Show O H H THE COUNTRY COLUMNIST By O. O W. W NIELSEN p.- p. H Did that there frost nip the plants in your gardens last week Dont Don't look like it helps a darn bit to cuss the thc weather man I 1 believe it would be kinda fun to be as old as Jim Ras- Ras mussen if you could do t h e work that fellow does everyday every day A fellow wants to know if the two the two legged skunks smell bad the kind as as leg four The two leg kind smell just justas as bad as the leg four-leg kind and th the smell lasts long longer r. r One reason Ru Rulon on Morten- Morten sen always gets the best of of the argument with me is be because because be- be cause ClUS he always jumps on me f first When I get up to the post office in the mornings and lInd see all those fellows standing around making big bigtalk bigtalk bigtalk talk it sort of makes me be be- be And then before I 1 get my bearings Rulon ulon will jump the gun on me and I Iam Iam Iam am licked before I even get started The other day someone phoned in and said I dont don't think those pioneer women had it so hard They Pley had dances and parties all t the h e time This reminds us of the lines in on one of the poems by Joyce Gilmer It goes some something something something thing like this his Because the road was steep and long and through a dark and lonely land God placed placeda a smile upon 1 her lips and puta put a lantern in n her hand Perhaps the little they h had d helped them endure the other things they had to do How would you go about making soap snap without lye Making stockings for the children children children chil chil- dren Cooking meals with just some wheat the stems of the white thistles some pig piS weeds and the stems of the black mustard plant And that was about all except a great faith in God that a alot alot alot lot of the pioneer women had to raise their children on |