The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-08-24

Lecture BY John splccr.
f.know what crying means, but Il Is
so funny 70 talk about that ! do not
know how to tell what II il. very well.
but l will tell IS well rs l can. When
water comes into your eyes. and your
face FUCKERS itself up. and you make
noises with your mouth and nose.
all that Is CRYING. Sometimes you
make a bowling kind Of noise. and
sometimes you make a squealing kind.
and sometimes you only smile with
your nose. ! know o good many rea-
sous why people cry. ! do not mean
grown-up people. / mean boys and
girls. You cry when you get hurt. and
when you have TO do things you do not
want to. and when you can not do what
YOU want to. and when you can not have
what YOU want, and when anybody
plaques you. do not know what
makes the water come into your eyes
when you Get hurt. or when you have
70 do what YOU do not want TO. or can
not do what you want TO, or q not
have what you want, or anybody
plaques you. and my father does not
know; but il m there. and comes
without your trying to make il come,
and my father thinks this Is quite
curious: and no matter how far of the
hurt il from your eyes. IL II Is on the
| end OF your little finger. or Of your little
toe. the cry-watcr does not come there.
il zones TO your eyes. Cry-water J.
| called tears. When more cry-water
comes into your eyes than they can
hold. then II runs over. and runs down
your face In little round drops. and
these are tcar-drops- Sometimes they
run down so fast you have 70 take your
handkerchief. II YOU have n IN your
pocket; but II its lost. yonr list will do:
When was q little fellow | cried q good
deal and my father used % say: Get 4
bottle. quick A bottle 4 catch the
tears. Johnny's tears are running
away! They'll get lost! Get a bottIe.'
III tears cef into your mouth they taste
salt. Once when il was my bedtime
and l cried 10 stay up longer. my
brother told me there was too much
salt in nv tears. and said IL 1 would or,
some fresh water tears h. would ask
nv mother to let me stay up till hcI
bcd-time. and / took q piece Of . tearof
the tip end Of my finger. and touched i
10 my tongue, and Il was salt, ever,
time 1 tried-
Bows and girls cry more than grown
up people. and small boys and girls err
more than large ones. and babies or.
more than anybody. The one who ar
CRYING do not know how funny thci
|. faces look and what bad noises com
out Of their mouths. Il they knew
maybe they would stop. The best wa
/ TO stop Is 10 shut your teeth tight to
: gether and your lips tight together:
that does not stop Il. then take hold 9
, your nose. hard. with your pocket
Z handkerchief; but II that Is lost the
! take hold with your thumb and finger
l but keep your lips and teeth shut, tos
The best time to stop il j. just before
, comes: lust when it is beginning.
fellow told me he had tried Il, an
stopped il every time BY doing all the
things.
! nv brother made this verse when
Z was 4 little fellow:
!. "whatis II 20 cryy.
And 10 sob and 10 Sigh.
WIN your face ~ awry
y 30 that no one who hears you VIII want
some NV WIN 4 ,cas, spos, srou,
Q And rome with ! WI ~, w
" And some with = s~qucaly, wcaly. veal
Y Like pixrywixxyw1gr M . stye-i' ~
= when / was 4 little fellow they use
y ID call me Fretter-and-G rowler, becau'
y | cried SO much. and my grandma uss
!. 10 tell me stories 10 try 70 cure me
X CRYING. will tell you two u Their
When grandma was a child there VI
another child lived In the next hous
q He was a boy and bis name was Jerr
a He cried 50 much that when the poop
q about there heard any strange noi
they would say: What's that nois
q, Jerry crying?' No matter II Il was
sr COW mooing. or . cat squallin
or 3 dog bowling, they wou
say: "What's thnt noise? Jer
~ ~cryinr?r He cried when he was beiI
nt dressed, and when he had his face ~
hands washci; cried Tor Things 70 =
~ that re mustn't have. and cried 70 60
~ places. and for what he wanted. Il
n couldn't have Il; cried II he fell dow
y cried II the boys laughed ~ him, and
n they just touched him without hurtil
ID him hardly any, he would cry about
III And II the boys called him "cry-baby
II. he would cry because they called n
Ks cry-baby. His real name was Jercmis
IL and when the boys found that ont n