The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-12-13
S u N B E A M S.

What has happened to Sunny Jim?
WE'LL about the worst thing tia
could possibly happen has arrived
have went to work. Yes. Come
in to the Gable Emporium and wa.cl
me sell 'clodings,' sox, collar buttons
etc But have about got enough Of
it and soon l will have more time to
entertain you. Don't let the blizzard
| worry you. The sun is still shining
and you can be bright and CHEEKY nc
matter how dark and dreary the day
may be- Just keep your heart sing
ing all the while Make the world
| (and some one else) brighter with a
| smile. That's the idea. No one can
make you miserable if you just want
to he happy. | don't think anyone
who has plenty to eat. good health
and a will to do things has any right
to be other than happy. One or two
such people in community are
wortl,--well. you simply can't esti-
mate their worth. Try being ono
yourself and see how catchin' it is.
Like the old story-a little leaven
soon leaveneth the whole.
don't know that any of you are
prayin' folks. Some of you may be.
Others OF you | know are not, else
YOU wouldn't look and act like a
Crouch. I know a very short prayer
and it is good enough for any one
only you must mean what you say
when you say it. It's this: Make
! me to see nry own faults each day,
but blind me to the faults of my
neighbors and friends" Use this
every day for week and if you amt
better man or woman there's small
chance Of you ever seein' the other
side OF the Pearly Gates.
O, it's Hooverze our bread and
meat: and Hooverize our beans; and
it's Hooverize Our dollars we carry
in our jeans O. it's Hooverze our
cahbages. our turnips and our beets.
We have Hooverized and Hooverized |
till there's nothin' left to eat But
the worst is yet to come, fear. |
wouldn't be surprised. if we have to !
o'ace mortgage on our mansion in
tie skies.
O. no: amt kickin. It's for
good cause (if it ever reaches said
cause) but III be jumped lip and
srasshopper kicked if we amt just
about Hooverized to death at our
bungalow Hence the above effu-
sion.
sometimes Frequently may saw
meet folks who remind me OF bal
loon. Oh, you say, because they are
big like balloon'" No. no. friend,
not at all. It's because they are filled
with gas-like balloon-what?
I was-and am-and ALWAYS will be
a bashful man. One who has never
been afflicted with self-conscious-
ness, diffidence. or bashfulness (ca!l
it what you willy cannot know of my
sufferings from either one Tor all OF ,
these). I was four years old before ..
a smile ever appeared on my face. :
fit's still there). I was many years
older before would remain at home .
when company arrived Il took to the
weedsl. Still older before l would
Eat all I wanted at my fathers table.
never had pockets enough for al! T
MY hands, and my feet simply vol I
lot stay hid. ii l attended picnic :
would either fall in the lemonade !,
wash tub, or sit down on somebody's
,ustard pie. If asked a girl to ride +,
IN the merry go long l felt that :,
must apolozize for bein alive. al ;,
ways wore sort Of az ID forgive t,
ne, I can't help it" EXPIRE ss;on. II +.
my one spoke to me would bec !.
heir pardon and go hide ip the barn. h
t was land isl an awful disease. :.
ried TO overcome it. ! ar still try ~
n.y.. and although an old man now, | =,
m at times unable to break the c
hackles of bashfulness that bound =
ne so firmly in my early life. A
Not long ago I was talkin' to =,
nan and Re asked me this question: -
Shall we know each other over d
here?" well. by golly." says I. 81; !,
We don't the Huns sure will" ooh.
e replied, you don't get me. meal ,
hail We know each other in Heaven" N
Well, sir" says l, 81 believe I'd
now that face of yours anywhere, n:
ut at present there's some doubt in Sc
~ mind as to whether we will meet ?,
p there" And do you know don e
elieve he caught on to which one h;
{ us would be missin' up there. II,
Speakin' of KNOWN folks over ;s
here leads me to remark that mas r.
luch as we don't always care to rec e.
gnize each other down here (where ri
here's a chance to avoid it) I think r.
erhaps. it would be quite as well il "a
re meet up there as strangers and h,
OF make a very strenuous effort to n,
ct acquainted -
o. the Hun! The miserable Hunt sr
he low-lifed. ornery. murderin' w.
Iun! Shoot him. stick him. or toss ",
i'm bomb-in good plain English, ~
ann the Hun! -,
Now Deo0'e-I must close This 1et-