The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-14
JIM RIcKEY,s MoNoLoGUE.

ACulc1SO NeWS-l
did I ever tell YOU about father?
Father was what they call q gentleman
of the old school. A gentleman of the old
Schooi IS a man who parts his hair in the
back and wears loose clothes. That was
father, all right People used to say that
N anyone left any clothes lying around
loose they'd see father wearing. them
sooner or later. Still he WIS what YOU
MasOns all used 10 admit that. They said
he was always careful to leave the lodge
ahead of the rest of them. 50 as to have
time TO get the best oVercoat.
rainier used to have a cleaning and
uNelng establishment where people
brought their clothes to have stains and
grease and such things taken off. Folks
DO get the worst things on their clothes.
don't they The worst thing 1 ever got
on mine was on a fancy vest. L got
dollar on 1t and the dollar turned out 10
be lead But father got something worse
than that on his coat once. You wouldn't
think he'd mind il. being in the cleaning
as mother Oh no II was a blonde
hair. and mas hair was black
But / was talking about fathers bust
ness Father was very a0Ie man. lie
guaranteed 10 remove anything from
clothes. When there was nothing doing
in the shop he would go out on the
street He could work lust IS well in a
crowd Is anywhere IL was curious
thing, but father never liked TO work
when the police We're around. ] suppose
this was because one of them once called
He said he was a garment worker.
1t has always seemed funny to me
that two persons could be so much to
each other as father and mother when I
think that they were related to each other
only by marriage. You sec, father
thought n great deal of mother. He was
so thoughtful about her Many a time
I've seen him walking up the stairs with
his shoes in his hands, and / knew he
was thinking OF her It's lovely for a
married couple TO be that way. isn't it?
] = he ha q nf o.
gether with old Father Time at the helm
each shares the other 5 thoughts more
and more till they are at last the one
/ that the wedding ceremony declared them
| TO be. You've heard of the premOniJiOns
/ these husbands and wives have Of inn
pending disaster to the absent one. al
] though no one else shared the fear.
/ That's the way Il as with my parents.
one night. I remember, about o'clock.
when father hadnt come home, mother
I said to me. James, there : something
going to happen TO your father. 7 feel
] certain OF it Don't be foolish, mother.
I said. to quiet her. How can you know
( bones. son: that's al I can tell YOU, she
said Now wasn't that curious? Mex
| morning ] told father about II and asked
him how he figured il out / don't figure
/ il ont ne said. but j feel it i'm my b0nes
! that it happened all right The bond OF
! sympathy was very close with them
Father used To say that mother could hit
/ him in the dark as accurately as at any
| other time. one day he was going out OF
/ town. 1 recolect. and mother said. Reg
/ inald'-my fathers name was Reginald
( they named him after a canary bird
| Reginald. she said. L shall miss yOJ
| when you're gone. Don't feel discour
I aged over that father answered. II
( testify that you'd never miss me If
were within range.
I'm fathers case the course OF true IoV,
used 10 loop the loop once in awhile
Mothers father used 20 have attacks o.
the govt because he had listened to-
much to the champagny water when d
! fixed. On these occasions his tempe
/ wasn't very placid. One night whei
] father called he got to holding mother
hand. She said it was all safe becaus'
I her governor was upstairs holding ms
/ foot Mother was right. but when he
father heard my father waiting air,
nothings at mother his foot broke TIT
hold Next day father was explaining
what n horrible attack of the govt III
had. To this day you can't make iatne
believe that govt isn't contagious z
little later when IL was reported aroun'
that the old man had one foot IN tn
grave father gTOaned and said ne be
ne knew whose grave 1t was In lhos
DAYS father was a ladies' tailor. He coul'
n take a ninety ponder and hale OF Ia,
and turn out a little Peachie Plumpingtol
that would make the chappieS dizzy. II
was 50 good that pretty soon he Deesfn
4 secretary of a mining company the
painted him TO pad their figures too.