Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-03
AUNT JULIA'S COUNCIL
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Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here comes
an Albanian asking for admittancs into
your happy band of boys and girls. now
please, Mr.. w. B., don't get me before ge'
| AWAY for this is my second time to write
| am farmer and am crazy about farm
life, and the outdoor sports OF the country;
For pastime ] go koGaking, flshinS anu
| swimming / have Ford and enjoy taxing
long trims through the country. l see pow
der paint and The Ideal" are being ulscuss-
ed a lot Well boys, | am different from
/ most of you. | say let the glrls use as
much powder and paint as they ike, anu
also n little lip stick. for sometimes j use
all of them myself. 1 think powder helps
the looks OF any one and don oelieVe
| would enjoy going with a girl that dldn
have pride enough to powder and paint. NOW,
boys, don't think l am sissy, Tor l am
not As for my 'ideal wife," don't know;
Guess l would take most any OF tnen
could get Some of the 'ldeals lhaC "a
being described can't be found In tnls Wollu.
Just one thing about my ideal wanI
her TO be able to cook good cakes, .hal M M
| I ask Of her. I'll describe myseiI anu ~
| catch my old gray mule and go to piowlns.
| am five feet four inches tall; have brown
| hair and eyes; weigh 10 pounds. MY age
| ia between sixteen and twenty-one' come
| nm. girls and guess it. The one that guesses
| nv correct age l will send nice present.
| Everybody write to a country lad. Best
wishes. 1.cE CHEST.
Alfalfa, Ala. Route 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Please let
me in for few moments chat. Oh! What
ID 7 hear? 1t seems to be house full OF
merry birds. But now | get a Detter heal-
ing, it's only the cousins, met 10 nave d
talk. Please, cousins, don't laugh at me as
I enter, for l am very timld, as ms - Tossi s
VI ei@bteen summers Am a farmers girl,
hut rather live on the farm. Have meyer
lived in town. but don't think L would IKE
| +oyn life / have no mother and can say
the word mother means the World 10 lhe'
hid YOU all adieu for this time, as Aunt
Julia don't like long letters A ne" niece
anu ''u'li MISS BERTHE HARRINGTON.
Dexter, Ca, Route 2
near Aunt Julia: Please forgive me for
coming again so soon, but I just want 10
thank you for printing my other let'e e. ,,a
think YOU seem more like motnef W u"
than an aunt, because you are so soou:
Cousins, don't you think 80, too! Most 90 o.
the cousins take subject, put won a. i'i 80
time Auntie, please print this poem IL II
isn't too long:
Is Anybody Happierf a.
"Ia ANYBODY happier because you pass MS
Does anyone remember that you spoke to
This i dav is almost over and its toiling time
is through; ,,.s,u ,rord
of you? ., - +bo
| Did you give cneerLul sleo'ns w
friend who came along,
or cburlish sort of 'howdy' and then van
ish in the throng? or
Were YOU selfish, pure and simple as you
rushed along your way, .ood
Or is some one mighty grateful 1of oeeu
you did today! ,., +ho
day that's slipping fast,
That you helped single prother u 'ne many
that you passed - .,
Is single heart rejoicing over "n"' ''U
did or said? 1900
Does a man whose hopes were fading now
with courage look aheao Z!
"Did Won waste the day or use it; was 1t
well or poorly spent?
did Won leave a trail Of kindness or scar
of discomfort?
As YOU close your eyes in sIumper, 10 you
think that God would say
You have earned one more tomorrow Dy the
work you did today!
T did not give nv description in my other
| letter so here goes: Dark brown hair, blue
| ewes fair complexion and will be seventeen
years old October 2. AL the cousins please
write to me and send photos / Will try 10
answer all letters received. With love 10
Aunt Julia and cousins.
Cranberry, W. Va.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit Georgia girl into your happy
band of boys and girls? live in the coun J.
} try, three miles from Yatesvile, which Is
| one of the best towns in Georgia. How many
of you cousins are in school? MY school
was out in May and / was promoted 10 the
eighth grade. Who has my birthday, Noyem-
her %? | will be fifteen years old. have
7 twin? How many Of you cousins like
to read? ! like it fine. I have dark ha!r
and dark eyes and, of course, my halr rs
!, bobbed VIII appreciate letters from all
who care to write. L promise to answer all
letters received. Your new niece ana
cousin. , ,,rDDu
Yatesville, Ga.
Dearest Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here
. comes one more Alabama girl knocking TOT
admittance into your happy circle i've IN
the country, as most all the cousins do:
, have been a silent reader of the Letter BOX
for quite a while, and l surely no me ~
writing but was afraid ] wouldn't be al
mtted, but at last / have picked up cour-
age enough to try. any way. ROW many
of YOU all will be glad when scnool starCs
again? l. for one 1t seems like 1T has
, been year since school was out. surely
do like to go to school and mean to get an an
education, If it is within my reach. VIII
, be in the ninth grade next year, and can
hardly wait till school starts again. MISS
Bertha L. Jones, of Tennessee, come again
: your letter was just fine and 1 certainly dc
Z Girls Are Brought Up" and l think most
all the cousins do. Well, as TINS is my
first attempt to write and my letter Is get,
ting rather lengthy, I'll describe myselt anq
90 before | break Aunt Jula's rules, for
l surely do hope she will admit me- am III
, teen wears old; have dark brown hair bod
bed of course, and blue-gray eyes. Ny Dlrtn,
dav is September %. Have / twin! Al,
Won cousins write to jolly cousin. Would
} like to get letters from all the states
will answer all I can. With best wishes
5 Your new cousin. -,-r, -oor,
Dear Aunt Julia: will you permit a little
Louisiana girl into your jolly crowd OF boSs
and girls? AS this is my first attempt, |
5 surely hope you will not disappoint me, but
kindly print my letter. 1 live on farm,
{ near Jena, La. like farm me Just line, ~
I know nothing else much but farm life, and
am really glad l don't. My school IS Eden
! 1 study the sixth grade l go to the zap
fist Sunday school every Sunday. HOW
many of you cousins like to go to Sunday
school? am eleven years old and my birth
day is October IS. Have I twin? II So
please write me. l will answer all letters
and cards received from my twins or any
others. Hoping to receive many let'ers'
'''' ' MISS MYRTIs KNAPP.
Jena, La, Route I, Box 39-A.
Good evening, everybody, Please, Aunt
Julia, let me in for little while, for |
want to get acquainted with the cousins. l
am from North Carolina. l live on farm,
and like it fine l have been chopping cot
ton. I twelve years old, have blue eyes
, and black (bohbed) hair. My father takes
The Journal and 1 do enjoy reading the let
tiers fine. / have two sisters and two broth
| ers living and two dead MY birthday IS
January g. All you cousins write TO me. a
new cousin,
(AIISS) ROSA EFIRD.
Mount Pleasant, n. c., Route l.
| Dear Aunt Julia, Cousins and All: We're
knocking at the door and wondering IL you'll
] o bppu before, w
HAMB0NE'S MEDITATI0NS
By J. P. Alley