Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1909-01-13
WEST FRANKLIN, Jan. 6, 1876

WEST FRANKLIN, Jan. 6, 1909.
Dear Friends Of the N. B. c.:
The old year has flown and...l left us its
memories; to some they have been joyful,
while to others very sorrowful, .and to each
we extend our heartfelt sympathy, hoping
that the new year may be all thascould be de-
sired.
| The holiday season has passed, and I pre-
sumo you all were made happy in giving and
receiving from those you holdsmost dear. 1
was generously remembered at that time, and
| / appreciated it so much; how nice TO have
friends. l thought of everyone and wished
from my heart could have sent some little
token of remembrance.
I must tell you that l tried the filled
cookies, and found them very nice. Have
made some twice. Have enjoyed the letters
very much. E. A. G., 1 am glad you en-
joyed your post card shower. Wish you
could have them often. Hope you are as well
as usual. Janet, l am glad You are better;
hope to have one of your nice letters soon.
c., you gave fine letter; come again,
please.
The little helps given from time. to time in
regard to our Homework are very helpful, but
l feel 1 must smooth out quite a number of
tuS plSScs, even II thSs NouAu hSSp Iash as
well without.
Some time ago one of our number asked for
advice in governing her child. would Just
say be firm, and never promise unless you
mean it, and always be careful in telling what
you win do and will not do. 1 do not believe
much in whipping these little ones, but you
can soon teach them thatiyou mean just what
you say, and the battle is.won. Never punish
;,,o al, hat o;,,I,,
quires lots of patience to bring up a child to
years of understanding, and 1--WE can just do
the best we can and leave. the rest to wiser
hand than ours.
Meb, we were very glad to hear from you
after SO long time. Hope you will be very
prosperous in your new home, and can make
your visit next season sofas to be at the re-
union.
Will send poem withrthis, letter entitled
"My Creed, and wish that all the readers of
this paper might adopt it for their very own
| for the year 1909. What ia lovely world we
should have, and it would not be so very hard
after all. think it is SO nice. and felt that
! every one ought to see it.
| Good bye, with best wishes to all, from
| AUNT EMMA.
| Many thanks to you, Aunt Emma, for
the poem and helpful and wise words in
your letter. l have feltsthat the.sister who
asked for advice about the child might
think no one was interested enough to
answer her request. For myself, have
thought over the question imany, many
times, and perhaps others felt as did
while we might have theories and even ex-
periences of our own, they might not
apply in this particular case, and the coun-
sci might do more harm than.good, because
we did not understand all the circum-
stances. But Aunt Emma's advice is
sound and practical, and would apply to
any case.
An enjoyable personal letter has been
received from Alexia. / believe i men
toned she had suggested that we might
have sort OF ''ron CALI" reunion, which
is good idea. She says: 'sMy idea was
to have each member respond to hel
name in some way within lgiven time
which you might changelto-sXit yourself
as there are some of US who never have
the pleasure OF attending the, reunion
and as it is the tenth anniversary of the
column l thought it might be interesting
and appropriate"
see only one objection toIthis, and AL.
exia will not mind if Il mention it. / feal
my nieces would all wait until called upor
by name before sending their contribu
tions to the column-a good deal like som,
old-time prayer meetings, where Their
would be silence unless individuals wer
personally called on to take some part.
have thought OF making this call come il
alphabetical order, taking all the AS an,
BIS for January, and it seemedia little sin
gular that just at the time Alexia's sug
gestion came, herself being an A. w
heard besides from All, Ann, Aunt Emma
Aunt Jana. So am proposing to you tina
one column in the month of February b
devoted to roIl-call of the BIS and C's
and we want them to respond by letter
recipe, short quotation of poetry OF prose
or other method as they like best, and tn,
other three columns of the month must h
lied" by all of us in general. How doe
TINS arrange ment appear to each of YOU?
AUNr