Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-07-11
Maine Gossip
The Little House

Little House Ifat MlSnt nave been,
waiting through the years,
Smiling to the haze-blue hills
through the spring sweet
weather.
Never shall the step Of Care, skulking
Doubt or Tears
Wake your quiet garden-path where
we walked together.
Little House That Was To Be, 1 will
Save for little laughing dreams
clingng there beside me,
only they and shall pass Ger your
lintel-stonc,
Where the hawthorn-trees we set,
light white stars to guide me.
We shall sweep the dusty hearth, rub
the pewter bright,
Wake the empty rooms to cheer set
the tapers cleaning,
Watch Until his footstep stirs, echoed
through the night,
From the Land of Hearts Desire
across the Hills of Dreaming.
Little House That Never Was, l will
learn to smile,
Face the dawns with bravery. the
dusks without regretting,
If in Star-time now and then l. may
steal a while
To the comfort OF your hearth, alone
and unfol setting.
BY Martha Haskell Clark in the
Designer.
The trustees of Berwick Academy
have announced the gift of $500 from
Edward w. Rollins Of Boston. The
gift is in the form of scholarship of
500 for the next four years. The
board of trustees voted to award this
scholarship to Gilbert Beaver of
South Berwick, a member of this
years graduating class. Mr.. Beaver
will enter Bates College next fall.
Lieutenant Commander Shimiii
Shinumura of the Japanese
Navy, who took a course in English
at the Westbrook Seminary this
spring, will return to the school in
the fall, and later plans to study po-
litical history ct some American uni
versity. Commander Shimumura is
a graduate of several military COL
lcges Of Japan and was secretary to
the Japanese delegation to the dis
armament conference. He is now on
four years leave from the Japanese
Navy, to pursue his studies in this
country.
In 10 years, or soon thereafter, in
the opinion of Mrs. Jennie Cook,
from Oklahoma, who is visiting in
Lewiston. the Indians, who are now
the proteges of Uncle Sam. will no
I,oa I, 70 10
schools especially for them. as now.
but will enter the public schools of
their vicinity like American children.
Mrs. Cook knows the Indians tho
roughly. She went from Connecticut,
where she was brought up, to the
Dakotas, married there, lost her
husband a few years after by death,
and was left to bring up a child and
care for herself. She had learned to
love the work for the Indians She
had seen their great need and it ap-
pealed to her. 1t was the privilege
of this New England woman to teach
for quite a period in the famous Car
lyle school for Indians in the East,
where she gained the best methods,
before she taught at various Indian
reservations in the far West. Her
experience covers nearly 80 years,
and it is a priceless heritage and
memory to her
A vacant lot, strewn with debris
and a cellar of ancient type. is due
within a few days at the corner of
Congress and Elm streets, cornering
on Monument square. Portland.
Wreckers are tearing down the Com
modore Clapp mansion, one of the
finest types Of century old architec-
ture in the city. 1t has been unoc-
cupied a score of years, though kept
up in good state Of repair within and
without. 1t is of brick, three stories
high. with a fireplace in every room.
long wing with servants quarters,
spacious halls, winding stairs. hand