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Two Poems of Childhood
(Reprinted by Request)
KENTUCKY
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IN JUNE
The SOUTHERN RAILWAY is
many miles the shortest and best
road from St. Louis to Louisville,
Ky. For particulars as to the trip
in June write to
William Flannelly,
Traveling Passenger Agent,
Board of Trad Building,
Kansas City, -.-.-. Mo.
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Hello, Pop!
His photograph! Our joy and pride
The picture of our hoy who died!
I seem to hear, 'midst tears that
drop
Upon its face, his loving call
Come ringing down the darkened hall
To give me greeting: "Hello, Pop!"
It seems but yesterday he died
But yesterday we stood beside
His bed and watched his eyelids
drop
To sleep and wake In endless day
But yesterday I heard him say
With dying accents : "Goodbye, Pop ! "
Last night I dreamed he stood again
With face pressed to the windowpane
And watched to see my motor stop;
That when he heard me af"the door
He quickly toddled 'cross the floor
And met me, shouting: "Hello, Pop!"
Sometimes, when, daylight lades to
gloom
And ghostly shadows fill the room
I feel again the swelling joy;
For, from the shadows round about,
I hear once more his joyful shout
In boyish tones: "I'm papa's boy!"
When, after death's cold, chilly hands
Have loosed the last o earthly bands
And caused life's weary load to
drop,
I'll feel it is supremest joy
To meet, at heaven's gate, my boy,
And hear his welcome: "Hello, Pop!"
Baby's Shoes
Lay them away, stained by a mother's
tears;
Precious keepsakes through the com
ing years.
The babv's shoes, the tins now
slightly worn
Their spring heels frayed by run
ning o'er the floor
Lay them away, with heartstrings
wrenched and torn,
For baby's feet will wear them
never more.
But througli the gloom of all the com
ing years
The baby's shoes will ope the fount
of tears.
Lay them away, and sacred mem
ory Will cluster 'round them till his face
we see
Until in robes of angels' purest
white,
With harp swept by his little
fingers blest,
His smile shall banish all- the
gloom of night
And call us to his Father's end
less rest.
Those little shoes! Through-all the
coming years
They'll speak of him, and fill our
eyes with tears.
Lay them away! No more will baby
feet
Run to the gate with patt'ring music
sweet.
Upon the shores of brighter, end
less day
Pie stands. He smiles and waves
his hand,
And after we have quit life's weary
way
We'll greet our baby in that bet
ter land.
And so we'll keep these shoes through
all the years
That they may banish all our doubts
and fears.
TOUCHED A VERY POPULAR CHORD
DO YOU KNOW that the name
Llndeman in the piano world is near
ly a century old?
DO YOU KNOW n,i. i. ..t T .
deman piano was made in Dresden,
ouAuuy, m i.o,si Dy me austly noted
piano builder, William Llndeman?
DO YOU KNOW that his son Henry
Llndeman has for many years been
acknowledged to ho nnn nf th .
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est living experts in the scientific
construction of superior high grade
pianos, and that his grandson S. G.
Lindoman, is one of the most progres
sive of the younger generation of
piano makers?
9 Dq nYT P0W tllat tllG Henry
Ac S. G. Llndeman piano of today is
the best High Gracfe piano proposition
the market affordk when relative
quantity and price ro taken into
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Write for Catalogue and name of
your nearest agent to
HENRY & S. G. &NDEMAN
Fifth Ave. & noth St., Nework, U. S.
This department's protest, in the
issue of April 13, agamst the con
tinued "highfalutin" tactics of the
household economists, seems to have
struck a popular chord. The vast
majority of people in this country
have to figure closely in the matter
of household expenses in order to
come out even, and tney have neither
the money nor the time to follow the
directions of the eminent kitchen
artists who compile the menus for
the magazines. Letters are beginning
to arrive endorsing this department's
protest. Two of them are here given
as samples:
Mrs. H. M. Prince, of Pattison,
Miss., "a workingman's "wire," writes
as follows:
"I particularly line your depart-
ment in The uommoner of April 13
entitled 'Just Thoughts.' I have often
thought the magazine writers ought
to know that their written pages are
too- expensive for tne purees of the
people they are supposed to be writ
ten for. I am a workingman's wife,
and I know that most of the sup
posed helps are usually no help at
all. What they usually call for is
seldom, if ever, found in the working
man's home for the reason that he is
never able to pay for them. And the
saving' often explained cairaes a
much greater outlay to go into the
saving' than the scraps and left
overs are worth. It mystifies me that
these magazine writers can not see
this. You are quite right in saying
that the average workingman's wife
'is the best cook, the best manager
and the best household economist in
the world.'"
J. IT. McKalip, of Rew, McKean
county, Pa., also commends this de
partment's protest. He writes as fol
lows :
"I wish to thank you for your poem
entitled 'A Wail From a Working
Man,' and also for your article, 'Just
Thoughts.' I have been looking for
u uumuur oi years to una some one
with 'sand' enough to make replv to
those persons who dish up a break
fast, dinner and supper, on paper, for
tjie workingman. I have often thought
of answering and asking them to put
up three meals a day for the family
of the man who gets ?1.50 per day,
and has six in the family. How could
they meet all the grocery, clothinc
doctor and rent bills? ioffiS
to see your article extensively copied."
The people have had a surfeit of
expert advice from Household econ
omists of the Parloa school. What
weL8Tai ?j isomet!ins p&
nnnSffi ' , mstance, take a typical
condition and see how it may best
be confronted: y st
Here is a workingman and his fam-
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ily, consisting of a wife and four
children. The eldest child is a boy,
aged 16. The youngest is a girl aged
2. The other two, a boy aged 5 and
a girl aged 8. The father must bo
at work at 7 o'clock in the morning,
and he earns an average of $10 a
week the year round and that is a
pretty high average; The boy is an
apprentice and earns no more than
his clothing. The five-year old and
the eight-year old go to school. The
wife must do all of her own house
hold work, cooking, baking, wash
ing, take care of the baby and get
the two school children ready for
school, which takes up at 9 o'clock
and which is twelve blocks from the
house.
We would give a pretty penny to
see Miss Parloa, or any other of the
magazine economists, confronting a
situation like 'this. They would have
to get up about 6:30 in the morn
ing, get breakfast ror the father
and son and then put up two lunches
calculated to allay the hunger of two
healthy stomachs at noon. Then they
would have to wash and dress the
two children for school, take care of
the baby, sweep and dust the cottage,
do a lot of sewing, patching and darn
ing in the afternoon. One day a week
would be taken up with the family
washing, and another day with the
family ironing. About 5 o'clock in
the evening she would have to begin
getting supper the magazine econ
omists call it "dinner" and she must
not only make it nt the appetites
of three hard-working adults, but the
appetites of two lusty children and a
baby. In all this work sne must
keep the children amused and out of
mischief, and satisfy all appetites
on what is left out of $10 a week
after paying all other expenses rent,
clothing, medicines, doctors, etc., etc.
That the average workingman's
wife does all this and she does it-r
is nothing less than a miracle. The
magazine economists of the Parloa
school couldn't come within seeing
distance of it. Before they had been
at it two weeks they would have the
husband's wages mortgaged for six
months in advance. These magazine
menus "for a family of five" are
usually figured on the basis of feed
ing five dyspeptics who do not eat
enough to keep the average working
man's child from crying for a piece
of bread and butter between meals.
If some magazine economist will
offer a rational, reasonaDly safe rule
for meeting the condition above out
lined, seven million workingmen, and
seven million wives or workingmen,
will rise up and call her blessed, and
when the magazine economist dies
she will be mourned as no prince,
potentate or president was ever
mourned, and the monument erected
above her grave will be so high that
it will make the Washington monu
ment look like a hole in the ground.
Brain Leaks
Love laughs at jokesmiths.
It is a wise husband that knows
what to do at housecleaning time.
The trouble with some reformers is
that they carry too many side lines.
We would rather be the dog of
Bom,e men than one of tuelr children.
The real optimist often looks for
the worst of it in order to make the
best of it.
Our idea of genuine bravery in
civil life is to be the first man to
wear a straw hat.
A whole lot of married men re
serve all their clever stories and good
nature for use at the club
A Boston scientist has gone to the
rescue of pie, and has made his de
fense about two columns long. We
can defend it in about six bites if
given proper opportunity.
A lot of men who can sit for two
hours on the hot "bleachers" at a
ball game and never utter a protest,
are worn out after an hour in a cush
ioned pew in a cool church. Funny, -isnt
it? f
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