El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-30
Little BObbie and His Pa
Pa Tries to Tell Civic Purity League
How to Keep the
streets Clean.
william +. Kirk
A took Ma & me to a bankwet

IA took Ma & me to bankwet
~ last mite. 1t was bankwet
\ gave bv the Civick Purity Leg
& thare was as many wimmen & chill
dren thare as thare was men, sum
of the men was fine speakers & thare
was one suffraget thare witch also
made a fine speech, but thare was
other speeches made wich made the
pepuI yaWn & made the toaSIIllasI eL
look at his watch -
Pa made a speech It was one OF
the last kind of speeches, only worse
than sum of the other bad ones NE
& Ma both knew that Pa cuddenI
maik a speech & We both toad MIN
so, but Pa sed Nobody apprechlaueS
crate man excep strangers ms
friends & his wife & children think
he is no good. / am going TO malk
this speech no matter what you say
he tOald Ma.
But think of that speech you made
one time at the Mackybee DankWeI,
sed Ma. DOan't you remember now
the POSTMASTER hated TO INTERRUPT
you after you had talked for hOur
d said nothing You mated 70 siI
down that mite, diden't you, sed Ma
eeVen after everybody agreed with
the toast master that you had talked
long enufE
Ma & me was afrade but we went
with Pa & at Ieest We had lots OF
nice things to eet After the eet-
ing was Oaver the speaking began
and as I sed befOar thare was sum
fine takers. Ma & me enjoyed them
vary much, but all the time we was
both shivering to think Of Pa & the
speech he was going to mark wen
At last Pa got up. He looked vary
fine in mis- eevening clothes, but "a
always looks fine That is one Of
the best things he does
Ny friends, he began, L am at
loss to understand how I am called
upon TO maik a speech, beekaus i
seldom II ever tax and speechLns * <
ing IS out Of my line. know the
thoughts that are in my he'd, sed Pa,
chasing around like a mill race IN
the vast river Of Time and blending
with the Oshun OF eternity which
ever was and ever shall be i
know these thoughts, Pa sed. but 7
cannot express them as have sum OF
the gifted orators preceding me,
whose words were sounding like the
words of DemOsthenes deenOuncing
Julius Cicero, sed Pa
Beginning TO WabbIe.
BObbie, sed Ma to me, yure beloved
father is beginning to wabble in his
orashun- I feer the wurst, Ma whis-
pered-
And yet, Pa sed to the Civick Pur-
ity Leg. and vet I feel that I can add
my mite TO what has been so fittingly
sed about the stainless purity of a
5AlLr city III Is 1pAE4lAAu 10 u444
CRATE city, Pa sed. but il is moar than
noabel TO keep IL clean. Athens,
Carthage, Troy. Rome-whare are
thay2 sed Pa Gone, vanished like the
Whirling dust that sweeps beefoar a
simeon. Why did they not endure.
those Wundrus cities Of the anshunts2
asked Pa Because thay had no LEG
Of Civick Purity Without street
sprinklers and street sWeepers, Pa
sed, no city can last thru the ages.
say we shud keep our streets clean at
any cost. Pa sed. I will now give you
sum Jacks & figgers to show how
much mummy is needed to thuruly
clean our city.
Then thay made Pa set down & OK
planned TO him that the Civick Leg
Of Purity meant TO keep the city clean
On the way hoam in the
subway Ma toald Pa his he'd was git
ting fat