Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-02-07


Madge to all those who responded so promptly
to my request for the war poem. and especially
thanks to the brother who sent It, for bad not
the least idea we should find brother who had
preserved on the walls of memory poems of
thai sentiment; believed ii was the sisters who
usually cherished such poems. There is another
poem OF the war ! would like 10 obtain. Some
of the lines are these:
Twas night on the battlefield, far from his home,
A gallant young soldier lay dying alone,
No friends stood around him, comrade was
near,
To cheer his lone heart or his last words to hear.
Meeting with such success before emboldens
me to make inquiries for another.
MRS. Il.
think too, Mrs. r., that you meet with
wonderful success in gathering up these
stray poems and songs after SO many
years have passed since they were first
published. Ii is an excellent thing to
commit poems to memory. There is
sort of companionship in .hem, and /
would suggest to young peiple that to
commit even brief selections from several
different standard authors or poets, being
able TO accredit each selection to its own
author, is a good beginning for literary
education.
Dear HUNT Madge:
l want to thank Ego for most delicious sup
per which we enjoyed the other night. For
upon reading her directions for burberry cake
l was forthwith seized with desire to make
one for supper. which did. and 1t was simply
splendid. think / shall indulge in them quite
ID
way. how often Ego comes to the front with
something helpful and instructive.
| Does any one ever can any baked beans?
saw In paper this winter directions for put
ting them up In glass jars. tried jsrful. and
when opened them oh. what an odor' They
were quickly dumped into the hens dish. do
not know IL the trouble was with me or the
recipe, but thought would like to know If any
| one else ever tried to can any.
VIII some one please give directions for
making the little balloons with electric light
globes. have the globe and would Ike Iii
rections for eroche ting the cover and finishing.
Dear sisters, let US try to make the NJ. b. C. so
interesting that the editor will always allow US
a corner. II is the first thing look at and get
many useful bits of knowledge from t.
| MRS. A. b.
A hearty welcome. Mrs. A. B.. but alas
for the woman, even II she be Aunt
Madge, who hadn't put up" any blue
berries. She can only read the NJ. B. col
umn and imagine how good that .delic-
ious supper" tasted. Come again to our
NJ. C.
want to write just little special let
ter to the girl., not the girls in their teens
oh! no, not this time-but to those "un-
der their teens" upon whom falls the
duty Of dish-washing. DO hear an echo
OF little signs and groans from all over
the county and perhaps away from the
Pacific shore? You say, not from SO far as
that, but want to tell you Of a "whistle"
I was thinking of to-day, and Of how far
its echo reached.
A lady. in a city in California heard a
little boy whistling as he went past the
house where she was stopping, and she
wrote to a boy friend on the Atlantic
coast that every day when that boy went
past whistling she thought of him. Now
it is ever SO much better to have a whistle
echo from shore to shore than a groan,
and II one girls groan over dish wa hing
should be echoed in California what a
pity it would be!
So will tell you how one girl, about
twelve years old, manages. She calls the
different kinds of dishes families. She
washes the spoon" family, big and little;
then the Soup family the 'Plate" fam
lily, and so on. think it was an original
| idea with her.
| When we have more room some time We
will talk over washing dishes again, but
to-day when ! was washing dishes
thought of how much time is spent that
way and of three times three hundred and
sixty five taDd sometimes more) that the
same dishes were washed every year, and
some way wondered they lasted so long
as they do. Then l thought of the girls
that always had to wash the dishes and
wanted them to know they were remem-
/ bered by AUNT MADGE.
!