The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-08-21

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else could.
In this country, every once in .
while some fool idea becomes public
and spreads with wonderful rspidity,
In which event II IL called Q "cru.
sade," and the latest Of that sort OF
things IL the anti.kisring crusade,
which began In England and has been
taken up on thi. side OF the pond, IN
bet a dollar by q lot Of old maids who
never had q sweetheart. They say
that II IL unsanitsry and q relic Of
barbsrism that In the irst place
meant . bite. Admitting that there
are some people that are suffering
from disease and " course ought 10
be barred, I firmly deny that II Ia m
sanitary. have known several cases
Of faulty heart action that have been
wonderfully improved by II, in fact
the patient usually forgets that she OF
he has such IN organ after the first one
or two, and IL works with n beautiful
clear stroke that beats Morgan
pump. Cut out the kiss aud what
would there 10 left for the young
folks, and some VI US older ones who
ain dead yeti Heaven really opens
TO the average young man OF woman
from the Arst kiss Of true love. II
there Is any cement Of true manhood
in him, he points his feet 10 the noun
tain and he resolves 10 be q man
sure enough, and the girl passes to
womanhood by that fret kiss. The
clouds are all tipped with gold, and
every rain drop has 4 musical tinkle
No though 1t bad fallen from an AL
gels harp. No task IL heavy, no road
is rough, and the fairy artist VI the
heart paints landscapes OF SURPRISING
beauty over all the canvas Of the
brain. The peerless evening star, and
the g~listsning dewdrop In the early
morning are the only jewels dt for
the diadem, and life Is u long, sweet
gong. The young man as he goes
about his daily work does 1t with u
mental picture before him that brings
out the best there is in him, aud the
girl Is given a sight that only those
that have been there understand. II
all came about through that FIRST kiss
that these beldames would abolish,
Then again let W. look q little farther
into n picture made up from these
same young folks. They have PASSED
the regular kissing period, though
there Is no less Il sanctIty IN the Gu
rsss, for it has been pu, aside in the
main, by . dainty little usurper whc
throws her Arns around the neck oi
the same young man when he comes
home at night from his labor, an
"A little voice whispers IN his eur, aitci
a kiss from \ mouth like q rosebud
Daddy, | Score owe DOL" Abolish
that kissi Not while the prsttlin,
tones OF childhood lead US on to God
Then again the picture changes snC
the little child, and others, too, hav,
gone forth to tn same world, radianI
with the wonderful promise Of love
and the boy and girl with whom ",
began, are now old, and hand In hanC
are walking together In the sunset
Green fields are beside tibet road, AnC
laughing fountains play, their iashin.
waters tumbling and sparkling on III,
way to the eternal sea, aud beyonC
them rises tower above tower, 4 citl
Of u~nspeakable beauty. This they see
with Chances back into the flower
spGngled mead through which the
wandered rs sweethearts long ago
The life that remains 10 not Of tn,
present, but of prospect and restro
spect, but as they pause for Il momen
On the way down the slope the gre.
haired old man stoops and kisses tn
lips that are ~ fair to him now a
when they were yielded to him in thu
sweet forgetfulness Of suld lang syne
and q holy calm steals over both thos
fond old hearts. 80 they pass int
sunset together, amid music that ha
no source on this grey old earth
Abolish the kiss that illuminated thei
lives and that illuminstes the world
Not while God IL good and humal
nature lives,