Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-02-14
DO You Remelnberl


Do you Temember-0h. it was so
many years agO-when you were a
Touugster what You did on St VaIen-
tines day. OF course YOU do. You
were iu the sixth grade az school
There was a box in the scho0lroom in
which the boys and girls dropped their
valentine favors during the day. Just
+ before the classes were dismissed for
the day the box was opened and the
valentines distributed. You sent one
20 she teacher and another to that girl
of yours, for every boy who went to
school had a girl, or he at least mag
iued he had. II you we're bad sort
you sent mean valentine to your
( teacher, but she usually knew where
the offending caricstures and mes
sages came from. You never fooled
your teacher, as YOU came to under
stand In later years, although you
/ thought You were doing so at the time.
Neither did You put one over on the
little girl you claimed as yours for
keeps for she looked across the room
over the top Of the valentine directly
al YOU as much as 10 say that she be-
lieyed YOU were the most wonderful
boy I'm the world. That was school
day love. or something, you didn't
know what was bOJhering you in those
days Of childish romancing And you
two met after school and YOU sneaked
along together fearful that the other
boys and girls would detect you, and
taunt you. And she said she was new
er going TO lose the pretty picture and
endearing message that you gave her.
All the time she knew that you had
the one she sent to YOU but YOU we're
acting as if YOU had q whole lot Of
them. And just before you took your
foot out of The gate you told her hers
was the only one YOU received, be- /
cause YOU didn't want one from any
body else. and you were SO glad that
she remembered You. She hadn't got
any from any other boys. either, she
said and If she did she would tear
them all up. Remember # ali. don't [
YOU Those we're the happy days You /
didn't realize it then. But now you do
as you sit at home playing with the .
kids while wife is out in the neigh +
bOrhOOd comforting some woman
friend who has been having a siege +
Of the grippe OF is attending a meeting
of one OF her numerous church societies +
But where is that girl OF your school +
day dreams tonight? Gee. whizz
you've almost forgotten her name.
Oh, yes. she married that Iop-eaTsd F
boob who never knew his lessons and T
was so bashfui that he would begin
eating his fingers when a girl stopped
to talk with him. He's got a fortune.
And YOU We got-three kids But he
didn't get a corner on happiness, for
you have yours in generous measure.
OLD gen. Carranza has taken stick
in the game Of trying to end the Euro.
pean war. III our memory serves us
right the general has a little squabbIe
Of his own that he ought 10 Straighten
out before Dutting into the affairs OF
other nations. However. we are ali
glad to hear from him and to know
That he is still able to play his type
writer and talk peace.
II America our chief worry is over
he high cost Of living In European
nations il is over the high cost OF
killing. For instance. Great Britain's
war expenses are $4,000 600 per day
How far do you suppose that sum
would 60 in buying supplies Of pota-
Oes, butter and coal for the poor OF
-he United States? Yet you viii hear
some dreamer come forward with the .
ivowal that wars are not without their
firtues; that, while they are horrifying
u their cruelties and blood splitting,
hey tend to cement peoples. Perhaps
so. But when the cementiuE process
% ANe4-AANA r. mas HEEAl A1Att4 10 dpDiE :
mostly to those that are sleeping be- :
heath the soil
Il SEE by my paper" postcards Ig- I
latz, that the United States is TO ;
rave a coalition cabinet in the event :
u war with Germany. Then well ;
rave the laugh on our fuel dealers. I ,
suppose. because we'll get our coal
iirect from the government"
THERE is a letter az the Rock Is +
and postOfhcs general delivery for Mr. !
Moss A. l.. wonders IL he can be :
raveling companion OF our old friend. =
Rolling stone j. Il. &.