Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-11-26
KISSES on INTEREST.

KISSES On INTEREST.
An Old Mans Curtain Lecture to the Young
Lady Known as .sSis.'
From Peck's Son.
Come here, Sis, and set down beside me,
and let me give you q little talking to-.
That is right. Sit clear at the other end Of
the sofa. It makes more room for MY govt
and corns, besides being good habit for
young ladysstc become edicted to. Always
pander to this habit, and you will in time
find yourself walking through green mead
ows and beside the still waters Of self-res-
pect, you may be walking alone to be sure,
but will have fewer lawn dresses to do up
on Monday morning. | wish to speak
to you of your mother. It may be you
face lately. OF course it has not
been brought there by any act of yours,
still it is your duty to chase it away.
don't mean for you to run at it and shake
your skirts and tell it to "shoo," as you
would hen, nor do expect you to get Oh
the other side Of the fence and throw old
oyster cans and peices of barrel slaves at it.
as you did at the COW yesterday. But l
want you to get up to morrow morning and
get breakfast, and when your mother comes
down and begins to express her surprise,
go right up to her and kiss her on tie
mouth. You don't imagine how it will
brighten her dear face. Besides you owe
her kiss or two. Away back when you
were little girl she had kissed you when
no one else was tempted by your fever
tainted breath aad swollen face. You were
not as attractive then as you are now.
And along through those years of
childish sunshine and shadows she was
always ready to cure, by the magic of a
mothers kiss, the little dirty, chubby hands
whenever they we've injured in those first
skirmishes with this rough old world. And
then the midnight kisses with which she
has routed SO many bad dreams, as she
leaned about your restless pillow, have al al
been on interest these long, long years. OF
you are, but if you had done your share Of
the work during these last ten years the
contrast would not have been so marked.
Her face has more wrinkles than yours, far
more and yet if you we're sick that face
would appear to you to be more beautiful
than an angels, as it lowered over you,
watching every opportunity to minister to
your comfort, and every one of those wrin-
kles would seem to be bright wave
let's of sunshine chasing each other
over the dear old face. She will leave
you one Of these days. Those burdens,
if not lifted from her shoulders, will bres
her down. Those rough, hard hands that
have done SO many unnecessary things
for you will be crossed upon her ]ifeless
breast. Those neglected lips that gave
you your first baby kiss will be forever
closed, and those sad, tired eyes will have
opened in eternity, and then you will ap-
preciate your mother, but 1t will be too
late. There, there, don't cry; she has not
left you yet. She is down in the kitchen
stringing beans for dinner, and if you feel SO
badly YOU might 60 down and finish them,
and let her change her dress and rest an
hour before dinner, and after dinner you
little nap. Then you might take her
hair and do it up for her. You need not
wind it over your finger and fuss to make
little split curls as you used to do with
yours but give it a good brushing and wind
it up gently and tenderiy, as if you enjoyed
doing it for her. The young man down in
the parlor can wait until you have perform
ed these duties. If he expresses any impa-
tience you may explain to him that you feel
under more obligations to your mother than
you do to him. If this does not seem to
satisfy him. ask him how many times he
has got up in the middle of the night to
warm peppermint for you when you were
dying with the collie, or how many hours
he has carried you up and down the room
just because you would not be
quieted in any other way? Ask him
to repeat Mother Hubbard backwards, and
if he is unable to do it, it will be a proof
positive that he is not the one that has re-
peated it, and explained to you LOO times.
Catechise him to find out if he is the one
who gave you the black silk dress, and sat
up at night to make it while you were off
having good time. Corner him and make
him admit that he went without new bon
net last winter that you might enjoy $12
one that you admired SO much. Wiring
from him confession that he has stitch
in his side, brought there by doing up your
fnery week after week. Then show him
out the front door, put on calico apron,
and go out and help your mother pick cur
rants for jelly, and I guarantee you will
think more of yourself, the world will
think more Of you, and you will be happier
and better foc having done SO.