Rock Island Argus., 1917-11-21

Almost ashamed or mySeu Nnen
saw how my girl
Friends had been spending money.
It's outrageous the
Way some OF them run bills, and ]
Just know that not all Of them are
doing SO with the
Willing assent Of their paters, because
the latter, most
OF them, haven't as much money as
you have. dad. But
They are indulgent fathers. and their
daughters take
Advantage OF them. ! have never done
that with
You, and I'm not going to start doing
so now. For it would
Just break my heart if thought had
done something that
You didn't approve, you have always
been so kind to me.
Oh, il all the girls only had a father
like mine, how happy
They would be. I know some of them
are constantly
Scolded by their fathers when there
isn't
The slightest reason for it. Why last
week Alice
Took coat priced at $S5 instead Of a
$3.50 garment,
The one she really wanted and should
have had,
And her father ripped off a section OF
the beautiful curtain
That hangs between their living room
and the library
He was that mad. So you see, dad, II
doesn't always pay
For a girl to embarrass herself among
her friends trying to
Humor the head OF the household
Next Thursday am TO
Deliver a paper on ancient China al
our Old World club and
am expected to dress the part. L
will be knockout, dear,
II can scare up the materials tha-
| VIII be required to prepare
The proper costume. 1t must be mostl!
Of silk, and I have
Been told that there is only one 0
our stores at which I can
Secure the stuff I'll need. It's yer.
expensive, but / know YOU
Don't care on that score What yol
want is that shall do my
Part creditabIy 1t would be awfu
if I should appear before the
Club in an ordinary party dress. 0
course you don't
Understand these little details The
don't interest you. But
How the members of our club kee
/ their eyes and ears open
For the slightest error on the part G
a speaker It's to be
t, My debut as an entertainer before th
i club, and l am
Ambitious to make a hit. Yo
wouldn't have me blunder
For the world, would you, father
Oh, the dreamy gloriousness
OF the China Of thousand years ago
It's so inspiring. It's
, Heathenish, and all that, but there
a weirdness about 1t all
That charms and appaIs at the sam
time, But its
Transferrence by word from the col
pages OF manuscript
Would be as fat and inanimate g
concrete without the
= Atmosphere. The atmosphere is to /
had only in the costume
To depict truthfully that in vogt
during the days Of which
I an to discourse. No, I do not e,
actly know what the cost
3 OF he materials will be. father, bl
: that should make no
l Difference, What you are concernC
chiefly over is
Whether your little girl would con
s through the ordeal, and
e II will be one, successfully. or whetl
n er she will
/ Fail like Charlotte did a month az
/. when she fouHdered about
e For an hour on Siberia without fu
j or skins. OF course it was
It A warm day, but that was no excu
y for neglecting to dress
Up the part And Charlotte is
sweet, and earnest, and we'll
: Informed, but she fell so short Of e
/ pectations that
r Doubt that she will ever be invit
e TO again present a paper.
: The members of the club are Oh L
VI tlplDE III NApSGtdiiT
e Awaiting my appearance. They knc
r that | will make a splash.
it wouldn't be like me. with such
grand and generous father.
n To foozle. Oh. yes, and you mu
"a have noticed how mother
! And have been cutting family e
'e penses of late. Every time
! go to the grocer's l think OF yc
A dad, and how hard you have
: Been hit by those mean old thin
= who are shooting up
Prices on every blessed thing that
need on our table.
We send our soldier boys across
j. shoot up the Germans and tho
10 OF us who remain at home are ST
ie up by our home food
u and fuel guards. And | hadn't tt
OF you about the milk.
Ne had been getting two quarts
day, / put my foot down a
1, Told mother that hereafter We wol
ty get along with one quart il
is Figure how that saving will run il
j. money in a year. And
n The grocer tried 10 sell ME two sa4
OF -four yesterday, and
politely told him that ali We wol
IN need was one sack
g. Just think of ii. dad, saving, q wh
nj sack OF -four Just
he Imagine what that viii amount to