{"id":9357,"date":"2023-06-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9357"},"modified":"2023-06-06T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T05:00:00","slug":"what-pa-doesnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/what-pa-doesnt-know\/","title":{"rendered":"What Pa Doesn\u2019t Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1915-06-06\/ed-1\/seq-20\/\">Omaha Daily Bee, June 6, 1915<\/a>. By Edgar A. Guest.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes when folks come in to call on Ma an\u2019 Pa\u2019s away,<br\/>An\u2019 I\u2019m supposed to be where I can\u2019t hear a word they say,<br\/>Ma starts to tell \u2018em all about Pa\u2019s fine an\u2019 splendid ways,<br\/>An\u2019 just how good an\u2019 kind he is, an\u2019 all the jokes he plays;<br\/>An\u2019 how he never gives her any reason for complaint,<br\/>Until she has the women folks believin\u2019 Pa\u2019s a saint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Pa\u2019s just an ordinary man\u2014he tells us so himself.<br\/>He has to work all day to get his little bit of pelf.<br\/>He isn\u2019t one that\u2019s known to fame, he can\u2019t do clever things,<br\/>He isn\u2019t one that makes a speech, or out in public sings.<br\/>But Ma just makes him out to be a man the world would cheer<br\/>If it could know the worth of him\u2014when he\u2019s not there to hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>When Pa\u2019s away Ma tells her friends how much of him she thinks,<br\/>An\u2019 just how good it is to have a man that never drinks.<br\/>She dwells upon his thoughtful ways, his patience an\u2019 his worth,<br\/>An\u2019 boasts that she is married to the finest man on earth.<br\/>But if Pa isn\u2019t home on time, an\u2019 supper has to wait,<br\/>She gives it to him, good an\u2019 strong, for gettin\u2019 in so late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes when Ma is scolding Pa, an\u2019 he don\u2019t say a word,<br\/>I feel like tellin\u2019 him the things that Ma don\u2019t know I\u2019ve heard.<br\/>I feel like crawlin\u2019 in his lap, an\u2019 whisperin\u2019, \u201cNever mind,<br\/>Deep in her heart Ma really thinks you\u2019re all that\u2019s good an\u2019 kind.<br\/>She thinks that you\u2019re the finest man there is on earth, I know<br\/>Because most every afternoon she tells the neighbors so.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Omaha Daily Bee, June 6, 1915. By Edgar A. Guest. Sometimes when folks come in to call on Ma an\u2019 Pa\u2019s away,An\u2019 I\u2019m supposed to be where I can\u2019t hear a word they say,Ma starts to tell \u2018em all about Pa\u2019s fine an\u2019 splendid ways,An\u2019 just how good an\u2019 kind he is, an\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-9357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee","tag-edgar-a-guest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357","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=9357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}