Kisses On Interest

Come here, Sis, and sit down beside me, and let rué give you a little talking to. That is right. Sit clear atthe other end of the sofa. It makes more room for my gout and coras, besides being a good habit tor H young lady-íásai become addictod to. Always pander to Uiifí habit, and yon will in time flnd yoursell' walking through green meadows and beside the stil] waters of selfrespect. Y'uu may be walking alone, to be sure, but will have fewer l;;wn dresses to do up on Monday morning I wish to speak to you of your inother. It may be you have noticed a caiewom look npon her face lately. Of course it has not been brought there by any act of yours, still it is your duty to Chase it away. I don't mean lor you Lo run at and S1IAKK YOUB SKIKTS and teil it to "shoo," as you would a hen, nor do I expeet you to get on the other side oí the fence and throw old oyster cans and pieces of barrel staves at it, as you did at the cow yesterday. Bul I want you to get up to-morrow moming aud get breakfast, and when your mother comea down and begins to expresa her surprise, go right up to her and kiss her on the mouth. You don't imagine how it will brighten her dear face. Besides, you owe her a kiss or two. Away back when you were a little girl she had kissed you when no one el se was tempted by your fevertainted breath and s wollen face. You were not as attractive then as you are now. And along through those years of childish sunshine and shadows she was always ready to cure.by the magie of a mother's kiss, the little, dirty, chubby hands whenever they were inured in those flrat skirmishes with his rough old world. And then the midnight kisses with which she has routed so many bad dreams, as she eaned above your restless pillow, have all been on interest these long, long years. Of course she is not so PEETTY AND KISSABLE as you are, but if you had done your share or the work dunng these last ten years the contrast would not seem so marked. Her face has rnore wrinkles than yours, far more, and yet if yon were sick that face wonld appear to you to be more beautiful than an angel's, as it hovered over you, watching every opportunity to minister to youi comfort, and every one of those wrinles would seem to be bright wavelets of sunshine chasing each other over the daar old face. She will leave you one of these days. Those burdens, if not lifted from her shoulders, will break her dovvu. Those rough, hard hands that have done so many uiineeessary things far you will be crossed upon her lifeless breast. Those neglected lips that gave you your first baby kiss wil! be forever closed, and those sad, lired eyes will have opened in eternity, and then you will appreciate your mother, but it will ba too late. There, there, don't cry; alie has not lef t you yet. She is down in the kitchen stringing beans for dimier, and if you feel so badly you niight go down and finish them, and let her change her dresa and REST AN HOUK BEFOEE DINNEK. And af ter dinner you might do up the dishes while she takes a little nap. Then you might take down her hair and do it up for lier. You need not wind it over your finger and fuss to rnake little spit curls as you used to do with yours, but give it a good brushing and wind it p gently and tenderjy, as if you enjoyed doing it for her. The young man down in the parlor can wait until you have performed these duties. If he expresses my impatience, you may explain to him that you feel under more obligations to your mother than you do to him. If this does not seem to satisf y tttn, ask him how many times he has o ap in the middle oí' the night to warm peppermint for you when you were dying with the colic; or how many hours he has carried you up and down the room just because you would not be quieted in any other way ? Ask him to repeat JIOTHER HUBBARD BACKWAKDS, and if he is unable to do it it will be a proof positivo thac he is not the one that has repeated it, and explained to you 1,700 times. Catechise him to flnd out if he is the one who gave you the black silk dress, and sat up at night to make it while you were off having a good time. Córner him up and make him admit that he went,, without a new bonnet last winter that you might enjoy íi $12 one that you admired so much. AVring from him a confession that he has a stitch in his side. brought there by doing up your flnery week after week. Then fshow him out the front door, put on a calicó apron, and go out and help your mother piek currants for jelly, and I guarantee you will think more of yourself, the world will think more of you, and you will be happier and better for having done so. Although the peanut merchant, with roasting mili, muy be seen on almost every block in American commereial centers, but few of those who pay their nickel lor a heaping measure of these hot ground mits have auy idea of Lhe extent of the trade in bushels or its value in dollars. According to the Cincinnati Price Current, the erop tbis year wil! be less than half what it was last year. it then amounted to 1.370,000 bushels, valued at $2,150,000, about two-thirds of which eame from ïennessee, and 120,000 bushels from North Carolina. Another case of fatal mjury from pointing au "unloaded gun" atayoung lady is reported from Franklin, N. J. A young man or oíd man who points a gun at another "just in fun" should he kicked just as long as a piece of him hangs together. Such a man is worae than a fooi; he is a knave without knowing it who calis snapping an empty gun at timid people "fun." In Baltirnore, there is a boy who has been taught to say "Amen" whenever his father fiuiahes saying grace, at breakt'ast. One day a visüor was asked to say grace. He did so, and not knowing of tlie family arrangement concluded with "Amen." The littlè fellow burst into Lears, and looking m said: "Oh, mamma, he said jt himself." The frame work of the human body consists of over two hundred bones.