HER GRACE, THE DUCHESS OF LEINSTER
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN GREAT BRITAIN WHO DIED TUESDAY
Found in "The Life of Cicero" by Conyers Middleton. Published by Wells and Lilly, 1818.
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HER GRACE, THE DUCHESS OF LEINSTER
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN GREAT BRITAIN WHO DIED TUESDAY
(Lottie Ellis)
Hello Lottie -
Guess who wrote this - you don't even know me - because I don't know you. Wouldn't you like to meet me - you would if you knew who I am. Well ta! ta!
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I'll bet you are a Soph. Your books look like it. So neat and clean. Ha! Ha! I am writing lightly so you can erase this, am I know kind? I think so.
Applesauce Cake (1 egg)
1 3/4 c cake flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinn.
1/2 tsp cloves
1/2 c shortening
1 c sugar
1 egg, well beaten
2 c chopped nuts
2 c chopped raisins
3/4 c strained hot applesauce, unsweetened
Sift flour, add b. powder, soda, salt and spices and sift three times, Cream butter, add sugar.
Mix thoroughly. Add egg, raisins, nuts, beat well.
Add flour mixture, alternately with apple...(sauce)... a small amount at a time.
Bake into a greased (pan loaf) 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 3 in a med. oven 350 degrees 1 hour or until done.
All's Well That Ends Well
All's well that ends well
And I for one believe it's true
All my life I've been waiting
Just to find you
Each Prince Charming asks her his bride to be
She blushingly said, "Could you marry me."
Wondrous love to us has come
Our happiness is complete
It's been worth while
Searching all my life
To find you
Just across the street
(Remember) Broken Doll
When you and I were a boy & girl
I broke your doll one day
Then with a quick regret
Begged that you'd forget
And wipe your tears away
Your just a little butterfly - I understand it after all
You made me care
Do you think it's fair
A heart for a broken doll -
David Swan's Sleep
People were hurrying to and fro, while David lay fast asleep by the side of the road in a shady grove. Had is slumber been easily broken, it would have been interrupted rather often; first by a widow who thought him charming looking, then by a temperance lecturer who happened to espy David, and bought him into his text in the evening's discourse as an example of drunkenness. Shortly, however, a carriage drove along, and having met with an accident to their carriage, the elderly couple sat down beneath the trees while the coachman repairted the carriage. Leaning over David, and seeing such a picture of their own son who had died, they were about to bestow a fortune upon him, when the coachmen remarked that all was ready. Then, had not a young girl chanced to appear, David might have received the deadly sting of a bee. He was afterward visited by robbers, but it a (?) dog came near and thinking that his master might be close at hand, the robbers passed on. At last David awoke and healing the stage driver, he mounted and rode on towards Boston.
"Finis"
Cotter's Saturday Night
The common people of Scotland were a strong, healthful, happy and dignified race, and it is believed their excellent character was due to their religious spirit. The better classes were constantly under the influence of the Sabbath and of the Bible. It seems to be through religion that these simple people have become tender and...
Molasses Popcorn Balls
¾ cup water
1½ cups molasses
1½ cups light brown sugar
1 tablespoon vinegar
¼ teaspoon baking soda
⅛ teaspoon cream of tartar
¾ cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 quarts popcorn
Mix first six ingredients in large saucepan. Place over low heat and stir until sugar is dissolved. Bring to boiling and cook slowly until it will form a soft ball. Add butter and cook until hard ball stage. Add vanilla and corn.
Form into balls.
Makes 18 to 24 balls.
There are two most valuable possessions which no search warrant can get at, which no execution can take away, and which no reverse of fortune can destroy; they are what a man puts in his head - knowledge, and into his hands - skill.