The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-17
YOUR OLD HOME TOWN

everything else forced on the mar
ket and bringing price far be-
low cost of production; thou
sands of splendid children in
every state kept from school by
adversely and without their fault;
100000 good American men,
women and children, without
jobs. credit, proper food and cloth
ing and the selfish, and cowardly
rich. fearful of a revolution ser
retely shipping their wealth to
Europe and covertly laying plans
for us free and intelligent Amer
leans to have dictator, like
sDuce" of ''Fuehrer."
Poor old China joined the
Allies in the World War; she
could send no army or fleet-but
she did send 10000 coolies,
whom the Allies used to dig
trenches, in France. The Allies
desert her now. God in Heaven
win cause Japan to pay aplenty
for her rape of a defenceless Ma
tion-incidentally, a moral: Let's
get prepared for real defence
OF America Mr.. A. E. Toad
vine, Maryland
Boyhood memories: Learning
my first prayer at mothers knee
THAT old swimmin hole--W
ing that first stiff hat and acct
.dentally sitting on it in church,
sounding like a dry gourd break
ing in a hundred bits or battle
in full fury.
Grandma's sayings: Old Luke
Parsons made all his money in
our town and sneaked off to a
mail order house TO save 80 cents
Ibis widow had TO hire pallbear-
ers one rainy day--No burglar
ever shot good cook--Divorces
haunt the home where maids and
goats milk SUBSTITUTE for mother
You are building your Heaven
every day-Women don't need to
be Shapespeares, Michael Angeles
or Sir Isaac Newtons; they can
marry them and own 'em-that's
much easier.
Tax termites these days: 5000
600 United States office-holders
escape taxes Federal Employees
pay no State Income Taxes and
State, County and City employees
pay no Federal Income taxes,
which is burning and crying
American shame" Mrs. Alice
Harris. Georgia.
Yesterday: Hearing Uncle Ned.
sitting around Dasey and Lay
tons old store waiting for
preaching" to start on q Sunday
morning and telling the home
folks OF his trip to that Conven-
cition in Chicago in. l896-watch-
ing his goatee jump up and down
with his Adams Apple" as he
cxcitedly told of jumping up on
his chair and hearing the begin
ming of that speech: .'The farmer
who goes forth in the morning TO
till his fields is as much a bust
nessnan as he who goes upon the
Board of Trade and bids upon
the price OF grain and he fairly
quivered from head to foot, as he
excitedly concluded that famous
speech OF Mr.. Bryan. you shalt
not press down this crown Of
thorns upon the brow Of labor,
You shall not cruelty mankind on
cross OF gold"
Young man. if you Just must
marry some girl. for PHYS sake,
marry a good cook and house
keeper. she win keep poverty and
divorces away. Times do change
and SO do people However there
IS modern Cinderella not the
sort Of 4 giri who lost her pro-
verhlal shoe. but The sort who
can Stiil blush; whose lips have
never caresseti cigarette or a
wine flask: whose hands and
brains can cook good meal, run
q sober and Christian home well
and economically. as well as make
q tasty dress Such a wife spells
. happy married life till the very
end, But she is setting as largely
extinct Ii some az our large cities
as the old diuosaur. YET, bless her
heart, she is literally running
loose IN our towns and small
cities.
Note. 50 each awarded weekly
and personal credit 10 local con-
sribusors. who send me ~ lio6
N w. 10th Street. Oklahoma City.
appropriate paragraphs published
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