Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1916 — Dad, Here’s to You. [ARTICLE]

Dad, Here’s to You.

i We happened in a house the other night and over the parlor door saw the legent worked in letters of red: “What is home without a mother.” Across the room was another brief “God Bless Our Home.’ Now what’s the matter with “God Bless Our Dad.” He gets up early, lights the fire, boils an egg and wipes off the dew of the lawn with his boots while many a mother is sleeping. He the weekly handout for the butcher, lhe grocer, the milkman and bajcer„ pnd his little pile is badly worn before he has been home an hour. If there is a noise during the,night Dad is kicked in the back and goes downstairs to find the burglar and kill him. Mother darns the socks in the first place an 1 the needles and the yarn afterward. Mother does up the fruit. Well, Dad bought it all and jars and sugar cost like the mischief. Dad buys chickens for the Sunday dinner, carves them himself and draws the neck from the ruins after everyone else is served. What is home without a mother. Yes, that is all right, but what is home without a father? Ten chances to one it is a boarding house. Father is under a slab and the landlady is the widow. Dad, here’s to you. You’ve got your faults. You may have lots of them, bqt you’re all right and we will njiss you when you are gone. Written by J. P. Simons, 1003 East Douglas Ave., Wichita, Kans. The above was received in the'mail from our former townsman, Dr. Simons. He sends regards to his old friends and says he is enjoying the best of health.