Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1920 — Off Agin, On Agin [ARTICLE]

Off Agin, On Agin

STRICKLAD W. GILLILAN

(Copyright) A CONFESSION. I do not dress as well as some, Before the public, or to hum. My loved ones call me, with a sob, A name that sounds to me like “slob.* It Is not that I am averse To looking very much less worse, It is not that I like to be The shabby hick folks know as ma. No, it Is merely that in youth I had such scanty duds, in truth. That when guests came I up and hld-i This is no jest! I surely did. Full oft my trousers (do not grin!) Had scarce a trace of bosom in. Such things are not a source of joy To any half-way modest boy. I wore this sort of uniform Through summer’s sun and rain and storm Until I was too old to learn To look aa_jnow tq look I,yearn. But I've grown reconciled unto The wayl have to look and do, Though I don’t dress as well as tomes Either In public or to hum. ♦ • * FINNIGIN FILOSOFY. I very town has uts local blowharrd that th’ home folks won’t listen to at all, but who ivary wance in a while corners a sthranger an* imprisses ’im till some citizen puts th* sthranger nixt. • • • It’s Your Choice. Weather suit you? If not, are you thinking of making trouble about It?