Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-03-18

Dear Aunt Madg":
Have thought u write 81 many times
this winter. but Che muse ana the
time don't often :rriVc at TIE same
time. Now l am pretty well caught
up ON personal Letters, 50 VIII See what
l can do for the country at large, for
some one will scan this il California
as we'll as Maine, Massachusetts.
Minneapolis and Florida, ami likely in
San Juan, P. r.. when reminds me
that we had cards t"w days ago
from Laura from Lynn" showing the
government buildings in that place
A friend, looking at the cards to-day,
said: My Don't that look natural! /
was walking along there (betWeen
wall and waters edge) when | met a
goat and was some anxious lest he
land me in the water, but l held my
head high and walked right by as
fast as l could till [ reached the
gate that led up to the street.-the {Some
of her shipmates will read that,
F'lorida.)
l would like to see some of those
places for myself but was never out
of the Good old U. S. A. only when
we lived in Aroostook for two years
near the n. b. line. Have been in Fos-
tervlle, where that double murder took
place, and camped and fshed the
same lake where Harry Williams camp
was. Another babe has come to the
Foster home since that awful event.
The mothers life hung in the balance
for while, but she is gaining now.
Yes. Aunt Madge, 1 plead guilty to
the crossword puzzle fad, for l can't
let one go by without try, and that
means eight to twelve a week, so how
could you expect me to write letters!
have learned lot from them, though
and now if anyone doesn't think as l
do. l can call them anything from a
"dolt" to "zany." Nothing like it to
increase ones voca bulary. Wonder if
anyone ever thought of the Bluehill
mineral spring being spa but it is,
for the puzzle (and the dictionary
say so.
l. too, am wondering where Aunt
Maria is this winter Often think of
her when l am enjoying my plants
Just now | have four or five kinds or
petunias in blossom. pink begonia
that is always in blossom, three
punches of narcissus, and a large bunch
of buds on my very dark red (called
beeD geranium, and, something out of
the usual, grape fruit blossom. ]
wonder what a large orchard full of
blossoms must be like when one single
,r, a
a syringa, both in looks and odor. Am
wondering if the petunias are blossom
ing themselves to death. for their
leaves are falling fast. Or is it some
disease? They first look whitish, as
though sprinkled with a powder, then
turn yellow and dry up if not picked
off Perhaps it is malnutrition, but l
have no fertilizer. Have lost one
geranium, the leaves turning red as
they do when you set them out in the
spring. In the same pot was thrifty
looking geranium slip, except that the
leaves looked spotted. Can anyone tell
me what is wrong?
Who felt the earthquake last night?
1 did not like it, but tried to think
years ago. l have not felt so much of
a quake since the one we had twenty
one years ago this month, March, when
some in Hancock county lost their
chimney tops.
Last week | went to a quilting--a
real old-fashioned quilting, where
you followed the line, stitch by stitch
and goss ped about very )ody you could
thin& OF. Isn't that tn general con-
rrp,ien O. = hui ting Well, we fol-
lowed tha lines somew rat but l did
wonder 'veral mes WI at some of the
-ran3a.o -he0s would say If they could
have 100 e. II On L., n l tried 10
Visualize their PARTIES, -oo-lol g, full
,irts vs. short narrow ones tight
@ m .e} b 1T, hair VS. short, 1e5bad hair.
even Red to taist of tn noon
n -al as am Oll-faSl fOn d dinnrr but