Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-02-06

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life should be full of earnest WORK.
Our hearts unlashed by ioriuh.
| frown;
Let perseverance conquer iate'
| And merit seize the victors crown
The battle is not to the strong
The race not always to the fleet;
| And he who seeks to pluck the s'ai9
win lose the jewels at his iee''
This quotation shall be credited
to "Zilla," as it is from calendar
| received from her at Chrlstmas-
| ."rhe Calendar of Cheer and
count on using one of the many
| choice selections in 1t, at least each
| month. 7
AS copied the above stanzas,
thought of some of our own mum
her who have, for awhile, given up
the activities of life to which lhey
have long been accustomed. Inc
| hattie is not always to the strong,
nov tho race to the fleet" but with
Emerson one can look for 'Compen-
eations" At least he wrote ABOUT
them, and, if | remember correcliy
he called the article. or book-oh'
really I should have said essay
..The Law of Compensation II l
am not correct, will some good niece
ar sister make it right.
I had a valued gift, also, from
another Mutual-H. H.-a neat niue
volume by Gelett Burgess which Is
we'll worth reading. The title is
question: Have You an educated
Hearth" On the cover is this:
Friendships Epitaph.
Now if there's anything l can 40
be sure and let me know!
| want to quote you few sen
fences from the book, beginning at
the first:
Now, Sadie, | knew, was tempera-
mental. Sadie was sensitive. But
surely there wasn't quite enough in
that dun musical comedy that after
noon to make any one weep. When
the curtain went down l demanded
the reason. Somewhat reluctantly
Sadie nanutu me i'N'N''
ever see anything as heartless as
that?" she asked. ITS about
nackape I sent to Eldora- last week"
Il read it, Then, Why l don't
know | replied. seems all right
enough to me-, Ever so much obliged
for the birthday package What's
the matter with that
why she might just as well have
said, yours of the 18th at hand, ana
contents noted
A while ago. it appeared, when she
was visiting Sadie in New York, Ell
dora had raved over some fawn- colored
gloves she had seen. Though larry
weak after a bad attack of the flu,
poor Sadie had tramped through shop
after shop to find those particular
gloves. actually fighting for them' at
the last. with a mob of wild women at
a bargain sale. Sadie had gone ana
bought fancy box. SADIE hau
wrapped that package with neatness
and fondest care. Sadie had walked
twenty-one blocks $50 she sald) TO
postoffice. Sadie had stood there IN
line half an hour to have 1t weighed
and insured. And l just loved 1t all.
| | loved doing it for Eldora, and now all
| she says is that she is ever so much
| obliged"
"Oh, we'll" said l, loftily, 1--WE ought
MT to give things just for the thanks
you know"
| Never mind the thanks snapped
| Sadie. but did she like those gloves?
| Good gracious, you want to know
/ nj lea Spi D1ISOD Or
| not. don't you? Were they the right
shade? Did they match her gown?
| Were they the size? Did they fit her?
| Has she worn them? Why she might
have said something about them
| We'll at any rate" l offered in APP
| peasement, she answered you prompt
ly. That's something, Why loads of
people don't even acknowledge gifts at
all, nowadays"
| YES. and that's just the point. The
| trouble with Eldora is simply that she
has not got the educated heart
The educated heart?" | queried
amused; what do you mean, the edu-
| Gated hearth
why, it's just the same with hearts
as it is with heads" quoth my mentor
you know-rough ed
| amateurish. And then some hearts
are just as if they'd been to college
and been graduated in kindness
They've got their b. X, or d. X. even
sometimes"
| The educated heart, Late that night
alone. l pondered it-midnight ano
still it haunted me. the educated
heart Super kindness, she might
have called it. She might have called
it tact. Vainly | tried to coin new
word for it, but, at the end, Sadle's
simple term stayed with me 1.-THE
educated heart"
Narcissus, who is collecting funds
in Aroostook county for the anti
tuberculosis association, wrote me
this week of little happening that
pleased me, for old times sake, ano
proves that, after long years, the as