. school. We love the country life,
| for we are not penned up like city children.
| We raise hogs. cows and chickens. Vege-
| tables are plentiful now in the garden. The
! land is little rolling here, but the soil is
| easily cultivated and produces good crops of
| corn. peas and fine peaches. We will be
| graduated in two more years at the A. and
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lege. Wishing all the cousins good luck. aud
| Aunt Julia. too. All who wish to write to
two Georgia girls just send your letters TO
| MISS ALMA HARVILLE.
| MISS THELMA HARVILLB.
Cochran, Ga, r. F, D. 1.
Dearest Aunt and Cousins: Please admit
| a jolly Alabama girl into your happy midst
| for few moments. | will not tarry long l
will now describe myself l have blue eyes.
| medium brown hair, fair complexion and
my age is 1G years. Who has my birth
day, April 90? Please let me ask favor
and then l will slip out quietly. Girls and
scenes around your homes and | will re-
! turn the favor in any way you may desire.
Now let the letters come. l assure YOU a
speedy answer l desire to make pen friends
| especially with some girls and boys living
| il the states of Mississippi oklahoma,
| Louisiana. California and Florida If this
| is printed please clip out and send it TO
me somebody, as we do not take this paper
| at the present time. With much love to
| Aunt j0lla, VINO Is the sweetest lady l1
the world, | know. Good by.
MISS MYRTICE JONES
Centreville, Ala. L. +. d. /, Box 80.
Dear Aunt Julia aud Cousins Will YOU
| admit blue-eyed, suuburned North Geor-
Gis girl again: | thank you very much for
printing my other letter and thanks 10 the
| cousins who wrote me. | guess Fou cousins
| remember me. ! won't tell you how
| look or how old | am, only say | in
the teens aud look straight out of my
eyes. Some of yeu cousins ought to have
been with me md girl chum of mine this
afternoon. We went to a singing @aDd as
| we went on we tried to kill dead snake.
Did you all ever hear OF such foolish kids
|. guess you country, cousins are at work
| III the field yet, but l have to hit it next
| week. / have had my hair bobbed since |
was last with you and | like ii, and the
powder puff, by me is given d hearty vel
come. I'll 80 in minute. l would like to
| receive letters from you cousins If YOU
| all care to write to me, though | cannot
promise to answer them all. l am the same
little girl.
(MIS0 DAISY INGLE.
Resaca, Ga. Route ..
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit a lonely South Carolina girl into your
! happy band of boys and girls? l have been
a silent reader of the Letter Box for long
| time and enjoy reading the interesting let
ters the cousins write. live on a farm and
| like Farm life fine. l would not exchange
| with any city boy or girl. What do YOU
| cousins do for pastime? | read and crochet.
! | am lover of flowers, my favorite ones are
| roses, sweet peas and pansies. | will not
| take subject this time as it is my first at
! tempt to write, but il l We're it would be on
| obedience" Come on. South Carolina bows
! and girls, the other states are ahead of us
| | I'm brunette of eleven summers. and
| have brown hair and eyes As my letter is
| getting lengthy had better stop. All you
| boys and girls write to me and send photos
| all who can. new cousin,
ALINE HUGGINS.
| Dillon s. c.. Route 8
| Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: VIII you
| admit another farmers boy into your happy
! band: We have not been taking the At.
| lanta Journal very long. but ! surely enjoy
| it. especially the Letter Box. l wrote to the
| Letter Box once before but was not admit
ted. Cousins, don't you think Aunt Julia is