POOR OLD FATHER

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 66, 18 March 1911, Page 6

POOR OLD FATHER

While mother is loafing around with the kids or wasting her time with , the brcom. Or taking her ease as she scrubs on her knees the woodwork in room after room, Poor father must toil like a slave at a desk with barely two hours for lunch, And there's many a day he can't get away for his afternoon drink with "the bunch." Poor old father! ,

Don't you feel sorry for him? He must sit at the club,

While his wife's at the. tub, And till himself up to the brim. She. gads everywheres (Such as up' and down stairs); Ho has all the worry and bother, How strange that no songs1 have been sung of the wrongs And the woes of old, overworked father!

A woman has nothing to do but to ccok, darn stockings, wash children and sew, And to watch over beds where at night little heads are disposed in an uneasy row. Poor father must earn all the money he can and craftily cling to the same. Or he can't pay the debts that he's run up in bets that he makes in that little game. Poor old father ! Sing him a comforting song, v He simply can't shirk The dread, duty called work Without getting in pretty wrong. And meanwhile his wife Has the time of her lift; (For running a house is no bother). How strange that no lays have been piped in the praise Of poor, overworked, mistreated father i —American Weekly.