The pioneer-review. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1920-current, 1920-09-02
HAAKON County TYPES.
(The Man Who Pulls Their Teats)

Y
There are many ways IN this
wide, wide world of making liv-
ing, but none Of them are more
honorable, more moral, more in
dustrious, or more uplifting than
milking COWS, unless it be running
a newspaper. On the morning OF
the Resurrection, when the ran
somed and jubilant souls are as
sembled, and Saint Peter picks up
from the top of the pile the be-
jeweled harp of sweetest tones,
there will be no need for volun
teers from among the common
folk. The first and best harp will
go either to a Haakon County milk
maid or to some newspaper man
But waving our claim, there is
much to be said for the Haakon
county man or woman who lives
and tolls, and tolls and lives, day
after day milking cows. That
course is ever onward and upward
and the man who takes sit can
hardly stop this side of the Gates
of Pearl.
In the first place there is more
industry to be displayed in the sue
cessful milking of cows than any
other occupation, saving and excep-
ting only the newspaper business
aforesaid. A cow must be milked
twice each day. Otherwise sne
joins the bolsheviki and quits. Af-
ter that she is no longer a useful
member of society, nor much good
to herself or anybody else.
Yes, my dearest Fredericka,
milking the COW is as regular as
the clock. In fact there is moth
ing else in all the world so regu-
lar except the rising up and the
setting down of the sun. About
the only difference is that in the
winter you beat the sun to the job,
and in the summer the sun some
times beats you to it. But once
you embark in the business, you
can count on staying with it. If
you think you can leave the milk
ing of the cows to stenographer
or clerk, like the lawyer or the
banker, and go off on a vacation,
you might as we'll take another
guess. A stenographer or clerk
can get along very well milking
farmers while the boss is away,
but they have almost no success
milking cows. This may prove
that farmer is easier MIXED than
COW.
No there is no laying off at milk
ing time. When other people go
off and have good time fishing or
at the state fair you stay at home
and milk the cows. If you go to
town in the afternoon, and con-
clude that you would like to stay
in for the movies, you know that
you must first go home and milk
those cows. If you are young
fellow, with frolic in your blood,
you may take your best girl to a
picnic. The picnic dinner is only
a curtain-raiser for the real per-
formance. As the shadows Of ev-I
ening advance you sit under tree,
somewhat removed from the
crowd, your hand falls on the
grass beside you; you look into the
depths of that girls liquid eyes;
you notice that the breeze blows
a vagrant but entrancing lock of
hair across her forehead; somehow
her hand finds it way into yours;
you fancy that there is little
pressure in her very finged-tips;
and you just let those shades ad-
vance. But, hell. you must GO
home and milk the cows. As you
leave the ground, the musicians
are tuning up for the dance. But.
you fairly drag that girl away,
because it is past milking time.
and the calves will be tearing
down the corral fence.
And as we have said. milking