A Little Change

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 October 1916, Page 3

A Little Change

(By Walt Mason)

My wife keeps busy 'round the shack; she works until she strains her back; she cleans the dishes and the spoons, she darns the 6hirt and cooks the prunes, she moulds the pies and bakes the bread, she sends the 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 insides with cream anoint. Put on your farthingale, my Belle, and Jet 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, andi bids farewell to cares that cark, and say she's happy as a lark. Some small attentions euoh as these, the jaded wives 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 lot us go on eager feet, and see the dog fight.down the street."