Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-02
AUNT JULIA'S COUNCIL h
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Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins; Will you
let two Georgia girls into your happy band
of boys and girls? We are two country
crackers. We surely do like to live on
farm. What do you cousins do for pastime?
We 20 horseback riding and fishing. |,
fifteen years old and have black eyes,
black hair and fair complexion. All YOU
cousins who want to correspond with two
jolly girls, let your letters and cards come
to (MISS) JEWEL maritime,
(MIssJ DON HARrL1NE,
Lyerly, Ga, Route 2.
Hello, Everybody! just wonder if
Aunt Julia will make room for a little
girl from this part of Tennessee? I have
never letter from Brentwood in
your delightful corner. | wonder why?
L have blond hair, long, of course: fair
complexion blue eyes and L am sixteen
summers. Ny birthday was January 49,
Who is my twin? Please print this Aunt
Julia, for | have written once and it wasn't
printed. l will answer all letters re-
ceved from boys and girls
Write, everybody.
MISS sTELLo HIxSON.
Brentwood, Tenn. Route 2.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Oh, boys,
you had us on the run for a while, but
number of white elephants" along your
pathway, judging from the way YOU are
showing the white feathers" Yes, you
kinda downed the bobbed hair, paint and
powder for while, but now who's leading?
You may say the boys and men, probably
so. but how long do you think you will be
able to say it? Not long, I'm sure, as
the women are taking up public work that
the men let down-'Ma" Ferguson, for in
stance. 1t may look kinda" tough for
the women to take up the work of the men,
but it looks as if some one will have it to
do Say, boys, what objection have you to
us girls wearing short skirts? Oh, it must
be you want us to do like our grand
mothers, wear sweeping skirts so we could
keep the boil weevls swept off of the
cotton. Goodness! | never thought about
this before; really it's a good plan after
all. isn't it? Well, we'll, girls. shall we
wear long skirts for the sake of max
ing a larger yield or shall we continue our
modern customs and make smaller yield?
If we make our dresses longer it will take
more cotton than the weevils use, it is
$3.50 proposition, so girls, let's take our
choice and listen to the boys charming
voice, Ell? You may talk about us, but
we are 200 per cent better than the boys
and 100 per cent better than our grand
mothers We're.
It's true. Our Crandmothers used the
unsghtly snuff, smoked home-cured tobacco
and chewed tobacco strong enough to kill
the ---. That isn't all, they knew how
fire water tasted too. Sure they did
Do we girls do any such nonsense? No
AS TO the dressing customs ! am sure you
would say the modern dress looks the bet
ter. I'll not mention the i'll habits the
boys indulge in-might miss one. then?
One don't think himself in trim if he can't
follow 'em all. There may be one girl out
of 800 that hasn't any more respect for her
self and others than to puff No, not
the powder puff, but the kind that nine
tenths of the boys use. She just does this
when out where some little he-vamp can
see her, for looks that's all. The American