The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-14
The Diary of Young RuHan.

morning l heard him tell mother he had an
awful pain under his heart and he had cold
n everything, and mother says you can't tell
mo you don't catch more cold going to that Y,
and dad says oh prunes and she says, you
would say prunes but know what I'm talking
about and so would you if you wasn't stub
born, nobody can tell you anything, and dad
said something else that didn't sound very good
but 1 couldn't quite hear what it was and l
got up quick but they didn't say any more
We had our breakfasts together and dad went
to work. Then after awhile 1 went out because
amt got chickenpox more and 1 can go
out and play but sister she amt quite well yet
and she can't come out
got a new overcoat with belt n ever
thing. Dad says it's a better overcoat than
he's got and mother says that's all right, it's
on better man than you are. Most anybody'd
think she don't like dad the way she talks to
him sometimes, but I know she does. Some
times he gets even with her, though. The
other day she says, would you get married
again if I should die? and he says gosh, no.
don't burnt child dread the fire? I don't
know just what that means but mother she
seemed TO know. all right.
! Billy's dad took Billy and me over to Dav-
export this afternoon and he got us each
| little truck and a horn and went around all
the stores and looked at everything Santa Claus
| IS goin' to carry around to kids for Christmas
and we had swell time.
| Dec. 10 got up early this morning SOS
| could play with Billy cause he don't have to
go TO school on Saturdays. Dad he was
! grouchy when he come home tonight because a
man what was going to order a pair of shoes
! for him hadn't got EN- yet, and aad says if he
/ don't get EN- pretty soon he can keep 'em when
! he does get EN-. Mother says to me, my your
father Is getting hard-boled isn't he? but
what does she mean haord- boiled? Eggs is
| hard-boiled, is all know. l asked mother that
and she says, well, your father is an egg, son,
and dad says, yes and I'm bad egg too, SO
you better handle me with care unless vour
olfactory nerves are dead. What does that
mean, l wonder.
Dad and mother went to dance tonight
over IN Mohhe Dad he didn't want to go very
bad and mother says he makes her tired be-
/ cause after he gets there everybody saws he
seems TO have more fun than anybody else
Dad says that's only his little system. that
When he honors Rome with his presence he
| don want the Romans to forget that he's been
! among en- Well, l don't know when thew
got home but l bet it was late. Dorothy and
me went to sleep.
Dec. III woke up early this morning but
1t was dark and couldn't hear any noise SO
guess l went to sleep again and when 7 woke
up again it was pretty late Then we Ali cot
up and had breakfast together and after we
! got the SUNDAY paper and dad had read if
a"nlle ne went away to the office. He said
nc mad to write his colyum cause he didn't
I do 1t Saturday like he oughta | guess he had
hard time writing it cause he didn't come
] nome TIL late and then we had dinner. He
read me the Teenie Weenies and the funnv
paper and then he said he was going n -.
! my diary but guess he was too sIeenv ,cause
pretty soon he got ready for bed and we all
went 10 ped about O'Clock something
Dec latter dad went to work this Morn
! ing mother she called the man that tactad
them pretty red cards on our doors ana he
come out and took 'em of and, gee Sister uras
giad cause she could go out again. And in
the afternoon we went downtown and NoLad
al all the pretty things and the TOYS and tben
we went up in the Office and wanted dad to
come nome with US. But he said vor I;5c
nun on out of here l got to finish this colvnT,
you come back after awhile So We did 60
t aa,er a"nlle we come back and he wasn't
tnrough YET so he told to sit down and he
qulet, and so We sat down. There was t1o
Ieh lhere and one of EN- said to me beIIo
chlckenpox, and l said hello. smaIlnox enS
ne laughed at me, and 1 kind of sassed him
49, u0p .oIu me 10 keep quiet 1 talked too
MUCH. Ihen we come home wv
oh. forgot to write in NV diarv .ba. .,..o
got the chickenpox, too When sornahoS -
rnotner on the phone and she told me 7 taI+
nao and said, oh. gee. my best girls GOT tbe
chlchenpoG HEX, 1 hope she don't have II verv
pad. not no worse than did. didn't have i
SPEAKING of Alice. as The yorr, p,H
SO often does, the young lady's father taIIs nc
tnat on The evening her letter tn the d
appeared in the colyum they called On go
lttGnus- Wnen Alice entered the door she Iifr
go ner diminutive chin and remarked: "WaiI 7
made the column tonight" "eh'
Six years old and dyed-in-the-wooI co,vrr,
ian! ihat' We believe is record.
GAZING about us through (douhtla.s, AVN,
cal eyes We are reminded that sorneho5, go
Tor in4erred( that an honest man is the nobIest
work of God. 'he nooiest
HE doesn't seem to care abouf wartime
overtime oes He? RE NC