The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1908-01-17
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How very easy it is to become
spoiled as 10 weather conditions.
Our usual winter begins about
Thanksgiving day aud continues
with more or less vig0r, usually
more, until sometime in April,
with bright spell in January,
commonly called the January thaw
This year there was no necessity
for this, for we had not yet had
freeze that needed thawing. We
just enjoyed the ideal weather.
Last Saturday was day that not
even the most optimistic person
could call beautiful day, with its
battle OF the elements of snow and
rain for supremacy, With a final
victory for the former. My! but
the grumbling about the awful
weather, forgetting all about the
previous winter weeks, when we
had Indian summer. My Line a
Day. book tells me that last year
from January 7 to January 90,
there was continual rain, snow,
sleet and mud, the sun coming out
on the latter day after long va
cation.
Have you read all the new books
of the past year, To have even
kept mp with the fiction in English
We would have had to read five
books a day during the year, for
the new fiction numbered 1862.
Nearly 10, 900 new books on various
subjects were published during 1907
IN thls country an d England.
] hear of scrap books Cor poems
and jokes being commenced AMI |
will endeavor to help them along
by giving one or the other in this
column.
EASY TO DRIFT.
Easy to drift to the open sea.
The tides are eager and swift and
strong.
And whistling and free are the rushing
winds
But, oh, TO get back is hard and long
Easy as told in Arabian tale,
To free from his jar the evil sprite.
Till he rises like smoke to stupcndous
size
But, oh, nevermorc can we prison him
tight.
Easy as told IN an English tale,
To fashion Frankcnstcin body and
soul,
And breathe in his bosom breath of
life
But, oh, We create what we cannot
control.
Easy to drift to the sea of doubt,
Easy to hurt what we cannot heal.
Easy to rouse what We cannot soothc
Easy to speak what we do not feel,
Easy to show what we ought to conceal
Easy to think that fancy is fate,
And, oh, the wisdom that comes too late.
Oliver Huckel.
\ cook book of true aud tried
recipes is not bad thing to have.
| have been asked several times
lately for my doughnut recipe and
give it here. 1t is the very thing
for a small family and will make
about three dozeu. If you want
more than that do not double the
recipe, but make the usual quantity
twice. Doughnuts Two cups of
-four, one egg, one half cup sugar,
one. fourth teaspoonful each soda,
cream tartar and salt, one fourth
table spoonful butter, one. half cup
sour milk. Flavor with vanilla.
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| have never been very enthus-
astc over woman suffrage, except
about once a year, when school
directors are to be elected, begin
TO realize that woman suffrage
would be a great factor for the
betterment of our schools. Until
recently the man with daughters,
sisters. cousins or aunts who want.
ed teachers position, put hlm-
self up as a candidate for school
director, along with several other
men situated in like manner. 1t
would be clear case Of trade to
persuade the friend of the one or
the other to vote so that both
families would be provided for.
Your friends for me, mine for you,
and our relatives will be safe, was
the election slogan until it became
so effective for the directors and so
ineffective for the schools that Il
new ruling was made Just to pre-
vent such things, and no one re-
lated to school director could hold
a position in the schools. 1t seems
to me there should he an educa.
tional qualification for directors as
well as teachers, not necessarily