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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
For September 7th.—Jesus Heals the Nobleman s Son
John 4:43-54.
BY DR. MARION McH. HULL
Golden Text: “I am the way. the
truth, and the life."—John 14:6.
Those were two wonderful days in
Samaria; the reception given Jesus
< was so gorgeous that He Himself
recognized the difference from what
it would have s been at home, and
eaid: “A prophet is not without
honor save in his own country." It
was very hard for people who had
grown up with Him, and had known
» Him alhdlis boyhood, and His young
manhood as a carpenter, to think, of
Him as a great prophet. We beedme
so accustomed to people as they are
developing that it is hard to think
of them as mature. It is much eas
ier to give respect to one that has
come among us first after he has
reached maturity of thought and
life. This is too true of every walk
in life. We like that which comes
from a distance, although we may
, have something in the same line far
# Letter at home.
The two days ended, Jesus pushed
on to Gallilee, and came to Cana,
where He had made the water into
wine. His coming had been herald
ed. The Gallileans had seen what
He had done at the feast at Jerusa
lem, for they also had attended :t,
and so they received Him gladly.
News of His presence spread to,the
neighboring towns and villages.
News always spreads rapidly; even
in those days it did. without modern
eipctrical devices. It reached caper
ra’jtm. twenty miles away. It got
the highest court circles. It
came to the ears of one of Herod's
courtiers, Chuza by name, whose
Wife was named Joanna.
Now, they had a son who was des
perately ill. In fact, the mark of
death was already upon him. All
that human skill and loving service
could do had been done, but to n«
avail. He was "marked to die” (for
*so is a literal construction of the
* Greek). It doesn't take much imag
ination to picture the distress in
that' home. Very few homes there
are but have been through a similar
experience, and memory rather than
imagination is all that is needed to
have you live over what Chuza and
Joanna were suffering. They would
have grabbed at any straw that of
fered the faintest hope. People to
day in like circumstances want to
try anything or any body that some
one suggests.
The news of Jesus' presence in
Cana reached Chuza at Capernaum.
J He had never healed anyone as yet;
hut Chuza knew of His having
turned the water into wine at Cana,
and had a faint hope that such an
One might be able to do something
for his son; so he set out for Cana.
Twenty miles is less than an
hour’s ride now by auto, by assback
it was a day’s journey. Reaching
Cana he hunted until he found
Jesus, and then besought Him that
He would come down and heal his
son. It wasn’t just a mild request,
but an urgent appeal—he kept on
‘ urging Him, for so is the Greek.
“Except ye see signs and wonders,
ye will not believe,” was the cold
t rebuff of Jesus! Would you have
answered a father whose heart was
about to break on account of the
desperate illness of his child in that
■vyay? Oh! wait a bit. Jesus was the
very essence of love and tenderness
and there must have been a reason
for this apparent coldness and lack
of sympathy. Everything He did
/was in love, although it did not ai
rways appear so at first sight. Why
this reply now?
Well, He knew that Shuza was
. just grasping at a straw: that he
hald some hope, and a wee faith that
needed developing. He couldn’t do
for Chuza what He wanted to as
long as he felt as he did. Chuza
didn’t, realize this, and was in no
, mood to enter into any argument
> ‘ so he brushed aside Jesus’ answer
something like this: Sir, I haven't
any time to argue, to discuss, or
I even to think of that. My son is
about to die, and if we don’t go to
him soon he will be gone before jve
get there. Please come on.
Then Jesus put what little faith
he had to the test; Chuza, it is not
necessary for me to go down to
Capernaum. I can heal your boy
here just as well as there. Go on
k home now. your son is marked foi
life instead of for death.
As He said it, He must have look
t ed Chuza straight in the eye, for
Chuza couldn’t doubt His word; but
believed, was convinced, that the
word which He spoke was literally
true; and he started on his home
ward journey. It was a different
sort of faith that was his. com
ing and going. On his way to Cana
it was a faint hope that possibly
this wonderful Man about whom he
had heard might be able to do some
thing that nobody else had been able
‘to do. He didn't know, but be would
ta liA i shot at it any way. If He
cotjlfi his boy would be .spared; if He
wouldn’t hadn’t lost anything, for
the boy ..as dying anyway. On his
way back to Capernaum he had lost
all his anxiety, bis heart was at
peace, his mind at ease; his fear for
h\s boy’s life had all disappeared.
Why? Simply because that Man had
said so! He believed Him; there
fore he believed what He said.
It was one o’clock in the after
noon when Jesus said that to him.
He started home at once, but he
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tiJif .HI-AMA IK Aiwiu.Y JOURNAL
couldn’t make the tweilty miles by
dark, so he had to stop over night at
some caravanserie. He had the only
night’s rest he had had since his
boy became so desperately ill. He
could sleep because his heart and
mind were at peace—all because he
believed what this Man had said!
Next day on the Way some of hi*
servants met him. No doubt Joanna
had sent them to make the last
hours of his journey less anxious
by the information she sent of the
boy’s recovery. You see Joanna
didnt know what he knew, and she
just thought it was a turn for the
better.
Chuza .said: I know the boy’s
better; but I would like to know
what time the turn came. He was
not quite sure yet it was all due
to Jesus; but when they replied:
"One o’clock,” then he knew that
it was wholly His work. His faith
now reached its highest point. “Him
self believed and his whole house.’
Believed what? Believed that this
Man was what He claimed to be —
the Son of God and the Saviour of
the world.
Was Jesus’ answer a cold rebuff?
Was it not the very greatest express
ion of love? Did it not lead this lost
Gentjle to find his Savior? Chuza
had all that the world could give,
and he would have given all of this
for his son’s recovery. Jesus gave
l im what he wanted and more, with
out money and without price. The
only- condition He imposed was faith
and Chuza didn’t haye it. so He had
to give him faith as well.
Thus early in His ministry did
Jesus give us an illustration of our
selves. We too are “marked for
death.” There is nothing we can
do any more than there was nothing
the lad or his parents could do. He
would give us life, without money
and without price. Faith is His only
condition: but we haven’t faith: so
He has to give even that. “By
grace are ye saved through faith,
and not of yourselves; it (the faith
even) is the gift of God”
Chuza condemns us though. That
Gentile courtier turned away from
the only hone he had and went home
because he took Him at His word.
He had no other ground of peace
and security than the word that
Jesus had spoken. But that was
enough! He believed Him, therefore
he believed His word, and dwelt se
curely in it. Circumstance later con
firmed that trust.
W^at other assurance do we need
than the simple word of God'' So
often we meet Christians who hope
they may possibly be saved at last
who pray that God will finally save
them, who are not sure their sins are
ioigiven, and who have neither con
™e J? G ° d ° r man ’ To the law
and to the testimony! What does
God say “He that believeth on the
Jiff h ‘^r h ( J? reaent tense > everlasting
m ‘ at heareth my word am)
believeth on Hirn that sent Me, hath
everlasting life, and shall not come
into judgment; but is passed from
death unto life.” John 5:24. "Him
that cometh unto me I will in no
wise cast out,” John 6:34. “My
sheep hear mv voice, and I know
them, and they follow me. And I
give unto them eternal life; and they
shall never perish, neither shall any
man pluck them out of my hand ”
John 10:27, 28.
What further assurance do we
need? Can we not emulate the faith
of the centurion, and believe the
word which Jesus has spoken and go
our way in peace? Do we need any
further signs?
Vt hat a wonderful change came
over that, household! Still Herod’s
courtier but now also Jesus Christ’s
sl<ive. Still had all that position and
money could give, but vastly more
than they could purchase, the gift of
God. The same household, but en
tirely different, because Jesus had
become its head. Do you wonder that
Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward
t huza, ministered to Jesus of her
substance?
W hat has Jesus done for vou’’ Are
you trusting His word? Is‘your lifv
an expression of gratitude?
Mysterious ‘Murder’
In Mclntosh Cleared;
Victim Was Animal
SAVANNH, Ga., Aug. 30.—Dr.
Eugene R. Corson, a well-known Sa
vannah physician, has punctured a
’murder” mysetry that had Darien,
Brunswick and other towns down
that way very much excited. Reve
nue officers paid a visit to the home
'k Jackson, at Eulonia, and
found on his premises what looked
to be a grave. They dug into it
and found bones. Somebody remem
bered that a youth who was known
to Jackson disappeared some time
ago and it was decided that these
were his bones. Jackson was thrown
into jail and feeling ran so high
he was carried to Brunswick from
Darien for safe keeping*.
The bones were bundled up and
dispatched to Dr. Corson, who ex
amined them thoroughly and sent
them back with the statement that
they were not human bones, but
those of an animal. Jackson had
claimed they were the bones of a
steer that ,had died and which he
had buried.
However, Jackson failed to explain
a moonshining charge also docketed
gainst him as easily as he could
the murder, and so he is being
held in Mclntosh county for moon’
shining. Tom Rowe, who was caught
' with him, is held on the same charge.
Weeks Answers Foes
Os Defense Day Plan;
Admits Them Sincere
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Secre
tary of War Weeks gave the admin
istration’s answer today to oppo
nents of Defense day in a speech
to representatives of patriotic or
ganizations meeting here to back his
department’s plan for the Sept. 12
test. He said the mass of protest
letters received by him "indicate an
opposition which though iIL-inforin
ed. is on the whole sincere."
Religious sects of nbn-resistei .<
and "professional pacifists" consti
tute eighty per cent of the opposi
tion. which is a negligible minority
of the American people. Weeks de
clared.
Repl.ymg to the claim that Ameri
ca s security is at present unchal
longed, to which he agreed. Weeks
said:
"If we cannot improve our defense
ot sanitation when our security is
not threatened because it is unneces
sary and if we cannot improve it
when it is threatened because it will
precipitate an international crisis
when is the country to provide for
national defense.”
AUNT JULIA’S COUNCIL
A Friendly Meeting Place for All Tri-Weekly Journal Readers
nearest Aunt Julia and Cousins: We saw
at the heading of Aunt Julia’s column.
''Help for ihe helpless and kindness to all
dumb things.” Wo feel perfectly helpless
when we see Mr. Wastebasket staring us in
the face, but dear Aunt Julia, won’t you be
so kind as to admit us? We live in the
country like most of the others ami like It
the best in the world. We live Just one
mile from the small town of Blue Springs.
It has a large bathing pool and, of course,
we can swim well. How many of you cous
ins like to go to school? We do. We're
juniors in Blue Springs High school. Our
teachers last year were Solomon M. Baxter,
principal; R. F. Wadkins, vocational agri
culture: Fan Scofield, high school assistant.
Th? lower grade teachers were Misses Lee
Ella Baxter. Marie Mcßae, Elma Bethune,
Maude Fuqua, Kate Boss and Mrs. R. L.
W bite.
As auntie says be brief, we wilt describe
ourselves and go. I. Addie, am fourteen
years old, have light (bobbed) hair, fair
complexion and blue eyes. I, Esther Ruth,
am thirteen years old. have dark (bobbed)
hair, fair complexion and blue eyes. Don’t
you know we’re cute? If we are admitted
we’ll take for our subject, “Flappers do not
always have bobbed hair.” All of you cous
ins write to
(MISS) ADDIE LOU MEDLEY,
(MISS) ESTHER RUTH SCARBOROUGH.
Blue Springs, Ala.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I will try
my luck,if you all won’t run. I am not so
ugly, have brown eyes and fair skir„ dark
hair. I haven’t heard of any of you tell
bow you are spending your vacation. I live
in north Florida, and took a trip to Kissim
mee, Fla., 200 miles south. We went in a
ear and 1 stayed down there till I met. with
an accident. I fell on a train and got my
foot crushed and it hurt me very bad. I
then went to Cross <?ity, Fla., and stayed
there, two weeks. While there I went with
a camping party to the Gulf of Mexico and
we nent out in a motor boat to fish. We.
caught somO fish, but the waves got so
high, we came back to land. I came back to
town and went in the courthouse to hear a
case tried, while in the courthouse lightning
struck it, killed two men and twenty were
knocked senseless, and I was one of them.
I got over the shock and now- am at home
with mamma. We can go to sum
mer school two miles away, but my foot is
not well yet and I can't walk to school.
How are you cousins spending your time,
plowing, I guess, and I may do that myself
next,year as we are thinking of moving on
a farm. My birthday is June 22. Who has
my birthday? Your nephew.
J. T. M’DOXALD.
flearest Auntie and Cousins: Surely hope
you will permit two jolly girls into your
happy circle of boys and girls: Mattyg
has written once, but Ida has never been
permitted to enter into your happy baud.
We both are farmers ami certainly enjoy
farm life. We will not take a subject this
time, but we just want to say a few words
on ”home.”' for what, is any better than to
have a good home and to have father and
mother with us to nialoe life w,orth living
on this earth? We surely ought to praise
them while they are living, for we don't
know how soon they will be called away,
and life without, a good home is awful.
Let's try and make our homes brighter.
Cousins, how many of you like music? My,
my, look at the hands! We are great lov
ers of music and must say we love all out
door life, such as horseback riding, picnick
ing, etc. We want to say a few words
about, our Auntie. Isn’t she one of the
grandest women in the world? Mattye has
black hair, brown eyes and fair complexion.
Ida has brown hair (bobbed), blue eyes and
fair complexion. Will appreciate cards and
letters from all who care to write to two
jolly girls. L’lease send mail separately.
Lovingly.
I.MISS) IDA MERBITTE.
(MISS) MATTYE SMITH.
Soperton, Ga,
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit an Alabama girl into your happy cir
cle of cousins? I have been thinking for
some time I would wrote, but just couldn t
sum up tlie courage to do so. I enjoy read
ing tlie letters from the cousins of the va
rious states very much. Some of them are
real interesting. Messrs. Kytle Logan and
Willie Monroe, your letter was “jolly and
full of life.” 1 rather enjoyed it. I shall
now tell you something of ths ’’chick ’ I
am. 1 am twenty years old: have light
brown (bobbed t hair, blue eyes, and me
dium-fair complexion. Who has my birth
day. November 19? I live on a farm, but
sfav in town during 'tlie winter to attend
school. T will be a senior in high school
next term, which begins September 1.
enjoy going to school "heaps: ’ have a
much better time during school (even if
there is a lot of hard study) than I do dur
ing my vacation. I spend most of my lei
sure reading, as I’m exceedingly fond of
it. 1 think each of us should adopt some
bobby to occupy our leisure time. Well, as
Um 'afraid I’ve overstepped the rule of
brevity I'd better be leaving. M ill be glad
to hear from as many cousins as will write
and will answer all 1 can. A new niece and
(MISS) IVA LEE HOLLEY.
Forala, Ala., Route A,
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: 1 have just
finished reading the council, and enjoyed it
firn- Luther Huff, you surely did write an
interesting letter. Miss Matilda Kelly, I
know how to sympathize with you My fa
ther died when 1 was five years old. I Inve
two sisters dead and two sisters and two
brothers living. J have dark hair (bobbed),
ami people say I have gray eyes, but I call
11,,-m cat eyes, and fair complexion, and my
age is between twelve and eighteen. Wno
can guess my correct age? Some of you cous
ins' come and visit me. W e would go fts-U
--irig, go in swimming and have a fine time.
Well, as auntie says be brief, 1 had better
run home, thank you all for this pleasant
cliat. AH who care to write io a Georgia,
girl let your letters ami cards come. I
will' answer all I can. A new niece and
cousin. (MISS) THELMA 1 RESSLER.
Elza, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Well, at
last. 1 have gotten courage to ask admittance
into your happv band ol boys and gills.
Please lot me 'i.tt- and have a short chat
with you. 1 ive in C’ay county, in the dear
old state of Ai.ii-ama. and like most of tit 1 '
cousins, live on a farm and like it fine I
go to school nt Sisc.vilie high. I finished
the ninth grade lastLrm. -jly greatest am
bition is O go: la C..1'1 alien. 1 think every
one mus; nave an ei’leation before making
a life.. I've been leader in my
grade silou- 1 inlei-0.l higli school and hope
to coni.mi’’ A an.' of ;.011 cousins a mem
her of tli ? Home Del musttation club? I nm
and think we learn many economical things
that we wouldn't learn otherwise. Me have
a very sweet teacher. Mrs. Cicero Rudd.
1 was sixteen years old March 29. I have
golden, curly hair (bobbed), and fair com
plexipn. Have lU»a twin, if so, send me
photo. All you cousins -write me for I like
to receive letters from boys ami girls from
different parts of the country. Wishing all
e.,,1 Ciusins tile gi. ate t of luck and Aunt
julii. t- fir s.ie is a 'cry sweet woman
1 know. l.cvin:.iy. a now ccusiu.
(MISS) ELVIE M'DiNIEL.
Wadley. Ala . Rmiic j.
Dear Aunt Julia: Here I am again, not
pleading for letters, though, just io make a
report on tlie experience I've had with our
council. Several have requested that I do
(his. Some time last August. 1923, I wanted
to locate a J'.’e Roberts, of Rossville, Ga., S"
1 wrote the Letter Box asking tor him. I
thought some one might know him and no',
write me unless (here was somethiiic in -I
for them so. for an inducement for them to
write nie. 1 offered a prize to the first one
writing me from each state. I also left n i
ago for them to guess, it being between one
and one hundred, tied the ones guessing t
would receive a present also. 1 furthermo e
promised to answer all letters up to a mil
lion. iThere's where 1 was foolish —ha.
Iial). Well, my letter was printed October
1(1. I go( over 1.000 lett< rs. The major! l v
of (hem were written October 1(1. 17 ami 18.
My age was guessed to be anywhere from
fifteen to ninety-nine, mostly from thirty
five to fifty-five. One girl said she was
too young for me. she being only thirty-five,
but said her mother was a widow. I told
Iler to make a date with her grandmother or
me. One girl made fifty-two guesses at my
age and did not get it right. Just one
two did get it right. Georgia led the stales
with letter--; Alabama was second. North
Carolina third. South Carolina fourth. Flor,
idn fifth. 1.-uisiana sixth. Mississippi «e>
euth. West Virginia eighth, and so on. 1
didn’t have to give anj present to the first
one writing from the states, as so mar..'
wrote the same day—-couldn't tell who was
first. Twenty-nine wrote me that had i"■
name. Clyde, of this bun-. h of Clyd -s
twenty-eight were girls. I didn't know
until then that it was a girl's name. Lots
of them thought 1 was a girl and surely
unite some good letters , in--ernitig tliinu
that are of interest to all females. Twenty
five rural selieoj teachers wrote me. Out -f
1.217 that wrote me all were girls and
women but four: all but five lived in the
country, and liked couutry life fine—ba! ha!
Most everyone wa? expecting the present
and told me what to send. One girl sent
flutter measurement ami wanted a diamond
ring. One man thought me rich and wan’’ -d
old clothes. Only three cut of the bunch
hud enough nerve to send photos. 1 wis
awgiy from home when my letter was printed
ami didn't get home until this summer.
Well. 1 started tu ausweriug them and lied
them all in the mail within ten days. 1
Used all my writing material, boug'.it all
then was a: tl r< < stores, - t st tn< it :
ii:g-. :. i final’.' (misled : »• I ta ■ie •
and pasteboard. 1 wrote every one myself
ex -ept four, and my little sister wrote them.
I told her what to write. I didn't get to
put as much time on each letter as I
should ami wonld like to have. You see.
1.217 lette - :g:< --P. days - _-•? ng sm>
12' e.i b da) Can you beat it? You e'c.sjns
should < verloek the errors and material as
well ns the writing when you take in consid
eration the job I had. All have answered
hut four or five, and they happen to be
some to whom I sent photos, so you know
by that that Um good looking or they would
write me again. 1 failed to locate Joe Rob
erts through the council, lint he came to see
me the 3d of August, 1921. Does anyone
know Zada Benfield, Crossniore. N. ('.:
Leilah' Wiseman, Charlotte, N. C. ? Aunt
Julia, please print this, and if you're tired
of me I'll never come again. If tliece is
anyone who wrote me who hasn’t received
tin answer just write again; your letter
might have gotten lost. Here is money lor
orphan. Some one write and tell me it this
is printed. I don't take the paper.
(’EY DE TEATAR.
Nicholasville, K.v.. Route a, Box 121-A.
Dear Aunt Julia ami All the Cousins; Will
you please admit another Georgia buy into
ymir happy baud of hoys and girls just for a
few minutes' that? .Most of you cousins
take a subject, am) so I will take for mine
•’Faith,'' Wc have to have faith to do any
thing. If we are sick, we have Io have faith
in God to get better. And if we go to work
and do not have faith, we cnr.not do the
work right. And if we go to school, we
have to liaie faith to learn our lessons. So
in that way we have to have faith in every
thing we go at, or, if we don't, we can't do
it right. Cousins, I am going to ask a
favor of you:, It any of you have tlie book,
“Tlie Light of tlie Western Star," please
lend it to me? I will return ihe favor in
any way' I can. I nm a boy, fourteen years
old, and l.ave dark brown eyes, hair and
fair complexion. If any of you cousins car.:
to write to a jolly hoy, let your letters and
citrds come. Witli lot♦ of to all, a new
cousin ami nephew,
(MR.) ROY DOSTER.
Winder, Ga., Route J.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit a little ten-year-old girl linto your
joyous circle? Who is my twin- My birth
day is November 1, Would like to ifet let
ters or cards from all who have my birth
day. The cousins tell what they do for
pastime. When out of school 1 help mother
all I can. for I am the only girl she has to
help. I have two sisters and four brothers.
My oldest sister. Jessie, is in training for
a nurse. She graduates (his month. My
baby sister, Ritchie Lucile, is only two
years old. Jessie was nineteen years old
the day I.ucile was born. March 27. We
live on a farm and enjoy it so much. Have
lots of fruit of all kinds. Haye a Ford, and
go to town any time we like. \Vhat do all
you “Mildreds or Maries” think of sending
me a square of silk, velvet er wkoolen goods
with your name and address printed on it?
All who will I would be so- proud to receive
it. 1 want a “Mildred and Marie" quilt
so much. I will embroider the name in your
favorite color thread, as you have printed it.
Hoping to bear from all the “Mildreds and
Maries," but just as proud to hear from
other cousins by other names. Lots of love
to Auntie ami everybody. Just a little
friend.
MILDRED MARIE ROGERS.
Richfield, N. Roue 1, Box 11.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit a little Floriila girl into, your charm
ing circle of boys and girls? I have been
wanting to write for a long time, but just
kept putting it off. Daddy takes tlie dear
old Journal and 1 never fail to read Aunt
Julia's Letter Box. 1 guess most of you
cousins are going to school now. I am not
now, but wilj start agaip in August. I
surely will be glad when it starts. I am
eleven years old and in the fifth grade.
What do you little cousins do for pastime?
I read, play with little sister and help
mother wash dishes and care for tlie baby
chicks. Why don’t more of you Floriila
hoys and girls write to tlie Letter Box? As
this is my first attempt to write I will not
stay long. With best wishes to Aunt Julia
and the cousins. From a new cousin.
GLADYS LOWE.
Buchanan. Fla.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins; Will yen
please admit a Georgia girl into your happy
band of boys and girls? I have written
once before, but was not admitted, but 1
am almost sure Aunt Julia will let me in
this tune. Cousins, how many of you like
singing and reading? I do. I am like Aunt
Julia: I like old-fashioned songs, and I like
to sing loud. too. We have a swing under a
large oak tree in our yard, ami there is
nothing I enjoy better than to get out in
that old swing and sing. My favorite song
is Ihe Unclouded Day." I know it is an
old song, but 1 enjoy singing it. That's
right. Vivian Kerse: get after the boys for
talking about powder and paint. Well, i
will teU where I live, describe myself and
go. 1 live three miles from Yatesville. Ga.
1 go to school at Joseph E. Johnston insti
tute. I am in high school. My age is be
tween fourteen and eighteen. Now don't
laugh when I describe myself. I have dark
complexion, dark hair and dark eyes. All
of you cousins write to a jolly country girl.
A new cousin,
(MISS) GYI'SY ELLERBE.
Yatesville. Ga., Route 1.
I-. 8. kind inclosed nickel for orphans.
Dear Aunt Julia: I am writing a short
letter. I sincerely hope that you will be
kind enough to eijter it in your Letter Box
column. [ am a doling soldier. Sometim-s
I get real lonesome, and it is my desire to
correspond with members of your Letter
Box. I will appreciate any letters that I
might receive from any of the cousins. I
will be more than glad to answer all letters
that I might receive, regardless of the num
ber. To any one guessing my age I will
glady send them a photo of myself. Thank
ing you in advance toy your kindness, vouc
new friend,
<MK.) GEORGE L. OLIVER.
Station Hospital. Cjainp McClellan, Ala.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will yon
please make room for another young married
woman into your ha|>p.v band? I have been
married fifteen years last January. We live
in the country, ftr.tr miles northeast of
Bowman, on the public road. My husband
takes The Atlanta Journal and thinks it's a
fine paper. August 5 I wm.it to see my
dear old friend. Mrs. Addie Guest. When I
got thdre she didn't know me. I have six
children. The oldest is fourteen years old.
I think Dorothy Dix's talks arc fine.
She surely does Write some good ones. My
father is dead. My mother and three broth
ers and two sisters are living. 1 have blue
eyes, fair .complexion, dark hair. I will
not. stay hmtt. I will cpme again some
time. Your new cousin.
(MRS.) MARGIE BURDEN.
Dewy Rose, Ga.. Route 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I am go
ing to write y-.-n nil a feW linos just to get
acquainted witli some of you cousins, ns I
am very fond of new friendships, and hope
I'll be aide to make quite a few among so
many of you. I like t-j read the letters
from so many different states and I'm go
ing lo ask you all ta write me a few lines,
and will be proud of any snapshots you'll
semi, as I want to start a cousins' album.
Aunt Julia, you might send me one to
start it off witli. I haVe brown hair and
eyes and medium complexion, ami am twen
ty-two years old.
(MISS) CHARLOTTE SELLERS.
Blenheim. S. C.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Boys and
girls, let's make a little greater effort Ip
make the south a beautiful garden spot.
First of ail. we must have a desire lo really
accomplish something—a stead.', unwavering
desire to d-j our part. Cousins, my husband
and I took a little plat of ground that was
considered the poorest piece of ground on the
farm for a garden, because it joined the
flower garden and was conveniently near
tlie house. All tlie winter, before making
the first planting, we added humus material
in tlie form of leaves, sweepings from tp<-
yard, peanut hulls, chips ami compost from
tlie woodpile—anything that would dec-iy
and add to tlie plat deep, loose soil, rich in
the minerals we pa.i so dearly for in the
form of commercial fertilizers. All these
years we had been bringing poverty to our
soil by letting tlie fires sweep our land,
turning the liumiis-forming material, end
planting such crops as cotton without leav
ing anything but cotton stalks to turn
tinder. Then we waited until the winter
rains had swept the fields of every loose
particle instead of plowing in the fall, as
we are going to do in the future —aren't
we? The cheap-st fertilizer is a green
cnqi. such as pea vine hay, turned under
after the peas are picked. Oh. yes. our
garden—l wish you could see it now. I
pick two gallons of green Latter beans from
two short rows, fourteen feet long, at on-t
time, on<-e a week. T< niato vines are a,s
high as my head, and just loaded. Rigid
through the middle I have a row of zinnias—
tlie old-fasliioued sort —and they are a mass
of color. Don't you think our roadsides
would lie beautiful bordered with lov !v
inagnolias? And it's possible to hare everj
mile of them planted in these. Let's s.-t
them out the length of our h >me plac> s.
aii,'".iy. and have a truly good-looking
trance gate to tlie old farm. Don't you
think a truly lovely country home far sur
pasaet the loveliest ir. t. - -
iudepemlt m e and the companionship of *ail
nature? Write me. ail of you cousins—and
you needn't have all jumped up to offer nc
your chair, as I am not nearly as ancient as
I sound. 1 am twenty-seven this summer
and—but Bill Snow's got me all pietui-d
out mentally and n? me eise'll take tlie
bother to care. Lots of love from a const;;
of the I'hidkesalia.
(MRS > J. A. SEARROOK. JR.
State Line Miss.. Route A. Box 5.
Hear Aunt Julia and t'ousins: Here conn-
■ -a k i i-- .
into your happy band of beys ir.d girls.
Most of the cousins. I see. take a subje- t.
but I will I'-ave the space for a ■ re -ft
writer. I live iu the country, and like coun
try life fine. I have been a silent reader f
Gie Letter Box for quite a while, and surely
like to read the letters. I have often
thought ■( writing. I-tit afraid I
wouldn't be admitted, but at la-t I have
picked up courage enough to try. in.rw.i- .
How many of yen e.ri- I ke -o go t >
school? I auraly -1-'. aid go often. Sotne f
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME
The Young; Wile Who Is in Love i
With the Man She Didn’t Marry—
A Special Message to Parents
With Young Daughters—
Holding a Wife Who Doesn’t
W ant to Be Hehl
DEAR DOROTHY DIN—I am a
married woman twenty-two
years old. 1 married when I
was seventeen. 1 was in love with
two young men at Hie same time.
° ne *
cared for went
away to study a
trade that would
keep him away
four years, and
while he was
gone I fell In love
with a. soldier
boy and married
him.
Now the first
man has come
back. He is still
in love with me
and I like him
better than my
♦•‘-a-
I ■ J
mr . 1.. -y.U— » . .-SMSIW
husband, and I
meet him now and then anti he tells
me that he will never love any wom
jan but me.
Aly husband is very fond of me and
good to me, and he is crazy about
our little girl, but I think about the
other man all the time. Flease tell
me, what shall I do?
» » ♦
■ Answer: The thing for you to do
is to buck up and play the game. Be
a good sport and act honorably to
waid your husband, which you are
not doing wh’en you are meeting this
former sweetheart and mooning over
him.
Your case is just one more illustra
tion of the fact that, no girl of sev
enteen knows her own mind or what
kind of a husband she wants or is
fit to marry. No child of that age
is capable of a real love.
If you had been truly in love with
your first sweetheart you would
have been faithful to him and would
not have (had your fancy captured
by the first good-looking soldier boy
who tame along your way.
* * *
As for you thinking that you pre
fer the man you didn’t marry to the
man you did marry, why, that is the
common state of mind of virtually
every mari'ied person in the world,
for the only perfect husbands and
wives are the ones you haven’t got.
The people that we are married to
have got a million faults that irritate
us, a million little ways that get
on our nerves, a million little char- ,
acterist-ics that are hard to get along
with.
It is only the people that we don’t
have to live with every day or come
in conflict with who come up to our
ideals.
You may be very sure that if you
had married your first man you
would be comparing him unfavorably
with your soldier boy and thinking
how much you preferred the latter.
Besides, there is such a thing as
duty. When you married this man
you .did not promise to love him un
til you met some other man. He
has kept his part of the contract.
He has been good and kind to you.
So it is up to you to do your part
by being a good and faithful wife,
and making him a comfortable home.
And certainly, you would be a mean
and cruel woman to take his little
girl away from him. for no fault of
his.
Quit thinking about this other
man. Quit seeing him and turn all
your thoughts toward being a good
wife and mother, and you will be
much handier than you would be if
you hurt ti good man and broke up
your home, and half-orphaned your
child to follow your fancy for an
other man whom you probably would
you cousins conic go to church with me to
night. We’ll have a nice time. Mr. Kytle
Logan and Mr. AViUie Monroe, of Oak Bark,
Ga.. your letters were simply fine. Gome
again. Jack Guest, your letter was inter
esting. Come again. 1 guess 1 had better
describe myself and go before I break Aunt
Julia's rules. I have fair complexion,
auburn hair and blue-gray eyes, and my j
a!;e —there! I almost told it!—is between ■
fourteen and seventeen. Who lias my birth- j
day. August 27? I would be glad to get. ;
letters from lots of you cousins. I will i
assure everyone an answer, so let your let
ters come tp a new cousin. Best wishes to
auntie and all,
(MISS) LEILA BOWEN. |
Jesup, Ga.. Route 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you let
a lonely South Carolina girl join your happy j
band of boys and girls? I, like most of the ;
cousins, live on a farm, and like farm life
fine. As this is my first attempt to write,
I will not take a subject, but. will leave the
space for a more gifted writer. I guess
you all are wondering how I look, so I "’b
describe niyself and go. I have black hair
(bobbed), brown eyes and medium complex-;
ion. My age is between eleven and fifteen. I
Gome on, you boys and girls, and guess my
age. My bifthday is August 23. Have I a
twin? If so. please write me. All you :
girls and boys write and send ymir photos.
I will answer all mail received. A new
cousin,
(MISS) MAY BELLE ALLEN.
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him.
Dear Dorothy Dix: We are three
sisters, aged twenty-three, twenty
and eighteen. We are very attrac
ive looking and very sociable, and
there are many boys who would like
to take us out, but our parents
won’t hear of it. They are very
strict with us, and will not even let
us out at night to visit a friend.
When we try to get them to under
stand that we must have some en
joyment they both get angry and
won’t let us say another word. Still,
they are always nagging at us be
cause we are not married.
Please advise us what to do.
THREE SISTERS.
Answer:
Your parents are certainly very
unreasonable in their attitude to
ward you, and if they will not listen
to you perhaps they will read this:
I would like to say to all parents
that they must realize that the way
to keep their girls safe is not by
locking them up in a room, for any
girl will crawl through the transom
if you turn the key on her, but to
give them plenty of innocent and
safe pleasures, and plenty of liberty,
with father and mother standing
discreetly in the background, keep
ing a wary eye on the youngsters.
Just remember that forbidden
waters are sweet, and the more you
keep them from a girl the thirstier
you make her for them.
Refuse to let a girl receive her
boy friends at home, and she will
meet them on the sly. Keep her
from wholesome young pleasures,
and she will slip off and go to wild
parties. Make her a prisoner, and
she will hate you and defy you, for
this is the day of the emancipated
child, and you can’t treat your
daughters as they were treated in i
the Middle Ages.
Furthermore, how is a girl to get
married if she is never allowed to
have any beaux? Praying for a hus
band doesn’t bring one. It is the go
getter who gets them. It is a moth
er's and father’s duty to help a girl
get settled in life, and to that end
they should invite young men to the
house and get acquainted with them,
so that they can give their daugh
ters the benefit of their advice about
whom to select as a life partner.
Dear Aliss Dix: I am married to a
woman who is all the world to me,
but she insists in keeping up a con
tinual correspondence with a man
under the pretense. that he is an
old friend. He often writes her to
meet him in the city at certain
hotels. They also often go joyrid
ing and to the theater together.
Don’t you think that if this man had
any principle he would stop all this
when I tell him that it is making
me perfectly miserable, and ask him
not to see my wife? A. B. C.
Answer:
Your wife is the one who is chief
ly to blame in this case. If she does
not care enough for you to consider
your feelings, why should you ex
pect the man do so?
I think you would humilate your
self by begging him to look after
your domestic fences. A man should
be able to do that for himself. Cer
tainly he should not ask his rival
to do it for him. Evidently your
wife holds her marriage vows light
ly and has small affection for you.
There is no remedy for a situa
tion such as yours but to forget the
woman, and that is probably the
thing you cannot do, for the less
worthy women are of love the more
men seem to love them. Which is
one of the things which keeps good,
faithful, loving, neglected wives
guessing.
DOROTHY DIN.
(Copyright, 1924.)
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F. L., Danville, Ga., writes: Is
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