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AUNT JULIA’S COUNCIL
A Friendly Meeting Place for All Tri-Wcekly Journal Readers
THE LETTER BOX
FOR THE HOYS AND HIRES
“Help for Die Helpless—Kindness to
zVt Dumb Things’’
Rules
No unsigned letter printed.
No letter written on both sides ot
paper printed.
All letters not to exceed 150 to
200 words.
Dear Children: I would like very
much to get your ideas on the value
of good spelling. This morning I
was discussing this matter with a
.nan of great intellect, and he agrees
with me that it is a pity that so
little attention is given to this im
portant study.
Some of you children in vour let
ters indicate that you really study
the correct spelling of words; others
z write in the general careless manner
jf the day, and let me tell you that
:his is riot only in our own circle, but
1 have been noticing the letters of
other young people and they disre
gard spelling, also.
Think about this matter, and I be
lieve that you will conclude that it
is worth while to spell correctly; at
least write me your opinion on the
subject.
Lovingly,
AUNT JULIA.
f Pear Aunt Julia and Cousin?:
PJII you please open the door to a girl from
Al aba rn
to write a letter to the favorite
jjwjaper of Uncle Sam?
This is my first attempt, though hope It
won't be the last;
But I won’t write too often, for I won't be
too fast.
Now for my description, I will tell you:
Light brown hair and eyes of blue.
Fair complexion, age eleven,
Weigh ninety-six, am in grade seven;
Height five feet and not an inch less;
Birthday September 7th, I guess.
1 Cousins, a question I want to ask you:
Have I a twin, and is she good and true?
If so, I wish she would write to me
And send her photo that it I may see.
If you want to write to a jolly little girl,
Just do it now all in a whirl.
For, cousins, I want, to hear from everyone;
So just write a letter before day is done;
Sit right down to your writing table
And write a letter to (MIS 8 MERCEDES
CAGLE.
Cullman, Ala., Box 187.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit an Alabama girl into your happy
band of girls and boys? I live on a farm,
four miles from town. I do not. think there
Is anything any more interesting than to
listen to the birds sing and to watch the
t flowers bloom. We do not take The Journal
in my home, but my Grandmother Grant
takes it, and T enjoy reading the Letter Box
so much. I think it is so nice that girls
and boys from all states can become ac
quainted through the Letter Box. I must
Who has my birthday, December 23? I am
fifteen. All who care to do so write to me.
A new cousin,
(MLSS) LUCILE PORTER.
B[V 'UO)dOJI
>uo[B nn.t ijtM J os ‘saint aqj jpjajq 40a
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit one more Alabama girl into
your happy band of boys and girls? 1 have
been a silent reader of the Letter Box for
r a long, long time, but could not pick up
courage enough to write until now. J am
nothing but. a country girl, living on a
farm near the little town called Paul. I
enjoy working on the farm very much. We
are now fixing the soil for our fall garden.
Schoolgirls and boys, how did you enjoy
your summer vacation? Fine, T hope. The
time is drawing near when we shall start
back to school. 1 will be a freshman in
high school this year. I have dark brown,
curly hair (bobbed 1. brown eyes and fair
complexion. My age is sixteen summers.
Hoping to receive lots and lots of nice let
ters from the cousins. I will be going.
, Ixtve to nil.
(MISS) BEATRICE POTTS.
Paul, Ala.
Dear Auntie and Cousins: Will you please
admit two lonely Mississippi girls into your
happy band of boys and girls? We see that
most of you take a subject, but as this is
our first, attempt, we'll leave space for
more gifted writers. Wonder what you
cousins are doing this warm weather. We
have been having a jolly time this past week
going to meeting. Wish some of you could
have been with us. Cousins, isn't Auntie
the dearest aunt you ever saw. giving us
such a space in the paper? I, Edwina, am
visiting Fannie, and we certainly have been
haying some fun together. We have black
hair, dark eyes and brunette complexion.
Our ages are between seventeen and twen
ty-two. The first guessing our ages will
send a photo of ourselves. We live on a
farm about two miles apart. If any one
cares to correspond with two jolly giris, let
your cards and letters come io
(MISS) EDWINA BANKSTON,
Glaater, Mi ss.
(MISS) FANNIE M'KFJY.
Centerville, Miss.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Won't you
all please bo so kind as to let another Ala
bama. girl into your happy band of boys
and girls. I have been thinking of writing
for a long, long time, but never could mus
ter tip courage enough, but have it at last.
I see most of the cousins describe them
selves, so T will describe myself in this
way: I am seventeen years old, medium
size and medium complexion and dark, sandy
hair (bobbed) and brown eyes. Well. I
will not. take z subject, and will leave
space for a more gifted writer. 1 am afraid
I have broken Die rules, so will ask a fa
vor of some of your cousins. Some one
cut this out and send it to me, it it es
capes the waste basket, and I will return
the favor, for we do not take The Journal.
I nm a new cousins, and would be glad to
* get letters from any of you hoys and girls.
Will answer all cards and letters received.
(MISS) LENA BELLE I’l.l Ell.
Weogrrfkn, Ala.. Route 1.
Auntie and Cousins: Please ad
mi
of and girls, as this is my second at
tempt and I have been a silent reader of
the I.etter Box. I, like most of the cous
ins, live on a farm, and like it fine. Oh!
September will soon be here, our dear old
school mouth, surely will be glad. Cousins,
our- school starts September 8. The name
»f the school is Sunny Side. I will be in
the eighth grade this year. I have dark
brown, curly hair (not bobbed), dark brown
eyes and dark complexion. My birthday is
September S Have I a twin? If so. write
me. and send me your photo. Guess 1 had
better bring this to a close before I break
the rules. Auntie, please print this letter.
WEAK,RUN DOWN
AFTER SICKNESS
- Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound Made Mrs.
Dube Well and Strong
E. Hartford, Conn. —“After a se
vere sickness I was so weak that I
could not do my
housework, so my
mother told me to
take Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound.
The first bottle
helped me so much
that I took six
more bottles and
felt fine. I have
I just given birth to
I anice baby girl and
!J ani feeling strong
‘ IK
II li
fry*> jHH
and well. So different from the way
I felt before. I am taking the Vege
table Compound right along while
nursing. The baby seems to be in
good-ncalth, and my friends say they
see a big change for the better in
♦ me. ’’—Mrs. Eugene Dube. 59 Wood
brdge St., E. Hartford, Connecticut.
The Vegetable Compound is a splen
did medicine to bring back health and
strength. Many mothers have found
this true, as did Mrs. Dube. There are
women everywhere who know by ex
perience the value of Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound.
Write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medi
cine Co., Lynn. Massachusetts, for a
free copy of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Private Text-Book upon “Ailments
Peculiar to Women.’’.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
THE QUESTION BOX
FOR EVERYBODY
Rules
1. All questions must have full
names and addresses signed. If it
is desired that names do not appear
In the paper, add your initials or
some chosen name in addition to
your full name.
2. All questions must be written
on ONE SIDE of the paper only.
3. No legal or medical advice can
be given, either in the Question Box
or by personal letter.
4. All letters requiring- personal re
ply MUST inclose stamped, self-ad
dressed envelope.
5. Letters for the Question Box
MUST NOT be included in letter for
Aunt Julia’s Letter Box. The ques
tions must be sent separately and
must be addressed to Aunt Julia’s
Question Box, The Atlanta Tri-
Weekly Journal. Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Folks:
The other night I was reading
what I consider a very good style
book, wanting to find out something
that would be helpful in the way of
fashion notes for you. Os course,
most of us are interested in the
length of skirts, and this article dealt
very clearly and sensibly with this
point. The' opinion of this writer
is that for middle aged or older
women the skirts will be seven to
seven and a halt inches from the
floor. For younger women from
eight to»ten inches and for the
very young 12 to 14 inches from the
floor. The straight line continues
good. Quite a few styles are belt
less while other show a wide suede
belt worn rather low over the hips.
There is for the moment a very short
waist line being worn by the very
young. A circular effect at the bot
tom of some of the frocks add full
ness.
Shutter green; Venetian fuchsia
several shades of brown and the ever
popular blue holds the color field
for the season so far.
Cordially yours,
AUNT JULIA.
Maryland Patriot:
One of the most beautiful of our
southern martial poems was written
by your own James R. Randall.
“Maryland, My Maryland.” Teach
that to your little son. If you can
not find the poem, send me a stamp
ed addressed envelope and I will
send it to you.
Mother of Twins:
Your children should and no doubt
will be very near and dear to each
other, but if they are girls do not
try to “rhyme their names” as Nora
and Dora. I know of one mothei
that named her twin girls Anne
and Nancy really the same name but
with a different sound, and that is
better than rhymes. A boy and girl
might be named Ernest and Ernes
tine.
Mary L: Texas.
The name Texas is Indian and
means “Friends.”
September Girl of Utah:
Your birthday flower is the morn
ing glory and your gem the chrysolite.
The meaning attached to this gem is
that it frees the wearer from evil
and melancholy.
Jim D. R.r
A great many people who cannot
get to colleges study correspondence
tjourses. Os course I believe that
these courses are best when they
are for English, history or literature.
I do not know how you would pro
gress with such a study as civil en
gineering, but you could at least
learn the text book portion of this
study and after that you might be
able to get practical study by going
with some engineering corp, that
would pay you a small amount while
you learned. I do not know of such
a company, but there probably would
be some that might be suggested
by your school.
n ’ I want to get acquainted with all the
cousin?. If any of you cousins care to
write an Alabama girl, let your letters come
to a new cousin.
(MISS) CARRYR B. HICKS.
Georgiana, Ala., Route 1, Box 23.
Dear Aunt Julia: How is everyone? May
I come in for a few minutes? I am awful
ly warm as I walked from home. Thanks.
Auntie, I'll remain standing, please, for it
I sit down and get "comfy” I may stay too
long. My! Doesn't the circle look friendly
today? Every face is wreathed in smiles,
see! There is Jack Guest spooning, as
usual. Aren’t you Jack? And there is
Bill Snow over there in the corner looking
like an Indian in front, of a cigar store.
What are you painting now. Bill?
Wouldn’t I like to get a peep into those
albums ot yours? Well, someone is asking
; "Who is that chatterbox?” Don't he im-
I patient, please. I hate being rushed. It's
| just a little breezy kid from "Old Ala
j bams," who would do most anything to
; escape the horrid monster, "Blues,” aiid as
! be had a good gateway this afternoon, I
thought I would slip quietly away and join
the happy corner. Some girl cousin has
been criticizing the "Jellybeans” most
awfully. “Woe he unto you, click-hatred,
slick-faced, perfectly styled dandy” is what
she says. Hey, boys, maybe she prefers the
kind who dresses to look like a ship in full
rigged sail, with all her sails crowded on,
and of whom she thinks of as a natural
born "Hero,” a modern "Napoleon.” but it
' she does I am nfraid he will turn out to
i be another "Jellybean” and then, mv dear,
, where is your high and powerful dei-.igod
whom you have placed on an exalted
| pedestal? And anyway, the “Dandies” are
a good sort. I don't think they are so dis-
I gusting as some of us suppose thev are.
| And we must not expect the boys to be
. grave, solemn-faced who have been reared
in the midst ot a crowd ot gay, light-henrt
.ml girls. For pastime I read, write. rid»
I horseback and go in bathing. Will some
I oM please send me the following songs:
j "When the Evening Breeze Is Sighing.”
; "Home. Sweei- Home," “Maryland. Mr
; Maryland.” "My Old Kentucky Home?”
I Will return favor if possible.
i I have blue eyes. light hair (what? yes.
I it s bobbed: do yon have anv objections’)
land fai- complexion. I would like to rc-
I >eive just lots of letters. Try me and see
iif I don t anhwer. Some of vou livin’ on
, rat,ches in Montana. Arizona. I tah and nil
'he thinly settled states of the west, pleas
write me as well as the rest.
My age is sweet sixteen.
Be sweet cousins.
„ k (MISS) EXIE MARTIN.
Guntersville, Ala., Route .1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will yon
Please admit a North Carolina girl into your
happy circle? I live in the northeastern
parr of North Carolina. I attend high
school and am in the ninth grade. How
many of you cousins enjoy reading poetrv?
1 do. I have just read tlie story of•• Eva
ngeline.” and 1 like it fine. I find myself
- believing in Evangeline as a real maiden,
one who once lived and suffered in that
little village of Grand-Pre. [ like to read
Longfellows poetry, because it seems n«
though you were living in the period you
are reading about. It all seems so real.
Longfellow also wrote some poems in which
' he told ot some of the scenes on the farm
I where he spent his boyhood days. These
scenes impressed him so deeply that, wher
ever he went, lie was thinking of them. I
have light brown hair, medium fair com
plexion and gray eyes. 1 am between fo-ir
wen and seventeen years old. I have not
1 hobbed hair, but I wear my hair in curls.
Will answer all letters received. A new
niece ami cousin.
(MISS) LILLIAN M INTYRE.
Altamahaw, N. C.
Dear Aunt Julia: Please open the door for
one more jolly farmerette from the dear old
state of Georgia. My! how hot it is! J
most certainly am glad I'm not sugar, for
I surely would have been melted before now.
How many of you cousins like to read? I
tor one. Among my favorite hooks are
"Freckles." "Little Women." "Rebecca, of
Sunny Brook Farm.” "Laddie'’ and “Black
> Beauty" and "Courageous Girls." My favor
ite author is Gene Stratton.Porter. How
many of yon cousins enjoy outdoor sports?
1 most certainly do. How many of you
cousins like seheel? I for one. I expect tv
| take up first grade high school (eighth
grade) next term. As I see auntie frown
ng. 1 will leave mi des. r ption and go. I
Cave brown t st:.! it most . orta nly
bobbed; brown ' e«. dark complexion. My
sge 'ncre' 1 vlmn.t 'old it. Who's -be
lucky g. 'sser? Be'woen thirteen and nig ■-
1 een, and my birthday ig November 2;:.
OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE O. THOMAS
Simple Remedies
When 1 was in Japan I was
ISO miles from an English speaking
doctor, and many times I thanked
the good Lord that I had inherited
a medical instinct, it it. could be
called that, from a long line ot an
cestors, for the doctors in the War
ing family date back, we know, to
the time of King George 111.
We lived in a Japanese city that
never had less than 10,000 soldiers
in the barracks. There were splen
did Japanese doctors and surgeons.
The government saw to it that the
soldiers were kept in good condition.
And the American teachers in the
school sent for the best of those
doctors when a girl in the school
was sick. We often consulted them
about our own ailments, but for
aids and incidentals to keep in good
condition we depended on what we
had done before we went across.
Now that I am again some dis
tance from a doctor I again re
joice that I do not “lose my head”
when an accident occurs. And all
this leads to an account of a very
strenuous week that I have been
through lately. The. farmer came
in about 11 o’clock one morning last
week and said, “I’ve let the wagon
run over my feet.” He had been
hauling gravel, had a “yard” on at
the time and the team started to
run. He checked them and they
backed both wheels over his feet.
He hauled another load after that,
and came on to the house as his
feet began to be “uncomfortable.”
Os course, as soon as he got in I
put his feet in. warm water, and
gradually added to it to get the
temperature as hot as he could bear
it. I put a cup of epsom salts to
a gallon of water, and he kept his
feet in it 15 minutes. Then I had
a liniment made of equal parts tur
pentine and coal oit, with two tea
spoonfuls of liniment added to a
cup of that. I’ll tell you frankly
that the liniment was added just to
please the farmer. The two are
all that are necessary. With this
I rubber his feet and got him to lie
down. In two hours I repeated .the
treatment, hot water, salts and lini
ment. All the afternoon the treat
ment was kept up, and that night.
The next morning one eye was
like a clot of blood, so that put me
out of business, for one’s eyes are
too precious for any but a profes
sional. I sent for a doctor, and he
said that I had done just as well
as he could have done. “You’ve
done a good job, Mrs. Thomas, and
the eye is affected by a small blood
vessel breaking.” He sent me some
medicine to drop in the eye every ;
two hours, and perhaps I have not
Have I a twin? It so, write me, please.'
I will go by asking each and every one to
write me. Your sincere cousin.
(MISS) VELVA HIGHTOWER.
Calhoun, Ga., Route 4.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Wonder if
you will admit, three lonely Georgia girls
into your happy band of boys and girls? Won
der what you cousins are doing these days
for pastime? We are going to school. We
think every boy and girl should strive for an
education. Luther Buff, come again, your
letter was fine. We’ll not take any subject
Illis time. We’ll leave the space for a more
gifted writer. We live in the country and
like country life fine. I, Beulah and Edna,
have written before, guess some of you cous
ins remember ns. Thank you, auntie, very
much, for printing our other letters. I,
Maybelle have writtten once before but was
not admitted. Hope all you cousins had a
grand time the 4th of July. We did. 1 agree
with you all, The Journal is a great paper.
I think the letters are improving. The sto
ries and Dorothy Dix Talks are real fine,
also Mrs. Felton’s. We'll not describe our
selves only will H ay we have bobbed hair.
Auntie, -we hope that you will have a jolly
time while you are away, and hope that yon
will have a lot of interesting thinks to tell
us when you return. We'll leave our age
for you to guess, which is between leu and
thirty, but we are no the same age. All you
cousins write and to the one that writes
first and sends a photo we'll send a photo of
ourselves. Please send mail separately as
we -want to see which one gets the most let
ters. Your cousin,
(MISS) MAYBELLE OWENSBY,
(MISS) EDNA OWENSBY,
(MLSS) BEULAH OWENSBY.
Blairsville, Ga., Route 3.
Dear Aunt am! Cousins: Will you all
let another West Virginia girl join your hap
py band of boys and girls? I have been
reading letters in the Letter Box for a while,
and like to read them. I am a girl of fif
teen years of age, dark brown hair and dark
complexion and have light blue eyes. 1 live
in the city, but I’ke ta visit the country. The
books I like to read are the “Trail of the
Lonesome Pine,” "Rover Boys' Series,” “The
Light of the Western Stars.” All you cous
ins write and I will answer all. A new
cousin, KEVA CHANCE.
Princeton, W. Va.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I am
coming again. 1 have not written in about
a year. By the way! It surely is hot down
here in south Georgia. Wiiat do you cousins
do for pastime? I help mother in the
house and then amuse myself playing the
piano and Victrola and reading. 1 know I
like to read good books better than any
one else. I have brown hair (bobbed, of
course) and brown eyes. Aunt Julia has
gone on her vacation, but, anyway. I hope
Mr. W. B. is out. Everybody write me. I
am a girl who was borned in 1909. An old
cousin.
(MISS) IBBIE SELLERS.
Baxley, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit another Alabama lassie? I
live in the country, like lots ot the cousins,
and like farm life best, although 1 like to
go to town visiting sometimes. What do
you cousins do for pastime? i play domi
noes, read and eat peaches. The fruit is
not very good around here this year. School
will soon begin and I will be glad, for I
surely do like to go to school. I am in
the third grade. I have fair complexion,
blue eyes and auburn hair. Who has my
birthday, August 5? I nm eight years old.
Love to Aunt Julia and all the cousins.
KATRINE BYRD.
Georgiana. Ala.. Route 5. Box 20.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will yon
please admit another Georgia girl into your
happy band of boys and girls, as 1 have
never written before? I have been read
ing the Letter Box for a long time, and
surely do find lots of good letters to read.
I live out in the country, and I like it, for
1 can take such pleasant walks. Who has my
birthday ? It is July 20. I am 16 years of
age. All ot you cousins write to me. With
love to all.
(MISS) CATHERINE GRAVES.
Cairo, Ga., Kt. 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and tousins: We have
been subscribing for the dear old Journal j
for only a shorr time, and I always look !
forward to it. What interests me. most is
the letters. I surely do enjoy reading them.
I live on a farm and like it fine. We raise
all kinds of vegetables, and I enjoy work
ing in the garden. What do you cousins
do for pastime? I read and go in bathing.
Me live close to a lake and go in bathing
most every day. I surely do enjoy it. We
live about a mile from the lake. I can swim
and dive a little. We have a few box
flowers and a few in the yard. I am a
lover of flowers. How manv of vou cous
ins like to read? I do. We have a large
pecan orchard, I surely will be glad when
they get ripe. We have about 25 trees
hearing, so if you cousins come to see ni“
this winter 1 will give you a job picking
them up. Mv birthday, is April 1. Have
I a twin? It so. write me. I hare dark
bobbed hair. 1 have four sisters and one
brother, one married and one sister teach
ing. I sm tlie baby. My ag eis between
II and 16. Now let your letters come and
see who guesses right. I will answer all i
letters. IV i’l be glad to hear from bora |
and girls in grammar school. let voir
cards and letters come to a new cousin.
' MISS) ADDIE HENTZ. |
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here come '
two jolly Georgia Crackers asking admit ]
tance. We have been thinking for n long |
time we would visit Auntie and the cousnis.
We live in the country, and like country
life fine. For sports we go in swimming
and kodaking. Some ot you cousins ' isit
us and we will show yon a good time. How
many of you cousins like to read novels? j
We are both very fend of reading. We
are enjoying ourselves eating fruits and
watermelons, as farmers always have them.
Luther Huff we enjoyed your letter very
much: please come again. We also enjoy
Dorothy Dix's talks and the continued sto
ries in The Journal. Who has our birthdays’
Myrt!"'s js November 24. age between "•)
and 23. Florence's is October 24. age be
tween 15 and 19. To the first one who
guesses <ur ages w» w ill send them onr
pl-o'o. Guess w» had better our-
selves snd go. W« both have dark brown,
I bobbed hair, brown eyes and fa r complexion.
been busy—two bones were broken
in one foot.
We live where there is nobody to
hire for love nor money. The men
work at Wilson's dam, and right
now those that have their crops
where they can turn loose are work
ing on the road, and our road was
a calamity all this year. The little
grandson and I, with the help of
two other small boys, also grandsons,
have been able to keep the cows,
horses and hogs attended to, with
the exception of the milking. I can
get enough to keep a cow that gives
over a. gallon from suffering, but
when it came to getting three gal
lons, or four, my hands cramp, and
in a week I would have ruined every
cow on the place. But there has
not been a night nor morning that
we have failed to see some good
neighbor come to milk. It has not
been the same one each time, but
when one could not come she only
had to send another the word and
she came.
Once I heard two women argue
about money and friends, one for
each. I fully agreed with the one
who said that a friend was worth a
fortune, but the other said if she
had money she could buy all she
wanted done. Since that, living up
to her theory, she has .seen the time
more than once when she saw how
helpless she was with only a pocket
book full of money.
While the doctor was here last
week we were talking of epsom
salts. He asked, me if I knew it
was one of the very best things for
a burn. I did not, and. he said that
you put just water enough to hold
it together, and apply as a poultice.
I knew that salts could not be ex
celled for stings of any sort. And
if it is used to bathe heat or net
tle rash it soothes and heals. And
since I’ve been entertaining small
boys I’ve found a medicine that
keeps the skinned feet and knees
from getting really painful. Get a.
five cent stick of caustic, break off
almost an inch of it and put it in an
ounce of boiled water. Mop the sore
place with peroxide of hydrogen and
then apply the caustic. It does
not even sting, but a (healthy scab
forms right away, and two appli
cations will usually cure a rather
deep place.
The little boy watched me anoint
a new place and said, “Grandma, if
so-and-so lived with you his sores
would all get well, wouldn’t they?”
I told him I didn't know about that,
but that I would try to heal them.
These simple remedies do not seem
very important, but like the pro
verbial stitch in time, nine or more
days of suffering may be prevented.
All the cousins write to us, we will answer
all mail received.
(MISS) MYRTLE SEARS.
(MISS) FLORENCE DAVIDSON.
Alamo, Ga., Rt. 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: AVondcr if
you will permit a Georgia girl to join your
happy band of boys and girls? As this is
mv first attempt 1 will not take a subject,
biit if I did it would be on "Friendship.”
What do you cousins do for pastime? As
for myself I go in swimming, read anti al
most anything else. I live in town and
prefer it to the country, as I have tiled
both. I am sure you city cousins agree
with me. do you not? How many of you
cousins like Io go to school? I go to school
nt Wrightsville High school. Have very
dark brown eyes and hair, fair complexion,
and am between 14 and 18 years ot age.
My birthday is September 8. Have I a
twin? It so, please -write me. All ot you
cousins, boys and girls, write me, and 1
will assure you an answer. Your new cousin,
(MISS) ALMA BLOUNT.
Wrightsville, Ga.. 220 Hilda street.
Dearest Auntie and Cousin*: Please move
over and let me have a seat beside Aunt
Julia, I'll promise not to stay long. First,
1 want to thank Aunt Julia for printing m.v
. other letter, and all es you who wrote me so
i many nice letters. Those who didn't get an
answer please take this as one for I appre
ciated them every one. What are you all
doing nowadays for amusement? As for
myself not anything much. I am through
work until time to start gathering, you know
I am glad of it, too. Our singing school
starts Monday and will last four weeks, but
I don't guess I will go. Some of you cous
ins ought to be out here and we would go. I
have moved since 1 wrote before. I like my
new home fine and all the people, too. Most
of you take a subject but 1 will not this
time, just a word to you who Lave your
parents with you, treat them good for after
they are gone you can’t have the chance,
j and you don't know what time they will be
i taken away, my dear mother died five years
i ago last February. I have five sisters and
one brother at home and one half-brother
| married. We girls keep house for papa, am
glad to say I haven't a step-mother, but can
say that the job of keeping bouse is a big
job. 1 have fair complexion, gray eyes and
brown hair, it has been bobbed but is grow
ing out now. I will leave my age for you
to guess, it is between fourteen and twenty.
The first one guessing it correctly will re
ceive my photo. How many of you enjoy
good singings and picnics? 1 do for one. I
also like to read good story books and pa
pers. Come on, Georgia boys and girls,
Mississippi and the other states are getting
ahead of ns. Miss Vera Poplin, of North
Carolina, your letter was fine, also Miss
Velma Raker's, of Calhoun, Ga., both of you
girls write me. You know I promised not
to stay long, so I must be traveling along,
with best wishes,
(MISS) RUBY SMITH.
Butler, Ga., Ronte 3.
Dearest Auntie and Cousins: Will zott
kindly let me in for a few minutes’ chat
this lonely afternoon? Thank you. I won
der what you cousins do for pastime. I -ead
and help- mother with the housework. I see
most of you cousins describe your ideal bus
band and wife, but I won't describe my
ideal this time. Well, as auntie says be
brief, 1 will describe myself and go. 1 hare
brown hair, gray eyes and fair complexion
(when it isn't tanned by the sun). I am
eighteen years young. Who has my birth
day, January 8? If anyone cares to write
to a lonely little country girl, let your let
ters come to
(MISS) TENNIS JOHNSON.
Spangville. Ala.. Route 3.
You will find the rule for banana pnddi.'.g
in the Question Box?- Aunt Julia.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will von
please admit two South Carolinians into your
happy baud of hoys and girls? We have
been silent readers for quite a while, bit
have just picked up courage to write. 1,
Willie Mae, like most of the girls and boys,
live on a farm, and like farm life fine. 1
am of the brunette type, have blue eyes,
chestnut hair (not bobbed). Who has my
birthday. May 14? M.v age is between sev
enteen and twenty. Will leave it for yot
■to guess. I, Cecil, am just on a visit in
; South Carolina. My home is in Atlanta,
i Ga. I have fair complexion, blue eyes and
| dark hair .bebbed). My age is between tbir-
I teen and eighteen. Will leave ir for you to
guess. Who has nty birthday, January 28?
All of you cousins write to us. We will
try to answer all received. Well, wo ha I
better step for toda.t . as we don’t want to
I teak dear auntie’s rule', so please, aunt r.
print this, as we want to surprise some • (
our friends. Your new nieces and cousins,
(MUSI WILLIE MAE HIERS.
(MISS) CECIL BEACH.
M alterboro, S. C.. Route 3.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit a lonely Florida girl into
your happy band of hoys and girls? I am
a country girl and like country life fine.
I have been reading some of the cousins'
letters and enjjv iliem fine. 1 have five
brothers and five sisters but they are not
all at home. The ones at home are small
and they are not much company, you see.
t I sin a brunette. My age is between 15
; and IS. The one who guesses nty age will
i get my picture. What do you cousins do
i for pastime? I go to parties, go to church.
J go in swimming, go rar riding. Country
i life i« worth living. I will answer all let
' tors received. From a new • otl«in.
(MISS) CORA LEE GRAHAM.
Walnut Hill, Fl’.
Dear Auntie and Cousins: After liar ng
made two unsuccessful attempts I will
try to get into jour happy hand. My
father has been taking The Journal ever
since I can remember and I think it the
best paper I ever read, especially Aunt
i Julia’s council. What do you cousins do
I for pastime? I help in the garden, field
• and around the bouse, milk and sew and
help some in the kitchen. I go to school
at Pinson and will study the tenth grade
next term. I think everyone should strive
for an education. I attend Sunday school
nt and also belong to the Methodist church.
I am fourteen, have blue eyes. dr.rk hair
and fair cotnpl I hope to hear from
I many of the co'i = :ns soon. 1 am. with best
I v\ i<hps. x r-f'w rou-in.
I (M’.so MILDRED SELF.
Pinson, Ala., Route 1, Box 8.
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME
To Forgive an Erring Wife Is No
More Difficult Than to Take Back
, a. Wandering Husband lf
Wives Are Expected to En
dure This Martyrdom, Why
Not Husbands?
A YOUNG man, who has been a
good, kind, loyal husband to
his wife, finds that she is un
faithful to him. They have a year
• old baby to whom he is devoted, and
> the husband wants to know wheth
-1 er he shall forgive his erring wife
1 or divorce her.
This Is a niatter between a man
and his own soul. It is a problem
stranger to dare
to intermeddle
with it, or to at
tempt to solve
it. A thousand
cons iderations
besides the
woman's sin—
the strength or
weakness of her
character; the
kind of a wife
1 and mother she
1 is, outside of
her philander
i ing; the man's
sense of duty
toward his child
—are involved
in the question.
■ ' -
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VIWM
But, when all is said, why should
not a man forgive an unfaithful
wife, just as thousands of women
forgive unfaithful husbands every
day of the week? Men don’t, of
course. However much sidestepping
Caesar may have done himself, he
has seen to it that his wife kept
in the middle of the straight and
narrow path. TJie married woman
has known that there -would be no
condoning of her There
fore, she has watched her step, and
it is because men have held women
to a stricter code of morals than
women have held men that women,
as a sex, are (lore virtuous than
men.
Heaven knows I am no advocate
for loose living among women. I
agree with Mr. Caesar that Mrs.
Caesar, who not only bears the lit
tle Caesars, but forms their charac
ters, should be above reproach, and
I am strong for any measures, how
ever severe, that will keep her that
wa y.
But why is it any worse for a
woman to break her marriage vows
than it is for a man to break his?
Is a man more dishonored who has
an unfaithful wife than a woman
is who has an unfaithful husband?
Is his pride hurt more? Does he en
dure more pangs of jealousy when
he knows that his wife is out joy
riding with some other man than
tear at the heart of a woman when
she knows that her husband is galli
vanting- around with another wom
an?
No one will pretend that the be
trayed wife does not suffer just as
cruelly as the betrayed husband
does, yet thousands upon thousands
of women who have seen their faith
made a mockery of, and their mar
riage dishonored, have not rushed
into the divorce court to free them
selves from their false and tricky
life partners. They have had the
courage to carry on with their part
of the contract. They have kept the
oath they swore at the altar, and
have performed the duty to which
they set their hands.
These women have had the grit
to endure the torments of jealousy
that every wife must suffer who
knows that other women are pre
ferred before her. They have writhed
under the mortification of knowing
that their friends and acquaintances
pitied them as unloved wives, yet
they have stood to their posts with
the heroism ot martyrs. They have
pretended that they did not know
the things that it broke their hearts
to know. They have wept in secret
and smiled in public.
They have put their own disap
pointment, and disillusion, to one
side, and kept their homes together
for the sake of their children. They
know the value of a father's influ
ence, and the background that a
good home gives to children. They
did not want their boys and girls
to grow up fatherless, and worse
than fatherless, in knowing they had
an unworthy father, and with the
shadow of divorce over them. They
knew that they could not earn
enough money to support their chil
dren as their father could, and give
them the advantages that their fath
er could, and so they endured treach
ery for their children’s sake.
Also, often a woman who has an
unfaithful husband “forgives” him,
because his sin is the one blemish
on an otherwise fine character. Out
side of a wandering fancy that veet
with every wind or passion and sen
timent. he is all that is lovable and
fine. His sins are sins of the flesh,
and not of the spirit.
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There are men like this who are
kind, and understanding, and tender,
and generous, who treat their wives
with every courtesy and considera
tion, and who except for the one
fault ate adorable husbands and
fathers, but who are constitutionally
unfaithful. They are attracted by
every woman, and are true to no
woman. They are never domesticat
ed until they grow too old to roam,
but many women bide their time,
and wait until the philanderer comes
back to her at last, because she
knows that even as he is he is a.
more agreeable husband than many
a man who possesses all the vir
tues, and none of the amenities of
life.
Perhaps the man who has an un
faithful wife could do no better than
follow the example that such women
set in such cases. The breaking
up of his home will mean sorrow to
him. The parting from his child
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than it would to a woman, and a
man is even less fitted to take care
of a child and keep a home together
alone than a woman is. So, for the
children's sake, and so that he may
keep near his child and try to bring
it up properly, it may often be the
best thing for the man to forgive
an erring wife.
And often the woman who takes a
step astray is not really bad. She
is only weak and vain and pleasure
loving. She wants to be flattered
and made love to and given a good
time, and her husband can save her
from temptation by being a lover
as well as a husband.
But any way you look at it. the
question of whether an unfaithful
husband or 'wife should be forgiven
or divorced is a terrible one. God
pity all unhappy men and women
who lie awake at night trying to
solve it!
DOROTHY DIX. I
(Copyright, 1924)
Republicans Nominate
Wynant for Governor
In New Hampshire
MANCHESTER, N. H., Sept. 3.
Captain John G. Winant, Concord fi
nancier, was conceded the Republic
an nomination for governor today by
his chief opponent, Major Frank
Knox, publisher of the Manchester
Union and Leader, when 24? of the
294 districts gave Winant a plural
ity of 2,004.
In the Republican nominations for
congress Fletcher Hale, of Laconia,
leads in the First district, an 1 Rep
resentative Edward H. Wasm, of
Nashau, in the Second. Senatcr
Henry W. Keyes, of Haverhill, was
renominated without opposition. The
Democrats had no contests for gov
ernor or congress.
The only place where the Ku Klux
Klan was a factor, returned the
klan candidate in the nomination of
William H. Davis, mayor of Roch '3-
ter, for sheriff of Strafford county,
defeating the present incumbent,
Frank E. Goodwin.
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AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 3.—(By the
Associated Press.) The platform
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form committee of the Democratic
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