The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-25
The Diary of Young RuHan.

| Jan. 16-Soons as l got up dad he says,
young fellow, you start today and see that
Won I'LL YOUR diary this week cause I'm going
| To need il next Monday afternoon cause l got
! to go to the press club meeting Monday night
So $ pose I'll hafta tell him what do all
this week. 1 says, why don't you write your
own diary, and he says, folks like yours the
| best.
Well, mother she washed this morning so
| I went away to play with somebody. found
| Jackie ard played with him. But before that
Betty Ann come up and we went out and 1
| lost my bow and arrow that daddy made for
me- and felt pretty bad, too.
Sister come home from school after awhile
and she had some stuff she cooked at school
and she give it to me to taste and spit it right
out and told her it tasted awful When dad
come home 1 asked him would he make
another bow and arrow and he said, maybe,
SO maybe he will.
Jan. III don't know much of anything
happened today except l got up early and dad
didn't come till way late cause he went to
the again.
Jan. 1s-I got up early. 1 don't know why
have to say that but dad says everybody
that writes diaries always says when they got
up but think it's silly cause 1 always get
up early. Bolingers come up tonight and
played like l was a circus clown and Allen
laughed liked everything at me, and Mrs. Boil
niger played the piano and Sister and Mr..
BoGnger danced and then dad and me we
danced jig. We're some iiggers dad and
me. Then after awhile went to bed and the
Boiip gers went home.
Jan. 19-I didn't get up late this morning
Dau LIer 01QnC c1tner, 0ut he would of
liked TO. This morning a man come TO the
door and opened it and called mother and the
man said could he come in, he wanted to dem
om-strate some silk hozury. But mother said
didn't let him come for and she said she
didn't think she'd care for such demon stra-
tons. When dad come home she told him and
he laughed and 1 asked him why he laughed
and he Just laughed again. He's silly some
times. de said they had a good time at the
tonight, that Mr. Kendall pretty near got
his thumb busted off by Mr.. Fisher. / thought
they played basketball at the Y.
Jan. zV-Gee. 1 forgot to write something
down in my diary that happened-oh long
time ago. One DAY We all, dad and mother
some shoes and the man that was trying shoes
on dad didn't have bit of hair and l watched
him a lot. And then 1 said, Dad, would you
like TO be baldheaded? And mother she saws
Shhh. But didn't 1 asked dad again Dad |
would you like to be baldheaded and mother
she looked cross at me and shook her head, |
and then 1 didn't say it again. But dad he
says to me, what did you say, son? So had
to tell him. didn't 1? And dad he just laughed. |
so mother she sort of pologized to the man |
and he said he didn't care, he'd been that way
a long time.
There wasn't going to be any school this
afternoon SO l went down the street to meet |
Billy and l stopped in front of the college and |
waited. and waited, and waited and l got !
pretty cold. And pretty a young man
come along and was going into the college and |
he said to me, Are you cold, do you want TO
come in and get warm, and l said yes and I |
did so went He was nice fellow, all right. |
Tonight l told Billy l would go home and
eat supper with him and he said. all right so
went guess BillyS mother wasn't 'specting
me but stayed anyway and we had good
supper. Then we played long time and then
sister phoned for me to come home so l did
and went to bed.
Jan. I'll got up early and played with
Billy most all day. Biliy's dad is making him
bow and arrow so l bet dad has to make
me one. He says he bets he does, too. Mother
went downtown To the womans club and heard
a indian lady talk and then she and dad come
home together and dad said IL she hears anv
more Indian ladies talk he'll feel like eudow-I
ing home for INDECENT papoOsesS or some-
thing cause that's all mother could talk about
was what the Indian lady said. We all went
to bed pretty early
Jan. 2z-Well l got nm a little bit later .h;s
morning but not very much. Sister went to l.
central to Sunday school but Billy and me
stayed home cause it was so cold and when
Dorothy come home she was bout froze Dad l.
went downtown to the Office but he come right
back l guess 1t wasn't warm in the office 7 l.
w, went 10 see Elmer this afternoon and stayed
till mother sent sister after me- then we had
something to eat and I had a cold and dsd
put cam-frated oil on me and rolled me nm
and put me to bed. ~
. THOSE. OF you who cast your eve down
tne Goiyum tooay to see If your contribu-
ton mad been printed be of good cheer .sYour
object all sublime you shall achieve in time:
put we SIMPLY had to run the Young Ruf,s ,
diary today after holding it out yesterday
LATER John Rolf married her and 1
hey lived happily never after in a house So /
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