Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1913 — Walt Mason Writes Truths In Rhyme About Procrastination. [ARTICLE]

Walt Mason Writes Truths In Rhyme About Procrastination.

Walt Mason, the poet philisopher, never was better than in the following poem: “Some fine morning,” sais Tired Father, “when I have no chores to bother, I will buy some life insurance, so that if I cash my checks, my beloved wife Mi randy will have chunks of boodle handy, so the hungry wolf won’t scare her, and misfortune will not vex.” Poor Tired Father’s kind intention is too excellent to mention, but an auto climbs his person and he gives three whoops and dies; and his wife and kidlets wonder, o’er his coffin, how in thunder they will buy next season’s swatter, when it’s time to swat the flies. Some fine morning we’ll be doing things that now we are eschewing; things we ought to start and finish now, this morning, right away; much, ah much of our sorrow comes from waiting till tomorrow, when we ought to shed our garm.ents.and be cutting ice today. “Some fine morning-,” says the’loafer, “I’ll get busy as a gopher, and the natives all will wonder when on me they east their eyes.” But the morn for which he’s waiting never dawns and he is skating up and down the county poor farm, herding bees and butterflies.

WALT MASON.