Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1907 — STUB-TOE LAND. [ARTICLE]

STUB-TOE LAND.

How would it be to steal away, When sunny is the weather. And leave the town, all dull and brown, And Jog alone together, Down the road In the old-time way, /by lanes and fields a-smiling, —— Until we came to Stub-toe LandNow Isn’t the thought beguiling? It seems to me'twould ba sogood J. To go where nothing’s hurried, When clanking bells and all that tells Of strife is dead and buried : To Just forget the whistles’ screech, And things that’s irritating. And where the style of clothes you wear Don’t indicate your rating. / I think—don’t you?—this din and roar Just makes a fellow wonder If ail those things he used to know Still live in Old Baek Yonder. I'm not dissatified with life, And mind, I’m not fault-finding, But how would it seem to forget. Just once, This everlasting grinding? How would it be to drop the mask That we’re forever wearing, And be ourselves in Stub-toe Land— Back of the hills of Caring ? To follow the barefoot trail along, By lanes and fields a-smiling, It seems to me it would be so good— Now isn’t the thought beguiling ? -Milwaukee* Sentinel, Subscribe for the Democrat.