The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-24

From the Kansas City Star.
 "HE hero here sung did not go down on the Lustania. He never went
 \ in for ocean travel, or much travel of any kind. He makes the trip down. town every morning on the rear plat form of street car, usually supporting another fellow citizen on one of his feet wheI he is lucky enough to catch jis. ney he sits comfortably in his luxurious seat, takes his hat off, lets the breeze toss his hair ana says happily to his neighbor that it is a beautiful morning; that the green trees and towering shrubs make him want to sing and that Kansas City is the finest town in the world, by George*
 He gets up with the sun these spring mornings, and while his fellow hero IS making the bacon brown with one hand and washing Susies face with the other
 he goes out and paints some more on the back fence. He says to himself, as he sur veys the work. that next year he'll sur prise the other hero with hedge. TIe'd
 like to do 1t this year. but there was that new shingle roof on the pantry to take
 care of which certainly was hard pph coming right after the doctors bill for Johns whooping cough.
 l At breakfast the hero behind the cof- I fee pot says she's going to issue an crder, and what's more she wants l, l obeyed. He pretends to be awfully scared, but says shoot away. who { afraid She says the order is that he go straight down to the store after he gets out from work and buy himself on,
 of those straw hats advertised. He says | pooh, that one up in the attic is good
 enough for another summer She says | isn't any such thing It's been cleaned
 and cleaned. and the brim has peer trimmed and trimmed, and she doesn' propose to have him going around look ing like fright.
 He says he's rather spend the none
 to get John a new
 She says, stop right there. John ha' got a new hat and when he sees 1t ne'i
 say it came right out of the factory She made it over from last year
 changed the shape of the brim and pu a bright new ribbon on 1t. He says 1 that is so then he will issue an order She shall take the money she saved ol Johns hat and march right down tow and buy herself some white shoes to g swope Park in. As for him, he is no
 going to sit there and be bossed.
 John comes down stairs with one sho
 of and one shoe on and demands t
 know whose strawberries are thos : hidden under the saucer. Says h
 wants 'em. Gets his reaching han slapped and is told those strawberrie were saved over from last night for hi } father. Father says, give em to hin that really he doesn't care a rap fc
 strawberries. Mother says. no sil { those berries were left after every bod ,, had had an equal share and she won f Lave his food taken out of his mouti
 Father takes big red one on hi i spoon, sweeps it in narrowing circles u
 to his mouth and then pop! it goes int s Johns mouth So do they all one bl 7 eSEonesafter another until they are a son5. Mother says wait till she save . him something nice again, and he say l honest, he never enjoyed dish of straw c berries more, and anyway they alwas
 did disagree with him-and make a sol 3 of rash break out on him.
 Down at the office he eats his lunc : at his desk and says, holding up h
 cake. that if there's any woman in tn world who can dash of better piet
 of frosting than thet he'd like to. q
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