The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23
AT WLLIE'S BEDTIME
WHEN MOTHER HAS SESSION
 WITH FRAcTIoUs OFFSPRING.
Of Course You Never Heard Woman Talk Like This-If He Was Your Boy What Would
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 Willie, will you just look at that clock? You have looked at it? Then why don't you get ready for bed? You know that you must always be in bed by 8:3O. I don't care if Ted Thomas does sit up until nine. Half-past eight Is your bedtime and-Stop that nut teringi You know that I have told you many times not to mutter and No, you cannot sit up to study yom home lessonl Strange that you never think of your home lesson until your bedtimei You will have time to study It in the morning if you get up early. Yes, you will! No, the clock is not half an hour fast! I had your father set 1t 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? I don't care anything about what other boys do, for. If you do not stop that muttering I shall call your fatheri Yes, you will carei And 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 your mother to whom you are speaking? Yes, you act as if you knew it! You will have cause to remember it if call your father. He lcn' know. Don't you be impertinentl That is one thing your mother will not put up with, as I have told you a hundred times! Why don't you take off your shoes? You pick up that necktie! The idea of f1inging things around the room like thatl That isn't the place for your jacketl I'd like to know what the house would look like | If I wasn't particularI Stop jerking so at that shoe lace! I don't care if It 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-Willie! You pick up that shoe and put 1t where it belongs at nighti No, you cannot have something to eat before you go to bed. The idea of it! After all the supper you had. What are you taking all of thosd things out of your pockets for? You put them right backl It would take a 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 a clean handkerchief!
 Now you hustle off to the bathroom and give those hands a good scrub ping. You wish that you lived in @ land where there wasn't any water? How long do you think that you would live there? You give those hands a good scrubbing! Use plenty of soap Be sure and wash back of your ears. Use plenty of water. I never saw such boy as you are, to think that you can get yourself clean with half a teacup of water. Your towel isn't on It's hook? I am sure that is isn't if you were the only one who used it last. Look for. And you call your self washed already? Let me see your hands. Willie Smythel The 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 morning. shall look after those ears myself then. Now you go to your room anG to bed. It is a good three-quarters of m hour after your regular bedtime, and you know that mother always in. sists on you going to bed at exactly B:30, and the sooner you learn that you must mind your mother, the bet ter. I don't believe that you have been in bed at 8: 30 for month. You can't find your nightgown? Judging from the rest of the stuff in your pockets, perhaps your nightgown ia there. No, you shall not go to bed without it. You'll find 1t somewhere fin the closet in your room. You found 1t? knew that you would. want that muttering stoppedT It's the tenth time tonight that I have told you to stop muttering, and you know that when mother speaks she has to be obeyed! Goodnight, Wi1liei That'a a pretty way to say goodnight to youI mother, isn't 1t? You most certainly cannot take book to bed with you for little whileI Bud Deane says hA reads in bed every night? That ia nothing to me. If his mother wants to let him do anything that foolish, shS can; but your mother is not that kand of a woman. Get right into bed and put out that light. Such a time as 1, have getting you to bed every night and I'll have a worse time getting yoN up in the morning. Got that light outt You'd better! Stop that whistlingi Goodnight, Willie! Dear, dear, thes( boys!-Judge.