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Show IF: By Mabel I. Clapp If you can Hooverize when all about you The smell of breakfast bacon doth arise; If you have kept the faith so none can doubt you Upon the wheatlessness of cakes and pies; If you have saved and not grown ' tired of saving; If you have canned in fifty-seven ways; , If you have ne're been charged with misbehaving By substituting hash on meatless days If you have conservationed all you're able, And through it all forborne a look of pain, Despite the fact that' from the breakfast break-fast table There comes the plaint, "Oh, gosh! Corn-meal again!" If you can serve a patriotism lofty; If you can coax Friend Husband to forego The customary four lumps in his coffee And yet be satisfied to have it so If you can learn to knit and start a sweater, And find, when half done, sixteen stitches dropped; And pull the darned thing out and do it better, And never feel your zeal for service flop; ' If you can rock.and talk and plan a dinner And at- the same time deftly turn a heel. And quite forget the time when a beginner. be-ginner. Around the sock you painfully did reel If you can run a Red Cross entertainment enter-tainment And peel potatoes thin, and save and sew, And wear your last year's somewhat faded raiment, And buy a bond, and make a Kitchener Kitchen-er toe; If . you can watch the pennies like a miser; If you can knit and knit and knit and KNIT! Yours is the zeal that helped to can the Kaiser, And what is more, my dear, you've done your bit. |
