The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-05-12
TALES OF TOWN
A wensn's Question

|
Do you know you have asked for tn
costiiest thing
| Ever made nv the Hand above
i A woman's heart and woInan's life
And = woman's wonderful loyez
DO you know that you have asked fol
/ this priceless thing
I As child might ask Tor toy!
Demanding what others have died &c
| 4 win,
With the reckless dash Of boy.
You have written my lesson Of duty
/ out,
Maniike, you have questioned me;
Now stand ut the bar Of my woman's
soul
Until | shall question thee.
You require your mutton shall al
ways be hot,
Your socks and your shirts shall be
whole:
/ rsquirs your heart shall be true -
Gods star1,
Az pure - heaven your soul.
You require . cook for your mutton
and b4ef;
j require . far better thing;
A toGmStrsss you're wanting for
stockings and ahirtS--
look for . man and king.
A king Tor : beautiful realm called
Home,
And : man the the maker, God,
Shall look upon a. He did the hrst,
And say at II very good.
4 am fair and young, but the rose
From my soft young cheek one
day;
viii you love me, then, mid the fall
ing leaves, :.
As you did mid the bloom Of May!
Is your heart an ocean so wide and
deep
may launch my all on its tide?
A loving woman finds heaven or he'll
On the day she is made bride.
require all things that are grand
and true,
All things that man should be;
II you would give give this all,
would stake my life
To be all YOU demand OF me.
II you cannot do this laundress and
cook
You hire with little pay;
But woman's heart and a woman's
life
Are not TO be won that way.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The growing question now is, will
the coal we bought for nexta winter
hold out through the summer.
And while the world Is trying to use
legislation as a panacea for all the
ills, why not also pass law restor-
ing the 1921 fruit crop.
A man called on a jeweler with an
Ingersoll watch that was supposed
to have 4 luminous dial and said:
"The luminosity OF this dial has ex-
PRED; can get it recharged!"
It's true that it is not so much diff |
ference whether hen sets or sits,
but it does make n difference when |
she cackles whether she is laying or
lying.
American chemists announce that |
they have discovered gas that viii
put whole towns to sleep in war times,
but what is really needed is gas that
will keep whole towns awake in peace
times.
=
One good thing about being a good
ong hitter like Babe Ruth is that one
$ so seldom thrown out trying to
'treteh three-bsse hits into home runs
IS Ed Hayes did in famous game
many years ago.
81 saw picture show not long
lgo." said an Emmett girl, Gin which
girl took gun away from a man
Who was about to shoot himself with
I, and later married him. am look
ny for a man with gun"
As far AS | know, there is but enc
rtiele in the world that cannot be
ought on the installment plan.
hats woman's hat, which would be
ut OF style before the installments
ere paid. /,
Two men on the street Saturday
ere reading the old home paper and
on events that were re-
,rded therein concerning former
eighbors back in the old home town.
The Judge certainly did soak Jake
lark one said "He sentenced him
three years and ten days. Now, ,
nderstand the three years all right, |
at what was the ten days for I'd like
, know?n "That was the war tax
aid the other.
q Q . f.
Good advertising says man
ell up in that line, benefits any
,rm Of business. The right sort of
ivertising gives you = friendly feel ;
x toward Arm. It makes you be- :
eve that it win be both pleasant and