The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-07
The Diary of a Young RuMan.

Jan. When | got up this morning said
Hello. dad and he didn't say nothing and I
thought he looked like something the mat
ter, so ! asked him was something the matter
and then he griDned and said he had been
troubled with something but it came out all
right early this morning. But l didn't know
what he meant mother told he got sick
from eating too much pie and whipped cream
| guess | went ever eat any pie and whipped
cream Dad says he knows he won't ever eat
II again. He went to work. though, so l guess
he felt better.
Gee. in the afternoon Alice came and
brought her mother and dad and George anu
tlen pretty soon dad come home early and we
nad something to eat again. 1 guess every
body liked noodles. Dad said 1t was a good
thing they did cause they'd been out of luck
ii they hadn't. Alice and her folks stayed "A
long time and Alice and me played with some
OF my games. We played with my Crazy
Traveller and Alice liked it fine That's a top
what you spin in a box and it KNOCKS down lit
tie tenpins. Dad says they're tenplns, 1 don't
know. That's a game granoma sent me ami
dad says she bawled him out cause he never
mentioned 1t and he says he 'spects l better
say something about it.
After Alice went home then Sister and me
had to go to bed, we did And l guess
mother went to bed, too. but dad he stayed
ny late. Maybe that's why he don't like to
get up early the morning. He should ought
10 go TO bed early like me and then he'd want
10 get up like me, too
Jan 81 woke I'D earlv and if was dark
SC layed still and listened to see if maybe |
could hear dad get up or something, and pretty
soon l heard him. SO then l got up too and
came out in the kitchen. And dad says yo ho
my hearty, twas heavy gale but we wealth
cred the storm and reached port safe. And |
said what, and he said we lost our miZzen
topsl and jib and the decks was awash scores
CT times, but We made 1t. And mother saws
what do you talk such nonsense to a little
fellow like that for, he can't understand Won
and neither can |. for that matter. And dad
says that's cause you're a landlubber like your
daughter, and mother says don't you cali me
landlubber or I'll throw this gra pefruit at
your head. And dad says, l amt afraid of
that. you like 1T too we'll And then he saws
anyway, it's a cinch Dorothy is a landlubber
cause landlubbers get seasick. and if she
wasn't seasick last night at midnight then I'm
a Chinese mandarin.
So then after awhile when he got through
talking silly like that l found out that Sister
got awful SICK in the night and couldn't keen
her supper down r nothin', cause she had ct
toe much fudge. That's what girls gets for
eating fudge. l don't eat much fudge. Mavbe
folks might think that amt SO, but il is
Mother says l don't eat enough of anything to
keep sparrow alive, but I'm strong YOU bet
l bet I could knock dad down if he'd get me-
some boxing gloves like he said he was going
TO get me. He says he wishes he had mem
DRY like I've got.
Billy had to go to school today, SO I didn't
have nobody to play with and mother didn't
1eei very good, so l had Tough time Then
udu he u-uH cOiHe nome Jlll way late 'cauSa
he went to the Y again tonight but | sat I'm
TO the taPle and helped him eat his supper.
He says I'm lots of help that way and maybe
Ii keeps him from having Indigestion, or some
tang like that He had half grapefruit. to-
night and, gee like that. Mother likes il
too Dad says she's with grapefruit just like
a snowblrd is about snow. That sounds FUNNY
What is snowbird, l wonder Well I got tn
go to bed again. But have lots of fun when
dao undresses me. Whom he pulls off NV
shoes L get up and run away and he has 10
catch me-. then when he pulls off my overalls
L run again and he has to catch me- and RIM
away every time he takes something off till
amt got anything on and then 1 can run
faster and sometimes I hide behind door or
under the bed and he says young man, come
on out here now. you've monkeyed around long
enough, but don't come and sometimes he
acts mad, but 1 guess he amt very much ana
then finally he catches me and puts my pa
jamas on and throws me into bed and then
i have to stay there.
AS other have said, the De Valera in Ire
land has ended.
BUT the devil only knows what they'll do
next b. E MIG.