Show I J U s By B EDGAR GAR A. A GUEST TELEGRAMS Good news bad news singing on the wire Frightening the mother who Is sitting by the fire ComIng In the dead or of night rousing one and all Setting all the family to trembling In the hall Telegram the youngster shou shouts ts Forty lorty cents to I pay Something's happ happened ned mother sl sighs Read It right ht away of far away news th that t cannot walt wait News that rings the doorbell even cn thou though h the hour be late S News s that gets the family up or stops th thc evening even Ins meal meU S A little yellow ellow envelope en but much it ma may conceal Tr Trembling fingers sign the book trembling fingers hold S The little yellow ellow paper sheet on which the news is isS S told Business men get telegrams and never heave a sigh They get news nes from men who sell and men who want to buy S News of profits made or lost the business message brings I put ut telegrams we get at home ar are vastly different thIngs There they frighten women omen folks for once the word Is said A telegram is at atthe the door they wonder who is dead I Yet telegrams bring happy news Ive Ie known them come com at morn To tell us that to fri friends we love a bouncing boy boyS S was born Weve We've had em on our birthdays just with greetings fond and true S And telegrams inviting u Us to visit tons folks we knew But Dut never comes a telegram to our house night or day But moU mother er dreads to open it for sear fear of oC what say sa S Copyright l ia I Edgar A. A Guest i r S II 5 S S 0 |