East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-10-15


career, when the gentlemen were com
PEELED to dwell on the lips Of their part
ners almost minute, or they would be
too quick for the music, and dance quite
ont Of tune. Custom still warrants steal
ing kiss from sleeping beauty at any
season, and from waking ones under the
Christmas misletoe. In Russia, kisses
are Easter offerings. There every member
of family salutes every other member;
acquaintance greet each other with
kiss; public employees salute their princi-
pals and one another; the general en-
braces the officers of his corps; the colo
mel those Of his regiment andadeputation
from tho ranks; while the captain kisses
all the soldiers Of his company. The car
saluteS his family, retinue, court, and at
tendance pays a similar compliment to
his officers on parade, the sentinels at the
palace gates, and select party of pri-
vate soldiers. In some parts, anybody
may be compelled to kiss anybody else;
the poorest serf meetinga high born dame
in the street has but TO say: Christ is
risen, and he will receive kiss, and He
is truly riscn,' in reply. In Finland, if
Bayard Taylor is to be credited, the wo-
men have q curious aversion to what the
sex usually receive with complacency, if
not pleasure. A Finnish matron, upon
hearing that il was common thing in
! Eng land for man and wife to kiss, ex.
pressed great disgust thereat, declaring
emphatically that if her husband dared
to take such liberty, she would give
him box on the ears ho would feel for a
month!
In the eyes of our law, kissing lady
against her will, or without her permits
sion terms not exactly synonymous), is a
common assault punishable by imprison-
ment; penalties not always sufficient to
defer susceptible men from yielding to
rosy temptation.
In France, by the code of regulations
by which the theatres are governed, any
actor kissing an actress without her con
sent is liable to fine of so many francs.
The husband of popular French actress
brought the stage-lover before tribunal
for having committed the offence to
most alarming and unwarrantablc extent.
The defendant at first pleaded consent of
the lady; this being disproved, he auda-
ciously offered to settle the matter by re-
turning tho kieses
dearest beauty, you complain
That killed you with II kiss;
o then, take il back again,
Lest justly curse my bliss
mode of payment of course Indignantly
rejected by the plaintiff. We do not
know what the London green-room low
is on this pleasant questionable practice
varies considerably. In general, stage
saintes are most palpabls make.believes;
one popular comedian never trusts his
face within kisSing-range, but then his
wife plays in the same pieco, SO he may
have good reason for his caution; others
we could name, who, providing the kisser
be fair, take the benefit of the act and
we remember seeing an actor, taking ad-
vantage of favorable opportunity, sa-
lutte pretty actress, although there was
no stage direction to justify bim--a piece
of gag which the lady very properly
accepted as cue for as unequivocal box
on the ear as ever fair hands admins.
tered.
Every one knows how Margaret of
Scotland kissed the ugly and sleeping
Charter, and how she justified her taste
by declaring, that mouth from which
such profusion Of wit had proceeded
needed no other grace to make it Eeedful.
Voltaire, too, had the honor of being
publicly kissed in the stage-box by the
young and lovely Duchess de Vilars; but
in his case the lady gave the salute of her
own free will, but in obedience to the
commands of the pit, mad with enthusi-
asm for the poets Meropc.'
Kissing the pope's toe was a fashion
introduced by one of tho Leos, who had
mutiloted his right hand. Kissing hands
was regal ceremony praoticed at least
AS early as the days Of Caligula. When
the gallant cardinal, John Of Lorraine,
was presented TO the Duchess of Savoy,
she gave her hand to kiss, greatly to the
indignation of the irate churchman.-
How, madamp exclaimed he; am to be
treated in this manner kiss the queen
my mistress, who is the greatest queen
in the world, and shall l not kiss you, q
dirty little duchess? would have you
know | have kissed as handsome ladies'
and of as great and greater family than
youp Without more ado, he made for
the lips of the proud Portuguese prin.
cess, and despite her resistance, kissed
her thrice on the mouth before he re.
leased her with an exultant laugh. Car.
d;nal John was apparently of one mind
with Selden, who thought ito kiss ladies
hands after their lips, as some do, is like
little boys, who, after they eat tho apple,
fall to the pairing When Charles III.
was making his triumphal progress thro'
the land, certain country ladies who were
presented to him, instead of kissing the
royal hand, in their simplicity held UP
|, their own heads to DO kissed by the king
"A bundcr which no one would more
readily excuse than the Merry Monarch
K:oo.-, -~y- Co. OIL, - H. s.O..
ton, because they are made out of moth
ing, and are very good. A countrymar
of the Clockmaker conjugates tho vert
, thus: Buss, to kiss; rebus, to kiss again
. pluribus, to kiss without regard to mum
Der; sillybus, the hand instead of the lip
. 4 Lee tba urono ,narcnn