Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1926-01-06

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Probably you have all read Henry
van Dykes quaint and significant
wish for the New-year, but it will do
none of us bit of harm snd much
good to read it again.
FOR TILE NEW YEAE.
These are the gifts | ask
OF Thee, Spirit serene:
Strength for the daily task,
Courage to face the road.
Good cheer to help me bear the trav-
eler's load,
And. for the hours of rest that come
between,
An inward joy in all things heard and
These are the things I prize
And hold of dearest worth:
Light of the sapphire skies.
Peace of the silent hills.
heller of woods and comfort of the
grass,
Mpsic of birds. murmur of little rills,
Shadow of clouds that swiftly pass:
flowers
And of the good brown earth,
And best of ALL along the way
Friendship and mrth.
Dear M. B. Friends:
To each and all of you, l wish sim
cerely that the New Year may bring
peace and happiness, health and
prosperity.
While the Christmas echoes still
linger in the air, my thanks go out
to the many of you who remembered
me and mine with cordial greetings.
Among the variety of gifts we re-
ceiyed, | Just want to mention the
pretty edition of Dickens Christ
mas Carol" Rabbit" by Sinclair
Lewis. author of "Main Street,
zone Hundred and One Poems,'
wonderful collection "Pennsyl
yania Beautiful" by Wallace Nut
ting, with 800 illustrations, DOCK
well-named, white Shadows in the
South Seas" subscription to The
American Magazine and a calendar
of Cheer" which says to us:
| And this for a comfort thou must
know
Times that are i'll won't still be so:
Clouds will not ever pour down rain:
| Herrick.
Now that Christmas is "abatlng,
! so to speak. some may get back
ON to life's lower plane once more,
| and conclude that, after all, CHRIST
/ ;c1,
| commend the opinion OF Edgar
| Guest on that subject. did en-
| closed the article to me.
| WHY BELIEVE IN FOOLISH
| GIFTS.
| q believe in the Christmas gift
\ which the wise outsider considers
foolish and useless says Mr.. Guest
| Happiness is born of sentiment
| Reason is cold and sometimes cruel
! but sentiment is always gentle,
| Sentiment may be foolish and extrava-
| CANT but it believes in Christmas, and
! it believes in making others happy.
| 1t knows that child will get more
low out of a toy than pair of rub
| hers: that an eighteen-year-old girl
| will rejoice more over a bracelet than
/ $1,000
| of all of us there is the love for
! pretty baubles and trinkets.
1.-THE woman who poured the cruise
of precious ointment upon the head of
Jesus was prompted by sentiment
Even the Disciples criticized her ex-
| travagance. The ointment. wasted as
| they thought, in one demonstration OIL
| love. could have been sold for large
| sum and the money given to the poor
| But the Master rebuked them for their
| wisdom.
| so, always to do the wise thing at
| Christmas is not always TO make
| others happy. Christmas is a day TOR
! love and peace and happiness, and II
| TOYS will make the child happy, ana
| rings and wrist watches and baubles
| will bring smiles to the faces OF
| others, foolish though such gifts may
| seem, l believe in that sort of folly.
| "There are three hundred and sixty
| four other days for Wisdom to hold
| SWAY. 1t can send the ton OF coal
to the needy when the last lump in
the bin has been put upon the f1re. IL
can buy the rubbers the child ought
to have, and the warm mittens and the
| needed overcoat, before Christmas OF
after Christmas, and there is no oc-
casion for it to wait for the one day
in the wear dedicated to love and
| sentiment.
"At any rate, l would rather snow
my heart at Christmas than my cool
calculating mind
The best illustration of the New
Year that | have seen, is in the
Ladies' Home Journal for January.
The BACKGROUND is delicate blue,
with sprinkling of stars. Father
Time is holding little cnerup'
l 1T. 10, n coroN in his hand on