Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1926-07-21

And kept the humDle way
The rust will find the sword OF Name
The dust will hide the crown;
Ave. none shall nail so high his name
Time will not tear it down.
The happiest heart that ever beat
Was in some quiet breast,
That found the common dayhght
sweet,
And left to Heaven the rest.
john Vance Cheney.
DIARY OF A FARMERS WIFE.
Foreword. Well, M. BIS, why
not? She might keep one for a
week maybe, and jot down the most
important event of the day. l shall
try it.
July 5.-Day of celebration. Let
us draw a curtain over the events OF
this day. Resolved: We on the de-
tour roads need no sign to indicate
that this is a road under destruc-
ton"
July 6-Circus day. Let us
draw another curtain. II l could
make a toy balloon that would not
break, or could I make bubble
fair that still would stay up in the
air, or could I fix the lovely moon
so YOU could reach it with a spoon,
then children's hearts would never
ache, 1 would my lasting fortune
make, and children's tears would
never fall, there'd be million for US
all, (And something else to cry
about probably
July New born, on a dewy
July morning, lying upon the fresn'
green grass in the field little Jer-
sew calf in fawn-colored heap;
looks shyly at you; dark eyes won
dering out upon the strange new
world. broad ears erect like deer's,
alert to every new sound. Nearby
the protecting mother is proud ana
anxious. And what will the little
one think of the starry night when
the darkness comes down, and drops
its soft thick blanket all around
and over?
July S.-One of my working
guests. on a walk in his spare time
sees a wild animal crouching in
corner of the field. With heart pal
pitating in terror, he fires bravely
upon it, only to be told by the
cloud of dust that rises therefrom
that he has killed bag of fertilizer!
July "a hard day.
1. The baby swallowed daisy
all but the root.
2. The working-guests con-
sumed the entire batch of fresh
fried doughnuts, leaving just enough
for breakfast. Hereafter I shall
patronize the Ellsworth bakery, and
I ponder upon the fact that sweets
in excess do not cloy appetites In
haying time.
July 1O.-A terrible noise in the
highland what might the creature
be whose cry can only be described
as fearful combination of bark,
howl, meow, and scream? Most
surely a fierce creature, wild and
hungry, eager to get at us, tear us
to pieces and eat us up. And yet
the Man Who Lives Here says it is
only screech-owl! We reserve
our own opinion.
July live rescue big, young
robin, pushed from the nest too
soon, by over-zealous parents, tired
of dropping food into that enormous
mouth. He cannot yet fly, so we
shut him in the entry to be safe
from the cat over night. In the
morning the robin is all right, but
what about the entry? Pity the
housekeeper.
July 12.-
(a) What am I going to do with
all these puppies?
CD "All the birds Of the air
Fell a-sighin' and sobbin',
When they heard the bell toll
For poor Cock Robin!"
July 13.-In goes the first load of
new hay, bright and fragrant. The
Man Who Lives Here climbs first up
the rope to the tip-top dizzy height
of the barn to save swallow family
from sudden death. They had
builded their house, not upon the
sand, but worse-on top of the pull
ley. Then the lady on the hay-fork
rises with dignity out of the load,
shakes her wide hoop-skirts dis
painfully on the way upward to the
roof, then with another shake and
flirt sails majestically along the
cable to the NOW beyond, where in
the cobwebby shadow she drops to
resting-place.
Our working-guest wants to
see what it would feel like to
have these feathery skirts fall softly
on him. He tries it, and is dragged
from under 400 pounds of hay,
wiser, we hope, for that experience.
He respects those feathery skirts
now.
July IA discovery! In my
summer reading, as lie lazily in the
hammock, waiting for the call to
dinner, looking up into the canopy
of green leaves overhead, or contem-
plating the view Of sea and noun
tains at intervals, have come upon
a suitable definition for the oc-
cupating wife and mother.
Now when I have to fill out 2
blank requesting my occupa1ion' !, :
shall not hesitate and wonder II
"housemother," or housewife" OF
"housekeeper" is the most fitting