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Show f HOME, DAD AND THE BOY ' By FRANK H. CHELET J "CANT YOU GIVE ONI MINUTES PEACE ?" t itO '. H. Cftly. B.. .................. ...... r f Th Grouchy Dad f fcT'S give him the advantage J - of the doubt likely be suffers t from Indigestion. J For years he has made It a habit t of his life to look for trouble and J he has been wonderfully successful. He looks upon every carefree, y exuberant, noisy, dirty, fun-loving J boy as a necessary nuisance that ' must be tolerated against the day he matures and can shift for Lira- J self. , He Is always looking for the nl- J terlor motive In every boy sltua- t tlon, and cannot believe there la J anything worthwhile In the boy. He la as friendly with his boy as J are two strnnge bulldogs. He doesn't realise there Is no J more sense In breaking the will of a boy than there Is In sundbagglug the engineer of a train. t Fifty thousand American hoys re- volted against grouchy Dads In J this United States last year and ran away roin home. Tet a broken window la more easily mended thun a ruined boy and any boy will tell the truth when he Is not acared Into lying. Down with the grouch I J txnvtr. Colo.) |