Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1899-07-19
Dear ". B. Friends:

Selected by : }. Y.
Dear ". B. Friends:
Our thanks will be cheerfully given TO
as. }. Y" for the poem she sends this
week, and which came to me as a sweet
echo Of long ago. think 'sB. J. A., who
/ contributed 10 the Home Department" Of
THE AMERICAN year or more ago, will
remember it as a companion piece to
cover and Over Again. and in the day
school many voices Joined in reciting ii,
and il may be the pupils have carried with
them through life a bit of hope gathered
from its tone and sentiment
"Daisy's" suggestion Of placing quota
tons on the board is excellent. Perhaps
in addition she and ether teachers might
find ii helpful and interesting TO pupils to
place the names OF authors or poets on
the board with dates of birth and death
+ If they have passed from earth with
brief sketch of their lives perhaps only
two or three sentences) and the titles Of
some of their most noted books or poems.
1t is well to take those authors whose Sc
lections are introduced in the readers used
/ IN the school. Pupils can thus get a
glimpse Of English literature which may
be helpful 10 them later in their studies.
Ego, tried the "hot fire. which you
recommended for straw berry pies, and not
drop OF juice escaped. Thank you.
I Mrs. r. here come two more lines OF
'Dare to Do Right" When l saw the one
stanza which "E.' kindly sent at the head
OF our column, it looked a little lonely
and it came to me then that the poem was
not complete after all. The way the
poem is being gathered together reminds
me OF those old times when, we are told
the hymns were ''lined OUT in church
service, the minister reading two lines and
the choir singing them. An old story has
1t that one pastor gave out number 1875
in the hymn book. After an awkward ST.
lence the chorister said "There are not
so many hymns in the book" when the
minister replied; 'Sing what there be
then
Dear Aunt NddGe.
| / enclose for the NJ. B. c. poem, which II It
never has been used, may have in 1t sug.
gestion of helpfulness. ! do not think the poem
Dare TO Do Right" was fully given last week ,
as remember the second verse began with:
"Dare to do right, dare to be true,
Other mea's failures will never save YOU"
and I've been racking my brain in vain, trying
to recall the rest of 1t, but 1t won't come, and
now that have given "E." the first TWO lines
she may remember the rest. It was in one of
my childhood Sunday school singing books, the
air of which / well remember.
North Lamoine, 81 Y.
iotendea 10 have said last week that
floral questions are in order We want to
blend the useful and the ornamental. A
judicious mixture Of lights and shades, of
fact and fancy, of Imagination and real
ity, is only another way of saying that
variety is the spice of life'.
The human mind is so constituted that
it is dangerous to follow one particular
line of thought too long. Keep the mind
active by being interested in different
things. Develop thought along new lines
We are never too old to become interested
in new work of some kind, unless our
bodies or brains are sick. Remember Long
fellow has said:
TOO late oh, nothing Is too late
TIL the tired heart shall cease to pspitate."
think it is Adelaide Proctor who says:
ave always may be what we might ha
BEEN" but l am revolving that though,
in my mind. l cannot say yet that agree
. with the statement. Let me add one
stanza in closing and will some of our
readers give their opinion of this subjects
How oft in life reach the place
Where two ways seem to meet,
And while in deep suspense we walt
Time moves with hurrying feet.
II sweeps US past the Possible;
We write with tears 100 late,
Then charge our folly and unrest
To blind and cruel fate.
AUNT MADGE.
One of natures remedies; cannot harm the