"jacob Kissed Rachel"

The following are the " opinions of the English press" upon the subject of the text which tells you that Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted up his voice and wept : If Rachel was a pretty girl, and kept her face clean, we can't see what Jacob had to cry about. - Daily Telegraph. How do you know but that she slapped his face for him ? - Ladies' Treasury. Weeping is not unfrequently produced by extreme pleasure, joy, happmess ; it might have been so in Jacob's case. - Hordwich's Science Gossip. The cause of Jacob's weeping was the refusal of Rachel to allow him to kiss her again . - Nonconformist. It is our opinión that Jacob wept beoause he had not kissed Rachel before, and he wept for the time he had lost. - The City Press. The fellow wept because the girl did not kiss him. - Pall Mali Gazette. Jacob wept because Rachel told him " to do it twioe more," and he was afraid to. - Methodist Recorder. Jacob cried because Rachel threatened to teil her mamma. - Sunday Gazette. He wept because there was only one Rachel to kisa.- ClerJcenwell News. He wept for joy because it t&sted bo good. - Jewish Chronicle. We reckon Jacob cried beoause Rachel had been eating onions. - Brüish Standard. Our own opinión is that Jacob wept íecause he found after all " ít was not ïalf what it was craoked up to be." - New Zealand Exáminer. A mistake - not his eyes but his mouth watered. - The Ladies' Chronicle. He thought it was a fast oolor, but wept to fiud the paint carne ofF. - Fine Art Gazette. He reineinbered he was her uncle and recolleeted what the prayer-book says. - Church Journal. He was a fool, and did not know what was good for hita. - Englishwoman's Advíier. He knew there was a time to weep- it had come, and he daré not put it off. - Methodist News. He thought she might have a big brother. - Sporting Ohronicle. Because there was no time for another. - Express. When he lifted up his voice he found it was heavy, and could not get it so high as he expected. - Musical Notes. He tried to impose on her íeelings because he wanted her to lend him fi ve sBillings. - Baptist Quide. Kachel notioing that Jaoob's was a " paroxysmal kis," terrified him with threats oí an "investigation," and he ' lifted up his voice and wept" because h hadn't any stamps wherewith to buy pens iuk and paper, for the purpoae of prepar ing the necessary " statements."