Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-28
THE LETTER BOX
FOR THE BOYS AND RIRLS
"HeIp for the HeIpIess--Kindness to
All Dumb Things"


All Dumb Things"
Rules
No unsigned letter printed
No letter written on both sides of
paper printed
Al letters not to exceed $50 to
200 words.
Dear Children:
One little girl complained that her
letter was not published promptly.
Now this is the story: You know we
have a very large circle, and that
read every one of your letters, not
turning them over to anyone else.
1t takes me quite a time to get
through the mail, and sometimes the
letters will either not be plainly
enough written for the printers to
read them when they start to put
them in type, or they will break one
of the other rules of the Letter Box.
I want you to be patient and to
know that Id publish every single
one if l could. lovingly,
AUNT JULIA.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins; VIII You
please admit a little Georgia girl into your
happy band of boys and girls? AS this IS
my first time, | will not stay long. What
do you cousins do for pastime? For myself
l so fishing and hunting an read the dear
old Journal. Ny grandmother stays with us.
My mother has been dead ten years. [ was
only four years old when she died, so 70"
see I don't know what a mother is. Vt
seems as if my grandmother is my own
mother. | have one sister and two brothers.
For nets [ have two lambs. | have black,
curly hair (bobbed), brown eyes and me-
dunn complexion, and l fourteen years
old. My birthday is October 3. Who has
my birthday? l assure all of you cousins
an answer to your letters and cards
NIISS) PEARL PAULK,
Alapaha, Ca, r. +. j. 4, Box Is.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: viii you
please make room for me again in your
jolly circle? I'm just wondering if you all
are enjoying life as l am. 1 suppose some
of you remember me, 1 have written TO
your page before, and 1 can say l have
gained some very dear pen friends. The
winter season is approaching here and it's
almost time for us to put our bathing suits
away and change them for winter wraps.
That's disheartening to me, because I do
enjoy bathing, but 1 can change that sport
to something l like almost as well, and
that's bunting. How many Of you like
kodaking? l think it great sport, and have
lots of good snaps from my camera. Boys,
let's not let the girls get ahead of us writ
ing. OF course. they write lots better
and more interesting letters than we do, but
why should we worry. Let's write rs many
as they do. How many of you can boast
woman governor for your state? | can
hardly do it vet, but l think and believe
that on November they will elect a woman
governor for Texas. Mrs. Miriam A. Fcrgu-
son will certainly be our next governor With
coolies of love to all, l will ask for a card
and letter slower from all. My age is
twenty. Aunt Julia, here is 6 cents for
lnez. Yours till the hens quit cackling
(MR.D HOYT BARNES.
Trent, Texas.
Dearest Auntie and Cousins: wonder if
the space 1 shall require will ever he par
dOned. Anyway, l hope you will give me
just a few minutes chat with all of you
jolly cousins. [ have written to the Letter
Box again since my letter was printed in
January, 1924, but it was not printed, so
decided to try again. Auntie, 1 thank you
very, very much for printing my other let
ter, and hope YOU will print this one.
surely did appreciate all the letters you
cousins wrote me, and l am sorry to say I
could not answer them all, but they were
appreciated all the same. Well what
You cousins doing for a good time? Going
to school [ suppose. For myself, [ have
been working in the field, etc Cleta Jack
son, Of Cameron? n. c., come again; your
letter was fine, but | believe you made
mistake about where to find that chapter in
the Bible; it is found in | Cor. 11:5-15.
Come on, North Carolina; the other states
are getting ahead of us. I from the
it is grand place. l see most of you
cousins take a subject, but 1 will not this
time. Come on with your ideals" they are
fine. | have medium brown hair mot
bobbed), blue eyes and fair complexion, and
my birthday is September s. Have I any
twins? If so, l would be glad to hear from
them. All Of You cousins please write to
jolly ''sNeet sixteen -year-old country girl,
and send photos. Enclosed is 10 cents for
Inez. MISS VIOLA MORGAN.
Gold Hill, y. c., Route /.
Dear Aunt Julia: lis just I. little
Alabama girl, coming in for short visit.
As ideals are being discussed I'm send
ing in little poem for the Letter Box.
Here it is, cousins:
Don't Marry Man to Reform Him
Don't marry a man to reform him.
To God and your own self be true;
Don't link his vice to your virtue;
You'll rue it, dear girl, if you do,
No matter how fervent his pleading,
BE not by his good promise led
If he can't be a man while wooing,
He'll never be one when he's wed.
There's many maiden has tried it,
And Just proved a failure at last:
Better tread your -life's path alone dear
Than to wed a lover that's fast
Mankind's much the same the world over,
The exceptions yoUll find are but few;
And the rule is defeat and disaster
The chances are great against YOU
Don't trust your bright hopes for the future,
The beautiful crown of your youth,
To the keeping of him who holds lightly
His fair name, his honor and TRUTH
TO ''honor and love" you must promise:
Don't pledge what You cannot fulfill.
If he'll have no respect for himself, dear.
Most surely you then never will.
Make virtue the price of your favor.
Place wrong doing under a BAN
Ana let him who would win you and wed
You,
Prove himself in full measure a man.
This is just little poem which read
few days ago, and liked it so much
wanted the cousins to read it, Bill Snow
while | wouldn't expect you to give a ran
Tor my opinion, if | had space I'd like to
express the views of great many girls
ana boys too, concerning the Modern Flap-
per and "Jelly-bean Boy" Perhaps ii
IS Just as well for the modern boys - and
modern girls y peace of mind that tbev
cannot know what all boys and girls think
VI them; III tell you little about my
sell and give you another poem then III
pc going. l have brown hair tho, it isn't
bobhed(; blue eyes, fair complexion and is
years old.
Wishing
10 You wish the world were better?
Let me tell YOU what to do:
SET watch upon your actions:
Neep them always straight and true
kld Your mind of selfish motives:
Let your thoughts be clean and high
You can make little Eden
VI the sphere you occupy.
Do you wish the world were wiser?
Wen suppose you make a start
by accumulating wisdom
IN the Scrapbook cf your heart.
yat~