Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

Please note this little fact, I beg: It is the hen that lays the egg; the rooster does the yelling; he flaps his silly wings and crows, and points with pride a while, and throws some fits around your dwelling. And every time I 'hear him whoop and prance around the chicken-coop, a-feeling hunky-dory, I think of husbands I have known, who think that they, and they alone, deserve the praise and glory. They 'would ignore the patient wives who organized their misfit lives, when they were badly sagging, who bore the burden of the day, and helped to cut the swath of hay of which the 'hubs are bragging. There’s many a fellow known to fame who would have failed to win the game, but for some little woman, who, staying humbly in the dark, still made her old man toe the mark, with patience superhuman. And, having climbed from out the ruts, how haughtily that old man struts, how proudly tells his story! The wife beholds that crowing gent, and softly similes, for she’s content with a reflected glory.