The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-04-08
Specimen Answers to Correspon-
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TO DC SOOu dIu Ocduthul IL ouO oiiiy
knew how" We can't help you out on
the beautiful very much, Minnie, but if
YOU really want to be good, and don't
know how to go at it, just look at us,
and then use your powers of imitation.
Annie of Argyle" wants to know
"who was the Lochiel of CampbelFs
poem" He was the proprietor OF no.
tel in Harrisburg, Pa.
"Oh, the changing scenes of life the
ruthless hand of time p writes "Clari-
bel )" "the Springtime of my life is past
and gone; where will be fifty years
from now ," If you are now as old as
Mr. Tilden, Claribel, ycu will be dead,
and you can bet money on it
Harry Hazen, of Circleville, Ohio,
writes, 81 see again my childhoods
home; 1 see the ripping brook, and l
hear the wind that kisses the bending
willows. Sweet vision of the home that
watched my boyhood-"
Yes, yes, Harry, we know all about
that. We know your folks We know
your childhood's home like book. You
were born in Westmoreland county, Pa,
and when you We're two months old
your parents moved to Salamanca, N.
Y; and then about ten months after
ward they moved to Coshocton, o., and
remained there just long enough for
you to get over the measles, and then
they went into Tennessee, and your ia
Their run saw mill near y year, and
then you all came back to Ohio and set
tied in Butler county. When you were
about four years old your family moved
over to Warren, Indiana, and lived
there about seven months, when they
went down into Christian county, Hi
nois, and had the asue for ten weeks,
packing up and going on to Muscatine,
Iowa, as soon as they were strong
enough. They lived there year and
half, and moved to Montgomery, Mimi,
and there your father joined the Meth
odist Church, and you lived there three
years, end at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin,
a year and half while he read theol-
ogy, and then he entered the ministry,
and since then you haven't lived in any
one place longer than two years. Oh,
yes, Harry, if you have any memories
of your "boyhood's home," your mem
ory must be polyglot, that's all.
"Rose Geranium " wants little in
formation in Horticulture. How "do
you propagate rosesP she asks. Well,
about the best way is to depend upon
ten year old boy to fasten the front gate
at night, and if everything in your gar
den isn't propagated before daylight, it
will be because all the cows in your
neighborhood are dead.
"How," asks Mrs. Worrtt, of
Nashua, N. H., ado you clean paint
splashes off window panes p
Well, about the easiest way is to
kick out the glass. We don't know of
any other way that does not demand an
expensive and useless expenditure OF ell
bow grease. You might prevent their
getting on the glass if you could kill the
painter in time.
Mrs. Youngwoman wants to know
show she can tell a fresh egg from a
stale one Taste it, goosey, taste it.
What do you want to know for :
Mrs. Duntsman says, can tell you
how to keep moths out of your carpets.
You just
Well, we don't want to know. We
haven't carpet to our back, and we
amt afraid Of moths anyhow. But if
you can tell us how to keep the laun-
dress out Of our handkerchiefs, Mrs.
Duntsman, trot out your prescription
and we'll send the Observation-Disclosures
Hawkeye
Daring the two months Of this year