Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-10-21
Dear Aunt Hadge ana .Mutuals:

pear Ahrf 1nGGe ana -AufGdfs.
How are you all since the reunion This
has been fine, cool day, and have felt Just
like working. Have washed, ironed, mended
and got my darning done, and just as the
clock was striking fast time) took my pen
in hand to say few words to you all.
Aunt Maria. that was good report you
gave of the reunion, but didn't You make a
slight mistake in saying our gathering was
the smallest we have hads If have the list
correct, our first one had one less than our
last. Am l right, you who were present, or
did make mistake in the list / made of
our first gathering?
saw g at the county grange last Saturday
and she told me she got her basket all pack ed
to come and the fire mot pumpkins) kept her
at home. Let us hope there won't be fires,
real or imaginary, next reunion day, for be-
sides keeping our members away, the smoke
shuts off the beautiful view which we can get
from the cottage.
Deb, we all missed you-the FIRST time you
have been absent, isn't itf Was very glad to
meet the new ones, and hope there will be
many more at the next gathering We be-
come more interested in their writings after
having met them.
Dear Grandma G! Wish she would write 10
smother Of her COED letters. was requested
by one 81 DIR Mutuals to send the way we
make tomato soup at our house, after having
partaken of itSand this is one reason why l
am writing to-night, as the request was made
some little time ago.
Win say good night to one and all Of our
scattered family, hoping that sometime ii may
be my privilege to meet you all at our yearly
gathering.
o, yes want to say word to Meb before
I close. Aren't you backsliding littles II
has been SO long since we have heard a word
from you.i Now send us line right away and
let us know how you are these days. and il
there is a newt ohm to be counted in; just own
right up, for you ARE too old to be bashful
now.
There, I'lIfnish now sure, as the clock ha,
struck Sand my John, who has been taking
his usual napgover his paper, says its bed
time. s. j. Y.
TOMATO sour-cook together twenty min.
utes one can Of tomatoes, two slices Of onion
two sprigs OF parsley, bit Of bay leaf, few
gratings of nutmeg. three cloves four cups OF
| water. Then strain and return to the fire
adding one tablespoonful Of butter, thres
tablespoonfuls Of sugar, salt and pepper &c
suit taste. Thicken with -four to suit.
We were all SO much interested in Celif
Thaxter's life and poems that another
author may be of interest, to many of you
and not only OF interest, but we may ado
to our information in a literary line.
Irish Molly sent me some articles relat
ing to Louise Chandler Moulton at thu
time of her death, which occurred at he
home in Boston August 10, 1908, at the ag'
of seventy two years, four months. vii
give you some selections from the clip
pings, and should be glad to receive poem
or any facts relative to her life.
Many thanks.to Irish Molly for the con.
| tribution.
LOUISE CHANDLER MoULToN.
Louise Chandler, whom the world late
knew as Louise Chandler Moulton, was borI
of good old English stock in Pomfret, CT.
April 10, 1885, the daughter Of Lucius L. Chan
dler and Louise Clark. Her parents wer
| rigid Calyinists. 1t was hard for them Il
understand the imaginative, poetic tempera
ment Of their child, who in her early year
lived in worldlof dreams and fancies. Sh
was their idol, and they INDUCED her in al
ways that did not run counter to their i'm
mutable ideas OF right and wrong.
| Among her schoolmates the one whom sh,
oftenest recalled was lad with whom sh,
studied French and German and who drew