Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1918 — A LITTLE CHANGE [ARTICLE]

A LITTLE CHANGE

By Walt Mason.

My wife keeps busy rqund the shack; she works until she strains her back; she cleans the dishes and the spoons, she darns the Shirts and cooks the prunes, she molds the pies and bakes the bread, and sends nineteen kids to bed. And every now and then I say, “You’ve had a long and weary day, so let us don our lids and go to see the ■ moving picture show. Or let us [seek the ice cream joint, and our jinsides with cream aniot. Put op ’ your-farthingale, my Belle, and let 'us go to yon hotel, and buy our ‘dinner for a change, and eat it in surroundings strange.” Then Susan Belle puts on a smile, and sings ‘around the coop awhile, and bids ' farewell to cares that cark, and says she's happy as a lark. Some small attentions, such as these, the jaded frau are- bound to please. They lift a burden from her mind, and they relieve the weary grind. I know so many working wives who might have sunshine in their lives, if their Old Men would only say, “You’ve had a hard and dreary day, so let us go, on eager feet, and see the dogfight down the street.”