The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1912-07-05
AT WILLIE'S BEDTIME
WHEN MOTHER HAS SESSION
WITH FRAcTIoUs OFFSPRING.
OF Course You Never Heard a Woman
Talk Like This-lf He Was
Yeur Boy What Would
You Do?

Il
You Do?
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 $3.50. / 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 I 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
Il In the morning II you get up early.
Yes, you will! No, the clock is not
half an hour fast! ! 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? / don't care anything
about what other boys do, for. II
you do not stop that muttering I 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. 1t isn't only
sissy-boys who have clean hands.
Willie Smythe, will you just bear in
mind that 1t 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 well
know. Don't you be impertinent!
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 finglng 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 / wasn't particular! Stop jerking
SO at that shoe lace! I don't care II
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 pa
tience of-Willie! You pick up that
shoe and put it where 1t 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 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
bling. 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
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 isn't on
Its hook? I am sure that Is isn't II
you were the only one who used 1t
last. Look for. And you call your
self washed already? Let naS 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.
shall look after those ears myself
then. Now you go to your room and
to bed. 1t is a 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. don't believe that you have
been in bed at $50 for a month. You
can't find your nightgown? Judgirg
from the rest Of the stun in your
pockets, perhaps your nightgown Is
there. No. yon shall not go to bel
without 1t. You'll find It somewhere
In the closet in your room. You found
1t? knew that you would. l waGt
that muttering stopped! 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, Willie! That's
pretty way to say goodnight to your
mother, isn't It? You most certainly
cannot take book to bed with you
for little while! Bud Deane says he
reads In bed every night? That 10
nothing to me- II 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 aud
put out that light. Such time az I
have getting you to bed every night,
and I'll have a worse time getting you
up in the morning. Got that light out?
You'd better! Stop that whistling!
Goodnight. Willie! Dear, dear, these
boys!-Judge.