Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

The cost of grub’s beyond all pardon; it makes me, rend my duds; and so this year I’ll have a garden and* 4 raise my greens and spuds. Like others I have formed the habit of buying all my eats, from cauliflower to potted rabbit, from succotash to beets. My spreading lawn has been devoted to grass, and still more grass, but after this it will Ke coated with blooming garden sass. I can not eat the lovely roses that scent the countryside; they’re gratifying to our noses, but are no good when fried If I should boil a mess of lilies, in place of cabbage head, the dish would give my guests the willies, and set them peeing red. I buy my cabbage®" from the grocer, my tulip bulbs I raise; and that is | why the wolf draws closer, and ■howls these dismal days. This year I’ll raise my prunes and onions, on these, my fertile lands, and ply the hoe till I have bunions upon my snow-white hands.