The Lakeland evening telegram., 1913-08-12
FOUNDATIONS
UNCLE HENRY

Dear Editer, l take ny pen ir
hand to let you know I was glad
about you gettin in the va-yous pa
pers over the country 10 such ex-
stent. l WIS reel proud when
seen you lad your picter in one.
have never riz to such a perfound
wave Of popularity but I shall when
l get little better known in the
State. Havin my picter in your Of
fis Is bound to help sum as other
editors CONT in is apt to see it and
think what a atracksion it would be
set up in there paper In large size.
l spoke on the subjeck of havin my
picter in one of the papers back
where l come from, and the editer
sayed maybe Re would put it in
/ when l was ded but he wouldn't
promis. He was one of them fel-
lers that hated to commmitt hisself.
His wife told Marthy that when he
asst her to marry him he asst her
would she have him il he was to
asst her, end she had to promise
she'd take him before he'd come
rite out flatfooted and asst her.
have not got my picter took yet
for you, but I am expectin to get 1t
reddy in time for your new offs.
l would have took it sooner but they
is some discussion in our family as
to how it had ought to be took.
Joe Dixon, he spoke to me conf
densal l should have my hair parted
in the middle and have my mouth
shut. II know you've got good
teeth, Henry" says he, "an I reck-
in you payed a good price for them"
says he, "but they amt becomin,"
he says. When spoke Of this at
home, Bobby, he says, says he. "Let
your teeth show, uncle; they hide
the rest of your face" Clara Louise
is anxious l shouldroche my hair up
in a kind of curl on top, she says 1t
looks cut done that way but Marthy
wants should have my hair parted
on the side as usel, and. between
you and me. hat hides the spot
where it has got little thin. !
could Of had a fine head Of hair II
had of payed attension to beauti-
flying myself but have been some
careless, my mind bein took up with
other things.
My fart throbs with pride and de-
light when cast my eyes about and
see nanny of my long cherished
dreams takin shape before my eyes
in this fare City. They is grouches
in this town which has neerly been
cured. They are ketchin on that it
pays to fix things up. Them which
thought clayed streets was good
enough is findin that these here
brick an asphalt is mono too good.
My motto is. They Is nothing too
good for Lakeland. II they Is any
thin on the face of Gods footstool
that is identifying and useful,
want that we should have 1t here
II it is within reesen. I stand on
the mountin tops of my poetic fansy
and sivic pride an ketch the far-off
glemes of ferget what in thunder
I was goin to say. literary man
had not ought to have other things
on his mind. My m d is 80 blame
used to jumpin from one thing to a
other 1t Jumps when amt intendin
It should.
One thing I YVES intcndin to men,
sion was, let there be no envy an
jellousy as to who is the sujester or
the permoter Of any good enterprise.
Some folks can't bare to see others
follerin along lines that was fust
layed down by them or doin some
hing they would of done thereselfs
II they had Of thought Of It. IL
amt that way. am the citty's
eadin sujester but l am proud and
glad to see my idees took up an car
'yed out by others and am not one
hat gets mad II others trys there
hand at sujestin.