The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-10

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Dull CARE.
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LINES ON DAUGHTER
"a lady chides us because, while we write
many poems about our son, We write none
about our daughter.)
In late years I've been partial there's no
Toward my son; and now 1 s'pose I oukhter
Forget him for bit and write about
My daughter.
I used to sing her praises long ago
In quaint and airy bits Of versifying.
She was q sweet and clever child, there's no
Denying.
A pan Of milk she once poured on her hair
When she in size and stature was atomic;
We laushed-because her actions were SO YER
comic.
And once, when two years old-or little more
She tried to work the grocer. Mr.. Sutton,
To sell to her sack Of candy for
A button!
A little laters(now, of course, grin
To think of it, but how the kid did shiver!)
She added to the list by falling in
The river.
The things she said and did were bokoo'
clever.
Recording them might write on and on
Forever.
Alas! she's older now, and wiser, too,
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Her favorite jest is: Il don't WANT to do
The dishes!"
ANOTHER reason Cf there be q reason)
for not writing verses about our daughter is
that she is ready reader and might be spoiled
by reading rimed encomiums about herself.
The Young Rufflan Who Calls Us Dad cannot
read When he does learn to read-well. we'll
be up against 1t. that's all. Some day, how
ever-who knows?-we may have opportunity
to versify about our grandson.
The Miraculous Escape Of Mr.. Tubbs.
[From the Sherrard (Ill) Bulletin]
Clyde Miller, an engineer Of the Prai-
RE Pipe Line at Ponemah. Mrs. W. R.
Tubbs and her daughter Laura. at whose
home he lives, were poisoned recently.
The poison is supposed to have come
from stale butter milk. Mr.. Tubbs who
is also an engineer, did not drink any
effect.
HAVING nothing better Tor worse) to do
we may as we'll find fault with yesterdays
Ecolyum. After writing it we didn't see until
1t appeared in print: otherwise we should say
nothing The paragraph about the number of
words in the bible was shy full line; prob
ably you didn't miss it, however; twas bum
paragraph. anyway. In N. U. Hands Alpha
betical ri" we note 'epicurian" and "quoto-
dian. while in another paragraph appears
mediation" for meditation. -. Trifing
things. of course. We merely mention them
because we have mean disposition.
Hope This Finds Him Feeling Up to scratth.
From the Aledo tIll) Democrat
R. L. Poffenbarger is trying to act
cheerful while being housed up at home
with a severe attack of hives
WRITING on Packy Mcfarland t'other dav
the sports page says: Speaking about bad
habits Of smoking, ETC.. he said: I feel that
what I've never had can get along without"
Which reminds Old Hickory of the "Arst
and last time" he ever saw Packy. He was
seated at table in dance hail." relates O. H..
with his right hand gripping the handle of a
full stein and in his mouth he held long black
cigar"
STILL Old Hickory doesn't say Packy was
smoking the cigar nor that he saw him drink
the beer.
Throwing the Calf Into Gossip.
[Clipped by the telegraph ed. from a secular
publication
One OF his old pupils sends a tale
about Dean W. D. Wilson, sometime of
st. Andrews Divinity school, in connec-
ton with a recent paragraph about
dancing. A notorious gossip from some
other religious body came to him one
day, burning with Indignation: "Oh, doc
tor, have you heard the disgraceful
news! The young people Of your church
are going to have dance, they say.
How shocking! What do you think about
it," To which the sanity scholar re-
sponded sweetly: Madam, I had rather
have them shake their legs than their
conquest"
THAT, we conjecture was before the DAYS
Of shaking the shimmy', else the gentle dean
might have been at loss for a reply.
The Diary of a Pale Blue Ass,
May e-Neglected to make any entries in
this diary for the past four days Just "a we'll
perhaps. Finished "Potterism" tonight. II ia
fairly entertaining recital Of the doings of
group OF more or less Intellectual persons. each
one lacking mental balance wheel. "As told
by Leila Yorke" is pitiless portrait The
punctuation in the book is Intentionally
so. perhaps.
May 7z.Today's oolyum very readable a.
had little part in 1t. But preparing Mondav's
colyum SO much the harder for yesterdav's
vacation.
May eThe sins Of the fathers, It is written.
are visited upon the children. But NOT nv
children My sins are visited upon me-and
without delay. Up early and to the Watch
Tower to play ball-Argus vs.. Postofice