Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-26

"a , P,ne 70 her sons to spend the holidays
and was taken sick and died. Jney nave
the sweet assurance that she mas gone 70
rest. and that's the grandest thing on
earth to live right, 40 when we come 70
deaths dark stream we will fear no evil
but list cling to Goa ha go er eSe en-
toying your pretty gifts, rememher you VIII
not obtain happiness by having i?Eey
things, but by being lovely; not py settlng:;
but by giving. Sometimes it takes lot OF
suffering to teach IL that and experience Is
n dear teacher. As l write | can glance
from my window and see rare bush fuil
OF beautiful cream roses, and this the irst
day Of January, and the air IS sweet WIN
the fragrance Of a bowl of white narclssl
that dear stepdaughter gave me. 1 also
have in my room two lovely Christmas
twenty five rooted rose bushes. unnamed, all
beautiful roses, and will send one Sunset
rose and two others packed in wet moss for
60 cents postpaid. The Sunset rose is all
the name implies in color. My roses are IA
nous and | am sure you will be pleased.
Wishing Aunt Julia and each reader hap
py and prosperous New Year, am as ever,
sebastopol, Miss.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Aunt
julia, please let me Join your happy band
of boys and girls. Most of the cousins live
on farm and I do, too. but don't like
it, the other cousins say. they do.
I live In South Carolina, but go to
school in North Carolina. I am In the
eighth grade at Tabor High school Tabor
is a small town near the South and North
when The Journal comes. 1t certainly is
| fine paper. read the story, Her Money"
| don't read the other story because it isn't
ta to f.. also read R4rG ah9
| Jeff Is funny in some papers.
Who Is my twin? August 10 is my birth
DAY. l am fifteen years of age. All you
girls about my age write to me, as l get
very lonesome some times.
Your new cousin
ALMA HARRISON.
Tabor, N O., r. F, D. 2, Box 1877.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit soldier boy into your happy band
! Of boys and girls? l have been reader of
the Letter Box for some time and just now
| decided to write. How did you all enjoy
! Christmasl l enjoyed 1t just fine. We
| surely had goood Christmas dinner. I
| lived at Gay; Ca, before enlisting in the
army. Cousins, how many of you have
been to Fort Benning? I only got the the
ninth grade at school, BIT l still read all
the good books that have spare time to-
How many Of you cousins like art? l am
my spare time pretty soon. A part of the
/ detachment is going to take hike to Nc
Clelan next June. l will leave my age
for you to guess, 1t Is between eighteen and
| twenty-five. Some of you high school
cousins write to me. viii exchange photo
gFaphs. Good-by. From q new cousin
ROBERT WILLIAM H. ESTES.
ga Medical Dept, Fort Benning, Ca.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Please allow
me to come in for a few minutes. l believe
most Of you are like myself-like to read
for pastime. 1 have two of Zane Grey's
books, 1.-The Lone Star Ranger and 1.-The
Last of the Plainsmen," which I would like
to exchange for any two of these: ''The
Winning Of Barbara Worth" "The Re-crea.
ton of Brian Kent" 'That Printer OF
Udells," or Helen of the Old House," by
Harold Bell Wright, or two Of Jene STRAIT
ton Porter's books. Write first. 1 have
others you might like, but only these by
Zane Grey, and I believe most of you like
his stories. AS for me, like Mary Roberts
| Rineheart and Harold Bell Wright best. II