The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-11-17
AT WlLLIE's BEDTIME.
WIEN MOTHER HAS SESSION
WITH FRAcTloUs OFFSPRING.
OF Course You Never Heard a Woman
Talk Like This--if He Was
Your Boy What Would
You Dc?


Willie, will you just look at that
clock? You have looked at it? Then
why don't you set ready for bed? You
know that you must always be in bed
by $50. | don't care If Ted Thomas
does sit up until nine. Half.past eight
is your bedtime and-stop that NUT
tering! You know that ! have told
you many times not to mutter and.
No, you cannot sit up to study your
home lesson! Strange that you never
think Of your home lesson until your
bedtime! You will have time to study
1t in the morning If you get up early.
Yes, you will! No, the clock Is not
half an hour fast! | had your father
set it by his watch this very morning
No, you can't just finish that story.
You have had the whole evening in
which to read and study, and you have
done nothing but dawdle. Now you
are very eager to read and study,
aren't you? / don't care anything
about what other boys do, for. II
you do not stop that muttering shall
call your father, Yes, you will care!
And l want you to wash your hands
good before you go to bed When
did you wash them? No, it isn't only
sissy-boys who have clean hands.
Willie Smythe, will you just bear in
mind that it Is yorr mother to whom
you are speaking? Yes, you act as If
you knew it! You will have cause 10
remember it if call your father. He
isn't your mother, as you very well
know. Don't you be impertinent!I
That is one thing your mother will
not put up with as | have told you a
hundred times. Why don't you take
off your shoes? You pick up that
necktie The idea of finging things
around the room like that! That isn't
the place for your Jacket! I'd like to
know what the house would look like
If I wasn't particular! Stop Jerking
so at that shoe lace! | don't care IL
1t Is in hard knot. Jerking like that
will only make the knot harder. Now,
knew that you would break that
shoe lacei You would try the pa.
tience of-Williet You pick up that
shoe and put it where it belongs at
night! No, you cannot have something
to eat before You go to bed The idea
of 1t! After all the supper you had.
What are you taking all of those
things out Of your pockets for? You
put them right back! 1t would take
good hour to look over all of the
things In your pockets What under
the sun, moon and stars are you car
rying around three dirty handker,
chiefs for? And you were fussing yes.
terday because you couldn't find
clean handkerchief,
Now you hustle off to the bathroom
and give those hands a good scrub.
bing. You wish that you lived in a
land where there wasn't any water2
How long do you think that you would
live there? You give those hands
good scrubbing! Use plenty of SOAP.
Be sure and wash back of your ears,
Use plenty Of water, never saw
such boy as you are, to think that
you can get yourself clean with half :.
teacup OF water Your towel ism 9 On
It's hook? I am sure that IS isn't II
you were the only one ~ho used it
last Lock for, And you call your.
self washed already Let me see
your banda, Willie smythe. Tho
idea of you calling those hands
washed They will do for tonight but
you have simply got to wash yourself
In dead earnest in the mcrGing /
shall look after thoee ears myself
then, Now yeu So to your room ard
to bed It Is q good threequarte.s of
an hour after your regular teatfme
and you know that mothes>tiways in.
sists or yoa going t2>oed at exactly
ESQ, and the suofiar you learn that
you nus mini your mother, the bet
ter. I don't believe that you have
been In bed at $50 for q month. You
can't find your nightgown? hs,tstng
from the rest Of the stuff ia your
pockets, perhaps your ntghtgown is
there. No, you shah not 90 to bed
"ANHout ~, you IL ma IL somewhere
In tho closet in your room. You found
Il? | knew that you would / want
that muttering stopped, It's the
tenth time tonight that have told
you to- stop mutteqtng, and you know
that when mother speaks she has to
be oheyed! Goodnight, Willie! That's
a Pretty way to say goodnight to your
mother, isn't It? You NEST certainly
cannot take book to bed with yea
for little while! Bud DeaaA say.a he
reads in bed every nieht? That is
nothing to me. II hls mother wants to
let him do anything that foolish, Tax
cans but your mother is not thu kind
OF q woman. Get right into 6ed and
pat out that light. Such. 4 fine "a ,
have getting you to oed every night
and III have a worse time getting YOU
up in the mo.hfrg. Got that light out ?
You'd besisr' Stop that whistline,
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