Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-08

wish to correspond with us, send your
photos and we will return the favor. We
wish to start a cousins photo album Your
'0'1"S' CMIss) ETHEL BROWN,
(MRD CARL COLE.
Tellco Plains, Tenn.
Dear Cousins: 1 have been reading your
interesting letters with pleasure and want
to tell you that they are fine | live on
farm and like it very much. Cousins, l
wan YOU all to write to me. The first
one that writes gets picture of myself.
Will close, hoping to get lots OF letters.
A country girl,
North WilkesbOro. y. c.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: ] have been
reading some of your letters and found them
to be very interesting. l wonder II you VIII
| let join your club. l go TO school at
New Hope High" and am a sophomore |
live about One-half mile from school, and
enjoy this little walk every morning and
evening.
am visiting one of my best girl friends,
Tressye Carpenter, for this weekend, who
lives a Owens Cross Roads, Ala.
l am about feet and incIes tall; have
black hair (bobbed), brown eyes and fair
complexion. Ny age is between Ia and H..
Guess my age. All you good-lookiRg boys
and girls, write to me; Love
MISS VIRGINIA CARPENTER.
New Hope, Ala, March 9, 1924
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Hello, ev-
erybody! Aren't you glad the springtime
is almost here? What have you all been
doing Hope you cousins have enjoyed every
minute since my last visit. think the
idea of the cousins choosing subjects when
writing very good. One cousin wanted my
opinion on the subject of Ideal Home
and Present Day Conditions and Genera
tiOns," but that's rather too large for my
inexperienced years, so l pass it on to some
cousin who can do better with the topic
than /, but will say this much: Not every
home is ideal, for you know that takes a
high standard. and we find some of our
standards sadly lowered, and there are
many things that do not measure up to our
expecta tons, so We must take things as
they come and try to make the best of
them. As for the present conditions and
generations, they are as good and noble as
ever. 1t is the people who are always
knock ing, always passing over the good in
search for the bad. that make mountains
ont OF molehills. ] despise the mean trait
of character in a person that causes them
to be always knocking some one and re-
pea ting every bit Of scandal heard. Re
member, there is much good in the
worst OF and so much bad in the best
of US that it scarcely bebooves the best of
MS to talk about the rest Of u.s. That s
very true, and I try to keep it in mind.
| believe in looking for the sunny side.
There is enough OF sadness without hunting
it up. SO laugh and the world laughs with
you. I will cut my remarks short and ask
NJ
poem, il she has space, as it is among my
favorites:
God would never send you the darkness
if ne felt you could bear the light;
But you would not cling to His guiding
hand II the way were always bright;
And you would not care to walk by faith
could you always walk by sight.
'''Tis true He has many anguish for
YOUR kOrrOwing heart to bear
And many a cruel thorn for your tired
head to wear
He knows how few would reach heaven at
all II pain did not guide them there.
SO He sends you the binding darkness
and the furnace Of sevenfold heat;
lis the only way, believe me, 10 keep You
close TO his feet;
For it's always easy to wander when our
lives are glad and sweet.
Then nestle your hand In your Fathers
and sing IL you can as you go;
Your song may cheer some one behind you
whose courage IL sinking low,
And. well. If your lips do fslter, God will
love you better so.
Let's all send in our favorte poem or
cYotation. ! am seventeen summers young.
Write everybody, to your cousin,
tMISS) EVELYN DEMPSEY.
Adairsville, Ga, Route ,.
Dear Aunt Julia: How are you and all
the Cousins? l am just fine at this writ
ing. Aunt Julia. this is my first attempt
to write the Letter Box, so please print
this. l am 16 years old. ! would like to
correspond with all the Cousins who wish
to write. l a great lover Of books,
and have read lot of good ones.
Cousins there came a big STOW here yes
terday: it was eight inches deep. Relev"
me. played in il all day to-day Love to
Aunt Julia and all the Cousins. l am
Your New Cousin and N!ece,