The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-21

lion came when we discovered our old war time
friend, "militaryism", in bit of his copy.
The Diary of a Young Rufan.
April 15-Nhen I woke up this morning
couldn't stay in bed cause tomorrow is Easter
and | wanted it to hurry up and come. SO
got up and then everybody else had to get up.
In the Afternoon Sister and me went down
town and went to picture show but didn't
like il much. Then Sister went to the ten cent
store to get some stuff TO make nests for the
bunny to leave my eggs in. Then we come
home and after awhile dad come home and
then after we eat dad and mother went down.
town. They said they'd be back early but they
wasn't So | went to bed so I'd wake up early.
April l6-Gee, l woke right up early, awful
early, dad said it was half past nye, and 1 run
downstairs to look for bunny nests and pretty
soon l found one out in the hall IN cute httle
basket with lots OF candy eggs in 1T and then
found mother one behInu the piano and
then 1 found one with great big chocolate
egg in it and / said, did the bunny lay that?
And dad says sure ne did, he some rabbit
Well, l CUES he is, all right
Then Sister and me had to go to Sunday
school over at Central church ana when We got
back mother and dad was gone to Broadway
church, but pretty soon they come home, and
ask dad where had they been, and he said
to Broadway and | said why didn't he go to
Central and said he wanted to surprise DR..
stevenson and he guessed he did, cause he said
he glad dad come to church once IN
awhile anyway.
In the afternoon UaU ana mOlHeT went 10
Central to the vesters service. l ask dad why
do they call it yesters service and he says
mustn't say anything about it but its cause
everybody that goes has to wear vest
says that's funny cause ladies don't wear vests,
and he says the subjick is getting too deep for
him and they went on to church
After awhile dad come home alone and it
was raining and Sister says, where's mother.
and he says, get on your buds, we're going to
the Bettses And started to get on our
coatsn ever thing and then it started to rain
harder. We waited little bit and then we
started out and then it started to rain so we
come back again and waited some more, and
then we started out again and it rained again
awful hard and we come back on the run and
gee. we found dad had left the front door wide
open. We come in and Sister sat down to the
piano and dad says she better play a little
cause music had charms to sue the savage
breast and his was pretty savage right now.
Then after awhile he said would go and
catch watch tower car, so we went over to
the corner in the rain and when the car come
along it had pretty near stopped raining. So
finally we got to Bettses.
They had supper pretty near ready and dad
said it was good thing, he was about starved
tc death. Gee, Alice had lot of Easter eggs
and two hens, too, but not the kind that lays
eggs like you fry. Her hens don't lay eggs
The Dummies lays the kind of eggs she got, same
as mine
Well, after awhile we thought maybe we'd
go home again. but it just kept on raining and
raining, but finally Mr.. Belts give mother his
raincoat and we borrowed some umbrellas and
went anyway and pretty soon it stopped raining
again and we got home all right
April III got up early but 1 couldn't go
to school account of the Sisters told me there
was vacation for Easter, so 1 played around
the yard in my overalls and got dirty In
the afternoon mother sent me to the grocery
store to get bottle of cream and they give
me some other milk and cream she had ordered
sc she told me to go back and did and they
didn't have any of that cream and 1 come home
and she told me to go back and get a mint
of milk and 1 did, and told the grocer man
she was trying to run my legs Off guess.
Tonight the west minister guild ladies' come
so dad says for Sister and me to come on
and we'd go and see Penrod at Spencer Souare
Oh, gee, that was a fine picture and Penrod
was good He threw another boy in a big box
OF mud and then they all jumped on him and
lady going by got hit in the eye and man
got all over mud and then Penrod fell in the
box and he was covered all I'D so Won copIdn,t
tell who he was and his mother come and
sfook him by the ear and took him home and
his dad took him to the wuodshed and Licked
him. Then once in school he Just flew right
up in the air out of his seat and few around
the ceiling and then flew out of the vindov
and went away and the teacher and all the
KIDS chased him and gee, it was funny 7 wish
l could fly like that And then Penrod and
some other boys caught two bad men in
old well and got their pictures in the nanara m,
ever thing Gosh, wish 1 was Penrod
When We come home mother give us all
some lehy stun with whipped cream on it and
then we went to bed N
April 81 just got up this morning and
eat breakfast and didn't do anything nnucb
linen this afternoon Sister and me went to see
Billy and Billy and me had fine time. We
worked up in his big swing and we was kind
OF glad to see each other cause we aim fo-
SO long Billy and his mother and dad are
coming to see us all pretty soon they said.
YEARS ago this is for the benefit of dis
appointed contribs' we penned a poetic n1sint
10 D. l. T. concerning the Disappearance of
tas We thoughD particularly neat scotch a;o
iect poem He printed the plant with mis- can
tloR: Cheer Up, Mac; We've Almost Got Down
NIX GLoTZBACH wants divorce from
Nine Matzenauer- The madame saws he was
an orehld and he was wild mustard and the