EVER HIGHER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15222, 21 May 1920, Page 7

EVER HIGHER.

We all are after higher wages, the oldtime stipends won't suffice ; and even clergymen ai_3 sages rear _up and say ; they've raised the price. The price is ! multiplied by seven, though nothing has increased m worth; it costs us more to go to heaven, it costs us more to stay on earth! To-day I met a sad-eyed father, whoae first-born just arrived on deck; he said, "It ia a beastly bother— it's- left my bank account a wreck. The doctor soaked me good and plenty, though he just came and skipped away; the nurse, a dame of three times twenty, demands five sesterces a day. This offspring graft is vain and giddy, it leaves me with two Arctic feet; how shall I feed that little kiddie, when he is old enough to eat?" And then I met the village sexton; he said he'd dug a grave for Jones; "it was a bargain, but the next 'un will cost the buyer two more bones." The price of everything is humming, each day it makes a record new; the blamed thing gets us when we're coming, it gets us when we're [ going, too.— Walt Mason m American paper. k