Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1916 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

In the Fall tired father’s fancy gravely turns to thoughts of coal, and he sheds nine kinds of briny as he sizes up his roll. He has thirty-sev«‘n dollars—two of them are plugged with zinc—and the outlook for the winter is extremely on the blink. And he hears the children clamor for a lot of winter duds, and his wife makes requisition for some bacon and some spuds: and his lovely grown-up daughter wants no poverty in her’s —she must have a stylish bonnet and a costly set of furs, and the son will need some money as he studies for the bar; thirty-seven hard-earned dollars won't take father very far. Father has so many problems that his hair has fallen out, yet it’s safe to bet a kopeck on that patient, dauntless scout. Somehow he will buy the bacon, somehow he'll provide the spuds, Susan Jane will have her sables, and the kids will have their duds; there'll be coal to feed the furnace, there’ll be comfort in the shack, while tired father fights his battle with eight stitches in his hack.

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