The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
LOOK OUT FOR
PETER PERKINS
The Story Of Man who Came To.
BY Abby Mcguire Roach.

by ABBY Mcguire hoacn.
II was nearly Rine o'clock when Pc
ter got in from the field that night
They were saving hay and daylight
and he was tired. Noon to nine was
some stretch to 90 without taking on
any fuel. Resides he was grouchy
jim had had to 20 or with the draf'
that day!
Mamie, who was watching. had his
meal or the table by the time he
was ready. She had had n hard day
herself, what with Jim and the house
and the babies. But she was there
with the goods--hot stuff and she
shore gave a man some plateful! Pc
ter felt the comforting effects Of that
meal before he had gotten at 1t.
And still he had to have his growl
"Fine time O day t be settin' down
{ supper ~ he said. Might as well
be some o. them Moo York swells-
dinner at nine, and then on { show
an dance"
"Weil, one more job E tn good,
Mamie smiled. ITS like the service
flag painted on the big, white barn
would have another star put on it
tn lady said t'day--we are tn folks t
practice whut folks like her are
preachin'; and she said she didn't
know but whut ourn wus Nh hardest
part.
II went In with Jim, y know, and
afterwards l stopped by and heerd
tnat lady from tn other side that tn
Governments sendin' round. My, but
1t makes y understand a lot better
somebody talk like that, that's edu
Gated, an as been there, and en- make
is all 50 clear!
''She says tn war hasn't really
touched this country yit; we don't
know nothin' about smoke er blood er
havln' t do without, not really. Why,
she says in her country tn little chill.
dren have been savin' their sugar fer
their soldiers, and in RoOshia and a
lot o them other places over there
they're Twin on stuff that we woudn't
think was fit fer mSch of anything but
tn pigs.
'She says we sent ten million tons
o. food over last year, but this year
It's got T. be fifteen million. We fed
million an half o. our soldiers,
hut next year it will be twict as many,
besides all them other people behind
In lines.
"She says we've just got t cut out
.-rnore-waSte an all these luxuries
and extrys er we will want, even et
we haven't done it yit, an everybody
Rise willard git licked, toO-yit-
with Jim in it-ef we don't do our
part in every way"
where's that half O. pie that VIZ
left from dinner" Peter inquired,
having just about demolished all Op,
position and looking for fresh terrain
to turn his attention to.
"Oh, Peter, you cant have dessert
twict day! Whit was I just telIin
y? Pie takes sugar and pie takes
flour and pie takes shOrtenin', and "
know it's all them things that tn
GOvement wants us t. save fer tn
soldiers an tn other people over
there"
"Oh, fer tn Lords sakp. Peter
broke out. Food. food, food, and
money an other people ever sence
tn start o. this damned war. Seems
like Teller en- have anything he
wants t eat just SOS he don't want ii
and it amt eatable. I'm sick t death
O. food"
''COrn-bread and vegetable and fruit
and eggs and milk and chickens, So
Mamie murmured.
But Peter was in no mood 70 listen.
"Carin' more about all them other peo-
pie than about your own husband aud
children Carin' more about them
people over there than about all us
people over here! We're just as i'm
portant as anybody. We do just as
much. We do just as much as the
soldiers. Jim says 80, and you know
it. They couldn't git along without
us. Look out fer Peter Perkins is my
motto. W'ye got t 40 our work and
we've got t have our food t do 1t on. 4"
eth, lady said" Mamie spoke after
a moment in quiet voice. that some
people seemed like they couldn't un-
derstand until it got them er some o
tn people they cared about. She said
that was why 30 many people was
just beSlnnin' t. Internationally
in this country. But she said"
Peter had gotten up and was look
ing around him like a baited bull, and
Mamie rose, too, her voice urgent and
shaking a little with emotion, "she
said when anybody ORct had seen sr
understood, they couldn't never git
away from thinkiR' about 1t, an
carin'; II was like havln' somebody o.
their own in it; all them millions o.
people over there, Bghtin' and suffer
in an dyin', er sick and starVin' and
homeless, while we only have T. work
a little harder and eat a little more OF
. different kind o. food."
Observation-Disclosures. Peter half
laughed, half growled. He was look.