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Show DAD. I happened In ft home last night, nnd over the door saw the legend worked in letters of red "What Is Home Without n Mother." Across the room was another brief desire 'Ood Bless Our Home" Now what's the matter with 'Ood Illess Our Dad." He gets up early, lights tho fire, bolls un egg, grabs his dinner pill, nnd wipes the dew of the dawn with his boots while many a mother Is sleeping He makes the weekly hand-out for the benefit of the grocer, milkman, butcher and baker und his little pllt Is budly worn before he has been home on hour. He stands oft the bailiff and keeps the rent paid up If Johnnie neids n new pair of boots " 'cause he's Just walking on the ground," dad rocs down In his dip nnd con cs up with tho price of a hard da) s Bweat If Maty mods a new llbbun for her lnir, mother ec ns for n new wrapper, nnd the blby owls for n rattle, down goes dad again and up comes the coin llut If he bU)H n new pipe for u quarter because the old one lias getting kind of stmng, he Is wttrncd thut smol Irg Is an expensive- habit nnd that men haie smoked up blocks nnd farms and happy hornet) When show time nrrlies dad comes up with tho price, and mi goes out with the neighbors, and Flora spaiks her beaux In the parlor. Dads clothes nln't none too i'ooJ nnd grime will stick, so he sits In the kitchen with tho kids It there's a uolso during tho night he Is kicked In tho bnik, and maoV to go down stairs nnd find the burUar und kill him Mother darns the socks, yes, she doi s, but dad bought the socks In the first place, and the needle and jam nfterwnrd Mother docs up the fruit Well, dad bought It all and Jars cost like tho mlsihlcf. Did buys chleken for tho Sunday dinner, curves It himself, nnd di.iws the neck fiom the ruins ufttr en ry one else Is pen ed "What Is Homo Without a Mother?' Yc, that Is nil rlcht But what Is home without a father? Tin to one It is a bouidlng-house father Is under u slab, nnd thu landlady la the vrldow, Und, here's to ou' You've got )our good points und the) '11 miss )ou when )ou'ro gone Txchange |