The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-20
The Diary of a Young RuHan.


The Diary of a Young RuHan.
May IL got up early and played with my
engine till breakfast was ready. It's SVEN
engine and it's got Andy Gump's number 34s
on it. Then / went to Sunday school Win
sister 1t started to rain after come home
so sister took two parasols and went to church
after dad and mother and pretty soon tney all
come home in girl named Neomas Dig car,
so they didn't need the parasois after all ana
sister got ride and / wish had OF got one
too.
| didn't feel very good after eat SO l
and mother went to bed and had nap and l
felt goUd after that and mother said we would
all go IN to Billy's and, gee, was glad. So
we did When l got to Billy's he was asleep
on the lounge and he wouldn't wake up SO l
got his wagon and coasted down the hill and
tipped on the sidewalk, but II dldnt nurI
me any, and / pulled the wagon back up the
hill and coasted down some more. After awhile
l come in and Billy was up and lacing one of
his shoes and he awake then, so we both
went out again and / rode On his scudder car
and he rode in his wagon and we had swell
time l wish we lived back up there where
there is hill to coast on.
We stayed to BiIly's folks for supper and
then they had some ice cream and cake and
had to get down and take rest and then come
back and finished my ice cream. We come
home after awhile and went to bed.
May 15-After l got up this morning and
washed and eat my breakfast and kissed mother
goodby l went to kindergarten. We played
with blocks until it was time for school to start
and then We said our prayers and then we
learned to make letters and numbers and write
our papers. Dad says what do 1 mean write
papers, and l said, What do you s'pose God
made US for, and he said, what, and l said,
didn't He make US to work, and dad said 1t
was a cinch he was doing what he was made
for if that the case. And said, well that
was the case.
At noon l come home from school and eat
my lunch and kissed mother and went back to
school and wrote more papers Then we went
down in the basement again and the girls
danced and the boys set on chairs and watched
EN-. Then we got sticks out of box and
made Charlie Chaplin's house and put his win
dows in his house and made him a attic and
put chairs and windows in and made his clothes
and his nightgown. After got that made one
of the girls come around with the box and
one of the boys had to pick up all the sticks
down.
l come home in the afternoon and played
long time in the yard and got all dirty and
then when it was time for dinner mother called
me and had to come in and get my hands and
face washed and then dad come home and we
eat and then dad read the funny papers to me
and then 1 went to bed again
May 16-This morning l got up and done
about the same things 1 did yesterday. When
dad come home tonight mother she gone
to the west minister guild way out in the coun-
try somewhere in an automobile with Frank
Park. Mrs Park and some other ladies went
cars. too. So Dorothy had to get dads dinner
and a little girl named Evelyn was here and
they both got 1t and then Evelyn stayed to
supper too. Dad he left after that and said he
didn't have his colyum done and had to go to
the Office and finish it. So Evelyn's brother
come over and Dorothy made fudge and we had
a good time and mussed the house all up some
thing fierce. That's what mother said anyway,
when she come home.
May III done about the same things to-
day, too 'cept for what happened tonight. Gee,
mother and dad went to the Coliseum to hear
Galleykurchie sing song. SO l went over by
the telephone Office where a lot of boys was
playing and Leslie was there too The boys
was playing on lot of things that looked like
drums and a lady there said they could and
pretty soon aSman come and said they couldn't
and the boys told him the lady said they could
and he said she didn't have nothing to do with
it, that she didn't own the phone office. So the
boys said they would play on 'em anyway, SO
the man went and called the cop and all
run like speed away from there. Then the boys
went across the street and stole Johns tent
and Leslie went and told John and Johns IA
Their caught one of the boys and kicked him
in the alley, John said. Then after awhile
come home and Leslie come too and Evelyn
was there and we played awhile more and then
they went home and we went to bed.
lady lives next door and she's got little
boy named Harold that lives far off and she
sends him my diaries and he wants to see a
picture OF me, he says, but dad says he can't
print pictures of me. l don't see why, though
WHEN was telling QaQ WlaL TO put
diary he kept talking and l said listen and he
said am listening, and 1 said, How can you
listen when you talk, and he listened without
talking, then. l learned cute piece at school
and I'm going to put that in my diary, too. Its
name is Sometimes.
Sometimes my mother says to me.
See that woodbox, nothing in it
Bobby, you're such great big boy,
You can fill it in a minute
Next thing she says, now Bobby dear,
Split this kindling, l know you can,
The way you handle that big ak,
N.Y. just as good as any man.
But say. ma, if the circus comes
There's money on that shelf,
Please give me some and let me CO.
l know the way all by myself
She shakes her head and then she saws
Such a coaxing baby tone,
My Bobby boy is quite too small
To go to circuseS alone.
UP to date We had not regretted our lack
Of knowledge of shorthand. But after taking
dictation from the Young Rufian-whose con-
versatonal speed is the fastest thing within our