Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-06

as ] want to get acquainted with all the
cousins. III any of you cousins care to
write an Alabama girl, let your letters come
to new cousin.
(MIss) CARRYE B. HICKS.
Georgiana, Ala, Route I, Box %.
Dear Aunt Julia: Row ia everyone? May
| come in for q few minutes? | am awful
ly warm as walked from home. Thanks.
Auntie, I'll remain standing. please for if
sit down and get comfy may stay too
long. Ny! Doesn't the circle look friendly
today? Every face is wreathed in smiles,
see! There is Jack Guest spooning, as
usual. Aren't you Jack? Aud there is
Bill Snow over there in the corner looking
like an Indian in front OF a cigar store
What are you painting now, Bill?
wouldn't like to get peep into those
albums OF yours? Well. someone is asking
WHO is that chatterbox?" Don't be i'm
patient, please. l hate being rushed. It's
just little breezy kid from "Od Ala
pama,' who would do most anything to
escape the horrid monster, "Blues," and as
thought l would slip quietly away and join
the happy corner. Some girl cousin has
been criticizng the ''Jellybeans'' most
awtuliy. Woe be unto you, click-hsired,
Siiek-taced, perfectly styled dandy is what
she says. Hey, boys maybe she prefers the
knd who dresses to look like a ship in fully
rugged sail. with all her sails crowded on
ana OF whom she thinks OF as q natural
y III
she does l am afraid he will turn out to
be smother "Jellybean" and then. my dear,
where Is your high and powerful der,ieod
Whpn you have placed on an exalted
PEDESTAL: And anyway. the "Dandies". are
good sort. | don't think they are so dis.
gushing az some of suppose they are
And we must not expect the boys to be
grave, solemn-faced who have been reared
Ia Inc midst OF crowd of CAV, light-heart-
ed girls. For pastime I read, write, ride
horseback and 90 in bathing. Will some
one please send me the following songs:
men the Evening Breeze Is Signing"
Maryland" MY Old Kentucky Home p,
WI return favor If possible.
have blue eyes, light hair what? yes.
IL nobned: do You have any objections?
ana fu- complexion. I would like to re-
ceiNe just lots OF letters Try me and SOC
If don t anhwer. Some of you living ON
ranches in Montana, Arizona Utah and all
the thinly settled states OF the west, pleas
write me as well as the rest
My age is sweet sixteen
BE sweet cousins.
lMlSSl EXIE MARTIN.
Guntersville, Ala, Route l.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: viii Won
please admit North Carolina girl into YOUR
happy circle: l live in the northeastern
part of North Carolina. attend high
school aud am in the ninth grade. How
many OF You cousins enjoy reading poetry
| do. | have just read the story of Evan.
seine. and ! like it fine. | find myself
believing in Eyangeline as real maiden.
one who once lived and suffered in that
little village of Grand-Pre. | like TO read
lonGfellow'S poetry, because 1t seems as
though You were living IN the period you
are reading about 1t all seems SO real
Longfellow also wrote some poems in which
he told Of some of the scenes on the farm
where he spent his boyhood DAYS These
scenes impressed him so deeply that. wher-
ever he went he was thinking of them. I
have light brown hair, medium fair COM
oteNion and gray eyes. l SIN between four.
teen aud seventeen years old. have not
hobhed hair hut | wear my hair in eurIs
Win suSwer sill letters received. A new
niece and cousin.
tMTSSl LILLIAN MINTTRE.
Atsmahaw, y. c.
Dear Aunt Iuis: Please open the door for
one more jolly farmerette from the dear old
state OF Georgia. NV! how hot it is.
most certainly am glad I'm not sugar, for
| surely would have been melted before now.
How many OF ven cousins like 10 read?
for one. Among my favorite books are
"Freckles," Little Women" ''Rehecca, IT
Sunny Brook Farm" "Laddie'' and BLACK
Beauty" and Courageous Girls" My favor
lite author is Gene Stratton- Porter. How
many Of Won cousins enjoy outdoor sports Z
l most certainly do. How many Of You
cousins like scheel? ! for one. l expect 10
take up first grade high school teighth
2rsdel next term. As | see Runtie frown-
'ag. ! will leave my description and so. !
have brown hair. sud il most certainly i
hohbsd; brown eyes. dark complexion Ny
sse iS~-there' ! slmost told il. Who's tho
cen, and my birthday is Novembes IS.