The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-08-17
AL.ABASTER BONES.

ALABASTER BONES.
oh, the alabaster boxes stored SO care
fully away
In the secret silent chambers of the
heart,
With all their priceless treasures hid.
den from the light olday,
While our loved ones walk in loncli-
ness apart;
Walk in solitude and sorrow for the
words we never say
Precious words of loving kindness stored
so carefully away.
Oh, our love would he so precious to the
ones we hold most dear;
Yet they never dream of all our golden
store,
And they hunger for the comfortof our
love and hope and cheer,
Till their longing hearts are still for
ever more.
Then we bring our precious boxes when
the loving soul has fled
And with tears and lamentations we an
noint our senseless dead.
Oh our incense has no meaning to the
still, unconscious clay;
Yet its perfume might have cheered
the lonely years.
Why not lavish on our dear ones all our
wealth and love to-day
Why not save ourselves the heartache
and the tears?
Why not bring our cherished boxes to
the sunlight of the day,
And bestow our hidden treasure on our
friends along.the way
Isl;yah.tl, fN1uvt q Hardy
Did YOU know that cucumhers
were good for several things beside
being made into pickles. In the
first place, they are very good to
eat. My favorite way is to cut the
cucumbers in quarters and eat 1t
with Just pepper and salt. never
use vinegar with fresh cucumbers
A delicious salad is made after this
fashion. Slice the cucumbers thin
and lay in water for about an hour.
| Press all the water out and chop
an onion aud sweet pepper very
fine, and mix all with salt and pep
per and cover with sweet cream.
1t is Il well-known fact that cucum-
Der cream as face lotion has a
most excellent effect in removing
tan and sun. burn. SO much more
effacacious is the cucumber skin
from freshly peeled Que. Use it
as you would piece of soap TO rub
on the face, arms and hands, and
let it dry on the skin. Then, after
serving this purpose, leave the
rinds on table and pantry shelves
to keep the ants away.
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There seems to be no prospect of
a regular civic improvement club
which will take active steps to
make the town beautiful. The
next best thing is for each indl-
vidual citizen to constitute com.
mittee of one. and then each one
make an effort to get the town
clean. | never pass banana skin
on the sidewalk without | kick il
out in the gutter. OF course, tina,
is not the place for it, but it is
less likely there to prove the CAUSE
of a fall. Boxes and trash art
burned, or rather partly burned
and the waste paper is blown b,
the wind up and down the street
and may frequently frighten horse
/ read recently of the efforts of thu
women OF Seattle, Wash, in com
polling q better condition of affair
in the city and the service given b,
the employees of the various store
at which they dealt. They insisted
that they had a right to have thei
meat cut by butcher who wore
clean apron, that he have cleanl
habits during the process Of cut
= ting, and that he did not have t
! turn to spit out mouthful of to
bacco. They brought such press
ure to bear on the dealers tha
they were obliged to enforce tn
rule of cleanliness in their shop,
Couldn't some such effort be mad
in Farmington' Or do we nee
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