Ellsworth American., 1914-05-20

ANOn COL44Se lctkSl Vi SOOl Gn0SI hiCu
will make us forget late spring house
cleaning and all its kindred evils. Does
Aunt Maria realize what blessing
it is to be able to extract SO much sun
shine out of everyday life, and, better
than all, send it out for others to share
just as P. L. Il. suggests with their sun
shine.
Dear NJ. b. Friends:
Good morningl Let's shake hands, good
and hard, for tits long since we've met Isn't
this cold late spring? 1t is awful on us
humans, after the winter we've had.
Never mind, I'm farming in the house-have
cukes "way big, tomatoes up and doing fine,
pansies, gloxinias and nasturtiums just
showing. Oh, I'll have something early, if it
is late. spring. And do look at my house
plants! Aren't they greats Frozen! No,
guess not, and the fuchsia, fifty inches tall
and loaded with buds and blossoms. And
this coleus. isn't it big and lovely rich colorg
And the shamrock and geraniums; see,
have six colors in this one pail. Put your
eyes on this pot of ivy geranium and hello
trope and the house as paragus and smiIax in
together, looks we'll, doesn't it9 See Caro-
lyn's corn. She gave her geranium to her
mamma, so planted this corn to make up.
Well, now we've seen the plants let's go out
and see Dana, the colt, and the, bossies We
will looE at the bossies first. This is yen-
tura, the newest one and named for the steam
ship that my brother. Vern Maddocks, went
to Honolulu on. We cal. her Tura, for short.
She is a inei. bessie, and very proud of her
name. Now, in this pen you see Maxine.
Isn't she big and white? This one is Diamond,
she is just a fair-looking boss; and this little
Opal Can't say that I'm very proad of her.
See how comfortable the COWS look. What
namesl This is Primrose, this Goody Two
shoes, next Jennie Lind and Clara Barton, and
this black and white one is Tit Willow.
Why, COW without name is no good.
| Now see this bad Dana colt. He's big and
handsome, but he bites, especially i: l don't
| bring him an apple. Well, this is all up here.
/ Do you like pigsf Yes? Well, then, we will
look at NJ. WIS shoats. Hes very proud of
4 them. There! See? Aren't they a matched
/ pair? But they've about had their day-one
goes in the pork barrel and one to market,
very soon. This is the big mother pig-her
name is Emma.
Now well 20 out and get the air and look at
the view; that's best of all, for it stays all the
time, and is always new. You see my neigh
/ Dors are lar away, Dut doct get very lone
some. No, there's the reading, and we have
lots of it, the flowers and all the outdoor
things, and Carolyn, and then, best of all, we
have each other, and we do enjoy our home. ii
| it isn't the handsomest ever. We expect to
pretty up the house very soon, and I'm to have
a new floor and steel ceiling in this sitting
room. Glad? OF course you are, and it strikes
me that shall he very glad, too.
I
Now, right here, snug up in front of the
(, house, is my small yard that call garden,
I, and if you will call on me about August or
| September really think you'd all call 1t a
a garden, too. What, must you go SO soons
Well, all come again.
| Why, yes, this Is Saturday morning and
most mail time. I'll fill up the beans and trot
| along to the mail box. We can talk as we GO
1 Say, I've served meals to work folks and heard
| them talk about this and that old "hoss" till
tbs an awful old story. Don't you get tired
OF thinking what you will have for the next
meal? Well, do. Shall be SO glad when the
| greens get here and the garden stuff gets
grown, and won't it be lovely when the grass
waves in the fresh breezei Guess it would
wave this morning. Isn't it cold?
Do have to go so far as this to the mail
boxf Yes, sireei 'Tis quarter Of mile out