Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1909 — “DAD, HERE’S TO YOU.” [ARTICLE]

“DAD, HERE’S TO YOU.”

We happened in a home the other night, says an exchange, and over the parlor door saw the legend W’orked 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 Are, toils an egg and wipes off the dew of the dawn with his boots, while many a mother is sleeping. He makes the weekly handout for the butcher, the grocer, the milkman, and the baker, and 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 made to go down stairs to find the burglar and kill him. Mother darns the socks, but dad bought the socks in the first place, and the needles and yarn afterward. Mother does up the fruit—Dad bought it all, and the jars and sugar costs like the mischief Dad buys the chickens for the Sunday dinner, carves them himself, and draws the neck from the ruins after every one else is served. “What is Home Without a Mother.” Yes, that is 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 a widow. Dad, here’s to you ; you’ve got your faults —you may have lots of ’em—but you’re all right and we’i'l miss you when you’re gone.