Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-15
A new cousin.
(MISS) LUCILLE SHELL
Mount Pleasant, La.


new cousin,
(MISS) LUCILLE SHELL
Mount Pleasant, La.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins:
As the shade of night gently gathers
over me and not sound to be heard ex,
rept the noise of the little frogs. my m'na
wanders to a happy bunch OF boys ana
girls l wonder If they Will welcome me
to Join them for just short while! anu
lonesome and can't find any better way TO
pass the time than to write to the gear
council. l have never written berore' out
have been enjoying the many nice Ietters'
What you couslns\ doing 10 pass .ne Es'
long, rainy days away? l guess most OF you
are in school Our school closed the 5tn OF
April. We have nice consolidated schoot
almost two miles from home. We nave
seven month term. ! finished the tepth
grade this session.
we have better opportunities than our
mothers and fathers had, and we should
make good of them. Time simply mes
and we can't call lack the time we nave
been idle.
Aren't you cousins glad that spring hah
come | can't decide which like best,
come? can't decide which l like nest
to fall making such beautiful scenery,
think / like winter best, but when spring
comes with its singing birds and pretty
flowers, | think like spring.
Would be glad to get letters from any OIL
the cousins who care TO write.
With love to each and every one.
MISS HATTIE DARBY.
Philadelphia, Miss. Rt. 0.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Good morn
ing to each and every one OF you. Don
everything seem beautiful now spring
has come at last after such long, colo
winter Wonder what you all Will DO
Easter? Like the rest of the cousins, or
most of them, l live on the tarnl' ou'
don't like it. l prefer the city. saw IN
the Letter Box week or so ago a letter
from a Ruth Stone. of Arkansas. nave
also seen one from Florida and have heard
of two more, so you see KUHN stones Hre
quite familiar. How many OF you cousins
read the continued stories in The Journal?
(Look at the hands flying upD / do and
sure like them. ] also read Dorothy DIX
articles. Think they are simply fine. II
we would only take her advice. would
appreciate some flower cuttings from some
of you cousins, or Aunt Julia. either. Ev-
cry one of my pot flowers were killed this
winter. SO you see I'll have to start anew
you may read IL any Of you wish to. I
have; The Pathfinder" "Pollyanna Grows
Up" "a Thorn Among Orange blossoms
The Heart Of Rachael" The Fet ter, 9t
Dumps and Tots" The latter book is
splendid one for small girls to read, 1
have been contemplating writing for some
time, but just have neglected it. So my
sister, Rubye, and I decided to write this
morning. l have written once before. but
wasn't admitted. ''It at first you don't
succeed, try, try again" l have auburn
blue eyes. Am between sixteen and twenty
years of age. Letters and photos from all
the cousins will be appreciated very much
as this is a lonesome place as there aren't
any young people around here much. By-by.
RUTH STONE.
Fitzgerald, Ga, Route l.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here
comes a North Carolina girl asking for
admittance into your happy band of boys
and girls. l have been reading the letters
and most of them are interesting. l like
most of the cousins live on a farm, where
the flowers bloom and the birds sing, and
all nature is green, and the woods
full of wild flowers and birds. 1t is nice
TO go out to the meadows and down by the
brook with its edges frnged with flowers,
where the birds sing and the orchards
full of pink and white blooms, and the
farmer out in the fieHs whistles from day
light till dark. What do you cousins do
for amusement? l read good books, Zane
Grey is my favorite author. l am very
fond Of music. l have been going to school
and studying hard to get an education.
think education is a very great thing
and everyone should strive to get one. I
had better go before 1 break Auntes rules,
l will describe myself and go. l have
brown curly hair. brown eyes and fair COM
plexion. Get your paper and pencil and get
busy. l will answer all letters received. A
new cousin,
(MIss) FLORENCE sTAMEY.
Clarrissa, n. c.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please permit lonely girl OF fourteen to
enter your happy circe? l live on a farm
OF about Ia acres, but l don't like farm
life much. How many of you like to go
to Sunday school? l really do. l the
gold medal for perfect attendance for one
year. l missed Sunday out of the
whole year, and wouldn't have missed that
one IL it had not been for the death Of my
grandma, but they didn't count that Sun
day and l am glad to say l am one Of the
winners, and hope to be a Sunday school
worker some time. Guess you all are won
dering how l look. I have black hair. dark
brown eyes, brunette complexion. l would
like to form friendship with this happy
band Of boys and girls by letters. I would
also appreciate photos, as want TO start an
album. l would like letter or card show
er very. very much, and cousins please
ruary %, and if have twin would like
to hear from him or her. With much love
MISS JAMIE B. WARD.
Wrayswood, Ca, Box 43.
Dear Aunt Julia: l wonder Il you will
admit a lonely Georgia girl into your coy
corner? IN an old cousin Of the dear old
Letter Box, having written once before, and
thank Aunt Julia for printing my letter.
am the only child at home now. | had two
brothers and three sisters, but they
have married and left just papa mamma
and myself So you see, get very lone
some at times. My mother has been in bad
health for some time; hasn't walked a step
since last January. l surely agree with
some of the Cousins on mother love. What
is home without a mother? Mother, like she
is today, is so much help and company to
me. Wonder how many of you Cousins re-
member me? Who has my birthday, No
yember Is? Have l a twin? If so, l would
like to hear from you. l see that most Of
the Cousins have bobbed their hair, but 1
have not. Listen, Didn't l hear some one
say, she's an old maid? No, Cousin you
are wrong I'm neither baby nor an old
maid. Who guess nv age? It's be-
tween 90 and "a. All you Cousins who care
TO write, let your cards and letters come 10
MISS VERA SHIP.
Dallas Ca, r. ..