Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1912 — “Dad, Here's to You.’’ [ARTICLE]

“Dad, Here's to You.’’

“We happened in a house the other night, and over the parlor door saw the legend 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 tip early, lights the fire, boils an egg, and l wipes off the dew on the lawn with i his boots while many a mother is sleeping. He makes the weekly hand-out for the butcher, the grocer, the milkman and 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 ( goes down stairs, to find the burglar land kill him. Mother darns* the socks, but dad bought the socks in | the first place and the needles and thread afterward. Mother does up all 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 is served. 'What is home 1 without a mother?’ Yes that is all ■ right, but what is home without a | father? -eu chances to one it is a I boarding house. Father is under a slab and the landlady is the widow. Dad, here's to you; ybu’v.e got your : faults—-you may have lots of them — but you’re all right and we’ll miss you when you are gone.” ' \