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Show SINCE SISTER'S HAD A STEADY BEAL' Sle used to help her mother with the dishes after tea. She often swept the parlor and was useful as could be. i A month ago, not longer, bho would j even mop the floor, But sister isn't helping with the housework any more. She has changed into a lady and we stagger from the blow; For her place is in the parlor now, that sister has a beau. Time was she did the dusting and she used to make her-bed, But the soft and lily whiteness of her hands may change to red. And she isn't taking chances, she remembers re-members if she toiled That the charm of her complexion and her beauty might be spoiled. So she's reigning in the parlor like . some queen of long ago And the work all falls to mother, now that sister's got a beau. It must be that she fancies she would lose him, like a fish if by chance he should discover that she'd ever wash a dish Or maybe that he'd never come to see her any more. If he learned his little sweetheart sometimes had to sweep the floor. But I notice dad and mother in the evening chuckel low As they watch the ways of sister, since she has a steady beau. EDWARD A. GUEST |