The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-19
The Diary of Young RuHan.

all got up TOO Sister she went TO SUNDAY
school but / didn't go. l guess Billy went,
though. l had grapefruit Tor breakfast ana
ii sHut juice IN my eye ana dad laughed but II
hUrI / tell you awful bad.
After awhile We went out for a walk, mother
ana DAD and Sister she nadnt come nome,
she stayed at LoraIne's mousse. Then alter
awnile we stopped some people mousse 1
nun / know what their names but They're
pretty good folks and they got iittIe boy and
ne got the SWEETEST tricycle. you ever saw.
mere was some oLner toIks there and Jney
mao IittIe glri and ner name was Betty Marie.
| liked her pretty much but then Alice is my
Weetheart. After awhile Dorothy found us
ana come in, too, and then pretty soon the
Ouner tnat there brought home
il mis- tord and l sat in the front seat with
ana ride last. Mnen got home dad said,
told you it was another unlucky day, the lnde-
pendents got beat. l asked him what the
Independents and he said they a football
team. l got a football | bet if l played with
item they wouldn't OF got beat
Nov. IA don't know EnuCh of anything
that happened today, but dad says l got TO put
down date ana say something just the same
he does, whether ] got anything worth say
ing not So l have.
Nov. Isl got up early again and
breakfast with dad and mother and had some
more grapefruit, but it C.dnt get in my eye.
| eat breakfast with dad and mother every
morning now. Dad don't get up early as ne
used 10. He says he ought To get up early
but he hasn't got the pep. l went over 10
the dump today and found the SWEETEST pair of
spectacles you ever saw sand dad fixed EN- with
the pincherS when he come home and l wear
EN- bet nobody could buy a better pair of
spectacIes than they are. iBily he ain got any
spectacles but Lawrence Murphy's got some
candy ones Dad went to the again tonight
TO take his exercises When he got home ne
said he had pain around his hip place.
Mother said that was nothing ne gave her
pain lots of times. and he said huh and that's
all he said but he grunted quite lot all eve
ming. l take exercises and it don't make me
have pains. l stand on my head now too,
pretty good.
Nov 16-Dad grunted an awful lot when he
got out of bed this morning. l heard him. If
was him l wouldn't go to that old if it
made me sore like that. But he Gays it's good
for him, it will make him young like if he
keeps it up. Gee, wouldn it be funny if he
got to be a little boy like me? Then could
play lot and | could rassle with him. and
1 bet L could throw him down. too. After he
went to work l went down the street to play
some place.
l found little puppy all alone and it was
raining and he was cold and shivered like
everything, so l took off my coat and wrapped
him up in it. and he felt lots better, betcha
But when l come home with my coat off moth
er says, what do you mean, young man, out in
this rain with your coat of the idea Won
come here to me- And | didn't want to come
but l had to and she licked me hard with the
razor strap and | cried some. | don't care, |
think that little puppy should ought to have
had coat on when it was SO cold and rainy
Then after awhile l went out again and
played some more and then sister come home
and | come in the house and pretty soon |
said to her shut up, said, and mother heard
me and gee she got that razor strap and licked
me again for saying shut up Gee little boy
can't say nothing without being licked with
razor strap. Then dad come home and mother
told MIN about me giving the puppy my coat
and ne laughed. And l guess maybe HE
lGT't NJ EPl xx-it
ned been home Dads is more like little BOYS
than mothers is But course like nv mother
she pretty good TO me most of the time and
/ like her. Dad says US men has TO make al
lowances for the fair sext whatever that
means.
Nov. 17-Well, dad went to the Y again
tonight and then when he come home we was
over TO the Peoples Across the Way and he
come over too and we popped corn and had
apples and popcorn and grapejuice and / want
ed him TO show the man how he could swing
me around by my legs but he wouldn't do it.
he said he had pain around his heart toniebt
and he was afraid this Y life was GOING 70
make an old man of him instead of a little how
he tells me sometimes I'm full of prunes 7
hau NOTION TO tell him that but l was kind
OIL lrald TO say it. We come home pretty early
and all of us went to bed except dad and moth
er SAID, l S pose you'll be rolling in ahout !
midnight and dad says how do Won exnect a !
newspaper man to keep posted on what's going |
Oh II he don't get a chance to read the ma |
pers and mother said whose fault is il that |
you don't get chance and dad said it's the
ault OF inexorable circumstances circum-
stances over which l. despite my extraordinary
Ingenuity nave no control and mother said oh |
pine and shut the bedroom door and we went
% sleep Dad sure is funny gink don't
Hhow What he's talking about half the time. !
Mother says neither does he
ALL HAIL THE KNICKER HYPHE,N ROCKER |
Dear Mac: Yesterday we had a discussion !
over the word knickerbocker, some said hvnhen
ana some said no hyphen. Finally our bripht
'ouhg iaoY SAID TO me (she whispered so teach |
IT wouldn't hear: 81 'e"en
Maggie You tell him that the present dav
Ahlckers affected by the ladies are very VERY
lEphenated! So there,
MERRY MAGGIE
nifty, Ell? ''Pns r.etry
Il M. ADD. NJ M
OUR congrats to Maggie. Some of onr
,ontrlDs attempt TO dictate to us hut none of
rem dictates his dctatoriaI offerings to
FRANCE will go the absolute limit" in re-
lncuon OF her land ornaments; hut France
VIII be the sole judge of that limit
AND that, We should say. is zero in Iim,-
r. z. MIG