Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1905 — Pushing the Old Folks Aside. [ARTICLE]

Pushing the Old Folks Aside.

When the babies are cross and a man would like a quiet retreat there Is none for Idm. Hut in a few years, when the children are grown and ho is in the way, tiie daughters aud mother put their heads together and originate a den. There is no den for the mother because she gracefully eliminates herself by sitting in the kitchen or running over to a neighbor's. It Is her natural disposition to hide in a corner or remove herself entirely, and it Is not the natural disposition of the father. Hence the den. It has a couch and some pipes and tobacco and the books which the neighbors haven’t got around to borrowing as yet, though if father begins a story to-day the book will be found to b? loaned out when he wants to finish It to morrow. The den is a fashionable way of pushing the old man out. If there Is one in your house, Mr. Man, don’t be deceived.—Atchison, Knn., Globe. No, Alonzo, a man doesn't neciMsarlly work because be has a Job.