San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-24
KISSES BECOME
PATRIOTIC
DUTY
Call Is Issued to Use
All the Mistletoe
You Can.
By BESS CARROLL

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A city-wide smacking bee is due
to take place soon. kiss Anybody
You Can Snare Week." is about to be
observed.
For Christmas, or, as the bachelors
would say, kiss Miss is at hand
and SOS mistletoe. There's a kiss
in every berry.
And in addition TO the usual sea-
sonal osculatory stimulation always
started in bashful circles by the little
green garland with its blister berries,
there's an entirely new reason
though the old one is sufficient-for
gathering mistletoe this year.
MISTLETOE DEMAND.
A call is being issued to the loyal,
patriotic citizens Of Texas to help
preserve their forests by using more
mistletoe in Christmas decorations.
Mistlctoe, it seems, is parasite that
spreads quickly, seriously injuring the
trees where it grows.
And surely no native son of Texas
would have tho heart to willingly and
coldly let poor little mesquites and
buisaches die just because OF some
thing that furnishes such effective ex-
cuses, alibis and incentives for stealing
kiss from someone other than your
wife.
II you have a little mistletoe in your
home, that is suficient-for even one
tiy shriveled last-year's berry usually
serves as a magnet that no woman
under % can resist, However. the
ladies always insist on bountiful
supply.
BLESSED TO GIVE.
A good way to use mistletoe is to
carry sprig of it all the time, and
when the occasion and the subject JUS
tify it-simply hold it gracefully over
the victims head. If there is a pro-
test, just remind her that it's more
blessed to give than to receive, espe-
cially at Christmas.
II you arc like the man who absent
mindedly kissed his wife and then
started debating letters, your sus-
picious half may object to the use Of
mistletoe even in the minutest quanti-
ties. Just remind her that it is her
patriotic duty to the state and to its
sturdy oaks and poison ivy-crowded
off BY the mistletoe-to stamp out the
greedy parasite. Tell her that she must
do her part to keep trees on our wide,
rolling prairies.
There is a bountiful crop Of mistle-
toe In and around San Antonio this
year. II something isn't done to re-
move part Of it from the woods,
poor gallant catcrpillars and gophcrs
and humble bees will have complete
brcakdowns from having to use their
manners and chivalry so strenuously.
For it is reported that there is n
blushing caterpillar or gopher or bum
blebe under. every tree, since in every
tree there is mistletoe.
PATRIOTISM RUNS HIGH.
And remember, every smack is a
blow for forest preservation. viii
there be any slackers?
Probably not. In fact, patriotism
will undoubtedly run high. Notably
among maiden ladies and fat men. who
will periodically take advantage of
their one chance to kiss and be kissed,
regardless.
So let everybody put on their hiking
clothes and climb a tree and grab a
bunch Of mistletoe and yank. IL you
don't fall on a barbed wire fence or
n cactus bush, you've done your duty.
And if you do alight on something
prickly, you've still done your duty.
Either way, you're not n Stacker. But
why all this arguing about slackers