Lumber Lyrics

by Walt Mason

Reprinted in booklet form by the Curtis Service Bureau, Clinton, Iowa, for the Curtis Companies and their Good Friends in the retail lumber trade.

Copyright, 1919, by Curtis Service Bureau,
Clinton, Iowa. All rights reserved.

Printed by
Stewart-Simmons Press
Waterloo, Iowa

Contents

[Walt Mason—Everybody’s Poet]	[6]
[Lumber Lyrics]	[8]
[Trees]	[11]
[Spring is Coming]	[12]
[Knowledge is Power]	[12]
[A Longing]	[13]
[Good Signs]	[14]
[Advertising]	[15]
[Going After Them]	[16]
[Suggestion]	[16]
[The Pioneers]	[17]
[October Days]	[18]
[Housing the Help]	[19]
[Classy Homes]	[20]
[Necessary Goods]	[21]
[The Mixer]	[21]
[Stairways]	[22]
[All the Time]	[23]
[Houses Scarce]	[24]
[Floors]	[25]
[Doors]	[25]
[Building a House]	[26]
[The Gladsome Spiel]	[27]
[Personality]	[28]
[Planting the Tree]	[29]
[The Shoppers]	[29]
[The New Year]	[30]

Walt Mason
—Everybody’s Poet

Walt Mason is a poet and the world knows it. He is read by more people than any other living writer. His prose rhymes are published in 200 daily newspapers with an aggregate circulation of about 12 millions. Walt says his only claim on the nation’s gratitude is that he does not go about the country reading from his “works.” Indeed, he doesn’t have to, for his writings are read with avidity by hosts of people.

Walt Mason lives in Emporia, Kansas, most of the time, but spends his summers in Estes Park, Colorado. He does nothing but write prose rhymes. And at this job he is one of the hardest working men living. He is probably the only poet who makes his living solely by the sweat of his brow.

Many people have wondered what Walt Mason gets for his contributions to Curtis Service. This is rather a personal question but it is sufficient to say that he gets enough money from work of this kind so that his monthly income has totalled as high as $875.00. At any rate, this was the figure he gave out in an interview in a Kansas City paper in 1914, and like everything else, prose rhymes weren’t as high then as they are now.