Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-02
Maine Gossip
FADING Well
elizabeth Powers MerrilD.

All, no, they studied the color ana
Its texture they would tell:
Yes, this will be just what we neeo'
they cried, ,,,
at surely viii Fade Well"
Fade Well?
Fading must ugly be.
In grass that is dead and withered leal-
Nothing OF beauty to see:
But nature teaches that an innings y" IT,
Fade either we'll or III: ,,.
/ Some are Beautiful still.
All man has wrought that is excellent
Stands well the test Of years, u,
The paintings nellowed by centuries
RooEe tonched by age and tears.
A house well built by the plumb line OF
Even in its decay.
Is wonderful still--and tells to the world
Tales of a vanished day.
OF women and men it is truer still
They must fade i'll or We'll
on their forms and faces and in their
lives,
Some natures broaden, and mellower
grow,
Keeping the good and true,
In the years that spin round like SPIN
They ind old days in New.
Az. goodness and truth in beauty abide!
Fa,sehood grows weak and pale!
mind made serene by its simple lalth
Has found the Holy Gran!
Though all things must change, ana NOR
tails grow old
o let them fade as day.
When the twilight comes and the stars
come out,
To light nights tranquil way.
Force Of habit is a wonderful thing"
said Lewiston girl. Now. my father
smokes n pine. Smokes a great deal, and
when he is going away or anything, his
pipe is his first consideration. Some tlmS
ago there was a fire in the neighborhood,
in the middle of the night. Father was
out of bed with the first stroke OF the
alarm and rushed downstairs. Mother
and l were a little longer getting there.
When we got downstairs We found
father with raincoat on over his night
dress, leaning as far out of the back
door as he could, gazing wild-eyed at the
blaze down the street. When he heard
us enter he brought his head in long
enough to exclaim, Great Gosh, Alice,
the Jones house is all afire AND l
CAN'T FIND MY PIPE!'
1--WE had very clever moulder work
ing for US at one time said Lloyd Nc
Fadden of the Androscoggin foundry to
a Lewiston Journal reporter lately. He
had a set of false teeth made for him by
a local dentist, and they didn't fit worth
a cent They were just a little bit too
small. He suffered for some time with
sore gums, but one day he made up his
mind to remedy the defect. We were
casting considerable bronze and alumni
mum at the time, At noon he removed
the teeth, made a careful mould in the
8 sand with them, and raped the teeth
Gas moulders call the loosening process
4 for patterns) enough so that the casting
would be trif1e larger than the crock
cry teeth. The aluminium teeth came
out perfectly, and he smoothed them up
and wore them with a good deal of salts
faction for years. They were an odd
color, TO be sure, but he was not par
ticular man that way, and as he used to-
bacco freely, they soon came to resemble
the teeth of anyone addicted to the
weed"
| There is project on foot to organ
ize new board of trade, or re-organ-
ize the old one along different lines,
says the Pennington Chronicle. The
| idea now in view is rather to work
to induce new business to come to
Pennington rather than to regulate
that already here
The Bureau of Entomology of the
United States Department of Agricul-
! ture prophesies another enemy in the
coming summer Large flights of
! May beetles, we'll known as the par
ents of the white grubs, destructive
cereal and forage insects, occurred in
June. 1917, throughout Illinois, Wis
consin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
New York, New Jersey, and parts of
other states. These flights mean that
throughout the area affected the white
grubs will be destructively abundant
in 1918, which will be the second
Scdi III tlIe me OIL the resultant
progeny.
There We're only four arrests for in
toxcation in Rockland in December
an unheard-of record for the Christina
month.
The custom of buying wife, as
is said to be in vogue in China, was
actually attempted in our own town
last week, when Ii Hun Ching, the
proprietor of the local Chinese laun-
dry, paid sum. said to be $3.50, for
a wife," chronicles the Aroostook
Pioneer of Houlton. The money was
paid in good faith to an enterprising
promoter" who claims Houlton as his
home, but the possession of the lady
is different story.
The lady in question refused to
join the Oriental and Ii Hung Ching
is minus the $3.50 and wife. The
man who 'gunned the trade has left
town. and now the Chinaman has
| hired counsel in an attempt to get
! his money back--a sadder but wiser
Chinaman perhaps
The 100000 summer residence at
Bar Harbor of Ernesto G. Fabbri, re-