{"id":7236,"date":"2021-06-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7236"},"modified":"2021-06-27T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:00:00","slug":"fathers-lullaby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/fathers-lullaby\/","title":{"rendered":"Father’s Lullaby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Evening Star, June 27, 1913<\/em><\/a>. By Walt Mason.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hush my child, cut out the yelling! It will do no good, by durn; for I fear there is no telling when your mother will return. Father\u2019s here to rock the cradle and to sing a dulcet note; father\u2019s here, sweet child, to ladle paregoric down your throat. In your couch of wood and wattle, take your rest, my little sweet, drinking cow\u2019s milk from a bottle, while your mother, on the street, tells about the Women\u2019s Battle for their Sacred Rights, by jing; here\u2019s your little wooden rattle, here\u2019s your silver teething ring. Ah, this imitation nursing brings to baby\u2019s face a frown, while your mother\u2019s nobly cursing laws that keep the women down. Milk from can and milk from bottle, and the milk the druggists make, seem to paralyze your throttle and to make your tummy ache; but, my child, your mother\u2019s doing work too long undone, alas! She is storming round and shooing poor male critters off the grass. With her woman suffrage rabies she is frothing at the snoot, and she can\u2019t take care of babies\u2014that\u2019s for dad, the poor galoot. So, my dear, be bright and chipper; sing and smile as fine as silk; father\u2019s here to poor a dipper of the predigested milk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hush my child, cut out the yelling! It will do no good, by durn; for I fear there is no telling when your mother will return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[307],"class_list":["post-7236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-walt-mason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}