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Show f JUST FOLKS " By Edgaur A- Ouact ' 1 HE LITTLE OIRL WITH A BROKEN NOSE. : Poor little girl with the broken nos-. Wondering why all the attention f" 1 To the l.abv now ami why daddy s knee isn't all oure as It psed to be . lh. It's a!l so strange ami It'S all so iueer. , xv,, 1 use.-l to have all of theilove, my dear. I Anrl now there's another trj .'lalm a share And somehow It Doesn't seem Just nulte I fair ! Wc can read the thought that so plainly ! lies I Beneath the furrows above your eyes: ; The mother can't plav ns she used to do j Anrl ncnd so much of her time with you. And wln-n folks come into the house you I miss The Hps they off.-red for you to kiss. They dance the baby about the floor And don't seem to care for you any more Time was that all eye setnfeu to shine I for you 1 And glow with Joy at the things 'OU"d flu, : But now unnoticed yon seem t be Pot the smile of the bahj la all they see. . They are kind to you. but in some strange way Your world has changed in a single day. ' And somehow yoO know it won't be the I same As It used to be before baby came. I'ooi little girl with the broken nose. Thai's ever the way that this old world goes Nothing we have shall we '..cep :'r long. We must share our laughter and mirth and song. And the changes come, and we wake to I find That always we're leaving some Joy behind be-hind j Time breaks all our noses In Just the way That yours has been put out of j"Int today. M. |