Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-06-27
4 SONG OF HOPE.
(By f. II. Charter.)

Let US be happy while we may
Gods our Provder. day by day,
And as His sun shines in the sky,
SO. let Hope and Joy in our souls lie.
And if some day seems dark and drear
l5eei sure that our great Helpers near,
And in good times we're sure to win
Freed from the ills we now are in.
There is one over shadowing Power
That drops upon us every hour
And sends upon us Life and Hope.
SO let us sing-no longer nope
In this land so good and sunny,
Flowing still with milk and honey,
We should surely sing with gladness,
And forgetting all our sadness
Trust in God
Selected by "Pansy."
Dear NJ b. Sisters and Friends
began n letter to you New Years
day, and it is in my desk yet Well,
sadie" | sent out to the mail-boX
birthday card for you, and Monday it
came in, all wet. The mail man did
not get it, so it didn't get sent again,
but you see ! thought of you.
l don't know whether I am a shut
in or a stay-in. l was not out any
where during the winter. Since l be-
gan this we had a great freshet-two
bridges, part of the foundry and the
picture house went away. Later l
went down to see tan awful sight!
| have been to the cemetery twice, so
| am not quite so much of shut-in
as | was. 1t is nice to see the green
grass and flowers after so much snow
l enjoy the letters in the column so
much, but it is sad to think so many
are gone, never to come again. Will
try to do better, if any one wishes to
hear from me again.
"Pansy."
have adopted your word,
"Pansy;" I've been ''stay-in." not
shut in
Dear Sister NJ BIS and Aunt Madge:
l deeply sympathize with one of our
sisters who has sustained sad loss.
But dear sister. we sooner or later
have our dark days.
A week or two ago our poetry was
about patchwork, so this week l will
write about mine. l have lately fin
| ished a patchwork quilt containing
1,41S pieces, all cut, arranged and
stitched by one hand in 1882.
Now, Mr. Edison, and you wise
| "ologists:" A few days ago. a creature,
| q did not call it a bug, or an insect
came in at an open window, and in all
| my long experience l never saw any
| thing like it. We put it in the fire.
| 1t was about as large as a mans fin
ger, and about two inches long-no
| legs or tail only two small wings
| about an inch long. 1t was pure white,
| and smooth, and it gave me a sick
| ing feeling as | looked at its face. 1t
| had the perfect features of a child or
human being. 1t had eyes, nose,
| mouth, chin, eyebrows. and forehead,
and it's head was round, just the shape
| of "A child's. AS the creature was white
the features looked as if traced with
a black pencil. Has any one of our
readers ever seen or heard of such a
creature? If not, l think it must have
been invented with the radio.
Sadie"
We hope that S. j. Y, who has not
been up to her usual degree of
health, is improving very fast.
| Dear Aunt Madge and NJ. BIS:
AS summer is here after the hard
| winter and cold spring, | thought that
| | would write a few lines to fill up the
| gap as l see that in the last paper
| Aunt Madge was left to serve alone
| If we were all as faithful as she, l
think there would not be much vacant
| space.
1t has looked rather discouraging
| for the farmers it has been so cold
and wet but father used to say there
| is always time for seed time and har-
| vesting,
| would like to write something
that would be of some help to some
one, l find it is help in my work to
have a pint or so of sifted flour in
dish handy to make gravy, or sauce
| for pudding. l have a pint pail with
a cover that l keep it in. Then, when l
am in a hurry, l don't have to get to
| the -four and stop to sift it.
l will send my recipe for sweet
| pickles later.
Aunt Cassie"
DR.. Van Dyke, whom | am safe
in saying, is one of our favorite
authors, made some strong points on
'our English" when speaking at a
conference of American and British
| professors of English held at Column
| bia university. He said:
| The native language of these
! United States is English. Our fore
| fathers and foremothers helped to
| make it in the old country. and they
brought it with them to this new land
| in pretty good condition. True they
| did not write it extensively. They
were too busy choppng down forests,
| building houses. fighting off Indians
| and making states, to have much
| leisure for better letters But they
! talked English with considerable
| fuency and vigor preserving some of