The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-01
COFFEE AND TOBACCO.

The p1pe-Of-peace ana coHee-pedn 10 MAIL
Though prudes may rave and crazy people
frown,
Wen quan the precious nectar down;
Though ladies jeer and preachers choke,
Well smokei and smoke! and smoker
81 SEE by tn paper" telephones Aloysius,
that Misther Canum rafuses t pay debts 'cept
thin contracted by himself. Now, why, d'yez
suppose, did tn Missus Canum?"
The Diary of a Young RuHan.
Sept. 26-Gee, when 1 got up this morning
dad said | had to give him some dope for my
diary Well, l got a fierce cold and l don't feel
much like making diaries or anything. My
mother sne's worried about me. Amt mothers
the funniest things? She just got through
telling me the other day God would take care
OF me but just the same she makes dad rub
with some nasty greasy stuff and makes
me take medicine l don't like and then she
won't give drink quick. Little boys has
hard time in this world, all right. Dad went
away to the office again this morning. L don't
see why he goes away every day. SISTER goes
to school and Billy goes TO school and every
body goes some place except me and mother
and l have to get out my pIaythlnSs and play
by myself. l have fun, though. L got d lot
of the dandiest blocks of wood with nails in
EN- that l play trains and boats with. Dad
says 1 got more junk around the house than
truck could haul away. 1t amt either junk.
It's playthings. Dad, he's kinda funny, too.
had long ride in ford yesterday and we
got stuck in the mud and everything and had
lots o fun.
Sept 27--I wanted to get right up early
this morning but dad and mother they said
stay in bed young man, you'll catch more
cold, you wait till we can dress you. 1 didn't
stay there, though. l got up and then dad
maze NE go back and l sassed him and he
said I'll take the razor strap to you, young
man. if you don't mind, and 1 said, all right,
just try it, then. and-gosh, he did 1t hurt,
too, and i cried. l didn't think he'd do it
or [ wouldn't have said that. Boys can't ever
tell about dads but l think it's not very good
tn 'an in the morning because sometimes
they re grouchy then and liable TO spank you.
Sometimes when I'm mad at him l tell dad
don't like him but l don't mean it very much.
But I'm only five years old and | don't know
very much and don't think he ought to spank
me when he's big man. When get big
amt going to spank my little boy and If he
wants to get up early in the morning why,
I'll let him get up and he won't need to put
on clothes if he don't want to. Dad says I'm
scheduled for a grand awakening some day.
Now what does that mean? He kinda makes
me tired sometimes. but I'm scared to tell him
that. He went and rubbed me with that greasy
stuff again tonight and made me go to bed
early. Gee.
Sept 28-I woke up early sames 1 always
Go but l didn't get up and pretty soon dad told
Sister to get up and put on my stockings and
my bathrobe and she didn't want to very much
and l thought maybe he'd spank her too but
he didn't. He just said now, Dorothy, you do
as I tell you right now and l guess maybe
she thought he might spank her so she did, but
my stockings didn't stay up very good and
didn't like that, but L got in my chair and eat
some fakes and egg and some toast and
had little piece of cake. too 1 don't eat
very good at the table but like to eat when
It amt meal time. That's more fun. Then
can go outdoors and eat and play, too. To-
night when dad came home he had a new
song man sent him but he couldn't sing it.
bet l could sing it if l wanted to sing it.
Ny dad he don't know much as some folks
think he does. If he did he could sing that
song. But he says even if he don't know much
tteys more folks that knows less than they is
hat and Iona ha h1
with it why it's all right l don't know lust
what he means by that but then 1 don't pay
much tention to him when he talks like that
He says that don't hurt his feelings any be-
cause lots of other folks do the same thing
Gee If he wasn't my dad don't think I'd have
much use for him. He says he's going to get
me "a set of boxing gloves and then we'll fight
it out l bet can knock him down, l bet, and
Billy and me will fight with EN-, too. Dad
says he's going to make a fyweight champion
out Of me, whatever that is, but mother looks
mad when he says that and says, that's a fine
ambition for your son, he's going to college
and be somebody and not waste his time like
his father did and then dad grins and says
well, you picked out to be his dad don't
knock your own good judgment like that and
mother she kinda smiles and don't say nothing
and that's all she says. Little boys have TO
listen to lots of silly talk from mothers and
dads but / s'pose they can't help il.
Well, it's bedtime again and course~dadJI
grease me all up again. He's got a cold his
self Why don't he grease hisself ami let me
! T.
make SO much oiHerence about him because
his life's insured and besides mother could get
another husband but she couldn't get another
IItie ooy IKE me wonder what makes him
talk so silly? Mother says So does shell
JUST moment Aloysius is at thei nhona
again. Il see by tn paper" he says, fthat a
thing has happened tn which have lo51p nre
dicted: a ehiropractor decided T. use TIL knife
But" he chuckles. -he seems T. lack IN, sLin
kav tn complate surgeon-th' patient died
(WHICH causes Us 10 wonder if c1ironrsc-
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