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

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Move over,
cousins and let this Georgia Cracker nave
course, l am a country girl, would not he
anything else. 1t might be a good idea for
me to describe myself. I am one of the
happy 20 lucky kind, light hair (bobbpd.
thirteen and seventeen. 10 the one rnessoe
~ VIII send my picture. ! am very
roma or flowers. horseback riding, music
and all sport games.
Nli assure an answer to any cousin
who writes me and wouId eSnerio1Iv ia
TO 10. near from boys and girls of other sta tes
WI! write You of my home life and school
iop:hE to receive heaps Of letters.
our now friend q nd cnns:,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29

nam $ vegetable
did Tor
me. | was mar
ried going on for
three years, and
went to a doctor
and was taking
treatments twice
a week for pains
every month. /
used to lie in bed
three or four days
with them and the
doctor would call
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29

Hurry, Mother. \ teaspoonlul of
california Fig Syrup now will
sWeeten the stomach and thoroughly
clean the little bowels and in a few
hours you have a well, playful child
again. Even if cross. feverish bill
ious, constipatcd OF full of cold.
children love its pleasant taste. 1t
never cramps or overacts. Contains
no narcotics or soothing drugs.
Tell your druggist you want only
the genuine california Fig Syrup
which has directions for babies and
children of all ages printed on bot
tie. Mother. you must say "Califor-
MIA" Refuse any imitation.
Advertisement
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TAIKC ON HEART AMI HOME
| HEART ANb HOME

sters are able to shift for the n
selves, but it is inevitable 1t is
life, and we Jould not charge it if
we could. We would not keep the girls
from marrying and setting up their
own homes. We want them to be
free and Independent, and for them
to stand on their own feet, and not
to be pensioners upon father.
We W the boys to have the
courage, and grit, and initiative to
strike out for themselves and make
their own way in world. We
would not no rem to little things
to keep them with us.
But :! the loneliness when they
are gone, The emptiness of the
house with only two old people in
it! 1t is worse for mother than it
is for father, because father has his
business to fill in his days and fur
nish him fresh interest, but with the
going of the children mothers job
is done. She has nothing to do eX-
cept to hold post-mortems over her
dead happiness and grow morbid
with futile pining for the babies who
have babies Of their. own.
The only cure for mother is
change of environment. She and ia
Their will not seem nearly so much
like the last two surviving members
of the family if they are in a small
and cozy place as they do in a big,
empty house. Nor will she miss the
children so much in a house with
which they have no association,
where the very walls hold the echo
of their voices and every piece of
furniture seems to still have the i'm
print of their hands upon it.
Then the woman who pines for
her lost children must get herself
another job. She has been so busy
for the last twenty-five years rearing
her family that she has neglected
father. Now she has time to get
acquainted with him and make him
fall in love with her over again, to
humor him, and pet him, and make
him her littlest baby, and if she does
that the last years of her married
life will be her real honeymoon.
Also there are clubs to be Joined,
public work to be done, a thousand
things to amuse and Interest '1Er if
she will only keep her mind firmly
fixed on the present and future ir,-
stead of ghoulishly digging in the
grave of the past.
There is nothing so protitless as
! holding pOst-mort4mS. The brave at.
| titude is to accept lie as it comes
and to make the best Of it, and the
W0ma2. whose children o~It iGar.
ried shd are dong we'll" AS the
phrase goes, should thank God for
/ Ii in ST cad of he min the "a a
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29
1t is a heroic remedy, I know, but

1t is a heroic remedy, I know, but
-~...2s only a major operation
will save our lives, and often we
have to wrench our thoughts violent
ly away from a grief over which we
brood to keep from sinking into Il
state Of melancholia.
Certainly it is a pathetic thing
that fathers and mothers have to
sustain this loss of their children
and that their house is left unto
them desolate as soon as the youAs
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29
OPERATION ADVISED
FRIEND SAID
DON'T Do ITw
'rvLydia E. Pinkham'sV Veg
etable Compound First.
Proved Good Advice
|IIIIIIIllNUlIIlII

Chicago, Illinois. =" Just a few lines
! let YOU know what Lydia +. Pink
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 196 years
old, Nine. Marie Survailier works
every day in the field OH her sons
farm.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29
MISS MATILDA KEITY.
nouNle SprIngs, AIa.. Ete. 8 Enx ~

BOAR Eo1tsoe.. ,-,.4--..
over ard ;ot r,, 49,. ~" gong 20 move
uinrtrs% ,,o t'S,l WIN you Tor few
codes NJ ,ror, Say lonS, as have
Oh, you'd like TO know what look Iil.o
would YOU; I'm wee bit afraid to iaIi
you, but maybe you'u like me Ifftra IN
twenty-one: have real dark brown hair and
eyes. And. oh. yes! Ny hair is bobbed.
anu Is as straight as--well, what's the
straiEhteSt thing there is? And last but
not least, hail from the hes. state there
IS, Arkansas, There, l knew Ia start an
argument. It's up to me now to nrove
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29

can't see the good in folks, then, for Gods
sake don't see anything at all.
However, | wish to say this is only
sincere opinion of one writer. It takes
things to make world. You have exactly
the same right to your IDEAS as I DO to
mine. And I would be glad to hear from
YOU personally should you wish TO write.
But don't expect an answer. | nigh 1T
find time to write.
LUTHER HUFF.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29

Mother feels that she misses her
children more and more all the time,
and that she gets lonelier and
drearier every day, and she asks
me what she must do, And 1 say
to her unhesitatingly: Sell the old
house, with it's torturing memories;
sell the old furniture, which makes
you remember too much, and buy
a liSle, new house, or go into an
apartment just big enough for you
and father, and fill it with brand
new furniture that has no associa-
tons with the dear, dead days"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29
IMISSl NONA ZIPPEEER.
Rincon, Ga, Route >.

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Thank YOU
ever 50 much, Aunt Julia, for printing NY
letter few days ago, VIII you please find
Just little space in the Letter Box for this.
as ] want to give my correct address? There
was just a little mistake in NV surname. If
came out III the Letter Box as Mrs Annie
Mae Whitehead Otis, but Whitehead is my
surname, and my husbands given name is
GUS | nave already received some inter
estlng letters, ana hope to get more | viii
answer all | receive, | like to write
ASain thanking you, Aunt Julia, I will close
My correct address is
tMRS) ANNIE NAE WHITEHEAD
(MRS.l OTIS WHITEHEAD
WraysWood, Greene County, Georgia, T. o.
Box So
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29

Several wildcats have been cap
tured recently in Scotland.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29
Newport, Tenn.

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins This is my
first attempt to write. l hope to be ad-
mtted into your Letter Box with your
happy band of boys and girls. l have been
reading The Journal for some time and like
it fine. | like the Letter Box and Dorothy
Dix's talks most. | am southeast Ceor-
gian, live on farm nineteen miles north of
savannah, it is an historic old city. l like
to 30 to the city very much, but think coun-
try life the best, especially for the poor peo-
pie. ! have blue eyes. dark hair and light
complexion and my age is between twenty
five and forty. | love to read inteGeS ting
books and magazines. / crochet and tat |
will answer AS many as possible Of those
who care to write me.
(MISSD MONA ZIPPERER.
Rincnn Co nnn4n :,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29

parties for the girls, getting ready
for weddings, that the years went
by with the swiftness of a bright
and beautiful dream.
Now it is all over. The children
are gone. The home nest empty.
The girls are married and living in
distant cities. The boys fortunes
carried them to far places. They
are all fine, splendid men and Wom-
en-, prosperous, unprecedented of
whom their parents may justly
boast.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29

The mothers voice thrills with
pride as she says: My eldest
daughter is married to Colonel A"
MY second daughter is the wife
of DR.. b, the great nerve special
ist'' "My son James is the presi-
dent of a big trust company" My
boy John represents his firm in
China" etc.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29

She would not have them differ
emit She would not clip their wings
nor seIfishly bind them to her, but
they are gone from her. The big
house is still and empty. Her hands
are idle, their work accomplished.
She wanders from room to room,
each peopled with ghosts that tear
at her heart.
The girls rooms with no smear
of powder on the dresser, no tum-
bled finery on the bed, no pictures
of boys sticking in the mirror
frames. The boys rooms with no
cigarette ashes on the rug, no pipes
cluttering the table, no clothes to be
picked up and brushed and hung
tenderly in the closet. The living
room with every chair in it's APP
pointed place; with the closed piano
on which nobody ever drums jazz
now, everything silent, and still,
and dull. The dining room, with
rows of empty chairs against the
walls and only two plates set at
the end of the long table, where she
and father make a pretense of cat
ing the little dabs Of food for which
neither has any relish.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29
tMiSSl NELLIE BOAz.
SMI W. Main 81. rrinocton. ".

epar Aunt Julia and Cousins WIN T5u
please admit = South Carolina girl into your
happy band OF boys ana girls: I'll promise
not TO stay Ions. l. like most Of YOU couS-
ms. live on farm. Cousins. 1 wish you
would embr0ider your nAmc and address on
SIX scrap aud send me, | want - make
cousins quilt. Ny mother is dead ami I
live with my aunt and uncle, 50 you see
get quite lonely sometimes So all YOU hcys
and girls please let your letters and cards
come to a browu-eyed SRI. with brown hair,
the least gitcurly. Love 10 all. new cous-
in. (MlSSl PARRIE HIGHTQNER.
Tigersyl,e, s. c.. Route =.
Dear Antie and Cousins: I want seat
by Aunt Julia for few minutes I am
quite 3 stranger to YOU all. although I
have written before and wasn't admitted
Wonder what you cousins are doing these
hot DAYS. For paStime I help with the
hoUSework- read and tat little
have dark brown hair .hohhnd. Of
coursel, blue eyes and medium complexion.
I sm : lover Of flowers and music, Have
completed Ira -inth grade.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29
Works in Field at LOG

Copyrig ht. 1924.l
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29

No unsigned letter printed.
No letter written on both sides of
paper printed.
All letter not to exceed $50 to 200
words.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29

Dear Children: Well, I'm off and
hway-just leaving this good morn
ing for you. Lovingly,
kUNS JULIA.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-28
HOLIDAY
FEB. z ASKED
by TANNER
Corporal" Present When
Lincoln Died, Urges Pas
sage OF Measure.

The passage of the bill designat.
ing Lincoln's birthday, February IL,
as a legal holiday in the District
is urged in communication sent to
the House District Committee today
by Corporal" James Tanner, regis.
trar of wills in the District.
Mr.. Tanner served during the
Civil War in Company C, Eighty.
seventh New York Volunteers, and
was one of the guards at the build.
Ing In which Lincoln died. He was
In the room when Lincoln died.
THE time has long passed since
the birthday of Lincoln should
have been declared legal holiday
in the National Capital" Tanner
wrote the committee.
There 10 no doubt in my mind
that IL this bill should be sub.
mitted to the American people an
immense majority of the voters in
every congressional district would
approve 1t. Twenty-eight OF the
States populated by two.thirds Of
the population of the as States.
with 2aT members in the House.
have made Lincoln's birthday q
legal lidays"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-28
C|TY'S HISTORY.
TOLD FARM
! WOMEN
Lectures by Charles Moore
and Secretary Wallace Open
Spring Conference.

The history of Washington and
The future of the National Capital
was described today by Charles
Moore, chairman Of the Fine Arts
Commission, in an illustrated ad.
dress before the spring conference
of the Women's National Farm and
Garden Association which opened in
the Washington Hotel.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
made the address of welcome to the
delegates.
Luncheon was served after Mr..
Moore's talk, and this was fol-
lowed by tour of the greenhouses
OF the Department of Agriculture,
and also a visit to the Smithsonian
flower exhibit. Late this afternoon
the women took an automobile ride
around Potomac drive.
The program tomorrow includes
= visit to the Department Of Agri-
culture farms in Virginia in the
morning, and also a trip to Lee
Mansion, Arlington, the new am.
phitheater and to the grave Of the
Unknown Soldier.
In the afternoon a visit will be
made to the Freer Art Gallery.
The conference closes with visit
to Mrs Coolidge at the White
House. at 4:s0 o'clock tomorrow
RttoZnoonA
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-28
CROTTO CIRCUS
OPENS To BIC
CROWD
Entire Equipment, Not Ready
for Saturday Opening, Has
Now Arrived.

A real honest -to-goodness circus,
housed under the second largest
tent in the world, and accompanied
by side shows and other attractions
has opened in Union Station plaza
under the auspices of Kallipolis
Grotto.
The George w. johnson circus
breezed into town last week and
opened Saturday, night with a ca
pacity crowd in attendance. Per.
fOrmances are being given at 2:15
and SIS daily until the end Of the
week.
The circus was not fully equipped
at its opening. This was because
of the great hurry in which it came
to Washington. The Kallipolis
Grotto met with vigorous objections
when it proposed to hold a circus
in Union Station plaza and was
forced to go into court to ret an
order directing the District Com.
missioners to permit the show. The
court order did not come until late
last week and the johnson circus
did not have sufficient time to get
all Of its equipment to Washington
for the Saturday opening. Every
thing needed is in town now, 1t is
reported.
The show is a two.ring circus.
The tent will accommodate about
5000 people.
Thirty-six high class circus acts
perform in two rings and on a
stage, featuring among them The
Flying Floyds, Portia Sisters, Helen
Clark Trio, the Riding Lloyds, 81
Ketchie, Capt. Mique Cahill, and
many others.
There is a hit of human interes,
connected with the circus. There
was once small boy in a small
Western town whose life ambition
was to produce q circus. But n
all lifes ambitions are thwarted hi
became a manufacturer instead
After many yeaNs of hard work
and endeavor he prospered greatly
and reached the millionaire. class
But his boyhood ambition had never
left him. He was determined be
fore he died to produce a circu.
for the folks Of his home town
Everything was to be free. He hao
the tent which ia now at thu
Union Station plaza built specially
at a cost Of $4,000. He gave hi.
show which cost him in the neigh
borhood of 100000. Six week.
later he died. The ideal of his lif,
had become a reality and the larg,
tent has now become a monument
to the achievement of an IDEAL.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-28
IS
FACING
CELL
President Of Research Univer-
sity Sentenced on Charges
Preferred by Wife.

From behind his mahogany
desk as university president, tc
the bars Of the District Jail is
the hectic transition which today
confronts DR.. Louis Win Rapeer.
head of the Research University.
who is just beginning ninety
day sentence imposed upon him
by Justice Stafford of the Dist
trict Supreme Court because of
his alleged failure to pay $70O
alimony reported / to be due his
wife, Mrs. Frances C. Rapeer.
Troubles Three Years Old.
Sentencing of DIR. Rapeer Friday
by Justice Stafford came as the
closing chapter in series of EN-
barrassing matrimonial difficulties
which have disturbed the tranquil
ity of his university routine over a
period of three years.
Mrs. Rapeer first took action
against her prominent husband.
whom she told the court has an in
come of $10,000 a year, on Septem.
Der %, 1922, when she filed a suit
for maintenance. Three days after.
however, when her Husband had
given bond of $4,000 to guarantee
that he would not leave the city,
Mrs. Rapeer dismissed this suit.
Struck Her, Wife Says.
On August 8. last, however, Mrs
'Rapeer again filed suit against her
husband, this time charging him
through her attorneys, Bell, Mar
shall and Rice, with striking her
while she was with him on the
speedway because she asked him
for money which she needed. \
This action was followed up on
September 20, with a complaint to
the court by Mrs. Rapeer that her
husband had broken into her nome
and attacked her. She asked that
the court take action to restrain
her husband from molesting her.
1t was on December 20 last, that
Justice Hoehling granted. Mrs
Rapeer the satisfaction she sought
and ordered DIR. Rapeer to pay her
! 5000 a month alimony.
DR.. Rapeer has been in educa-
tional work ever since he was
/ graduated from the Columbia Uni
! versity ip 1913. He holds three de-
grees, those of B.. s., which he
obtained from Chicago; M. A., oh
! tanned from Minnesota, and PHI. D.,
| obtained from Columbia.
He is the author of several books
and president of the board of direc-
| tors of the Toronto Apartment Com.
pany. He is also a member of sew
eral educational bodies and has
been a resident of this city since
| 1913. He has three children.
In founding the Research Uni.
versity Fat 20 Jackson place, DR..
Rapeer has proudly boosted that
he had found the first cooperative
university in the world, instructors
receiving 80 per cent of tuition
fees"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-28
BELL FIGHTS To
RESTORE PARK
ESTIMATES
Commissioner to Ask Senate
to Prevent Loss Of
City's Trees.

A fight to obtain the full amount
of appropriations asked for trees
and parks in the District viii be
carried to the Senate by Engineer
Commissioner Bell.
Commissioner Bell declared today
that the estimate Of $4,000 origin
ally made for this purpose and
later cut by the House Committee
was as low as it could possibly be
made. The Commissioner hopes
that the Senate may be induced to
restore the estimates so severely
cut by the House.
Commissioner Bell declared that
the District is fast losing much Of
its beauty through loss of its trees.
Last year 1,424 trees were removed
and only So trees planted. There
was a loss of nearly 1000 trees in
the previous year.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-28
LUMBER DEALER
LOSES FRAUD
FIGHT
Court Rules Frank 7. Sullivan
Must Stand Trial With
Others.

Frank T. Sullivan, a lumber
dealer, Of Buffalo, N. Y, must be
tried with other alleged war lumber
fraud conspirators, instead Of being
given a separate hearing, Justice
Hoehling. Of the District Supreme
Court, decided today, in overruling
q motion Of Sullivan's attorney.
Sullivan was charged Jointly with
John L. Phillips. Republican state
committeeman of Georgia; John
Stephens, Phillips partner, and
others, with conspiracy In the sale
of surplus lumber in war canton
ments.
Eullivan's counsel argued that his
clients interests would suffer IL he
were tried, concerning the Phillips
Stephens transactions, with the
other defendants.
He asked that Sullivan be tried
separately concerning HIS business
transactions with Phillips and
Stephens, but not with the others
indicted in the case. Sullivan had
no business relations with these
others, according to Sullivan's
lawyer. The case Is set for trial
tomorrow.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-28
MARK TWAIN NIGHT TO BE
OBSERVED BY SOCIETY

Mark Twain" night will be OBJ.
esrved tonight by the Missouri So.
ciety of Washington with a special
meeting in the Roosevelt hotel. The
program will be given over to
"reminiscences Of Misouri's great son.
DR.. A. Ross Hill, former presi-
dent of the Missouri State Uni
versity, will come from Kansas City
to address the society. Congress.
man Ralph L. Lozier, in whose dis
trict Mark Twain was horn, will
tell Of the proposed mark Twain
Memorial Park" near Florida, Mo.
The Missouri society will conduct
a concert to raise the Districts
quota for the Mark Twain memorial.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-28
NANTSRljN
PE[)[)LERS
JAILED
Sullivan Recommends Prison
Term for ROotIegGsrs, to
Commissioners Oyster.

Jail sentences, in lieu of fines
for boOtleggers, was advocated by
Major Daniel Sullivan today at
his daily conference with Com
missioner of Police James F.
Oyster.
Would Balk ViOIatOrs.
While Major Sullivan said he felt
convinced that the Capital was
generally dry" he said he desired
to see to it that all available means
should be taken to balk violators
Of the prohibition laws.
Since purveyance Of Whiakey Is q
premeditated offense, Major Sulli-
van said, the minimum sentence
should include a Jail term. As the
law now stands, he stated. boot
leggers are able to escape with COM
partively light fines.
To Draw Up Bin.
As a result of this suggestion 1t
10 expected that Commissioner
Oyster viii have Q bill drawn up,
designed to carry q prison term for
all those convicted of violating the
prohibition law. 1t was indicated
that bill Of this type might be pre-
scented before the present Congress.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-28
I am 1soV informed that
s. 0. S., IN the vocabulary of
the + street flappers, means
same old stuff.H
GENEVIEVE.
THE CALL OF DIVE.

or Dixie Lam am caI-r me.
De birds am sinkinih1at 6erx Sree'
T To 6 6ea@ u SS3 land;
De darkies - begun to sing,
ne mejeow banjo starts to ring, :
Hit's triSdte to de wOndrouS spring,
OATS zen ON every haRd.
MY Dixie Lam am calIin' me,
an everywhere / seem to see
De golden beams. dat fairly stream,
De twinkiin' stars. dat sIeam afar
How glorious an bright Gley are,
4 golden night; revealed to sight,
A fairyland befO' NAH eyes.
OF Dixie Lam am calling me,
De ptckapninnies seem to be
All full O. joy. each gal and boy,
Reveals smilin' mouth.
l'se lonesome. foIks, 1 tells you 90,
loxes nah Dixie Lam, you know,
To Dixie Lam down South.
JOE H. HOLMAN.