New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04
The Coming Tower
on "GRATITUDE"

,rd then they went off and married
,,a that the worse you treat children
The more they appreciate you.
,,d now | am the old maid of the family
,rd the only one that remains with her
7 wonder il she right? JANE NJ
tis couple Of years than decade ago,
, short while yet long while,
Near as yesterday.
The rod spared
Here is the my ungrateful soul
NJ the mental punishment / assimilated
The actual fees Of the doctor
For introducing to daylight
I do not remember.
Migrate I am I do not remember.
I was probably told
But quick as I at figures,
7 was too young grasp them then
Later almost old at eight,
have stared from behind the big
A. the fat old driving by his rafting buggy,
And known the tremendous in dollars and cents
That II cost for to have Scarlet Fever.
Other cases in shown by the red signs tackled
The front Of the houses.
The letters blur into a jumbed mass, and read
Three hundred dollars.
Most ungracious for my education it
showed my lack of proper appreciation
By fooling away my time in school,
And dropped from the head Of the class
To second place.
And once--oh, how ignominious the occasion
I fell back TO third.
sat fearfully through an impressive talk the still library.
The clock ticking ticking
Nv father silently scrutinizing my report card
For five awful minutes before he spoke.
I went to bed and in the dark shadows
lowered the High Cost of Education.
It sat OF the foot of the bed and told me
was ungrsteful,
And that if had to my education
might appreciate my opportunities.
| huddled under the covers
nd cried
And finally fell asleep
A million dollars in debt
Soneday, somehow, would repay it, every cent
Yes would double it, then there would be kick coming
And ! would prove good Investment
After ALL
Now ! am buying eggs for my own home.
If I am lucky enough to have boy
And he is unlucky enough
To kick his football through the window
shall forhear quoting the price Of plate glass
And gently spank him.
And when ne grows up and reads about
Leak
He probably will be
Ungratefu
Because did not instruct him early
In stock quotations. NJ L.
Lhave-no-babies!
have instead a hall bedroom
With bowl and pitcher and smelly gas-Jet
And a red square of carpet with
Dull gray center
And saggng curtans-and all
Without heat.
No babies-but I've a to make
The thing chose instead of a husband in Indiana
New York instead Of Charlottesville!
remember how ! used to talk about
The something that beckored on"
know nov all rubbish,
That was absurdy and proud and young
And did not realize what things
We're slipping through my fingers.
Now it's late.
But I have hall bedroor-and the movies
And two apples and a box Of crackers
For tonorrow's breakfast
So perhaps / should be graeful-although
L. - b.bios MARY
Riverside Drive from Seyencysecond Dyckman Street is
crowded every dav with mothers sacrificing their lives to their
children They sit about lackustre eyes and seem IN semi
condition may not indicate maternal deVo
ton
The Big Duty consists keeping the children within twenty
circle Inside that limit the offspring comparatively Tree
may feast gravel poke sticks their eyes, or IN eac
es eyes just venureome spirit set foot beyond 'ne
marked out for Mother nuremaid whichever fee
he CONGREGATIONAL shrieks yanks back the younge
and deposits him-ith bumpon the bench selected as mead
g7srers
You can 20 the length Of the Drive and never near
iae in the telling storybook being read You Will never
YEA group Of babies delcousy playing lady with tne
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