Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1918 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

How sweet the child who says. *'] will,” when weary father cries, •‘I wish you'd take the ax and kill about a million flies!" The child who’s active to obey, who heeds, ■with cheerful brow, whatever Pa or Ma may say, is,, worth more than a cow. I have a pair of young galoots, and when ,1 bid them work, they answer me, “You bet your boots,’’ and never think to shirk. I say to them, "Go rake the leaves ■from off the lawn today;” they get their rakes and neither grieves that he must quit his play. 1 say to them, "Go paipt the pump, and mow’ the priceless grass," and the? go to it on the jump, and hand me back no sass. For such a wholesome brace of kids, it is a joy to toil, to buy them underwear and lids, and cake and castor oil. How sharper than a serpent's tooth, how Worthless and how bad. is that unseemly, graceless youth,-who won't obey his dad! For him the wor! Will bold no prize, the dump will be his borne: he’ll live unloved, afid w,hen he dies, no soul in town Will mourn.