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Show I ".DAD" GETSATTENTION. H Somc writer has come to the con- H elusion that dad is worthy of fayor- H able mention, the thought originating H when he recently visited a home H where he saw over the parlor door H the legend worked in letters of red, H "What is home without a mother?" H Across the room was another brief, H "God bless xpur home." H "Now, what is the mater with 'God H bless our dad?'" asked this loving H cliild. "He gets up early, lights tin H fire, iboils an egg, and wipes off the H dew of the lawn with his boots while H many a another is sleeping. lie H bbbbsj makes the weekly handout for the H butcher, the"" grocer, the milkman, the H baker, and his little pile is badly H worn before he has-bcn home an H "If there is a noise during the night H dad is kicked in the back and made to BBBJ go down stairs to find tile burglar land H kill hi mi Mother darns the socks, but M dad bought the socks in the first M place, and the needles and the yarn H afterward. Mother puts up the fruit; M well, dad bought it all, and jars and M sugar cost like the very mischief. M "Dad buys the chicken for the Sun- M day dinner, carves it himself, and M draws the neck from the ruins after M everyone is served. 'What is home M without a mother?' Yes, that is a 1 M right; but what is home without a M father? Ten chances to one it is a M boarding house, father is under the M slab and the landlady is the widow. fl Dad, here's to you you've got your fl faults you may have lots of 'cm jfl but you arc all right and we miss you jB when you're gone." Steptoc Stand- H ard. H |