Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-01-05

failed to receive a direct personal
message, but that was not inten-
tonal.
Now. in place of a regular poem, |
have selected few of the stanZas
from cards and booklets received by
me-some of them out of the com
mon line of greetings:
We wish that We were nearer
TO YOU and yours to-day.
For memories grow dearer
AS pass the years away.
W., want to ring your door-bell
And friendship true outpour
Right face to face once more
In this Christmas greeting.
For goodness sake. it's Christmas,
With all it's merry store;
Just fini ed up that last one.
And now it's back once more.
| wish you heaps of gladness,
And heaps of presents. too;
If any one deserves EN-,
For goodness sake, it's YOU!
Old King Cole was Il jolly old soul,
a jolly Old soul like me.
But his Christmas list never bothered
Because he was rich. you see.
But if Old King Cole were here to-day,
I'll bet he would scratch his head,
And in place Of jewels and automobiles
He'd send you card instead.
You will see that the NJ. BIS them
selves are filling the column this
week, for next. l am going to quote
some nice things from The Pure
Food Cookbook" which was a
Christmas gift from "Zilla," and
which shall depend upon during the
year when material for the column Is
running low. Some of you may have
copy Of the book which contains
the Good Housekeeping" recipes,
and is edited by Mildred Maddocks,
associate editor of that magazine.
There are also notes on food and
food values by Harvey w. Wiley, M.
d., and a chapter on Good Cooking"
| which opens the volume. He writes
Two three years ago | drove with
some friends through the vineyards of
| Burgundy, along that hillside which,
because of it's great agricultural
wealth. is called the hill of gold Late
| in the afternoon drove over the
crest of the hill where there were no
| longer vines, nut lltluS Oh
grain and grass. At shutdown, we
| came to Il PEASANTS cot.
The peasant. with his family, was at
supper They We're not expecting Wis
itors we were not expecting to be
visitors. They invited us to supper.
The peasants wife did not do as my
mother used to when was a boy when
we were at supper and the minister
| ;,,tn lam In, SI,,h ,l,o
would take away the corn mush and
| sorghum molaSScS and SKINNED milk
and get out the loaf of bread, the
preserves and jam; and the chickens
would come and lay their heads upon
| the block ready for the AK. All in
! honor of the minister
The peasants wife did not put amy
thing on the table she did not have
| it. And such bread, The whole wheat
grown in the field nearby and ground
| IN w. "Id-tashiomcd windmill in plain
sight. Tn" Wheat was not deprived OF
! all of it's most important mineral in
| pr",ii"ntS 10y holtinG and Sitting. 1t
| MAS just what nature made it. The
| Vegetables W"r" crisp from the garden
| the milk and butter from the SPRING
| house nearby; tn" cold lamb had never
| known TIN" riGorS of cold storage; the
cooking WAS perfect.
And TINS roudltlnu Of affairs can be
| found in every part of France; GOOD
cooks are not TIM 'N''pIl"nS They
are the rule among TN country people,
| We never read of divorces among tn,
| pcasantry of the fields Iu loNl country
| Why should anyone want t" 4'l Il hi
| vorcc when he is so wvll provided VIII
| simple and we'll cooked io"d' Tnvr'
| is nothing which is more ,"ndurlN" t'
| tranuuility and happiness than r""t
| rooklnG.
| Unfortunately il is not considered
| good form to be cook The girls o
our country are set down at piano a
six years of age and compelled t
pound ivory Ave hours a day for ffteer
| years. unless. in sheer desperation
| they should run off with the chauffeur
| Nud when they have finished thi!
course. som" one comes along and in
| N'utS a planola or victrola that play:
| better music in a minute than a cir
docs after fifteen years of study. Sh,
! - r"hh'd o. all her glory. But sup
pos. ST.. h;td spent fifteen wears il
! ''t"r.u- to ,u"h. Who could rob he,
&C. 80 .,' 3-'"rN' No one. It would re
rr,in - hi' sSlur to hrr. her parents
hcr husband A1d h,r children, for hcI
whol~ nfr
NON. W. mLN mot a&rrr With al
nr. Wll,> hA~ W}Ntru. hu, we car
surely draw soma, best from tn,