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"kiss Me Good-by."

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
March
Year
1883
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

That is a phrasc heard in the hallway of niany :i home as the man of the house Is hurrying away to exchange daily labor í'or daily bread in the mart of commerce. Sometlmes it is tho wife who says ii, sometimos infant Upa prat tle the caressing words, holding np a sweet llowcr face fora kiss that is its warm sunshino of life, and the strong man waits a moment to olasp his treasure and ia gone; and all day lic wanden t liio peaee in liis heart, at the nerve with which lic meetel business losses. The wife's kiss, the baby's kiss did it, and he realizas that it is not wealth or position or luok that makes our hapiness, but the inlluenee we bear with us from the presenee of those we love. Kiss me good-by! Oh, Ups that have said it for the last time, would you ever ask again in those pleading toncs for the kiss so tardily given? Would we not remember that the rolation the Howcr baars to me universo is as e.irefully provided for as that of the brightost star; that the little actíouof a loving lieart goes sidc by side with the deed of licroio worth; that lovc is the dew of Life; that the partios for a day may be the parting for a life-thne. "IIow many go iortli in the mernhig That, never come borne at niKht, And hearta liavc been broken For kind worde unspoken Thai Borrón canne'er s-i rlgfal Kiss youi' children, man of business, boforo yon leavehomc; kiss the mothor of yonr ehildren, and that dear old mother who sits in thechair by the window - nomatter if lier check is wrinkled. hor heart is youn; - and tlien s;o about day's work with a "tliank God" in your soul that you liavo someono at hoino to kiss. "For though iu the quict evening, You givc us the kiss of pcace, Yet it might be ïhat never for thee Tl ie pain of the heart should caasc.1'

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat