Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1920-12-29
THE CLOCK WILL TICK IT AWAY.
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Ana stfeWn through world OF rustic
prose
Are ripples of restful rhymes
But the joys we deem the dearest seem
The shortest in their stay
For we never can greet a day so sweet
But the clock viii tick it away.
Away.
The clock will tick it away
But il pleasure must hurry so quickly
past. f.
Then sorrow must do the same.
And a word of praise is sure to last
As long as a word of blame.
And there's never a night so void of
| light
But it wakes to a golden day.
For We haven't grief so broad or
brief
But tire clock viii tick it away.
Away,
The clock will tick it away
Dear NJ B. Friends:
| Yes, that is what the clock has
I done to 1920. Only a day or two
more, and the wishes of "A Happy
! New Year" will be filing the air, and
! those who have been looking back
/ over the past will, of necessity. be
! turning toward the future. To each
and all who read or write for our
column, I extend the hope and wish
of the season. Happy New Year.
4 In looking for a clipping | wished
to find, | came across the following.
| the first issue of the NJ. B. Column
! over the signature with which now
| so many of you are familiar. l
| thought. after more than twenty
/ years, some of you would be interest
| ed to read that first column again:
| Dear Readers:
In reol er'ng t,e column formerly
devoted to Farm and Home" interests
| it has been thought best to enlarge it's
borders" and make it a medium of COM
munication for all of you who are in
terested or engaged in helpful work
in the world. AT the time the home
| department was opened, a teacher of
| large experience in the public schools
| said: Il see they have opened a new
| department in The American. l have
been hoping some one would propose
having teachers column but it
| would hardly do to ask for another
special department right away"
But, now, housewives, mothers.
| teachers. young housekeepers school
| girls-any who desire TO make sug-
gestions or inquiries, to give opinions
or ask for information. in brief, who
ever can and will send anything for
the column that will be helpful or
hopeful, will be welcomed as contribu-
tors, tThis Invitation includes 'Ego."
"Fiaville'" N" IS. ]. y" and al other
old friends of the coIumn)
BY the way, why would not Helpful
and Hopeful" be a good motto for our
department? To be hopeful is always
to be helpful: but is being helpful al
ways being hopeful? I leave it for you
who read the motto to analyze its dis
tiuctious
The cooperation of parents and
teachers is a mueh-worn theme. The
mother, when she washes the last pair
OF dirty hands and sees the little form
skipping out of the yard with face set
school-ward, breathes a sigh of relief
and with the unspoken and almost I'M
conscious thought that the burden of
responsibility for her little ones will
rest upon another's shoulders until the
clock strikes four, turns TO her house
hold tasks. The teacher. at night.
looks after the last retreatine figure
turned homeward, and possibly thanks
her stars she has no more care of those
children till nine O'Clock Tomorrow
!
filled both these places of responsible
ty-mother and teacher-but can sym
pathize with both? Would it not be
for their mutual benefit if they could
understand each other?
Whatever original traits of character
| appertaining to human kind have run
ont during all the generations since
Adam, it is certain one inherited ten
| dency has shown itself in every gem
| eration--the disposition to throw re-
| sponsibility on someone else
Right here is a question for the
teachers How far is the teacher re-
| sponsible for the amount of knowledge
pupil acquires? Or expressing it
another way. how much of what the
child learns is owing to the instruction
received. and how much to the pupils
| natural ability?
Some hints for Christmas will come
| acceptable this month. What to make
| or buy for Christmas gifts is a problem
that must be solved annually. Let us
have some suggestions, or directions
for making some inexpensive articles
which the younger members of our
| families could make.
VIII anyone who has favorite short
poem sent it for publication at the
head of our column? II it is a poem
or quotation you have committed to
memory so much the better, for in
that case it has either been a help or a
I comfort, or it possesses literary merit
I Recipes are always in order.
A mutual benefit column may mean
I great deal to us all. Your co-opera-
| tion is cordially solicited by
| Aunt Madge."
Dear Aunt Madge and All the NJ BIS:
will send you this time an old fable.
do not know when or where learned
/ 1t, or who is the author; ii seems that
| i have ALWAYS L