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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« The Tri-Weekly Journal’s Fashion Hints vt’-' *■*& jgjbyja /J 'j <o** //A rife V’i I v7r\\ e • A/; ouxfc iz I'' Jr i I 'k7 Ito jss Tfn " sog9 w #4 / / I / H il 6905 A/iCs' eZyX? hi fl 0/7 M //twtiwdy Hi r W wr I '• j. ; JsU Li.ii/r ) r II i >J. .1 /Al .' I Shi | H*,™ li fl Q I JL • l’ hl 11 11 j i 8360 7 ay/7 9091—Lady’s and Miss’ Waist— 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<? 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Mrs. S. R. Dull’s Recipes All measurements level unless otherwise specified. Standard meas uring cup used. Tb.—Tablespoon. Te.—Teaspoon. » * * ’ 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 ed pull back to gentle fire or lower the fire and cook two or three hours. A small quantity of water, 1-2 cup may be added. When half done, salt, pepper, and any other season ings may be added. It is better to let th-i water cook out several times and brown the meat again during roasting. This gives a red gravy so delicious with pot roast. When done remove the roast and extra grease, add sufficient water to make the amount of gravy desired. Flour may be added if a thickened gravy is liked. If you wish Irish potatoes cooked with the pot roast, put them in about an hour before serving, the time required according to size of potato. Prime Pot Roast When ready to roast, after pre paring as directed above, dredge with pieces of fat, boiling with the roast, put under, but near the blaze of gas stove leaving door open. Just like broiling. Sear well. Turn other side and repeat. When both sides p.re seared drop to the bottom of boil er, reduce the fire, close door, and cook twenty minutes for every pound, or place in oven to cook just the same. When half done, salt, pepper and place three tablespoons of flour for every cup of gravy de sired. The flour put into the grease will mix. without lumps and brown while roast is cooking. Paste every ten minutes. No water is used, just the grease. The roast retains its brown crust and when done and cut is very juicy. Turn roast once or twice while cooking. The trimmings should be washed well and put on in cold water and simmered until done. When ready to make gravy, remove the extra grease, leaving two spoonsful for every cup of gravy. 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