Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-01-28

| Make a good morning from dreary-
| OF shutting tight the lips to hide
A bit of gossip safe inside,
Instead of letting it get out
To roam about,
| And maybe do
| More harm than you
| Would like it to.
| Let us take little VOW
Since it is the New Year now
To be more kind, more brave, more
gay
| This year. and make each single day
! That comes a model New Years Day!
Selected by Aunt Susan by -the-Sea.
| Prospect Harbor, Jan. IA, 1925.
Dear Aunt Madge and NJ B. Sisters:
| Another edition of the calendar has
gone into the waste basket, and again
| everybody wishes everybody else a
Happy New Year.
| 1t seems long time since 1 chatted
with the Mutuals. but since writing
| last, I've seen several of them. aunt
| Mary" her John" and Jasmine
made me a door-yard call. and I've
called on phoebe" and on "Lyall" at
| their attractive homes in Ashville and
Ellsworth.
We had rather strenuous holiday
| season, with the usual hustle of Christ
| mas preparations. together with guests
1 and illness, for the little granddaugh-
| ter had to have her tonsils out just
ten days before Chrstmas-a doctor
| and nurse coming from another section
of the county to do the job, and who
| were to operate on her daddy at the
same time. The little girl is old for
her years, due to her being the only
child in a family of middle-aged folks.
why is it, grammie." said she, that
God puts these organs in u.s. if they
| have to be taken out?' question to
be answered by a wiser head than
mine.
| My brother in the Canal Zone with
| his family, writes of their Christmas
| with a tree from the States as they
| have no native trees suitable. He
wrote that the trees looked as if they
| had been through a siege when they
arrived but, trimmed up with their
| Christmassy paraphernala. they are
| really quite the thing
! I had among my Christmas gifts
'Coasting Down East by Ethel
| Houston, which / commend to you all.
1t is most interesting and amusing.
The story describes motor trip along
the coast of Maine, and with enough
Of the art of an novelist to make it
| readable She did not include Prospect
| Harbor in her itinerary, but she
touches our town and writes of many
| places with which we are familiar,
| The author knows and appreciates the
varied attractions of Maine without
being tediously accurate.
| We are in the midst of our winter
activities. The sewing circles in full
swing, even if the cross word puzzle
| has in it's grip. New converts are
daily lining up with the vast army of
| addicts to the fad. One man, a lead
| ing citizen, complained in the corner
| grocery that he feared his wife was
| losing her mind. He even limited at
neglect of household duties, in her zeal
to fill out the "horizontals' and
'verticals,' with the children.
read all the NJ. B. column, and
| find it interesting. l often fall short
of being helpful, I know. but write
It's helpful to exchange ideas, even if
we think little of what we send.
IF you have a bit of news,
Send it in.
Or joke that will amuse,
Send it in.
A story that it true,
An incident that's new;
We want to hear from YOU
Send it in.
Don't wait a month to do it,
Send it in.
Something serious, or jest
Just whichever you like best,
The Ed. will do the rest,
Send it in.
Cordially yours,
Aunt Susan-b y-the-Sea.
This good letter from Aunt
| an-by-the-Sea,' is much appreci-
ated, and I trust the apt poem with
which it closes will bear fruit.
''Pansy' should have credit for the
second letter of last week, but her
name was not affixed to it.
George AIDE has a short article in
February's Cosmopolitan, which will
bring many pictures of other days to
mind, when one reads an extract
| from it, like the following:
I'VE have reacted against dark
| wood carved into punches of grapes,
gilt frames ingram carpets with
| writing curly-cues, wax flowers,
| crayon engagements, Rogers groups,
| extinct fish pictures on the walls of
the dining room, what-nots, sea-
shells glued on work baskets plush
photograph albums, steel engravings
of doll-faced children decked with
| flowers, glacial upholstery, stiff lace
! curtains, cardboard notices, custom
made oil paintings, marbe-top tables,
I supporting subscription books, stuffed
| birds and autumn leaves under glass"
But wait bit, Mr.. AIDE. Two or
| three generations hence,( fashion
will have changed and some writer
| ~,:& TT,