Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1920 — Just Folks [ARTICLE]

Just Folks

By EDGAR A. GUEST

> AT THE END OF THE WEEK. When I have paid for what I owe, . The grocer asd the owl man, too, The boy who shovels off the snow And given the milkman what Is due, When I haye paid the monthly rent, And squared toe plumber for hie pains/ ' ‘ , I find that all I have is spent, y . * I can’t go wrong on what remains^ Let Folly beckon as she will, I tread the horizontal line, * When 1 have paid my tailor’s bill,, I am not apt to purchase wine. When I have paid for hats and shoes, The tempter has to hike along; I am no customer for booze, On what is left I can’t go wrong. I never get my fingers burned By mining stocks that quickly fall, The job with which I’m most concerned Is buying clothes for children small. I hear men talk of surplus dough But none of it I’ve! ever had. When Ilrnve paid up what I owe *' If I break even lam glad. . . (Copyright by Edgar A. Guest.)