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AUNT JULIA’S
[LETTER BQXI
"Help for the Helpless—Kindness to All
Dumb Things”
RULES
No unsigned letters printed.
No letter written on both sides of paper printed.
All letters not to exceed 150 to 200 words.
My Dear Children: My letter of last week and the Honor Roll
both took up so much space that I am going to deny myself the
pleasure of a long talk with you, so that you may have more space.
Lovingly, AUNT JULIA.
April 12. 1920.
Dear Aunt Julia: I’m in trouble! I
have received a shower of letters from an
equal number of Georgia. Alabama. Flor
ida. North and South Carolina and West
Virginia girls. Receiving and reading
those letters was surely a pleasure and to
answer them would have been as great a
pleasure, but the number! How can I
possibly answer them all? I can’t! I hope
I have done the next best thing. I have
given them to the boys here aboard the
"Ark,” who have not had the good luck
to .receive such a shower. I hope .they are
every one answered. I do want to thank
you and the whole big family of cousins for
those letters. I appreciated them, each
and every one. It might be well for me
to explain my new address. I have been
transferred from the “Lakes” to the Ar
kansas. The life is new and a great deal
more interesting. We are now at the navy
yard at Puget Sound. Wash., and are soon
to leave for San Pedro, where we will have
our spring target practice. Thank you,
dear Aunt Julia. and- reraeniber me to the
girls, cousins and all. Sincerely.
CHARLES F. WARD.
U. S. S. Arkansas, care Postmaster, San
.Francisco. Cal.
P. S.—May I have a copy of The Jour
nal in which this letter is published?
April 14, 1920.
The Aunt Julia’s Letter Box.
Atlanta Journal. Atlanta, Ga.
My Dear Aunt Julia: A letter from the
office force of the Arkansas. Yes, the
whole bunch of us! One of the bunch of
us has received a number of letters, from
Georgia. Alabama, North and South Caro
lina and Florida, and it is with pleasure
that we have read some of his letters. If
the “Lonely Sailor” column is not full,
please add our names. We have lots of
paper, ink and pens beside the typewriters,
so will do our best to answer every letter
we receive. Thanks! Sincerely.
CHARLES G. HARDT.
WILBUR G. DOUBLEDAY,
NORMAN W. KUHRE,
JOE M. BAILEY,
TONY ARIETTA.
Executive Office. U. S. S. Arkansas, care
Postmaster, San Francisco, Cal.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit a Georgia girl into your happy
band of cousins? I have been a silent reader
of the Letter Box for a shor.t time, and 1
enjoy reading it so much that I decided to
write a letter, hoping Mr. W. B. won't get
it. Well, I am not going to school now.
Our school has just closed. I am in. the
fourth grade, and I am anxious to get a good
education. I am the only child at home,
and I get very lonesome at times. I have
for pets, one cow, a littlh ealf, a good dog
and one pair of white bantam chicks. 1
have three brothers. Two have been dis
charged from the army. They spent nearly
a year in France and they went through
some hardships, but they were lucky enough
to get back home. My youngest brother
joined the army a short time after they
arrived home. As my letter is getting long,
I will describe myself and go: Light hair,
blue eyes, fair complexion, 4 feet 2 inches
tall and weigh sixty-six pounds. I am ten
vettrs old and will be eleven years old the
21st of June. I hope you cousins will send
me a shower of birthday cards, as I will
be delighted to hear from you cousins. Find
inclosed 5 cents for the little American
child. Your new nephew and cousin.
DESSIE LULA HOLTON.
Douglas, Ga., Route A.
Dear Aunt Julia: I think It is my time to
write. I sure do like to read the cousins’
letters. I am in the fifth grade at school
and am ten years old. Well, as my letter
is getting long, I will have to stop. M ith
love. MILDRED HUDSON.
Standing Rock. Ala.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Please let
me .in awhile, will promise not to stay long.
Will describe myself: Dark hair, brown
eves. 5 feet 2 inches tall, weigh about 100
pounds, and am sixteen years of age. How
many of you cousins like to read? I do, for 1
one. Guess had better go. Would like
to hear from some of the cousins. A new
niece and cousin, GLADYS CALER.
Warne, N. C., Route 1.
Hello, Aunt Julia: Please let me have a
. seat ‘by Alice Owen, as I know how sad it
is to be parted by death. We lost my baby
sister September 9, 1912. Oh, how sad and
lonely it was so long. Well, I will de
scribe myself: Fair complexion, auburn
hair, age eleven. Who has my birthday,
November 1? I live on a farm and plow
for pastime. I sometimes go fishing and
have good luck. Some of you cousins write,
I will answer all mail. '
JASON WHITTINGTON.
Oglethorpe, Ga., Route 1.
5c for orphan in Rome.
Hello, Aunt Julia and Cousins: Friends
open the door and let me in for Just a
short chat. I have written two letters and
Mr. W. 8., I guess, was hungry and got
them. But I am brave and I will walk in
side: perhaps Aunt Julia will have him tied.
As I am an old cousin I will not describe
myself. Aunt Julia, I think it will be so
nice to care for and educate that little girl
in Rome, Ga. As far as miself. I am just
delighted to say wake-up, Ellis Johnson,
what is the matter! Have you been fishing?
I often think of you. Say, I wonder what
has become of J. C. Lovit? If any of you
cousins know either one of the above ad
dresses please write me. So I will close.
Write me, cousins, and see if you don t
get an answer. Your cousin and niece,
ZEMMAR LOU WHITTINGTON.
Oglethorpe, Ga.. Route
p S.—lnclosed find 5c for the Rome, Ga.,
orphan.
Dear Aunt Julia: Here I am again, but
I won’t stay long. I just want to tell you
how nice I think it would be to adopt the
little American child. I am sending a dol
lar will trv and send some more real soon.
Aunt Julia.’why don’t you tell us what your
name is? I have often wondered what it is.
I have gained several pen friends through
vour letter box. That is about all the kind
I have as I don’t get time to make many
others. I stay so busy. May you have a
long and happy life. With love from one
of your letter box 8^ ELMA c HALL .
Council, N. C.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit another discharged soldier boy
into vour happy band of boys and girls. I
have’been a silent reader for a long time.
Well, as it is the rule to describe oneself,
here goes: Seventeen years old, 6 feet tall,
weigh 155 pounds, auburn hair, b tie ejes, |
medium complexion. Stop that laughing, ,
what do you think this is. your birthday. (
Miss Marguerite Douglas, your age is thir
teen vears. Well as my letter is getting ,
long i will close. Let your letters fly to |
Fearless Dick. BOWEN.
Rutherfordton, N. C.. Route 3.
Dear Aunt Julia and Hosts of Cousins:
May I have a few moments with youi all.
I’m not a new member, for I ve written
before. Mv home now is a dear spot of na
ture. looks so pretty, in addition to the yard
flowers that oaks which nearly surrounds it
are budding out green and love D’
The little mocking birds sing so
sweetly,*. I do love tlllß ? ld wOr l d ’
rather’ Vm old fields and woods,
too. At present I’m just recovering Mom
flu. and tatting a table cloth. I think
little cousins, if we’d quit singing our own
“description” the box would be far more
interestinc to all, beauty* is vanity, they
sav Os course I suppose ’tis perfectly nat
ural for the “elect” (pretty) to think so.
Mint Julia, with this new theme of edu
cation it seems we nave another goal of
life and energy at stake, but we need to
work to help others, and why not a single
lovable child? Yes. I think we, too,
might lave an American child to call ours.
Do home missionary work. With all «
lovingly. o GLADYS ADAMS.
L" xkilubia. Ala.,
MrtUt Cousins: Aunt Ju-
lia I think it would be a nice plan to adopt
the’ little orphan at Rome, Ga. 1 “
.niisin that went to school at Monnt Beiry
Cd also a sister. My cousin thinks there
is nothing like “Berry.” She has talked
about the little children at Faith cottage
a great deal, and how Miss Berry cares for
them So if we adopt one, that will give
her a ehance to make other little homeless
orphans happy.
How many of you codsltis can crochet
and tat? I can’t, but think I will try to
learn Do vou cousins enjoy reading books.
I certainly do. I like the Alcott books.
Have any of you ever read them?
I am very fond of music but can t play
verv much. Cousins, I am thirteen years
old‘and would like to hear from some of you.
Will close b’ wishing that all will like
this new idea. Your
Woolsey, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I read the
letter box in today’s Journal from Aunt Ju
lia. and thought it such a good idea. I
would write and see If it would be printed.
I live near the Berry school about sixteen
miles. It sure is a fine place for some
one to go who is not able to pay their way
to college. I have seen Miss Berry. I am
sure in favor of the cousins apopting the
little child, and I will do my bit and will
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
The Country Home
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON
HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THE
V PANAMA CAN/fL?
I have been examining some pic
tures of this big ditch —and also the
expenses incurred in digging it, I
think it ranks among the few great
est wonders of this world. Our
young readers should be interested
in reading about it. It cuts two of
the greatest bodies of land in half.
Perhaps these countries of North and
South America were gigantic islands
and the force of the waves drove
soil and stones until the two were
formed together. Or it may be that
a ridge of stone that would be a
range of mountains elsewhere con
nected North and South America
fathoms under the ocean waves.
But the canal was cut through rock
formation—a good part of the way—
and crossed some rivers and filled
the. swampy places, until it was com
pleted in the year 1910.
It should be named the Roosevelt
canal, for the deceased president was
the master spirit of the enterprise.
When the canal was opened it had
cost the American people a little over
$375,000,000. We paid $40,000,000 for
canal rights. We paid $10,000,000 to
own and control Canal Zone rights.
In 1902 there was spent $10,000,000.
The French government undertook the
canal and failed. There were actual
ly at work in July, 1910, (ten years
ago) mofie than 45,000 people. I
■ could set down the number of steam
I shovels, etc., it space allowed.
They dug through from the Carib
bean sea on the Atlantic ocean to
Panama bay on the Pacific. They
had to go out several miles to per
fect a safe entrance into the canal.
The bottom of the canal is forty-five
feet below the average level.
There are giant locks built on the
canal proper, near both entrances.
The canal proper is over thirty-two
miles. There are nearly five miles
at one end * and seven at the other
reaching out into the great oceans.
The great ships of the world can
pass through. These leviathan ves
sels are raised eighty-five feet above
the mean level in one of those great
locks.
When you are financially able, go
and see it. If I were twenty years
y ounger I’d be grad to go with you.
Careless Handling of Deadly
Weapons
You are well aware of the fatali
ties that are daily reported in the
newspapers. Yesterday morning
there was the story of the death of
a sleeping wife, who was killed by
such careless handling of a gun. The
poor dear girl was shot to death in
her innocent composure—never hav
ing had a moment’s apprehension
that death was present.
Last evening’s paper also told of
a young mother being shot to death
by a four-year-old child, that was
allowed to handle a loaded shotgun.
What a tragedy! I would be afraid
to visit a family that allows a child
of any age, to fool and fumble with
loaded weapons. Wouldn’t you?
Many years ago I was on my way
to church (and we lived in the coun
try) with a visiting relative. We
were nearly opposite a neighbor’s
house, when people began to rush
out and scream. I drove up to the
doorfl and was told that a boy of six
or seven had gotten hold of a load
ed pistol, and had shot a three-year
old brother to death.
The little innocent’s face was pow
der-burnt black, the pistol was so
close to its head. The parents were
at church and that tragedy came
that near to my own home.
Somebody had laid the pitetol on
the dresser top and the boy had
pulled it down and concluded to play
at war, with the hapless brother. He
meant no harm.
The evil starts away back. It is
the habit of the majority of house
holders to keep guns and pistols.
Nine times out of ten little children
are given toy guns for playthings.
Vmas gifts usually include such
things as imitate deadly weapons.
The child is brought up to be fa
miliar with such playthings. On
July 4 there are cannon and fire
crackers. We Americans are daft
on noisy and dangerous explosives
things. (I am glad I am not one of
the many.) When people get mad
and want to fight, especially if they
are drinking—it is the first thought
for “Johnny, get your gun!” How
awful it all is!
There ate hundreds of such unnec
essary fatuities all over our country
growing out of such familiarity with
deadly weapons. And concealed
weapons are generally in evidence in
great crowds. How easy it is to get
in a mind to shoot on short notice'.
Oh! How cheap is human life!
The Calling Sea
There’s a soft caress in the air to
night
With a little west wind blowing,
And a-bob is every harbor light
In the racing spring-tide flowing.
Oh, I’m fain to feel the dancing
boards
Under my feet again,
With my tiller set for the open sea,
That’s calling me so plain.
There’s a wild sea-tang on the wind
tonight
Born of tarry fish-nets drying—
Os salt and tangled ropes of weed
Along the tide-mark lying.
[ Oh. I’m fain to get aboard once more
And watch the shore-line wane,
Along with the night and the open
i sea
That's calling me so plain.
ETHEL WOLFF.
be glad to help any way. I go to Goore High
school. I would be glad if every child
would have the opportunity of going to a
good school. Well, as my letter is getting
rather long I will close, hoping all the cous
ins will agree on adopting the chid, for
I think it is another opportunity to make
another little life bright. Sincerely vours,
HATTIE LEE OWINGS.
Gore, Ga., R. F. I). 1.
P. B.—l will answer all letters and cards
received.
Hello, Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
alii let me in for just a little wee bit? I
will promise not to stay long. As this is
my first attempt I will describe myself and
go. So here I go: Dark hair, now quit
laughing, cousins, for I am bashful; brown
eyes, dark complexion, eight years old.
Who has my birthday, July 26? I think
Aunt Julia’s plan for adopting the Ameri
can child is the right thing; here,is a nickel
for it from TROY SHERRIEN.
Unionville, N. C., Route 2.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit another Alabama girl into your
happy band of boys and girls? I have been
a silent reader of the letter box for a long
time. My grandfather takes The Journal
and I enjoy reading the letter box fine.
Cousins, don’t laugh and will describe my
self: 5 feet 3 inches tall, weigh 107 pounds,
gray eyes, fair complexion, auburn hair,
age fifteen. If I see this in print will come
again and send something for the French
baby. Let the letters fly to
MAUDE CHANCE.
Brantley, Ala., Route 3.
Good Morning Aunt Julia, Hello, Cousins:
I have come in this morning asking permis
sion to be with you all. I will promise not
to stay long as I am a /Stranger. I live on
the farm and like farm life fine. My fa
ther takes The Journal and I enjoy reading
the letter box fine. I will describe myself
and go: 5 feet 2 Inches tall, weigh’ 118
pounds, fair complexion, auburn hair, age
fifteen. If I see this in print will come
again and send something for the French
baby. Let the cards and letters fly to a
new cousin, ALICE BOWDEN.
Brantley, Ala., Route 3«
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Sizes 34 to 44 bust. Size 36 requires
2 1-4 yards 40-inch material, with
half yard 13-inch contrasting.
9029—Lady’s Dress —Sizes 36 to 46
bust. Size 36 requires 4 3-8 yards 36-
inch material with half yard 27-inch
contrasting.
8990—Lady’s Slip-On Waist—Sizes
36 to 44 bust. Size 36 requires 1 7-8
yards 40-inch material.
9102—Girl’s Dress—Sizes 6,8, 10,
12 and 14 years. Size 8 requires 2 i-4
yards 36-inch and 3-4 yard 36-inch
contrasting material.
8905—Girl’s Set —Sizes 1-2, 1,2, 4,
6,8, 10 and 12 years. Size 4 requires
1 1-2 yards 36-inch material and 2
yards 4-inch flouncing.
8960—Lady’s Dress —Sizes 36 to 42
bust measure. Size 36 requires 4
yards 36-inch with 5-8 yard 36-inch
contrasting material.
8716 —Lady’s Two-Piece Skirt-
Sized 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 waist
HOW TO BAKE A CAKE
BY MRS. S. R. DULL
It may seem a bit out of place
to be writing about cake making
now, when sugar is so scarce and
high, but I have had so many re
quests about cakes that I am tempt
ed to believe there is more sugar
than we know about.
There are many standards for
cakes. Some people want to make
them with little material; others
want the best that is to be had, and
so there you are.
I had an oil man tell me that he
could make the finest kind of cake
with cooking oil. Maybe, his stand
ard isn’t as high as mine. I have
had occasion to make many tests
with butter, compound or cottonseed
product, the firm fat and the oil. Up
to this time I still claim the firm fat
gives the best results.
Recently at the pure food show I
made some wonderful cakes, using a
shortening qther than butter. They
were white as angel food and per
fectly delicious.
Cakes are divided into two classes
—-butter cakes and sponge cakes.
Sponge cakes are made without but
ter, while butter makes possess this
ingredient to a greater or lesser de
gree. Good materials should always
be used, whether butter or butter
substitute. Both will make a good
cake, it just dpends on which one
likes better, and the . money one
wishes to put into the cake.
The same may apply to the number
of eggs. A good cake may be made
with one or two eggs, a better cake
with six or eight. The individual
must deejde these questions. I’m go
ing to try to tell how to make them
either way.
First, one should have the proper
things with which to measure or,
weigh, as well as the right kina of
cake pans, if it should be a layer.
Once I was called on to judge a
lot of cakes. One cake of delightful
texture and taste was baked in pie
plates. One can imagine how the
sides looked. '
Not so very long ago in passing
one of the downtown hardware es
tablishments, a display of cake pans
filled the show window, and the pla
card read: “Pie plates for sale.”
There wasn’t a pie plate visible. Re
member that pans for.layer cakes
have straight, vertical sides.
One will succeed best by using
pastry flour, fresh eggs and fine
granulated sugar. The coarse grain
will cause a coarse grain eak6 and
a crusty crust. Pastry flour contains
less gluten and more starch, there
fore gives a lighter, whiter and bet
ter cake. Should bread flour be used,
less is required, because it takes up
more moisture. The same numbß- of
cups of flour and liquid would be apt
to make a dry, tough cake, because
the batter would be too stiff. Cake
with a small quantity of butter has
a much thinner batter than one with
more butter. For example, a cake
with one egg and one spoonful or
butter is much thinner than a pound
cake batter, or with a cupful of but
ter. Sponge cakes With no butter at
all are always very thin. Flours Vary
much and one must become familiar
with the brand or grade, or have the
practical knowledge of mixing. Cakes
are among the most difficult things
to cook, and usually the first at
tempted.
In summer, when everything is
warm, the recipe usually requires a
little more flour. A cake may be made
ever so well, and if not properly
baked, will turn out bad. A beautiful
batter Can be baked too slowly and
have a sad streak, while too much
butter and too much sugar will
cause the same result.
When cooking a cake, the thick
ness must first be considered, and
the heat governed accordingly. A
loaf cake three or four inches thick
should bake in about one and one
half hours. Should the pan have no
staple or tube in the center, it will
take a little longer. t
We will take the ’first mentioned.
The heat should be a little less than
medium. The first thirty minutes it
should get warm and start to rise.
The second thirty minutes continue
to rise and begin to brown slightly.
The third and last thirty minutes,
finish browning. It will be cooked
measure. Size 26 requires 2 5-8 yards
36-inch material.
8314—Lady’s Apron—Sizes 36, 40
and 44 bust measure. Size 36 re
quires 4 1-8 yards 27-inch material,
or 4 yards 36-inch. Price of each
pattern, 12 cents.
Our 32-page Fashion Magazine
containing all the gopd, new styles,
dressmaking hints, etc., sent for 5
cents, or 3 cents if ordered with a
pattern. One pattern and a Fashion
Magazine so rls cents.
In ordering patterns and maga
zines write your name clearly on a
sheet of paper and inclose the price,
in stamps. Do not send your letters
to the Atlanta office; but direct them
to —
FASHION DEPARTMENT,
ATLANTA JOURNAL,
32 East Eighteenth St.,
New York City.
through and through and shrink or
settle slightly.
To test a cake is like determining
whether a watermelon is ripe. One
has to learn the thump. To use a
straw Is also a good test. If it comes
out clean, it is done. It should be
tested in the thickest part.
When layer cakes are cooked, they
should be baked in a quick oven.
Layers about one inch thick when
baked should cook in fifteen to
twenty minutes in a gas stove, and
should be placed on the top rack,
and should cook bottom and top ar
the same time. Oil stoves the same
way. Coal or wood stoves, layers
should be placed on bottom of oven
and when risen moved up to rack to
brown top. When using a gas oven,
for layer cake, turn both lights
off one-quarter.
For loaf cake three inches deep,
use one burner only, and it should
be turned off one-fourtb ti.a
an hour and a half. When a cake
about two inches thick is cooked a
litle more heat is required, for ex
ample, one burner. Thick cakes
should be cooked about the center of
the oven.
When baking cakes the oven should
be given to that alone, unless it is
pudding, and one knowns how to use
the oven. If the oven is too hot, the
cake will come to a hill in the cen
ter and often cracks open. If baked
too slowly, it will rise and fall, be
cause theh eat has not been suffi
cient toWiarden the air cells and they
burst and another and another and
one has a sad or fallen cake.
I prefer to put a buttered paper
in my pans for safety, making them
one-quarter inch smaller than the
pan. When taken from oven, let the
cake stay in pan until one can hold
with the hands. Run a knife around
sides and invert pan, giving a hard
slam to free the cake quickly, remove
the pan and paper and let cool thor
oughly before putting on the filling
and icing.
When ready to fill, stack up and
trim to fit even and level and half
the work is done.
Many times beautiful cake Is made
by beating egg right into batter,
not frothing whites at all. It takes
a little practice and experience to
sudceeff. When sponge or angel
cakes are made, the success is ac
complished by good frothing of eggs,
because there is no baking powder
used.
When using a substitute for but
ter, always use one teaspoon of salt
for each cup of shortening. Sponge
cakes are cooked very much the same
as loaf. Angel and sunshine are
cooked differently. They are put in
a very slow oven for thirty minutes,
then a quick heat for fifteen minutes,
or until done. Sometimes they wilt
cook in forty-five minutes, again it
will take fifty. To test an angel
food, press top gently with tip of
finger. If done it will feel flrm and
show no signs of the touch. If not
done, you can see the finger print.
When filling layer pans, smooth
out the batter, filling corners and
edges well. Give the pan a few
good hard knocks on the table to
send any large air bubbles to the top,
so they will break in the cooking.
As I have already given the angel
food recipe, by request, I will give
the recipes I used for cakes at the
Pure Food show, one calling for six
eggs, another only one.
Men Wear 19 Shirts
Between Them at Once
While wearing nineteen silk shirts,
two men were taken into custody on
charges of grand larceny and vag
rancy by Police Sergeant Drake and
Patrolmen Steinmetz and Deerting.
The police received information
that two men. who had been locked
up In a freight car. had sawed their
way out and taken goods from trie
car. The train was en route to
Louisville from Cincinnati.
The police said that one man had
on nine shirts and the other ten
They gave their names as Earl
Thomas. 19 years old, and R. Smith,
20, Cincinnati.
MARY MEREDITH’S ADVICE
TO LONELY GIRLS AT HOME
I am coming to you for advice.
I am eighteen years old. What must
I do, as my brother and father quar
rel with me the whole time? And
my father said I wasn’t fit for any
thing. He won’t let me go with the
boys. He said I was not fit for a
boy to look at. He gets all of my
letters and makes somebody read
them to him. They won’t let me
go anywhere. If a boy was to ask
me to let him go home with me,
what Should I say to him? I am
in love with a boy twenty years old,
and they won’t let him come to see
me. My mother said that this boy
would make me a nice husband.
Hope to see this printed. I wrote
twice, but have not seen them in
print. BEAUTIFUL GIRL.
I cannot imagine a father
treating his daughter the way
your father treats you, even if
you might be inclined to be -a
bit wayward and hard to manage.
You are human and his child, and
instead of treating you like a
criminal, he should try love and
kindness. Brutal treatment never
made men anything but cowards
and assassins, and turned many
a girl out in the streets. The
home is responsible for lots of
girls going astray. If they have
the proper raising in the begin
ning, and are taught from in
fancy to always do the right,
there is little chance of their do
ing any harm to themselves
in later years. Parents have a
serious obligation before them.
Children do not come into this
world of their own accord, and
goodness knows the little things
are entitled to all the love and
kindness they can get. If you
have any grievous faults which
is a source of worry to your par
ents, it is up to them to advise
you and control you with love,
and not treat you like the lowest
criminal on earth. I cannot stop
your father, nor do I wish to
meddle, but at the same time I
have a feeling of love and kind
ness toward every young girl and
boy, and I. have been placed in
a position to know that, a child
will not go far wrong if that child
gets the proper training at home,
and wie love and affection and
consideration that goes with it.
I am a girl coming to you for ad
vice. I am fifteen years old, and do
not often go with boys. Do you
think I am old enough to have boy
friends? There is a/boy coming to
my house to see my sister, and I do
not like him very much for he
doesn't treat me nice at all. Says
he doesn’t like my looks and I
can’t see why it is that he doesn’t,
for I treat him as nicely as possible
and I don’t think myself better
than any one else. I want you to
tell me how it looks for a boy to sit
up and tell a girl her legs are little,
and make fun of them. He comes
here very often and I do not want
him to call at all. Please advise me
how to get rid of him.
BLUE EYED MARY.
That boy is very uncouth and
rough, and you will do well not
to have anything to do with
him. Why don’t you tell your
mother the remarks he makes
about you. She should be the
one to find out the sort of boy
he is. before she allows him to
call to see her girls. Have
nothing at all to say to him if
you are thrown in his company,
and he may get it through the
thickness of his skull that you
do not care for his ungallant re
marks.
I am an orphan girl coming to you
for advice. I will describe myself, I
am five feet and five inches high and
I weigh 153 pounds, have a round
face, coal-black hair, chestnut eyes
and a dark complexion. I stay with
my mother, sister and two brothers.
I am nineteen and have a beau
that is twenty-two; he has been
going with me a good while: last fall
he asked me to marry him, I told
him I was too young and he said he
would wait a while, so he has asked
me to marry him; again Xmas. He
is a very nice boy; he says hee loves
me very dearly and he treats, me like,
he does. He is very sinart and I be
lieve he would be good to me and
I don’t believe I can love tiny one
else like I do him. Please advise
me what to do, and print it in the
next issue of The Journal.
' ’ T ROSELAND B.
I think you showed good judg
ment to ask your sweetheart to
wait awhile, and if you love him
and feel sure he will do his part
toward making you the kind of
husband you desire, then there
is no reasorj why you shouldn’t
marry him. ' It would b? better
to wait until you are at least
twenty-one, but that is entirely
with you.
Dear Miss Mary: I will write you
again. I have written you before,
but didn’t see it in print. What age
is a girl free. Is it eighteen or
twenty-one? My father is so mean I
to me I think I will leave him. I !
am eighteen and can he make me .
come back home or not. Can he i
make the people I work for pay him
and not me? He will not 1, buy me
anything, nor give me any money to
buy any clothes with. What must I
do? Please answer in the Tri-Week
ly as soon as possible, for I want
to know what to do. I thank you.
RUTH.
Twenty-one is the age of free
dom, recognized by the courts of
he United States. In some states
it is the age of eighteen. If you
want to be sure about yourself
you could go to the courthouse in
your city or county and seek in
formation there.
It is too bad you are so mis
treated at home. Your father does
not act like a human being, but
more like a brute. Try to do the
best you can and do not worry
over your lot, for after awhile
things will right themselves for
you. Pray for things to beJjet
ter with you, have faith in your
Heavenly Father and do the best
you can in the meantime.
Here comes a boy of twenty-one
for advice. Is it any harm for a girl
to write to a boy and tell him in the
letter to tear off what she said in the
first of the letter and then let her
uncle read it? Is there any in a boy
slapping a girl around, anywhere on
her body in company and out of com
pany? Do you think she would make
him a good wife? When she is not of
a first-class family, though she says
that she loves him? Please advise
me, as my mother is not willing for
me to be with her. Sincerely,
H. D. G.
Why show the letter to the
girl’s uncle at all? She is writ
ing to you and not to the uncle,
but if he wishea to see it and
you really do not mind, and the
girl has written you something in
coniiaence, it wouldn’t be gentle
manly in you to fail to do as she
requests. It is not right to take
liberties with a girl. To place
your hand on her person is ex
ceedingly improper. If the girl
is a lady herself, even though her
family aren’t as good as yours,
I do not see there will be any
terrible crime you have commit
ted if you marry her. Some of
the finest women have risen
above their'ordinary family con
nections. It is better to solve
that problem for yourself.
First —I am coming to you for ad
vice. I am deeply in love with a
girl of mjj age. It seems that every
one is jealous of us going tofether.
What can I do to keep up our friend
ship. I am deeply in love with a
boy. He does not care anything for
me. He once said he loved me. What
can I do to win his love back?
Second—l Want a little advice.
There is a girl near my home, and
she talks about me all the time when
she is with other girls, and tells
stories on me, and I have never done
anything to her. What must I do. I
am liking a boy near my home, and
he don’t seem to care anything for'
me. What can I do to win tho
friendship of boys.
INEZ AND ROZZIE.
If the girl is a fit associate for
you. pay no attention to the cat
tiness of others or the jealousy
that you may incur, if she likes
you as well as you do her no one
• can come between you. But it
is the best and wisest plan never
to make a confident Os any girl.
If you need to have one. either
take a sister, or. best of all. your
mother. Bi t as sure as you tell
vyhat girls call secrets to one
another, then the trouble begins;
4 also learn to think problems out
for yourself and form character
by doing so. The girl or woman
who runs and tattles every
thought she has to another, is
dangerous, and it shows great
weakness of character.
If that girl tells fibs about
you, and you know in your heart
that you are not guilty, the best
plan will be not to pay any at
tention to her. When she sees
that she cannot draw attention
from you, she will cease annoy
ing you. She is only doing it
for spite, perhaps, and if you’
will notice her that is all she
wants. I Everything will right it
self after a while if you are not
to blame.
So Sayeth the Decree
Europe is false, they say, and from
her pacts
Escapes through grace of many
sophistries.
We may not trust her wanton En
ergies
Nor dare the consequence bf traitor
acts,
Though we have knowledge, and the
field attracts
• Our sense of duty. .We who boast
high fame,
A dauntless courage and lair
equity—
Who sense the doom of all hu
s manity—
Perforce must but bear witness of
earth’s shame —
The ever growing, blood-red toll of
facts—
From points aloof—our ardor stul
tified,
Our valor chained and all our wills
denied.
Europe i§ false, yet we, the brave and
free,
Must stand ■ apart. So sayeth the
decree! •
Europe is false. Her strands teem
with dismay.
Her growing rancor menaces the
earth.
What now are love, truth, justice,
honor, worth ?
Have they no value to mankind to
day?
Must falseness, weakness, murder
hold full sway
While wits are useless and man’s
tenure here
Is but a night of torture, pain and
woe?
A fear-fraught span wherein an un
checked foe
Wreaks full destruction? Thus
does it appear!
We who are strong and noble must
obey,
For we have made them masters
Whq decree
Our sudden deafness to human
ity—
Our sodden palsy, impotence, af
fright
Toward precious duty in the cause
of Right!
Sin, too, is false) they say, and oft
invites
The direst doom on whom it pleases
best.
We may not put its prowess to the
test —
Using the sword of righteousness
that smites
Till evil fails and nobleness requires,
Lest we be injured. Here is paral
lel!
Man is made coward though some
subtle skill
That dwarfs his nature and aspires
to kill
Those sacred instincts which our
land knew well
Ere it was cumbered by such hireling
knigfits
As c.urse our councils, and today,
disgrace
The loftiest "state in many a lofty
place.
Europe is false! Sin ever more shall
be!
We stand apart. So sayeth the de
creel •
~ —LURANA SHELDON.
Trip to Japan Won in
Bet Against $9.75
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Sam Hellman,
newspaper reporter, will make a trip
t<? Japan next winter at the expense
of Al Kennedy, wealthy cigar manu
facturer, as a result of a bet that
Governor Gardner wouldn’t file for
the Democratic nomination for Unit
ed States senator in Missouri.
Kennedy bet a trip to Japan, re
turning byway of London, against
whatever Hellman had in his pockets
that Governor Gardner would be n
candidate, and the bet was accepted.
On the showdown Hellman searched
his pockets and produced $9.75, which
was deposited against Kennedy’s
agreement to pay the expenses of
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The estimated cost to Kennedy of
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’ Pot Roast
Get a five pound cut from the
shoulder clod, wipe with wet cloth,
while fat in pot js drying out or
use drippings. Sear meat bn both
cut sides until a good, iwown 'in a
very hot pot. When this is finish
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A small quantity of water, 1-2 cup
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Prime Pot Roast
When ready to roast, after pre
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should be washed well and put on
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spoonsful for every cup of gravy. If
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grease, leaving just what the flour
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Mayonnaise
Two egg yolks, 2 cups oil, 2 table
spoons lemon juice, 1 1-3 teaspoons
salts, 1-8 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
'Method—Put egg yolk into bowl,
beat slightly; add half of lemon
juice; begin to add oil very slowly
until 1-4 of a cup is put in, then it
may be added faster. When one cup
o" oil is ill add salt and pepper and
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It does not thicken very mucYi till
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