Mr. Dooley Says
Mr. Dooley Says
Divorce.--Glory.--Woman Suffrage.--The Bachelor Tax.--The Rising of the Subject Races.--Panics.--Ocean Travel.--Work.--Drugs.--A Broken Friendship.--The Army Canteen.--Things Spiritual.--Books.--The Tariff.--The Big Fine.--Expert Testimony.--The Call of the Wild.--The Japanese Scare.--The Hague Conference.--Turkish Politics.--Vacations.
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a fine chance iv her false hair becomin' more
immortal thin his gr-reatest deed. It don't make anny difference if all
she knew about her marital hero was that he was a consistent feeder, a
sleepy husband, an' indulgent to his childher an' sometimes to himsilf,
an' that she had to darn his socks. Nearly all th' gr-reat men had
something th' matther with their wives. I always thought Mrs. Wash'nton,
who was th' wife iv th' father iv our counthry, though childless
hersilf, was about right. She looks good in th' pitchers, with a shawl
ar-round her neck an' a frilled night-cap on her head. But Hogan says
she had a tongue sharper thin George's soord, she insulted all his
frinds, an' she was much older thin him. As f'r George, he was a case. I
wish th' counthry had got itsilf a diff'rent father. A gr-reat moral
rellijous counthry like this desarves a betther parent.
"They were all alike. I think iv Bobby Burns as a man that wrote good songs, aven if they were in a bar'brous accint, but Hogan thinks iv him as havi
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