Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1902-04-09


And the trust of little child;
And souls that before had forgotten to pray.
Looked up and went singing along their way.
Dear NJ. B. Friends:
/ am not sure but that your Aunt Madge
was tempted to be rather proud woman
last night. You see IL it had been my own
idea / shouldn't have been half SO proud
OF 1t, but when 1t comes to pass that one
of the editorial staff proposes to compile
some of the recipes from our NJ. B. column
and have them printed in a neat pamphlet
OF sixteen pages with a cover. bearing the
title in good big letters AUNT MADGE'S
COOK BOOK" do you wonder fesl
honored2
When this same editor proposed 1t first
/ said; "Why, my name will be likely to
go down to posterity, won't it?'' And
now the FIRST copy off the press" is in
my hands, and like the young mother
anxious to put on exhibition the child who,
she believes, possesses many attractions, /
cannot refrain from calling your attention
TO this cook book, for IT is your recipes and
mine that helped make it-yes, that actually
made it. The introduction is as follows:
This little book of old tashioncd recipes
tried and endorsed by some of Names best
cooks, is complied from the weekly letters In the
Mutual Benefit column Of THE AMERICAN. 1t
is not put ont as money making venture. the
cost beirg barely large enough to meet expense
of printing. Its prime object is to place in the
hands of readers OF the Mutual Benefit column,
tai A.. az 81.
been contributed to that column from time to
time. and with l1e hope that others into whose
hands 1t may fall may be induced TO become
regular readers of and contributors TO the
column. The book contains but small part OF
the recipes which have apI cared In the column.
The recipes, moreover. are but one feature OF
the column; the letters and suggestions weekly
from practical housekeepers are most valuable"
The next page is on household economy,
and then follow over sixty recipes garnered
from our column. The price OF the book
is five cents copy. 1t would be neat
and useful gift for friend, especially one
who does not take THE AMERICAN regu-
larry.
"Aunt Maris," your letter will appear
next week. Very glad to hear from you.
ago" remem bered me with an Easter
greeting, which, as some OF you may not
have seen the like, / want to describe to
you and perhaps you will try making one.
1t is a card, across the bottom of which is
drawn with pen and ink pair OF bars or
length OF rail fence. Don't laugh at my
description, "Ego.o Clinging to the
upper rail are three kittens made by
gluing pussy willows to the paper and
supplying tails and claws by the use OF
pen and ink. Just above the centre OF the
| card is written or ink printed:
Who will sing song of spring.
Pussy will, o.
Across the left hand upper corner is
placed Easter Greetings" and across the
right upper corner. the five lines OF staff
in music with treble cleft on which are
three notes. 1t is a very cute and amusing
idea and Ego" has my thanks which
trust she has received ere this by personal
note. Aunt Madge does appreciate all the
kind rememhrances which come to her In
various forms from Maine to California
pussy willows and orange blossoms in the
same week.
Dear Auat MadQe:
have looked in vain for an opinion from the
NJ. BIS on the subject of the new-fashioned
woman. To begin with, / claim that when the
title is given to such women as Mrs. Roosevelt.
Mrs. Rutherford b. Hayes. Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Susan b. Anthony, Frances willard and
all the host of women 10 our own country, or
any other, who have the courage TO stand by
their own God given convictions of right, SO that
they become pioneers in any good work, whether
II be temperance, dress reform, woman's suf
frage or the same code of morals aud law of
practice for our sons and daughters. as well as
advocates OF pure lives of the fathers and
mothers. the title of "new- fashioned woman" is
misapplied.
We have but 10 skip the dark ages whose
shadow, like a black cloud, envelopes all nations
to q greater or less degree, and go back 10 the
olden time for a few examples of true, fearless,
| Independent woms nhood, to prove that the "new
woman" is but survival Of what was best In
| the old-fashioned woman.
For example, let me refer you 10 the most
| ancient history Of the world of men and women.
| Some 5. sos years ago two women doctors dared
disoDey the kings orders and save the lives of
| the boys he had ordered them to kill. 1t was
| S.2ss years ago that a noted general was such a
| coward he would not go out to war unless u GER.
tain woman would go with him; she went and
the honor of the victory was given to woman
| 1t was 1852 years ago that woman refused 10
obey her husband, and he, being good man,
\ Let her have her own way and never had cause
to regret it. 1t was 2,s13 years ago that a
woman performed one of the most daring acts
recorded In history; after her husband had re-
fused to do an act of Justice and of kindliness
she took the matter into her own hands and
granted the request OF the foreign king without
the knowledge or consent of her husband be-
cause, as his young men said of him, "he was
such a son of the evil one and he was churlish
| and evil in his doings." and as his wife said Of
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