Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-04
VANGIE SPEAKS TO
BROTHER.

Cut il out instanter. Don't you care
IL the other
Chaps say you are a piker. Twenty |
years from now
You'll De a live one and the most OF |
them will be
Under the green sward, that is Il they |
don't mend their
Ways. I don't mean to say, brother, !
A bad boy. For you are not You are
just O. little
Loose in your mode Of living. That
is all,
You probably won't pay any atten-
ton to what /
Am telling you because I am younger
than you are,
But I've given study to the subject
and you
Haven't. That's why I know what
am talkiag about
/ And you don't [ do not wish TO be
brutal in my speech.
But, kid, if | were your father, aud
/ you gave as
Little heed to my Advertisements as
| you do to
His you and / would meet in the ga
! rage every
Evening at sunrise and I would have
you in that
Condition that you would think a cou-
pie Of times before
You sat down Yes, it will go hard
on You TO pass
Up the gang at the pool hail and to
knock off on
Your dozen nightly pills. but it has
/ been done by
I Others, and there isn't any reason why
you can't
Do likewise, / should join the Saliva
! ton Army. Ell?
| Perhaps I should. Well, we'll take it
that 1
Am the leader of a branch Of the
army. And
l have chosen you for my first sub
ject. You're at
The smart stage of life. You imagine
that what
/ You do is just about correct. You
think you can
( Cut up and that no one is the wiser.
!, I mean cutting up
OF the wrong kind II I could have
my way in
Directing your footsteps / would make
r you
2 A credit to the community. What have
you done that
Is wrong? AS il [ must enumerate
As if you didn't
Know Why. three nights last week
didn't hear you come
3 1-5
q in as ] was
Preparing to retire. Have you got Z
girl? a dozen?
you smoke too much. I hear yot
coughing
At night. You squander too mucl
money. Why,
Q l heard YOU blew 40 cents at poo
e one night last week.
It Dear, but this whole family is get
! ting on my
= Nerves. Your father is pinching an
o your
i Mother refuses TO keep in touch witt
her friends, and /
is Am just rushed to death trying TO fl
If my appointments.
l. You ought to be ashamed of yoursel
% TO say that ] have
Is More than one sweetheart. ! haven
Ii Not that /
" Couldn't have. for you know I haV
l. turned down more
al Than one deserving prospect in m
D. day. I knew you
Would laugh, but you Just ask mothe
Il she'll confirm
D. My statement, for I tell mothe
'y everything. ANY
ir Good daughter should. It wouldn
re hurt you if you
n Made your mother a confdant. Sb
10 could be such
It, A great help to You. You think she
he Old-fashioned.
1t Well, she is. No one has yet gone
jr Wrong on old-fashioned counsel. 81
you are young. You
es viii learn. At least / hope you vii
I'd Just think Of what I
r Accomplish remaining home fe
wv nights a week with
ey Mother 1t is almost unbelievable
MS have knitted three
Sweaters for the soldiers. That's on
one item. l have
~ Done a pile Of other sewing for Il
n Red Cross. Wouldn't
ke 1t be. nice if YOU learned to kni
~ Then We could work together
re At home nights. Not d mans worl
en- Oh, ysu silly.
ne Dismiss such a thought, Some
ey our best men are doing the
It'll Bit with their yarns. I don't mei
or. the kind of yarns
That you have in mind. You are q
oe ways trying to make
~. Light of my words of advice. II
no are not kindly brother.
Al You are just mean. You shouIdr
no have a sister Wish you hadni
HI Oh. you brute, l don't wish anythil
NJ to happen to
.r- You, but | hope the next night y
are out late you lose
Your key and you will have to Ri
the hell and that
uA Will waken father and he will me
gre you at the door and
pc Give you sound scolding, and pc
~ haps bat you couple
ols OF biffs across the back and kno
some of that cigaret
Smoke out Of your lungs. I am
us good sister, and
rty Kind to you, am not2 / knew v
lor didn't mean to be ugly
YES With me. That's just that pool b
devil that comes to the
Surface now and then when you {,
ew that you are being
Ugh Crossed at your own nreside. A
ork you are going TO stay
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