El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-01
Little BObbie and His Pa
Ma Decides to Entertain Some Won
en- and Pa Decides to Go Down
town For the Evening
-BT William T.. KfrE-

NJ told Pa almost year ago
M that she would never ask any
more Of them club women I'd
to the house. Ma kept her word til
last night. which is longer than Pa
KEEP ms word on any promise ne made
Deerest Iuv SEQ Ma I have a surprise
IN store for you tonight I'm going
10 entertane six of the most butiful
Wimmen that you have ever saw. I
40 not mean, Ma Sed that they are
butlful in face and form. but L do
mean that they have wunderful intel
lecks. Pas face got kinda long Isn't
mere one Of the six that has a butt
Iul face sed Pa2 No sed Ma Wen sed
Pa, isn't there one of the six that has
a DutlIul 1Ormt You might not think
so SEQ Ma cud see that Ma was
getting kinda peevish.
Inc newspaper artists & speshui
writers IS gtng to have a banquet to-
mite sed Pa and wanted me to be sure
10 come. They have got a seat re-
served for Tom Powers and me. Mr..
POWers Is going TO be the gloom and I
a round Tat face Pa sed. The boys
thought that would be a fine table.
guess / VIII leave at eight o'clock Pa
sed. II that viii be all right
49, Ma began to grin at Pa kinda mean.
on nave got fat chanst Ma sed 20
put your foot outside this door this
eve. You don't seem to realize that
l am going to entertain the Roman
6eglnas. What is Reginas sed Pa2
heglnas is queens in latin sed Ma
and 1t would be a darect insult to
Ihem SIX luvly winner If my husband
Wusnt here to help me receive them.
Spout Latin POetrys
Well sed Pa, what is the program
/ suppose they are going to spout
Latin pOtry all the eevening. No. sed
Ma, but they are going into sum Of
the "details Of the rise and fall OF
AnShunt Rome one of the ladies was
IN Rome Onst on a Cooks TOuwr &
seen the bridge which Mr.. HOratius
held Another OF the ladies was also
in Rome and she seen the knife that
Casea used an Julius Caesar 1t viii
be a very interesting evening. all IN
all, sed Ma and / am shure you viii
not regret staying at home tonight.
Now so and put on your evening close
Ma sed and Bobbie viii help find your
shirt studs.
When Pa & me was in the next
room, Pa looked at me kinda sad and
sed, W ell BODbie. when do You expect
TO walk up the isle JUS think, Pa
sed, a full-grown man that cud be
having a CRATE Sesshun with the art
lists and writer's, every one Of them q
speed boy, being coOped up here all
the eeNenlng with seven Roman Reg
mas, including your queen Mother.
Take 1t from me BObbie. sed Pa that
they viii find me a kind of a bull in
the china shop this evening, when
they begin talking Of the rise and fall
of Rome. Jest watch me, that's all,
sed Pa Your Ma gave me her wurd
that thar would be no more wimmin
clubs in the house & I guess after H.
night she viii keep It forever
After We had our dinner the Roman
Reginas all came Ma sed the truth
when she sed they was butiful eXcep in
face and form Pa got in his Morris
Chair over in the corner after he had
bin introduced & I set neer him wait
ing for the show to begin
Poem on Nero.
We viii first heer sed Ma from the
talented young pOetis Miss Anabel
Ames. She has prepared a butifUl
poem about the monster Nero who
drenched all Rome in blood Ma sed.
and fiddled when the Town was burn
ing down.
Then Miss Ames got up and recited;
Cruelty, thy name is Nero. Long
ago
Much blood and anguish thou dilst
make the world no.
Brave gladiatOrs when their limbs
grew mum.
Looked up at thee & thou turned
down thy thum.
Thou Jyrant who didst spurn each
sacred law
Thou vast the wurst the world ever
saw
'WunderIu sed all OF the other Ro-