The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-01-04
with some more Of your experience. From
true Hap, Loand Morgan.

with some more Of your experience. From
true Hap, Leland Morgan.
WORKMAN. Texas,--Dear Happyhammers:
the most work. the boys or the girls7 Well.
that is hard TO decide. The girls do more
N the house. and the boys work more IN
bS SeS NUMBER SoTs ssp ana " ss o S
girls work In the field. | always do the
milking and help souie, but my sister helps
do great deal more hard work than the
girls, but the girls all almost ALL are
working all the time. A great many boys
90 hunting or running horse races. etc,
something. When a boy stays In hts place
he. without doubt does twice as much
work as glri; but only about one.half
are some girls that do not work at all
Ia the cities the boys work great deal
more than the girls. ana SO, rs there are
l must say after hard struggle I viii
vote for the boys, for ! think they really
do more work than the girls, They begin
work earlier in life than the girls and
against the girls rs long as live. so, girls,
think best, and we boys viii not fall out
come on and let us win this race. The
boys go TO war and fight for their country.
make Jaws and go much higher In life
harderf No. because they make laws pre-.
venting women from holding office, but
the boys have to do extra work 10 get
there Farewell. Remember me, on old
Hap, Jerry Mathews.
El Paso, Texas.-Dcar Hnppyhammers:
IT has been long time since / wrote, but
| Will trace you few lines for Christmas.
My mamma received a dispatch through
the Union Telegraph company to be at a
store on Stanton street, December o, at .
n M aN -. 4
present all the children with a souvenir;
said he had two stores illed from shelves
70 ceiling for our choice for Christmas.
He also had band employed TO entertain
grand display he had and how | enjoyed
myself. was beginning TO think our
papns was Santa Claus, but now am
Inclined TO believe that there surely Is
Santa Claus Tho music was grand.
Santa Claus displayed toys OF all kinds
horses, brdled and sndded: cats and dogs,
With their fur so natural; lambs bleatng,
cows bcnding their heads and bawling,
chickens Growing, dolls asleep, In fact,
everything 10 delight children. The store
was so full you could scarcely find stand
Ing room. uaps, ] think lll paSo is IA
world OF sunshine sympathlze With you
Houston Uaps, In your cloudy days. We
always have the blessed sun and as we do
not have rain often our streets are never
soiled. 7 would not give my home In the
West for two East III Paso is going TO
have a grand carnival IA January and
we are IA have the honor of entertaining
delegates from all over the State. hope
some of you viii have the pleasure Of AT.
tending the carnival. | am getting afraid
| Of that old waste basket. fear II has
not had its mouth hlled and viii catch
| my letter. Regards to Mrs. Foster and
Rodric rurbevine.
| FarrEviiio, Texas..-.Dear HappyhammerS
/ II has been many months since I visited
| the dear old page but nevertheless | have
/ been reading and admiring the great i'm.
! provement OF this page. One thing Of
! great Importance Ia the helping fund. Some
| weeks see there Is a very good report
ana some times hardly nny, noticed one
| time that our dear editress had to put
| in some, because she was ashamed TO re
! port so small amount. What are there
| many thousands Of Haps for II II Is not
! to hammer huppiness" Are we oil ham
mertng as much JOY and happiness as VIC
| could II We would try5 No, J think there
| is room for great Improvement with a good
| mnuy of us. 7 am trying TO he better thar
have been. l wish there was not So
much dreaming We want to know youl
! ideas while You are awake. Let your
dreams stay IN drc0mlnnd unless they make
such 4 change in you as William NauGht';
did In him. What n nice contest we have
II takes dear Mrs Foster to suggest oul
contests. | will not vote this time as
might take up too much room with my I'm
pleasant chatter. Some are continually
Erumhltng about the waste basket and tina
I takes UP room IN your AelleE NHGTe NNi
might put something better. Mrs. Foste
knows which letters are suitable for tn
page. But there! l have said too mucl
about It already Say Texas Hoosier,
wish 1t had been mo- you wouldn't hav,
"gottcn 1t back quite so easily. | am al
most as lucky as you. You Just step owe
here and take a seat by me and we vii
see who beats. | wish some more of ou
old-tlme writer's would pay us another vis
like Nettie Itasca and Sunset. ! love kow
ers. They make home more beautiful ant
pleasant AS every a happy GotPGorrod +.
Alter an absence Of a few weeks ! viii
write again to our grand old club" GU
Ragg is certainly impr9yTs 5qPa IG sn Jes
did letter writer's, some OF our writer's beini
regular young Shakespenres, Wei, now 70
the contest ! viii cast my vote for thu
girls, as think they do more work thar
bows The boys generally work at one thin
| white the girls can adapt themsel yes TO an!
| kind OF work and make themselves usefu
on almost all occasions. 1hiP contest doesn'
( seem to be at all hard, but when you count
to think il over 1t Isn't so easy TO decide
Some boys and girls are lazy and others ar'
moi So have seen a few girls who diC
nothing but primp and giggie, but taken u
ironing. cooking and field work, such al
picking cotton, etc, Girls can do boys
do g 3 WORK such p' as S dish %ashnr ant
| sweeping, Come on, William Vaught anc
/ "Schooi Girl" | think we need you To MAKE
this contest interesting. I do not like Il
remind the boys Of their faults, hut thinl
one Of the worst is that OF smoking cigar
| cites, How many noticed the picture In Thu
| Post OF n few weeks ago, The Seven Staget
| Of the Cigarette Fleud" Well that pictur,
shows plainly what becomes Of the cigarette
! nend without my telling Noticing whn
! Mrs. Foster aud the fIaps shy about birds
| ! have begun TO take more interest In them
! | notice how gracefully and swiftly the lit
! tie farm yard swallow Giles, and think 4
| IS said to fly az the rate Of sixty.hve miles
an hour II seems strange how small bird
! dy 80 swiftly, but think most OF tbei
strength is In their wings, which accounts
J for II. Some birds seem ugly and n perfcc
| nuisance, and think the crow is one Wish
! Ing merry Christmas TO all. am a sin
! cere Hap, California Poppy.
| Ballinger, Texas.--Denr Happvhammers
! The natural impulse Of my mature tends t,
1 draw me 'cornerward,' SO here I am agnli
gently tapping at the golden gate OF Hap
dom. Whoever chose our present contes
certainly took the most difficult one a
well as the most interesting. vote 10
the girls As a general thing boys do
little the hardest work, bat girls worl
more. Boys are physically stronger any
way. Yon hardly ever catch a girl Idle
neither will you ind boy idle, but VI
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