Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-06
HORDs ND
DI SEQ R ID S
ON REGISTRATION.
MRS. RISKs SPEAKS HER MIND.

IN growing tired of all the things that
The government is asking me TO DO, |
Neither am
A Stacker. did not have to be urged !
to fly
The American flag in front Of my home |
But know others who haven't done
that little thing yet
But they stand when the national
y hymn is sung
Not because they like TO, but because
II they didn't they would lost caste
among
Their acquaintance. l could mention
lot
OF names, but that wouldn't do any
good, and,
Besides, I believe in keeping peace
al home.
Let's do all Of our fighting on the other
side
That is close enough for me. Yes, in
deed, I would shoulder
A bavonet if I was needed TO finish
the job. because
Our family has been scrapping stock
back as far as it can
Be traced. But we are all sweet tenn
pered cautious
That's why / am envied by SO many
of my women friends.
They can't understand how / control
myself
In circumstances that causes them to
blow up and
Make fools of themselves, so they dent
get over it
For weeks. and do lot of crying in
between times.
And I'm not opposing registration. /
think it is
A grand thing, only it strikes me that
the
Government is growing altogether too
nosey
For its own good. Who cares whether
I am eighteen
Or one hundred years old? OF course
my husband has a
Right to know, and he does know, for
when he married
Me I was so young that / didn't have
to clip off few years
To make him believe that he was mar
Tying a child in arms
The kind so many of the old buzzards
who are taking
Wives these days seem to want. and
don't always get,
Although they think they do But
they wake up
! When the drug store veneer washes
off and everyfhing
Yes, I am going to register as a pa
triotic duty,
But when il comes to giving my age
I'm going to balk
/ Not that ! care if the world knows
! how old l am. for
have every reason to be proud OF
the manner
( In which have preserved myself
Why only last week
We had some friends, new arrivals II
our city, at
Our house, and Mrs Ounce, the dear
thing. said she
Would never have taken me to BE-
over thirty And when I
! introduced her to my grown daugh
ter she just would not
! Believe that she was my child Sht
insisted that I was
My husbands second wife. There ar,
ever so many women
Who will misrepresent their ages
That's their privilege,
! But it isn't honest l wouldn't lowe
myself
| To such deceitfulness. In the frs
/ place | don't have to
DO it, for everybody thinks that an
younger than |
Appear to be. anyway. But I don
propose to give
Those registrars the satisfaction Q
learning
My exact age They'd say I didn
9 tell the truth
Even if I did turn in the eorrec
figure And if
l don't register my age, which IS m
decision, they'll
Have something to talk about. The
will talk
If | do or if I don't wouldn't b
envious like some women
! know for anything But they can
, help it, 1 guess.
There are so many things that I can d
' don't really know what is my spt
cialty Cooke II
! do so say it. myself | am an eTpel
in the kitchen,
But it would not do for me to bra
p of the fact
S To the government Ii l did FIR
q thing |
- Know ! would be hustled to an arm
camp to cook for the
Soldiers. And then my own fami
@ would starve to- death. Why
Y Ny husband wouldn't survive s
g months without my meals.
q | know he wouldn't because he ii
told me so with
His own lips. And my husband is 2
honest man. He
= Isn't like so many husbands that jol
: their wives
= When they have gotten in bad wi
: them by telling
Them what wonderful cooks they ar
The poor things believe
i The hrutes too, when they ought
e know that they
Le Are pulling the wool over their eve
But Ill pledge myself to do somethil
for my country I've done n
, share already,
% But I'm ready to do more. What she
J. it be?
Miss Perkins, my next door neighht
says she is TO
T. Offer herself as nurse. Honest
is gawd, l almost snickered
In her face when she told me. VI
the only nursing she ever
2 Did was taking care of her pet c
,eI when it got sick last spring.
And It died on her She's love
woman and all that, but She