Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-09-28
Maine GOSSIP
would Not Grow Old

I Would Not Grow Old
1 would not grow old, loving wind
swept grasses
Too much TO have my eyes grow dim:
Bowed pines signing Is the warm wind
passes,
Sunset taWny on mountains rim.
l cannot feel youth die, for gay music
Too mnch to have my feet grow
slow:
Fear of gray years in the future chills
me,
1 cannot let my short youth go.
1 would not grow cid, for I love light
laughter
Too much to bear thought of tears;
[ want days filled with dawn flush, and
no night after.
| must have gladncss all my years.
Too much love small bits Of beauty
Whistlin@ winds or the touch of rain,
To bear old ago, or to walk in paths of
duty
Exquisite rapture lost ip pain.
l fear touch of age on precious gifts l
l'ar-off CLINT of wings in cloudy blue,
Voices at evening, and dear beyond
measure
The look in the eyes of you.
Today there was an old man. walking
slowly down the street.
| saw his facc-and ali, how old age
can I've sweet,
BY catherine Isabel Hackctt in
scribncrS.
Tho East Sumner corn shops have
just closed their seasons packing
with a total output Of 100000 cans
Of corn and succotash.
Tho first class to graduate from the
Frye Grammar school in Lewiston,
namely the class of 'GS, is planning
rounion this fall. S. S. Perkins of
Durham is at the head of the ar
rGngcments and is busily engaged in
getting in touch with members.
After II weeks trip through Eu-
ropean countries, travelling in the in
tercsts of the European Students Re-
lief movement, Oscar L. Whalen of
PASSPORT, has returned and has a
store of interesting things to tell. He
was one Of AZ students selected from
Of European colleges.
A dahlia plant, nine feet high and
containing over so blossoms as we'll
as buds too numerous to mention,
Gracos the flower garden of Mrs.
Frank W. Howard in Litchfield.
This particular species of dahlia is
yellow, double. 1t is the envy and
admiration of the neighbors and the
tourists.
The cosy little homes which find
shelter beneath the lighthouses of the
Maine coast and which add a great
per cent to the beauty Of the picture,
are what Joseph *. Brett of Port
land, builds. Nearly every lighthouse
keepers home on the New England
coast has been built by him or re-
modelled along lines of comfort and
warmth.
The Mexico Boy Scouts are to have
brand new clubhouse, to be built
on the Hazen Abbott brook. The
land has been donated by b. w.
Goodwin and W. f, Howard. two
Mexico public spirited citizens.
Some of the lumber has already been
donated. The building will contain
one large room and a fireplace will be
most conspicuous.
The Lewiston boy tenor, Raoul Du-
fail who is studying in Italy, recent
~ attended a reception rendered Ben
jamiro Gigli at the American Acad-
envy at Rome. Gigli is to sing in
New York this winter. Maine friends
Of the promising Lewiston singer. will
he interested to know that in Italy
they call him, 1.-The young American
tenor"
One of the finest old mansions in
the Danforth street section of Port
land, the Waynefleet School for Girls,
has been purchased by James a. Ro-
r,ito for speculation. The school will
remain open two years longer, ac-
cording to agreement between the
sellers and the buyer. The school has
been conducted for a number of years
by Miss Agnes P.tLowell and Miss
Caroline NJ. Crisfield.
II your favorite chair breaks leg
OF your most comfortable SOFA has
tummy ache. the doctor is William f.
Simmons of Rockland. who ranks ace
high among the furniture doctors Of
the Pine Tree State. Antique furni-
turc doctoring is his strong point.