People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — A Great Inventions [ARTICLE]

A Great Inventions

“I have here,” began the energetic man, as he bundled into the young lawyer’s office, “the greatest invention of the age.” It was cases that the lawyer wanted, not inventions, and he said something rather rude; but the energetic man proved to be a philosopher, and merely smiled. “I call it,” pursued the visitor, “The Eternal Kisser, because there is no end to the kisses it bestows. It is this.” He hauled out a spray of mistletoe covered with white berries. This interested the young lawyer, wh® raised his eyebrows inquiringly. “Mistletoe,” proclaimed the agent, “is very scarce this year, and a bunch containing a score of berries would bankrupt a poor man. Now this great invention brings happiness within reach of all. Tradition permits you a kiss for each and every berry, you know. You hold this spray above your beloved’s head —so. Youbend-Aso—and kiss her. Then you grab a berry—sound pull it—presto, it flies back again in place. The leaves and berries are India rubber, sir, and— Two, did you say? Fifty cents. Thank you, sir. Good day.”—Harper’s Magazine.