The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-11-08
Letter to a Country Mouse
From Her City Cousin

Dear Mouse-wen here 1 ar right n the midst of things and feeling
exactly Ike a moiecuie. Lonesomef Wei. 1 should sy 90 " n $ II as
city crowds make n feel 50 unnecessary? When you stroll ut into tn
country. surrounded with the chickens, pigs, sheep. goats and cows and
pigeons and thousands and thousands of tiny folks that &c to make up the
crowded country nfe you feel that man is indeed lord of creation ut when
you stroll out in the city and meet these same folk, just because they have
put n human shape. you feel quite small and inferior me abashed Tor they
are all here, Mouse, dear, every single one-even to Greedy and Grunty, my
prize Berkshirs. 1 unched at the lex table to them today. The only
marked difference was that there was no pen around them ad Greedy wore
beautiful diamonds. Grunty made just as much fuss about mis- GOD You
would have thought Washington put o the sugar restrictions with no other
purpose han to annoy him. N as lie eu zNeu anu rum anu !" "t
his fat jowls. red and shaking, as he tried to STUFF inc complain to high
/ was tempted TO yell "Sewey" and drive him and Greedy back to their pen.
1 don't believe he knows o cares to know that If he and his tat companion
of beef products during h month of March to u hungry allies over
yonder. 1t lean nothing to them that before We entered tn wr we e *
wa this had increased to 125NOOOO pounds, and in March of this year the
more than six times the norm and so per cen greater than any other month
during tn last seven years This is what "porkless days ave one. SO
it's back to the pen with Greedy and Gruntyl
The old Dominecker rooster had w punets to lunch at the table just
next to mine. and he a shaking his red watles. Tapping MS wings, scratch
ing straw and showing off generally. He was sixty, and a grandfather II II
was a day. and the girls could not have beer owe twenty-five and pretty d S
big Office building where Daddy Dominecker heads a loan business N be-
leve me- foo conservation meant nothing in their young lives, 81 long as
goes without saying. They were built along leghorn lines, and in spite or
their system. Two goodlooking young aviators were just across from them,
SO m o them would engross omin@kers attention Will the other inrted
so perfect that poor old rooster paid the check, which would have bought
W 6vadolor War Savings stamps and or a long way on the third, and
to smile "goodby" at the sodiers-and make a date to meet them in the
moonlight, I hope, fol youth should call to youth. Mouse, what is it that
blinds a nal of sixty and q woman of forty to the fact that when they act
krtenish they never fool anybody but themselves. and the world laughs at
them and not with them!
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Mouse. I have a nice juicy bit of scandal that I would write you but 1
trely too nsque to be read by modest brother John or Mo1ie of thu tender
years, SO 1 will postpone it. In the meantime know that in the midst o all
n exciting and sights-the heady experience of nibblng this strong
cnys cheese think of you and love you. So dear out of the peace ana
great space in which you ar moving, send a quieting honey letter to