Washington County News | 1927-12-22 | Page 4 | Sent a Box of Mistletoe to Recall a First Kiss

Sent' a Box of Mistletoe to Recall a First Kiss KQtGN on the dotted line, lady." 3 "But are you sure this Is for me?'" "It says, "Miss Martha Brent, 220 Cassland; ain't that you? There's no mistake: its yours all right." Miss Brent drew the box Into the house and opened It with trembling hands. And there stood a box filled with mistletoe, lovely white berries like pearls. "What la the world!" ejaculated Miss Brent. "Mistletoe for an old maid! It must be a Joke!" But she took It out and decorated her tiny home. That night her door bell rang. When she went to the door there stood a prosperous, middle-aged man. His hair was beginning to turn gray and he had a vaguely familiar look. "Miss Martha," he said, "thirty years ago tonight we were attending a party at Mary Holland's. I kissed vou under the mistletoe and you boxd my ears soundly. 1' said. 'I thought ;irls liked to be kissed.' You replied, 'Not by a good-for-nothing Fitzgerald.' Fitzger-ald.' 'Tm no longer good-for-nothing. May T try again, Martha?" Jane Roth. ( Western Newspaper Union )