The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1836-07-20
A FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT LIPS

l love n handsome lip. People are too
much in the habit of regarding lips as mere
appendages to the human face divine
ornaments to sett off its beauty. This is to
detract from their use and excellence
They serve other purposes, and when pro-
perly regarded, are indicia-indexes OF
character.
think in general, people are disposed to
consider their noses of more importance
than their lips, and many saucy noses seem
10 he of the same way of thinking-as we
see them turning up with an expression of
scorn as if the lips we're far their interiors.
No sensible nose is guilty of such dasardlv
eifrontery. Such an one, it is true, may
occasionally flap its nostrils, and crow Justify
over its neghbor, as if it were cock of the
walk but the lip, with a soft insinuation,
will soon tame the monarch down to u re-
publican.
What mean by wholesome lip, is one
of the color of n morello cherry, and which
pouts like rose bud-one which might
lead n bee astray by its promises of sweet
ness. understand that in olden time, when
kissing was in its prlme-sorry am that it
should ever hnve gotten out of it-gallants
of taste used to manifest an especial prefer
ance for lips of this kind. There was rich
flavor about such, which no shrivelled lip, (
poul as it might, could ever aspire to. Pla- |
to must have worn such for we are told that
the bees used TO hover about his lips when |
he was infant, and in these things the iudg-
ments of bees are only inferior to those of
bachelors.
My aunt Saly--par ndne's wore n
lip Of another kind. 1t was n mere streak
along the horrison, an ashy margin along
IN ocean of mouth-a strip TO tell you were
here teeth were. My aunt never married,
lnG had she gone to the altar, it would
nave been an interesting spectacle when she
gave the bridal kiss. l remember snluta-
ION she gave me once, when, like Fanny, |,
was younger than | am now, and prcttier,
Of course Instead of the delightful sensa-
ion which arises from an application of
soft, spougy, elastic lips, it was quite the re-
verse, aud it seemed to me that she was
touching my teeth with iron bound bits of
flesh, or her teeth. When she would gath
er the lips of her mouth together with a
slight fucker, it was the inevitable harbin-
ger of coming storm. In the choice of a
wife, | meanIto avoid your thin blush, star
we'd to death stripes of flesh, which people
miscall lips. II
There are two sorts Of lips-the neXtar-
lne and the negar--deserving especial
nectarine swell out in beauti-
ful round carvatures, while the vinegar are
very sharp and make YOU smack your mouth
when you look at them. The first belong
TO the amable, the latter to those of acid
tempers. Everlasting spring lives in the
blossoms of nectarine lip-i,s fragrance is
falling in love with the
owner of such blessing, you have nothing
to fear from acid bumors. Eternal winter
iwells upon vinegar lip, and no stray rll
Of blood ever spreads the hue of health oy-
sr it.
There are lips which arc locked up in
'ne answering purpose. They belopg to
he resolute and decisive. There are 9th
RS which are everastingly apart, as if they
,ad been a civil war, and they had agreed
ipon continual separation. They, it is sus-
'ected, generally appertan TO heads whose
wits, to say the most of them, are quite faith
Unable.
Some lips are political. Smiles fling a
ght like morning ray upon them, aud
ley are glorius in iheii brightness. You
eel as if yon were born to worship, and an
shrine was before you. Your .
yes are fixed in admiration whose spell l
on wond never break. Every word which
heir fair possessor utters, only serves to
eighteen their magic and display some new :
'rm from which you dream the voice of \
our destiny must come. Yon may talk of
'eir influences, but vainly would attempt
} describe them. Imagination can con-
live of uothirg more delicious than kissing
ich lips. !.