Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-04
MAINE GOSSIP.

MAINE GOSSIP.
The Rebekahs will be along whea the
Odd Fellows go to Belfast, Oct. Is, to
attend the annual session of the Grand
Lodge. For the first time in Maine Odd
Fellowship convention of Rebeka abs will
meet for State organization. This event
will take place Monday evening, OCT. 10th.
Aurora Rebekah Lodge has voted to enter
tain the delegates to the Rebakah conven-
ton.
A young lady in Union, who completed
the prescribed course at the Union High
school but refused to participate in the
closing exercises, sues the school committee
because they refuse to grant her diploma.
She evidently doesn't think the dress parade
exercises on graduation day are part of
the curriculum.
THE Hard Times" and "The Hard Ups"
were the lugubrious names of two base ball
clubs that tried titles on the West Sullivan
grounds last week. 1t was the teams rather
than the players that were called hard
names, an agreeable innovation, and that
didn't interfere in the least with the general
good time.
There is rich flavor about the following
correspondence in the Chicago Daily Hotel
Reporter, written by breezy correspond
emit who has been least" this season :
"Maine has her Bar Harbor and Old Or
chard, but the village and farm resorts
are great feature in that State. A month
at Maine farmhouse is an event in any
mans life. The Maine farm wife is 8
great institution. She is in condition of
constant and acute activity from 5
o'clock in the morning until 8 at
night. As bousekeeper she has on
equal on earth. She is an expert on roast
turkey, biscuits butter. apple sauce, max
ing soap or preserves, matching rug rags,
curing Group or laying out corpse. Her
mince pies are the acme of gastronomic
art. | have been told that piece of one
eaten before retiring produces unpleasant
dreams. l cannot speak from experience,
for when / get one never eat less than
two cuts, and then enjoy delightful dreams.
l have no sympathy with any man SO lack
ing in taste as to quit on less"
Portland Transcript: The Gardiner Re-
porter Journal suggests it would be good
plan to have statue of the late George
Evans erected in that city. In the Wing
party of the past Evans stood second only
to Webster. Meanwhile the tomb Of Mr..
Evans remains in the poor condition that it
has been for years, and the city of Gardiner
would do well to repair it as a graceful act
of recognition of great statesman. Maine
has had many eminent sons, but is some
what negligent in perpetuating their memo
ry in bronze or stone. .
A pretty good idea of the books that are
read may be formed by looking over the
shabby covers of books in public library.
At the Portland library it has been necessary
to get new sets of Dickens, Mrs. Stowe, j.
I. Trowbridge. Thackeray. Black and
others of the first class story tellers; but
this is matter of coi1tse. 1t is surprise,
however, to hear that Susan Warmers
.Wide, Wide, World" and "Queechy" re-
lie, and new sets of other works of the same
/ do find fault, however, with the Maine
wife for fixing her house so nice that she
shuts it up and makes you live in the
kitchen. But when she does open it for
Thanksgiving, weddings and funerals its
neatness makes the neighborhood green
with envy. Things go by rule in the house.
The boys must go to bed when they are not
| sleepy, and get up when they are sleepy.
| Sunday is strictly observed. Breakfast is
served as usual at o'clock, sermon in the
forenoon, Sunday school, doughnuts and
cheese at noon, sermon in the afternoon,
dinner at four, and moral lecture in the
church at early candlelight. was raised
in Maine and my principal recollection of
Sunday is that 1 got three lectures
when l wanted but two and got
but two meals when wanted three. True
Maine farm people are noted for long-dis-
lance voices. The good wife with her
hands in the bread bowl issues her orders
to Maria who is making beds up stairs and
Johnny who is picking up chips in the back
yard. The man of the house, when he
wants to talk to his neighbor across the
i field, steps up two rails on the fence and
gets along nicely. If he wants to reach
the second farm he mounts the top of the
fence. When blowing stump lot, his con-
ference with bis cattle can be heard mile.
A telephone company would starve in q
Maine farming town.