Lit Wick Gazette. August 2010

Three Minute No Bake Cookies

2 c sugar

1/2 c margarine

3 tbsp. cocoa

1 tsp. vanilla

 1/2 c peanut butter

1/2 c milk

 3 c quick oats.

Mix cocoa and sugar. Add margarine and milk and bring to a boil. Boil for 2 minutes. If humidity is high, boil another minute. Add peanut butter and vanilla and stir well. Add quick oats. Drop by spoonfuls on wax paper. Should set up quickly.

For best results, avoid making when rainy or humidly hot-cookies do not set up well.

~Leslie Rose Yale~

 (Michelle M.)

~

WANTED: A Girl

The girls that are wanted are good girls -

Girls that are mother's right hand,

That fathers and brothers can trust in,

And the little ones can understand.

Girls that are fair on the hearthstone,

 And pleasant when nobody sees;

Kind and sweet to their own folk,

Ready and anxious to please.

Girls that are wanted are wise girls,

The girls that are wanted are good girls -

That know what to do and to say;

Good from the heart to the lips;

That drive with a smile or a soft word

Pure as the lily is white and pure

The wrath of the household away.

From its heart to its sweet leaf-tips.

From Moral Lessons of Yesteryear, by A. L, Byers

Taken from Copywork for Girls Compiled and Arranged by Sandi Queen

~Pina Rigonda~

(Allie H.)

~

Why did the monkey fall out of the tree?

‘Cuz he let go!

~Polly Rigonda~

(Aelsa B.)

~

Cruel War of Tears

My cheeks are wet with tears, 

My chest heaves with great sobs. 

My man left long ago, 

And will never return.

My wee bairns are sleeping, 

They sleep in dreamy peace, 

Unaware that father 

Will ne’er kiss them again.

  

Why must it come to this, 

That lasses be widows,

That bairns be young orphaned?

 It's a cruel war of tears.

Josephine Haylson

(Not real name)

About the War Between the States