The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-05-20
Heart to Heart
I QkS.
Copy. iphf. 1908, by Edwin A. Nye
WHAT A MERE MAN DID.
BY EDWIN A. NYE.

wire maze permanent exchange. MT.
O'Day. plain and fancy cook, dry
starcher. housekeeper, ETC.. did the
work In the home, while Mrs. O'Day
Jared forth as the family breadwinner.
O'Day's daily schedule. as told to the
police Judge, was as follows:
| q. m.-Arises and prepares break
fast, making biscuits and pancakes,
frying eggs, meats, etc.
| $50 q. m.-Wakes wife. gives her
breakfast.
7:3O a. m.-Wakes his three sons and
| after giving them breakfast sends
| them to school; eats his own break
fast.
7:30 to II a. m.-Cleans house, sweep
| ing. busting, washing windows.
| IL a. m.-Goes marketing. buys for
| the whole day and breakfast next
morning.
IL noon.-Prepares dinner for chill
dren and self and puts things in order
! to 4 p. m.-Mends children's torn
stockings and clothes, makes trousers
for sons, makes pies and cakes for
evening meal.
7:30 p. m.-Finishes with supper
dishes and after reading and talking
goes to bed at p. m.
There, now!
In William O'Day's strenuous pro-
gram woman works from sun to sun.
but mans work is never DONE"
William got the worst Of the swap.
However, there's a sequel.
william had been doing this work
for how long? Eighteen months! He
got tired. Who wouldn't get tired
man or woman?
Be it said furthermore there was a
boarder at the house, besides the home
folks.
Well, william got so very tired of his
tin pans and busters that one day he
got drunk and chased the boarder-a
woman-out Of the house with his
butcher knife.
That was why william was in po-
lice court.
He told the judge how he volun-
teered, being out Of work, to become
the family housekeeper while Mrs
O'Day assumed the wage earning Do
sition. And for year and q half he
patiently cooked, mended, did the fam
lily Misunderstanding the boarder's-
starched. ironed, swept-and finally
grew weary.
And this court fined william O'Day.
SPITE WALLS.
Ever sec spite wall'' or spite
fence?"
This is how it sometimes comes
about:
The dog belonging to John Jones
persists in loafing over the lawn Of
Tom Smith. Jones' next door neighbor,
and digging real holes for imaginary
gophers. Besides. Jones keeps chick
ems, and Smith has garden.
Neighborly comfy is strained.
Finally Mrs. Smith calls on Mrs.
Jones to suggest-incidentall to in
curing after the health Of the fami-
ly-that the dog be tied and would
they kindly fix 1t so the chickens
would not care to wander from their
own firesides.
Mrs. Jones agrees in perfectly good
faith that the dog is trial and the
chickens have an itinerant disposi.
ton difficult to restrain. She smiling
~ mentions the fact also that the
Smith children are a little careless in
their distinction between mine and
thine. Moreover, Mrs. Smith good hui
moredly calls attention to the fact
that Smiths old tomcat Is q disrepu-
table character and given to dissipa-
ton, whereupon Mrs. Jones, in per-
feet good humor. also pledges reform.
Time moves on. There is little love
lost between the Smith and Jones fami-
~, neighbors.
One day Smith is caught In the very
act Of wringing the neck Of Jones'
predatory rooster.
When Jones comes home that night
he protests because Of the assassina-
ton, whereat Smith volunteers ad-
vice concerning the keeping OF roost-
ers at home. And Jones retorts about
dirty children" Perhaps there is no
clash Of fists. but
Up goes the high spite fence!
We are not all Of us like Jones and
Smith. but most Of us build spite
walls, not Of boards. but Of words and
acts.
Some Of us-the exclusive ones
build our fences so high our neighbors
cannot see Us or we them.
Some OF us-less exclusive, but
grouchy-build our walls just high
enough to serve notice on the neigh
bors that we are little bit better
than they are.
Spite walls OF narrow prejudice!
Spite walls OF cold uncharitableress.
Spite walls OF Grass selflshness!
Down with them! Down with the
spite walls!
In training its cavalry recruits, the
German army is making use of ma
chine driven by electricity. In which