Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1883 — "kiss Me Good-By.” [ARTICLE]

"kiss Me Good-By.”

•Thai ia A phrase heard in the hallway of many a home as the man of the house is hurrying away to exchange daily Ja~ bor fur daily bread hi the mart fef commerce. Sometime it is the wife who says it, sometimes infant lips prattle the caressing words, holding up a sweet •flower face for a kiss that is its warm sunshiifepef life, .and tho strong man waits a""T7ioment to clasp his treasure and is gone; and all day he wonders at the peace in his heart, at tho nerve with which he meets business losses. The wife's kiss, the baby’s kiss did it, and ho realizes that it is not wealth or position of fuck that makes our happiness, but tire influence we bear with us from the presence of those vyb love. Kiss me good-by! Oh, lips that have said it for the last time, would you ever ask again in those pleading tones for the kiss so tardily given? Would wc not remember that the relation the flower bears lo the universe fs as carefully provided for as that of the brightest star; tjiat the little action of a loving heart goes side by side with the deed of li&roic worth; that ’love is the dew of life; that the parting for a day be the parting for a lifetime. “How forth in the morningThat novor come home at nijrttt, Aii'l hearts have been broken For kind wonts unspoken , That sorrow- en'i m-’IT set right.” Kiss your children, man of business, before you leave honu”. kiss the mother of your chi i< Iren, and that dear old mother ’who sits in tho chair by the window —no matter if her cheek is wrinkled. Iter bean is young—and then go about your (jay’s w»rk with a “thank God” .in your soul that you baveromc one at boma to ki«- ' ; . ■ - . "