Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-15

twenty-fourth president and March
90, John Tyler, the tenth president,
was born.
On March %, 1906. Meriwether
Lewis and William Clark began
their return east, having assembled
the Missouri river to its sources,
crossed the Rocky Mountains, float
ed down the Columbia river TO it's
mouth, and explored Oregon. This
famous expedition was fostered by
President Jefferson, and it gave the
United States it's basis for future
claims on the northwest country.
1t seems to me that children born
in March. should feel particularly
interested in history.
Lovingly,
AUNT JULIA.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: have long
thought of writing to our highly treasured
Letter Box, butt thinking there was nothing
l could say TO interest many readers,
just left the writing part to some one else;
but l do my share of absorbing all the good
things the many writer's say. and truly
hope that the contributors to the Letter Box
will give their utmost support aud will
make this corner grow larger and he the
grandest of all l will take for my sub
ject a few facts I have learned about the
the longest lived animal, for he lives to be
anywhere between 800 and 400 years old.
Fancy being a tor toise! horse does not
live much more Than twenty seven years,
and, II hard worked, would probably not live
as log that. Some people say toadS
live forever, but, of course, that has not
been proved, though certainly they live n to-
an exceedingly great age. An elephants
lifetime lasts about hundred years, but
he isn't considered grown up until he is
about twenty-five years old. The hippopot-
anus and rhinoceros also live to be we'll
over hundred years of age. Cats get to
be about thirteen years old, and dogs beat
them by two years. The eagle and the
crow have been known to live to be a hun
dred years old. but the poor little wren
lives only about three years, 5parrows can
live to be forty years old, so no wonder
some of our sparrows knowing little
fellows, because they are quite grown up"
II this letter is printed I will come back
again some day. Wishing Aunt Julia and
(MRsD VERNON HALL.
Wrightsville. Ca, Route 6.
z. ST. would be glad to hear from any
Of YOU married ladies and will appreciate
flower cuttings from anyone who can send
them.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Gracious
goodness, auntie! Do hurry up and open the
door for me, for the wind is just about to
take my breath. This is some windy day.
ruary. but guess February has just Dor
rowed a few days from March--eh, cousins
Auntie, don't you prefer the cousins writing
on some subject rather than spending so
much time in describing their ugliness?
Well, do, anyway. I'm going to take for
my subject Home and Mother" What IS
a home without n mother? Home is one of
the most desolate places on earth when
mother takes her flight from this earthly
home to gain one on high We have only
mother WA who do he
first sacrifice that we might live Think
OF the suffering she has endured for us.
And, too. when our friends turn away from
us our mothers still remain IL we are ill,
1t is her tender hand that strokes our fever
ish brow. II financial disaster overtakes
us and we lose our hard earnings of years,
and all others forsake us, there will be
mother, with words Of comfort and cheer,
ready to offer any sacifice that might help
us. My mother is still living, but can pic
ture in my mind, if she were dead, that
vacant chair-oh, that vacant chair!
Motherhood is one thing in this world
can never tear down, because it rests on the
eternal bedrock of mother love, and its
walls are built up of mother love, which no
weapon can destroy. 1t is the one thing we
can never build any higher than it is, be-
cause, since the day the first child drew its
first breath of life mother love has been a
thlng higher than the stars and purer than
the skies of glory which it pierces
If the perfect type of mother is spoken of
10 man or woman, instinctively they con-
Jure up the vision of their own mother. If
she still lives, they picture her as she is;
and If she's dead, they picture her as she
was; and il they've grown up motherless.
they picture her as they thought she would
have been.
Her love may be blind, as is the way
with the love which is deepest 1t may fail
to discern in us faults and weaknesses
which, for the good of our own souls, should
De seen and pointed out to us, so, if we
nave the resolution, we may strive to purge
ourselves of them. But it is, oh, so stead
fast! 1t is the Rock of Ages of this world.
read story once OF a chaplain who
served overseas, and he said most of the
men wounded in battle and dying of their
wounds spoke in their last conscious mo.
ments Of their mothers. Some of them had
wives and children to- whom they were de-
voted. They would speak lovingly and ten
derly OF them, but just before the end they
Woulud utter the names of their mothers.
So hasn't mother always been the dearest
word in the language? Dearer than home
dearer than friendship, dearer than any or
all OF these, because all of them really are
summed up in the word mother" which
carries with it thoughts of home, of love
and of friendship. Now, who can say that
mother is not the dearest word in our lam
guage! 1t is. and they, our mothers. make
1t so. Motherless cousins, just think of that
vacant chair In your home. Oh, that va
cant chair!
I would enjoy hearing from some Of the
cousins il any care to write. new cousin,
(MISS) NAE Dawes.
Jesup, Ga, Box 1856
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit another Georgia girl into
your happy band Of boys and girls? 7 will
promise you not to stay but just few
minutes. think it is very kind of Aunt
Jula TO give us place in The Journal
where we can get acquainted with each
otner. ! live in the little town called Roys-
ton. perhaps some Of you cousins have been
to this little town. 1t is very fine little
town and has good school. How many of
you cousins like to so to school? l do.
am in the tenth grade. and have four teach
ers, There are eleven teachers in all.
think every boy and girl should strive to
get an education. We should grasp every
opportunity that we have of getting an ed
ucation. 1t is pitiful sight to see grown
men and women that can read and write.
so cousins let us take advantage of every
opportunity we have ! will describe my
self and 60 l have medium brown hair
and eyes. All you cousins write 10 me
and you Will be sure 70 get an answer Aunt
Juiia, please print this. our new niece
and cousin
(MIss) RETHA MAE WHITLEY.
RoySton, Ga, Box 500.
| Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins; VIII Won
admit another Georgia girl into your happy
band OF boys and girls? Like most of the
cousins live on farm and think we
should be thankful for the beautiful things
Mother Nature provides for us. love mu.
SIC and flowers about as we'll as anv Of the
| cousins, | guess. Roses and sweet peas are
| my Iavorite flowers: As most OF the cous-