Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1891 — A Bill for Kisses. [ARTICLE]

A Bill for Kisses.

A wise lady, wiser in her generation than the children of light, who keeps a fashionable boarding house not far from Sutter street, San Francisco, has taken an excellent method of checking the disposition of her guests to embrace the pretty chambermaids, in which her establishment abounds. A frolicsome boy received, at the end of a month a bill in which these charges occurred: To one attempt to embrace Mary $1.03 To one attempt to embrace Jane 50 To one attempt to embrace Fanny I^so To kissing Fanny 2.00 To catching Jane around the neck 25 To holding Mary by the waist Loo Total $6.25 Poor Jane, being antique and freckled, was put at the bottom of the list, while Fanny, the buxom, was classed Al. The voung man paid the bill without a murmur, but inquired what it would cost to kiss the landlady. “'lhat goes with the receipt.” said the good ladv, demurely, and the seal was forthwith placed upon the business document.. Opals that sold for S2OO have been foUnd in Oregon.