Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-07

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For they are; there's no doubt OF that
not doubt in the world
Where's the old-fashioned son who
started out az eighteen g. make his own
living and send home dollar or 90 70
help ma get a new black silk for sunday
and pa 20 buy new cultlvator for the
forty acres OF the old wood lott
Going to college. OF course, and join
ing fraternities. and spending more
money IN a month than his father
spends in year.
Where's the same boy at 2s7 Spending
his summers ate the seasnore and his
autumns IN the mountains and his
Springs in Florida and his winters learn
ing the new dances and telling his
mother what she really must do to get
his sister into really smart society.
Where's sister, who ought 10 be the
oid-fashioned dauEhtcr9
AZ home, making angel cake Tor
marass tea parties7 On the piazsa en-
broldering doilles for Aunt susie's birth
aav7 In the garden cutting roses for the
table7 Upstairs mending fathers socksT
nownstalrs pressing out brothers neck
ties7
Not at all.
ehe's IN college, too. learning all about
s4actor ana Priarn. and higher maine
uatIcs and the difference between as
troloRy and astronomy.
o. she's out OF college. she's in a est
s,emant somewhere showing somebody
.,.a,a mother how TO keep house and toll
Inc her what 70 do when the baby has
the croup and going down to the jail to
han somebody's eise's husband OUT, 20
heli be able 70 kape the family going
o.. A she isn't IN a settlement. she has
studio somewhere and IL leading the
literary life Of painting pictures OF plan
,,lrg suffrage paradea; anywhere. doing
.nythins. so she won't have to stay at
home.
nrother a the only youthful member
OF the family who stays at how nova
days.
Mother Il delighted.
sha loves TO have brother at home.
where she can lean on him. and she's 80
,ro,a Of the way ne dresses and she Just
a,u,uav can't get over It TO think that
he,a really her own whenever he makes
nrettv uttle talk at an afternoon tea
Ana rhe lshes 20 have hor daughter
.stak,nr her place In the van OF progress
ana 10 tell how daughter n the leader In
the onward and upward movement =
she troesn't quite see how dauehtor can
be 80 much interested In the queer peo-
ple abe seems 70 know. but, on the whole
she takes a vicarious pleasure In daush-
ter's VIDE activities. ana Is. a. a general
thins, breathIessly delightel with both
son and dauehter--and hers u.
The only one OF the family she doesn''
quite approve Of Is father.
Father IL 90 mercenary. 80 humdrum
90 rcactionary.
why, he doan't even know what yor
mean when you say that a thing u
bourgeoasr, and as for sabotage" NJ
never even heard OF a. she and her sol
are good deal embarrassed over faith
er's altitude toward the world in which
they live.
Father ls puzzled and sometimes he'
be old-fashioned. plain American ma
about Il all Il he. dared.
But what's the use?
The old-fasnioned father! There ism
any
Hes gone out with the old-fashione
mother who made Jelly and mad chicke
salad for Sunday night lunch, an
though, II was important TO remembe
which sort OF tarts father preferred an
whether he liked the dressing In n
turkey made with oysters or with ches
nuts.
The cld-fashioned mother has gor
out with the old-fashioned son. VIII
wouldn't let a man light cigar In Il
presence Of his mother and who woul
IS soon think OF jumning OF the roof q
telling a risoue story TO his own sister.
The oid-faahioned sister has gone GU
Iii IL
the language she uses when she's exclts
about a 'ceuse' would make an oil
over her.
I wonder n the old-fasfdoned faith
and mother. who brought up their oil
fashioned families IN the old-faahionl
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