The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-07-26
Kiss The Man
b. w. RICE
B. w. RICE

the basic principle where either son
or daughter are pure.
Analyze this act: The little girl
comes into the room where some male
acquaintance of the family has called
Let this male acquaintance be ever so
nice and ever so debonair The child
approaches her mamma with soft and
tender step, for is she not in the pres
ence of company? Yes, real COM
pany, for man has called. Come,
dear, and get up in my lap Yes, rum
along, dearie, and see the man. Come
on and maybe can find nickle. Run
along and see Mr.. Boshy Bosh. Now
don't look that way, you little bashful
thing, you. Run along and get up in
Mr.. Boshy's lap. Now don't cry;
mamma wont like you if you cry. l
don't see what ever is the matter with
her. Her older sisters would 60 to
anybody and just kiss anybody when
they were her age and it is just like
pulling teeth to get her to kiss people.
Doubtless her older sisters show
that right now. What is there about
a man who wants to have every little
| girl kiss him? He doesn't want that
to take place except it be where the
older female can see it done, but there
is something about the act of caress-
ing little girl in the presence of her
mother that makes a good many min
MES want to do it and good many
mothers want these ninnies to kiss
their little girls, and to hold them
while in their laps, but if the writer
of my text did not have this matter
in mind when he wrote the famous
saying, he ought to have had.
Let your little girl retain her mod
esty. If she never kisses any one other
than her father and brothers until she
is twenty-five it won't hurt her bit
There is plenty of time. Take it easy,
dear mother, take it easy.
The parents are the first Deities
known to the child. In fact we
grown-ups appreciate more of the
parents.
i My sympathies are with the child.
If could get out of mind some scenes
painted there when | was IL years of
age, the rub would have been remov-
ed. A man came to me the other day
and pointed out certain sins in which
mature man and woman were en-
gagged. declined to interfere on the
grounds that it was too late and that
too much need is demanded with the
young. And that is the truth. How
many adult men and women in Cald-
we'll have been changed from evil to
righteousness in all the churches anu
clubs during the past ten years?
Where is the man or woman among
us all who has received the new heart
in the last five years and is living it
, today?
Let us make it easy for the child to
get off on the right foot. Tell him
; what the truth is and follow up that
, telling until it sinks deep into his be-
, ing. Discover to himself his own tai
{ ents. Make him believe in himself.
: | would not have him enter into the
worlds strife with a false idea OF
, things, but with the true.
, Little Mary was trying to keep
! house for her papa. Her mamma had
!, been in heaven year. She was
! eleven. The revival was going on.
One morning while making her papa's
> bed, she wrote this little note and laid
it gently on the dresser: "Mary wants
Papa to be Christian" The wretch
of father came in home late at night
: and saw the note He.tore it up and
threw it upon the floor. Next morn
: ing while cleaning the room the little
! girl saw what had become of her let
ter, and another she wrote like the
: first. The father came in at night
and this time read the note and while
y briefly meditating folded it and put il
in his vest pocket. Next morning the
: little Christian wrote the third note
This one read sweetly as follows
Mary wants papa to be Christian
: tell Mary what you think about this
E At midnight that night the mar
came in home from carousing. His
J. little daughter was alone in the house
and was sleeping with tear upon hel
: face. Nobody but the angels knew
:. what was going on in that house
n that night. The man read his child.
note, walked into her bed room ane
!; saw the madonna face sweet in in
y nocent life. He went back to hi
q own room and unfolded the last two
10 notes before him upon the bed. HI
, knelt at the bedside and said in pray
IS err, God Almighty this cry.
: not for Christ sake, for the sake o
;, that angel on yonder bed, give thi
wretch the new heart. His life hat
IS been too much for immediate relief
- He remained in prayer. Hours passed
~ The two notes were washed with hi
N tears. He abused himself. He agon
8 lied with God. He called upon tn
&c great AM. He thought OF his viii
& who had crossed the bar He praye'
* for pardon and relief. God heare'
y, that man that night. The morning
% brought the new heart. He aros
5. from his knees and went to where hi
IS little Mary was still sleeping. TIL
y, presence in the room aroused tn
~ child. The sun was up and she start
&c ed with fear, least she had overslep
&c and an angry father would have t
SC be settled with, but not so, swee
y! angel child. The father took her i
- his arms and cried through to Glor
~ When words could come for weepin
~ he told her of his conversion and c
vs. his night of prayer and of his fait
in Cod When he had turned to q