Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-08
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VANGiE TALKS TO HER,
SELF.

another uay. " nat nave G0nes |
Used Up
Two hours knitting Should have put !
those hours
At home helping mother, and now
she's angry with
Ne because I didn't But she ought |
TO know that somebody
Must DO this work for the boys at the
front She is not
for me TO help, but she
thinks, like
All mothers. and rightly so, take 1t, |
that girls
First duty Is to her home. But I de-
test house work. 1t
Gets On my nerves, I feel like an old
Riddy when !
Busy around the house, cleaning here
and tidying
There. A young girl, and | am yet
young. should not
Load herself into an old jumper and
plod around the
House. seeing nobody but the butcher
boy and the milk
Man. They don't interest her. They
are not her kind.
When she gets out into the open she
meets ever so many nice
Folks. and it brightens her up bit
That's what she
Needs. 1t drives away the blues One
gets dumpy hanging
Around the house. That is, some peo-
pie do | don't.
have the most cheerful moth
CT in the world.
Except when she takes notion TO
grow critical. and
Then she hops on me after she gets
through abusing the
DOG and the cat. 1 feel SO sorry for
our cat some
Times. Mother has particular pick
on her And she never
Does anything wrong. She's SO cute
That is she used 10 be
Cute. Now she is growing old and
she doesn't perform so
Cleverly as she did when we first got
her The dog can
Have anything he wants. And l don't
care 3 rap for
Our dog. In the first place he's ngly-
Then he is dirty.
He travels through the house after
ne has been out in the
Messy streets, and then you should
see the carpets and
The rugs. But mother never says a
word TO him. She
Says if he knew anything he wouldn't
be a dog. That's a
Fine apology. Father likes our dog.
too
He despises the cat The cat IS MY
favorite. for
She is SO nice and cozy-fike, lying
over in
A corner and making no disturbance.
But our dog is
The most restless animal. He's never
quiet and hes always
Hungry especially on meatless days
/ He goes out and begs
on the neishbors when he doesn't gel
enough to eat at home.
/ That disgraces us. Our neighboEs viii
/ be saying that We
! Are starving our dog and that il
+ would be more merciful
+ TO shoot him than TO let him die O
starvation, which
! it would But mother sees TO it thai
he gets all thai
He is entitled to during war time
! stopped in to see
Jessie this afternoon. She's AWAY.
SO sweet and
/ Everything. But she has come to b;
such house germ,
It's telling on her. / hate to tell hei
so. That might
Hurt her feelings. She's doing d
her mother wishes
( The answer is that nobody knows sh,
is alive. Some mothers
/ Are so selfish But Jess hasn't seemed
like herself
Since her mother made her break OF
!. with George. Fine
Fellow. True. be was a triEe wild
but he viii get over
That She may not know it, but sh
! did him good turn
When she told him he couldn't cal
any more. Now he's
Counting Folly She cares for him
too and SO does her
Father, and that won't be so bad 10
George if
He makes it a match. Father has al
abundance of that old
; Needful Which makes me think tina
Tom is poor
As church mouse Well, / don
care if he is He's
Cot ambition. He's good looking, toe
and | can't say
That for George. ! couldn't walk t
the altar with
An ugly man, even if he were ricf
! | pity girls
Whose husbands are not good looking
!? They must be terrible
! Burden to them, OF course they Civ
them everything,
And they are nice to them, but tina
, isn't enough. Not
For me. at any rate. Tom is comm
i up tonight. Oh, he's
: Wonderful. | simply would die
anything happened TO
Him. And he's going to war. He
to be flyer II
Could go along with him l wouldn
4 worry SO. But the
Government won't let me. That
b where the government is
e Wrong, Just think how | could hel
Tom if | were near him
E When lie is ordered to 90 up and e
Y some Germans. He
u Would be surer of himself with me {
his side. ] mean |
o Would go up with him II he wei
killed ] would want to
: BE killed, too. It's not right To /,
we engaged girls
/ Stay at home when our sweetheart
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