Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-19

once before but guess l wasn't accepted,
will try my luck again, as the old saying,
IF at first you do not succeed
Try, try, again.
Cousins. isn't today a beautiful day. The
little birds ara chirping and singing every
whv@e. u makes me feel good to hear
them. Yesterday evening as | came home
from the cowbarn from milking, mother
bird had her young trying to learn it to fly
1T did look SO ptiful to me. Cousins have
any of you a dairy? We have and we sep
arate the milk and sell the cream. We sure
have job at home, since the separator came
in. I'm not saying I'm lazy (Which expec'
! ami but l sure don't like the work of run
ming a dairy. We haven't very large one
only eight cows, hut are expecting more any
day. If you want to know a lots about
dairying just come in home some time anC
I'll certai nly show you everything and wher
you get through looking at the things won
ask you out either for that's why I'm trying
to get you down here for to help me. Come
on Georgia cousins, let's not let the Othel
states get ahead of us Aunt Julia, / think
you printed your picture in The Journal once
before. Did you not? But ] have almost
forgotten how you look and the rest, too
/ expect. | (and the rest too, would be
glad to see it again. cousins don't yor
think it's nice of auntfe to adopt a little
orphan? l surely do. Auntie, please print
this letter. | know it's not much, but neXt
time l come I will take a subject that is il
The Journal ever since ] can remember and
I'm noy sixteen, my birthday was the 9TH OF
May. Who is my twin? If | have one
please write me. Come on, cousins, to see
me. l don't get lonesome, but I would en-
JOY some of you just the same. We are
looking for company tomorrow Sunday
One reason l don't get lonesome is because
| have lots of brothers and sisters. There
are eight children in the family, four boys
and four girls. Ny erdest brother is mar.
cd nd DC trun y dc how md uirl
and my eldest sister is married, too, but
she hasn't any children. Ny next eldest
brother is single, he is twenty; he'll be
twenty -One August 10. He works in Column
bus, Ca, at the Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION; he is assistant secretary. In The
Journal the other day / read letter written
by Remus Palmer, Of Morton, Miss, he was
asking If he had a twin he and my brother
l was jnst speaking about twins. oh,
mercy, | have almost forgotten auntie' $
this letter into the W. y. So cousins, write
to new cousin,
MISS RUTH HINES.
Buena Vista, Ga, Route 9.
Dear Aunt Julia; May join your band
Of cousins? / see some of the married folks
are writing SO / thought l would try and
see if L would be admitted. My husband is
a subscriber to The Atlanta Journal and we
all think it a fine paper. I live in the
northeast part of Alabama, near Coosa river.
! am like some of the cousins, want to ask
a favor of the cousins. Mu husband wants
to find his uncle, Bob Guyton When last
heard from was somewhere in Oklahoma /.
He is abount seventy-five years of age. If
any one knows his wherea bouts please write
me and l will return the favor. I will send
them one in return. Now, auntie, please
print this for my husband is anxious to find
his uncle. l am new cousin
MRS. MENRY G. GUYTON,
av1o vii In
Hello, Aunt Julia and Cousins: I Just
wonder how you and the cousins are enjoy
ing life this beautiful weather. ! presume
You Dixie cousins are enjoying the sport of
swimming by now, are you not? Aunt Julia
/ thank you very much for printing my other
letter. l would like to exchange kods k
views with some of You cousins, especially
those living in Florida. Just a word for
mother. You who still have the blessing of
mothers, honor, love and obey them while
they are yet living and when they are gone
you can feel you have performed your duty
toward her. Only those who have expert
ehced the loss of mother can fully realize
and appreciate the true love and devotion
of mother. | think the following very fit
ting words for mother:
"Ah, mother when 7 think Of You,
languid love begins to flow,
Sweet memories of long ago:
y me ilbuhlHS o. your kl00HpSS true,
My somber skies turn brighter hue,
Your love | know
Dear mother mime
will answer all letters containing photos.
q, am nineteen years of age all YOU good
looking cousins please write. With best
wishes to you all, an old cousin,
MARK YOUNG.
Briggsdale, Col. p. o. Box 1888
Dearest Auntie and Cousins: Please let
me in for little while, I've never written
before I'm country girl and like country
life just fine. Sal, Mr.. Thomas Findley,
your letter was fine. Come again. | guess
your age to be twenty-three. l know I'm
right, remember your promise. J. like many
OF the cousins, attend Sunday school and
think everybody should. We have SUNDAY
school at Shermon Hill, little school house
IN slght, and then We have SUNDAY school
at the little town of Stringer every Sunday v
morning and afternoon and also r. Y p u
How many of You cousins like To 90 TO
conventions? | surely do. We are going TO
nave one at Sermon Hill next Sunday. YOU
cousins come over and I'll assure Won DIenty
OF dinner and good singing and III take
you out for a spin in orr new Ford I'm
just learning TO drive. I'll Just saw I'm a
brunette and haven't my hair bobbed Will
leave my age for you TO guess, between sew.
enteeh and twenty-tour To the one tina t
Suesses correctly I'll send a photo of nv
SELL All you cousins send me a letter show
er and all that can send photos of your
sell, III assure you every one an answer.
Let your letters come to
(MISS) FANNIE BUCKLEY.
Bay Springs, Miss, Route ].
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins. viii Won
let me in after short absence? perhans I
shouldn call so often, hut | cant stay
away long. In my other letter | took
Friendship" as my subject SO this time I
n vet p,,flJ
character is what makes good friends Our
IRE is 1uSt what we make it. We huild
our world from within. and we should he
very careful Of the material We use Char
ing character from infancy. One uukind act
'ooaN viii pave the way for a greater
ottense tomorrow. Big things are only lit
tie things put together. We can best ex.
press this with the poet:
1t takes a kindly action
And it takes a bit of cheer
10 fill a life with sunshine
And drive away tear.
treat things are not the biggest things
mat make the biggest show:
1t is the little things that we NAV do
10 make this old world 90 -
sometimes we hear some one saw one had
az Wen say Things as to think them, bnt
maj mistake. We inherited our evil
tendencies from our ancestors. Adam and
Eve and it is our task to overshadow the
evl' with good. 1t is easier 10 20 down a
NIL than to climb one, and it requires effort
to build character that will shine after
tuis NE has been spent. Each day has its
trlalS, but we have only TO hold on IN orr
IDEALS and trust in guiding hand TO help
us come ont winner. The secret of n
Weii-spent life is to do our best and wear a
Smlllng race, with heartful of love for all
humanity. My birthday is October e. Have
| twin? My age is between seventeen sri
twenty-one Who can guess it? | will stop
oetore break aunties rules. I will an
SWer All letters received. Your niece and
cousin,
(MISSl LETTIE TURNER.
Eden. Miss.
Dear I,,1;,