Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1912-01-03

includes "All Done'', "Agnes" and others.
Here is Irish Molly's letter, promised
last week:
Dear Aunt Madge;
II 1t hadn't been for Susan, you would have
been all alone in the column again. Well, |
know you can do 1t In good shape. but the
Christmas gifts must be made. Now have
none to make, so ] send line TO help you out,
for while they are reading MY nonsense you
can be sewing.
have been making sausage to-day, and =
thousand and one other things one has to do
these short days.
just you think / have not seen Dell yet
since she came from the hospital, and now
am afraid to go, for they have a dog. Ian
afraid of dogs. / expect that dog has to
watch the hen-coops, for hear there are hem
thieves abroad in the land, and the captain
has lost large number. Someone must have
been living high.
Myl What a nice large chieken-pie that
number would have made. How many was it
Dell - fifty or seventy-hve? Obi What a
grand feast they had. Don't see why was
not invited to the feast. 1 am especially fond
of that kind of pie.
/ saw q pie once made by the yard. That
was a custard pie, made in q large square bis
cult pan-I mean baked in the biscuit pan.
/ told the party had seen large and small
pies before, and pies made ia all shapes. but
/ never saw one measured by the acre, before
that one.
We have one smart cook in our town; she
is young cook, too. She made seyenty-four
pies in one day. These were young pies, but
they were good, for / sampled one. Now
know whereof speak, because this cook is
young friend of mine, and she can do other
things, too. If you want a good time, go to
her house, and she can take you skating, or
rowing, or sliding down hill on double
runner, or If you want music, she can take
you to the parior and. seating herself at a fine
piano, give you sweet music, and do all these
things as gracefully as queen.
Have been dreading to look at our column
every week for many weeks for fear no one
would write because of this busy time, just
before Christmas, Now / think a good idea
would be for each one every time they have
an ''inspiration" to sit down and dash off
letter and lay it away in box for these times
when Aunt Madge needs help. And when we
see it, Just dash into that boz. draw out let
ter and mail it.
1t has been proposed several times to begin
right after Christmas to make presents for
the next Christmas. Why not begin and
write up some letters? If don't look sharp
will have letter here that viii not leave
any room for susan's letter, and am very
much interested in them, and hope they viii
last all winter.
Now, I want to know II anyone of the
friends or sisters Of the column have ever
used eggine. I have not, but have seen 1t ad-
vertised, Would like to know where to get II,
OF course know It would not be as good as
the egg, but il you have not get them. and
don't want to pay forty or fifty cents dozen,
why not use egginsf 1t would be good enough
for peddls.s and save forty cents. A very
merry Christmas to all. IRISH MOLLY.
P. Shave just discovered this takes my
last sheet Of paper, and probably you will all
wish hadn't had any to write on. l. M.
Your suggestion about beginning right
after one Christmas to prepare for the next
one, brings to the surface thought I
had. As the gifts we received this year
are laid out together to be looked over,
and enjoyed and admired, why can't we
write descriptions of some of them and
| send to the column, and that would GER
tainly be helpful to many another year?
/ letter from our faithful Janet is most
welcome. I know about her sunshine
work.
Dear AUNT Madge and N. B. Friends:
Before this wee bit of chat sees the type
| setter. Merry Christmas and perhaps Happy
New Year will be out of place, yet send you
all hearty greetings and showers of good
| wishes for the coming year, and the best wish
is that every uncle and aunt and all the
cousins may feel the glow Of joy that comes
from having given Christmas cheer to some
suffering shut-in or neglected child.