Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29
SUNNY TENNESSEE"

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Wont
Won p,ease let this brown-eyed boy from
Tennessee join your happy circle OF frlends
for a little chat? Thanks! wont worry
you on this visit. May want to come again
someday.
Move over wee bit Myrtle I would
like to sit here between you and Eelma
if YOU don't MIND. There You girls are
kind. Now | will tell YOU something: yes
lis something about a sirl--a modern flap,
per. But let me tell YOU that she is all
right Even though this bit of young
girIiSh Young Womqnh0od does have 'bobbed
hair" uses tile powder and rouge
know she is good, kind and true. Why,
she even wears ''knickers!" But wait! IN
getting ahead of the story. l am telling
things l shall show you.
Come on, you will have to MAZE an i'm
aginatiye visit to the hills of Pennsylvania.
Let's so around by the big house and IL
ask her sister, Emma, where we may ex-
pect to find Fredna or Freddie You
see, if it's a girl dressed in Knockers whom
we meet coming along the trail with dog
and slIn-maybe a nice string OF trout, it
will be Freddie" She will laugh and talk
with you like a boy pal-tell how, with
daddy, she crossed over the rocks where
the big raitlers den: how she waited all
alone in hunting camp while daddy went
down into settlement after mail and sup
plies. Why she met us (hcr father aud
my letter.. five miles down the trail that
evening Not another human soul with
in nine miles. And Freddie, tell them how
your boots slipped while YOU stood on that
biz rock fishing for mountain trout You
slipped, fell, and well-the water was
wet! Isn't that how you said it and OH
Such girlish laughter. won't ever forget
Well, friends, hadn't we better hurry
back to old Georgia? Yes. sorry to leave
you, Fredna. But some time when you are
out at your ''rah- ut-ez-y" resting grounds
dreaming of that dear mother who left you
So long a%a--Whilc : GU re thinking OF how
YOU have almost come TO be boy in your
efforts to be pal aud companion to your
good old daddy on his hunting trips, we
will surprise Yen with another visit.
Now. as journey back to Atlanta,
want to tell you that this little girl is true
blue. know she has bobbed hair, powders
same and even wears Knockers. But the
principle of ri2ht and wrong goes deeper
than that Virtue doesn't begin and end
! with the hair on ones head. What mat
ters If it be long or shirt? personally, l
| think ii is 4 matter OF locks. | know some
! girls who have improved their personal ap-
pea9auce by having the GOLDEN tresseS,
curlS bohbed \ man wants woman to
look pretty. Why condemn them for look
| ing goodD
Why conderan anybody? Well, as for
that matter, why even condemn anybody
or anything they may do: Now wait >
moment ard | will explain what l mean.
For instance, | dom like dancing. Tn
like my ideas on bobbcd hair and n Ettle
powder, l think dancing these modern
dances is wrong, Dancing seenS to me to
merely be m excuse for man TO take
familiar holds Upou woman | believe
therefore, that it is wrong. But romem-
her il is only the dancing which ] don t
likc-not the folks who so to dances. Not
long ag0 a girl friend out in Iowa wrote
me hteSe words: Luther. l so TO dances
and try to thoroughly enjoy myself. But |
cone home disguised with mankind" And
then later in her letter she stated appeal
ineiy, 81 long for little sympathy and
understanding. l Wondered if l might
really lend that syn pathy-woniered i l
might take this girl by the hand and lead
| her to where she could drink from the
fountain of REAL HAPPINESS.
! Well, part of her last letter resds like
( this: ''You will never know how much
sood yocr letters have done for me. When
! | think that l might as we'll
/ Enjoy the spring Of love aud youth:
I 10 some good Angel leave the rest?
/ it isn't 50 hard to keep on rlodding. IT'S
4 easier TO 20 on when man like you tells
nc how much the victory means"
We deut always look al things in the
right way, Even a preacher can't drive
folks up to Heaven You need never eN-
pect the door OF human hearts to swing
/ open IL YOU knock in I'm better than
/ yo", attitude. Harsh, hasty criticism can
never eQUGl the joy eff sympathetic I'M
der>t2n6ia-. / don't profess 10 know many
things. But II | can sit down and talk
! to S5rl friend in way which will
make her condemn her own self-her way
/ Of uvNS-a2d via confidence enough that
She may feel free to frankly talk it
over with me; then l feel as il l have
succeeded il starting something worth
! while. But tell Your napper friend that
She is the worst specimen Of femiuity lace
The days OF Eve, Tell her that all this
F.! b9obed hair is straight from the D.
+, rs rideEions. etc. and what have Ho1
4 avrompHsAcda Nothing, Yes. far wor g
i ;han nothinc 'rwould have heen better
I to never have SAID apythia- st su. II yop