The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-05-15
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Now for the two kisses tna' "e'e A'''e" '"'
90. ~unp nway sooa in the morning.
por~ ma rro,u,ssd to kiss me when told her
..rnnd i've" was not III love with Dora, and
T ,han anvbody eise's kiss. When the clock
You are going to keep your promise -
We went to the door. took her hand, and
"Oh. that's no kiss At ALL said /.
.'Why, what's the matter with it," said she.
sOh! its too short, too cold, too far off, too
every thing that kiss ought not to be. know
you know what a really good kiss is-eyery
woman knows-come now, that or none You
owe it to me; be rs good IS your word.
"Weli, wait little while"
mo, can't wait"
''Now, then"
1t was frs-clear, sweet radiant, rapturous
fire, that in an instant leaped anu oufnsu
along every nerve and in every atom oI my
nature-transparsnt fame, tnat gnse NO pan,
but unsneakahle almost unbearabie Joy-tnat
made life conscious of what life really was
and of something infinitely beyond hle-tnat
explained all romance "nu tar~an, nnra
this kiss was. The confluence OF the inmost
principle of two lives streaming INTO one
marriage in its most exalted, Us ieaSt materai,
it's snbiimest signiiicance-that which makes
a man shudder and stand stricken in awe at
his capabilities OF happiness-a!l this and
more was expressed in the bewildering con-
tact of my own with Dora's lips. This Is
wild talk know. ask no man 10 believeit.
But there are some who would execrate the
tameness Of my description did they not know
of their own blissful knowledge the impossi-
bility Of escribiug such emotions.
For q month afterwards, thought OF moth
ing but Dora's kiss; and TO this day l think of
it often. often. Most Of my readers will sup.
nose tb At the moment l saw her again, i
begged Dora for another kiss. did not. l
was afraid-not that she would refuse me. but
that the second might not equal the first kiss.
Non bis in idem Boy as l was. knew too
fnY,t nsnr ANoe nt ST ri tn fvvp
in the same place, that the finest delights Of
this life never repeat themselves. Dora prom
ised me kiss the night OF her marriage, but
did not claim II.
pressed Dora as it did me. 1t never occurred
TO me to ask her indeed, frequently as we
met afterwards, and intimate rs we were, l
made no allusion to the subject, and did not
somuch as hint to her the nature OF the rare
delight she had given me. have no idea that
she would have comprehended mo If had
Superior as they are In very MANY respecls
wholly wanting in women. They feel IN
tensely, but the illimitable, the ineffable in
passion, is unknown to them.
l never expected and never cared to get
kiss resembling Dora's, but it came one day,
AS all good things come. unbidden, unantici-
pated, Patty and were sitting side by side
one Summer evening on the door steps, con-
versing about unimportant matters. Patty
had one of those mouths that have been
talking about, but not so decidedly marked as
to make me furiously anxious TO kiss it. OBJ
served nothing either in her appearance or
her demeanor to lead me to suspect that she
was moved by any extraordinary impulse.
but all of sudden she threw her arm around
me and kissed me. BY my life! Dora's kiss
over again, only not quite equal to Dora's.
The same fire. but not SO ETHEREAL; the same
thrill, but not so overmasrering.
"Why, Patty" said l, ''wha1 in the world
has got into you -
She looked at me, half angriiy, with tears in
her eyes. rose quickly, ran into the house, and
did not permit me to see her, except AT the
table, with the rest OF the family, for two
DAYS and then she was cold as an iceberg
We soon became good friends again, upon the
tacit unders landing, made known to each oth-
er only through the medium of the eyes, that
what had happened on the door-steps should
be buried in oblivion.
l cannot conclude this history in limine of a
long and tolerably eventful career of kissing,
without few reflections and little advice.
There are plenty of excellent people who will
come to me- hope, with the new and start
ling information that this kissing is all wrong.
1t seems to me that l have been aware of the
fact for sometime In truth, no mans theO-
retical views respecting the practice of kiss
ing, will compare, in lofty morality, with my
own. l hold, that after girl is grown, no
body-father, mother, brother sister, aunt, un-
Gle female friend, what nOt--ShOuld be per-
nitted to kiss her mouth. They may kiss her
forehead, cheek or hand, but her mouth should
be kept exclusively, sacredly, solely, for her
husband; and il she never have husband.
then il should never be kissed at all Espe-
ciallv do l contend that this kissing of cou-
sins, of sweethearts Of accepted lovers, should
be done away with at once ana forever.
girls mouth sh uld know no mans until the
marriage vows have been pronounced at the
altar aud then only one mans. In the case OF
widows marrying second hus band, of course
an exception must be made; for, take it, the
having of :, wife without the privilege of kiss
ing her, is virtually having no wife at all. 1t
is uncomfortable torture.
This is my theory, and pray where will you
~ hat IAfo do var vAr
in itl To me it has none-it is nawless. II
my practice has been at variance With my
theory so much the worse for the practice l
do not defend it, Sinner that am, attempt
not to palliate my guilt. but implore pardon !;
and promise, now that am out OF all danger
OF temptation, to work thorough reforma-
ton in my habits, as regards the criminal
practice of kissing. But don't know how il
would be If were tempted. I'm weak-oh
I'm SO weak-and kisses are so good, so pow
erful. so all-cOnQuerlng. 1t was not more
than two years ago, that a lady friend OF mine,
after denouncing, with beautiful vehemence,
the crime of kissing gentlemen, asked me abb
ruptly:
.'And ,coxld You kiss pretty girl even if
AS said before, am weak and wicked, but
at the same time l am sincere. In reply,
answered:
II ra-ther-thi
And so would. Plague take it all! how
could help it and if could help it, what's
the use OF helping itl Amt this the world.
and amt we all human beings Where's the
necessity Of playing angels before our time !!
Its wrong, very wrong, inexcnsabiy wrong; l
am abundantly satisfied on that point. Bring
the case home. Suppose somebody kisses your
sister, how would you like it 1t body
kisses my sister, I'll kill him but if can kiss
anybody else's sister-why-then-in that
cass-and under those peculiar, those very Pc
culiar circumstances-then,l say-somebody
else's sister is going to be kissed. " CoaSequsn-
ess ?" Oh yes; FL take 'em-take 'em all the
time.
"Fie he ~ says some lady.
And what, may l ask, are you fie-1iie-ing
"Why to kiss and tell How mean, how
,n-e-a-n it is of you"
Yes'm, it certainly is mean. The prisoner
But, "look at here" as the Yankees say
You don't expect a man to submit to every
thing, do you? You can't expect him to era
his composition, just because it is advisable on
the score of pleasing the public with the idea
that he is better than he really is There is
such q thing rs revenge. And however impro-
per 1t may be to give way to this despicable
feeling, you must allow that this sort Of i'm
propriety is very common, very natural
Why, ii had had SO much as the hail. the
third, the tenth, or any aliquot part (no mat
ter how small, of 4 kiss during the last two
year: l would never have opened my lips
Or, If stood the faintest possible chance of
getting kiss or any fraction Of kiss during
the remainder Of my natural life, / should BE-
n silent n q dumb-beIl.
But how DO you know that this story is not
tne Veriest nction that was ever penned You
nave NO right 70 infer any thing else. What the
French call rraissmbiamce is no ties of the truth
OF thing. much less Of q work Of art Are
you goose enough to suppose that a writer
friends, and Of all that he reads or hes -
What's 70 hinder him from striugins these az.