Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1917-01-10

udliN suCttSs Vi living III WIS "oAA4 ~
change.
You will all be pleased to read the fol-
lowing:
To the ". BIS:
Am very glad to be admitted to your
charmed circle. Thank you for your kind
ness. would like to meet you at your next
reunion. / would like to make the acquaint-
ance of the lady who is year older than /.
How we would talk of olden times away back
in the pastl ! can talk with the next one,
but when l come TO writing am not there.
wish you happy New Year.
Fraternally. SADIE.
The NJ. BIS will hardly agree to that
statement about your writing, when they
remember that good description OF your
outing you gave US not long ago. Speak
ing of old times, am going to give some
extracts from a letter dated in Kenova,
| West Virginia, Dec. IS, 1916. Many
readers will recognize it as from "Aunt
Kate" who was ninety three years OF age
last May. After some personal references
, she writes:
! We have enjoyed q lovely fall until two
| weeks ago, when our fret snow storm came
| and colder weather-milder now and bare
| Christmas day. We passed a very pleasant
| one at Ms. Us widow and little daughter
Elizabeth spent the day with us. Had nice
| little tree with presents too numerous and
| pretty for me to describe, besides having
| loving remembrances by cards and letters.
| A potted azalia in full bloom is by me on
| the table where am writing, present from
| the Ceredo Sunday school. Friends from far
| and near have been so kind that feel can
not be thankful enough for the good gift OF
friends which our dear Heavenly Father has
given me. am having q comfortable measure
| Of health-the weakness incident to age with
out much pain in my present condition; and
| / am surrounded by comfort and the best OF
care in this new home. Best wishes for Q
happy New Year.
| Some OF you may have read an article in
January Woman's Home Companion with
| the title 1.-THE Impersonal Attitude"
am copying few sentences from it. The
subject will bear thinking about-that is
re the statements correct?
II BELIEVED pleasantly admit it that witt
most people the constant uthow of persona
| comes, DOt SO InuCu from WISH "
| be unkind as from a lack of good breeding
and also from lack OF ideas. People VIII
have real ideas in their heads do not have tC
make conversation about other peoples looks
or clothes. Some one has said that converse
tion has three grades-the lowest is person
alities; the next is to talk of things; the thirt
and highest is to talk of ideas.
I do not expect people to greet each othe
! with quotations from the Koran or dissertation
on the Russian novelists, but I'd rather NEE
poor Mrs. simmons, my 'washlady." who's
first words are likely to be "Weil, did you SCI
the sunset last night? And wasn't it g-ant
now." or"Just step around the corner of Til
letson street as you go down town and look a
that row of holly hooks in the big yard there.
than my esthetic friend, Edith Abbott, who
asks kindly: "Why did you get that shade o
blue, dear? 1t really doesn't suit you" Mrs
simmons has eye for beauty and a hear
that longs to be generous, and having nothing
else to give, she gives the loneliness she see
here and there that is free to all. If she saw
me in my blue dress she'd very likely tell mt
it was just the color Of the sky yesterda,
afternoon, and not think Of it in connection
with my fading complexion at all. That il
what call a fine impe rsonal attitude, as rar,
as it is fine.