Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-24
Maine Gossip
March,.

Ho. merry March. with clarion note
You sound the call of Spring,
And hid the mountain, pasture mead,
With gladstone echoes ring
You rout the hidden mounds of snow
Beneath the crcyiced oak,
You warm the sturdy heart once more
And South-wirds aid invoke,
Ho. merry March, your wind-k kissed cheek
CLOVIS red, your eyes aglenm.
Flame out and warm the wintIy earth,
And thaw each frozen stream!
Your song is hlithc.-ther none SO gay.
ENpectant, with delight.
The bare houghs thrill at your ! huff kiss,
You merry, laughing spritv.
Ho. merry March. you're bold and brave,
NJ coward soul have you.
Adown Strings path your footsteps
dance,
For your heart to Spring is true,
Catherine CrOnin.
a week more for March to develop
few lamblike qualities.
There are lively political times in
prospect up and down the length of
Tie -illtl pStpSSlH uui IllS tIlt llthl lew
weeks.
With Schumann-Heink at Augusta
and Maude Adams at Lewiston on
April l there will be nothing April
foolish in the day for Maine amuse-
ment lovers.
hnx fl,., f,.,.t Gnr
of Names youngest weekly the
Narraguagus Valley Item, published at
Cherryfield. 1t is now published at
the office of the Machias Republican
but will soon have a plant of its own.
Although the Whittier field diamond
is still covered with ice the Bowdoin
nine will start a week from today on
its trip to play Brown. New York
University. Seton Hall and Princeton.
The other Maine colleges will open
their season two weeks later.
Here is d Belfast story about a
what the worse for having passed the
night with the boys" and he made
such noise stumbling about the room
that his wife said: What on earth
are you making such racket for To
which he replied: Il gesh YOU would
if you was trying to get a barrel of
beer into this ROOM Barrel of
beer" replied his wife. where is ito"
Inside of me-" was the answer. She
did not doubt it.
The April number of the New
England magazine has several articles
and pictures of special interest to
Maine readers. Among them are
New York Innocents in the Maine
Wilds' by Charles Everett Beane,
The Charms Of Kidney Pond" by
Fannie Fern Andrews. and Our
Water Powers" by Philip w. Ayres.
These articles are all prOfusely
illustrated with splendid half tones.
There is one curious mistake when two
pictures are labeled as views of the
falls of the Kennebec at Lewiston"
Saturday Evening Post; The coast
of Maine appears to have peculiar
attract veness for authors. William
Dean. Howells, for example, has long
had his summer home at Kittery
Point, which is not far from Ports
mouth. His house is surrounded by
fine old garden, in which the veteran
author may often be seen at work. !
His library is located in an old barn
set in the midst of an apple orchard. |
George, : WATSON also has beautiful |
and permanent home at kittery Point. |
\ little farther up the coast. at York |
Harbor. is the summer home of
Thomas Nelson Page. 1t is located on
a high point near the sea. Here too, |
comes John Fox every summer to be
the guest of Mr.. Page. Still farther
on, at Kennebunkport, is the home of
Mrs. Margaret Deland. who lives in
charming, old-fashioned house, sur
rounded by a real New England |
garden Mrs Dcland has been par
ticularly successful in raising jonquils.
In fact. she had such large crop the |
past summer that she held a public |
sale of them and gave the proceeds to
charity. Meredith Nicholson. the |
Indiana novelist also has a home at |
Various authors live
on the many islands that stud the
beautiful harbor of Portland. The |
best known is Mrs. Clara Louise Burn !
ham, whose home is on Bailey's |
Island. ON another island. not far
away, lives Commander Peary.