The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-10-19
AT WILLIE'S BEDTlME
WHEN MOTHER HAS SESSION
WITH FRAcTioUs OFFSPRING
OF Course You Never Heard a Woman
Talk Like This-if He Was
Your Boy What Would
You Dof

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
oy $3.50. l don't care II 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! 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 father! Yes, you will care!
And want you to wash your hands
good before you 60 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 II
you knew 1t! You will have cause to
remember 1t II call your father. He
isn't your mother, as you very we'll
Know. Don't you be impertinent!
That Is one thing your mother will
not put up with. as have told you a
hundred times! Why don't you take
on your shoes? You pick ND that
necktie! The idea Of flinging 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
II l wasn't particular! Stop Jerking
30 at that shoe lace! l don't care il
II Is IN hard knot. Jerking like that
Will only make the knot harder. Now,
knew that you would break that
shoe lace! You would try the "a.
tlence of-Williei You pick up that
shoe and put 1t where 1t belongs at
night! No. you cannot have something
tc 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 a
good hour to look over all OF the
things In your pockets. What under
the sun, moon and stars are you car.
rylng around three dirty handker-
chiefs for? And you were fussing yes
terday because you couldn't find q.
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 water?
How long do you think that you would
live there? You give those hands a
good scrubbing! Use plenty of soap.
lie 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 a
teacup of water. Your towel isn't on
It's hook? ! am sure that is isn't if
you were the only one who used it
last. Look for. And you call your
self washed a,re.Gy? Let me see
your hands. Willie Smythe. 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. l.
shall look after those ears myself
then. Now you go to your room and
70 bed. 1t is good three-Quarters Of
an hour after your regular bedtime,
and you know that mother always in
sists on you going to bed at exactly
$3.50. and the sooner you learn that
you must mind your mother. the bet
ter. 1 don't believe that you have
been In bed at $50 for month. You
cant find your nightgown? Judging
from the rest Of the stuff in your
pockets, perhaps your nightgown is
there. No, you shall not go to bed
without it. You'll find it somewhere
in the closet in your room. You found
1t? I knew that you would. I want
that muttering stopped, It's the
'0HIh tiine toniSnt tnat L nave told
you to stop muttering. and you know
that when mother sneaks she has to
De obeyed! Goodnight, Willie! That's
pretty way to say goodnight to your
mother. isn't il? You most certainly
cannot take book to bed with you
for little while! Bud Dcane saws he
reads in bed every night? That is
nothing to me. If his mother wants to
let him do anything that foolish. she
can; but your mother Is not that kind
OF woman. Get right into bed and
put out that light. Such time as ?
have getting you to bed every night,
and I'll have worse time getting you
mp In the morning. Got that light out /?
You'd better! Stop that whistling,