The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1862-05-21
A Female Editor on Kissing !.

| sPrighlly young lady, has, or recently had
charge OF department in the Georgia
Weekly Herald She is very dashing
writer, talking just as sne feels and feeling,
we guess, about right. just listen TO her:
"We got such a raking about our thoughts
on kissing, that 10 spite some folks we now
will tell them what we don't. like. We
don't like TO be porluned for kiss until
all our patience is gone. We don't like 10
threaten bashfll men to kiss them. They
turn pale and red, and finally, likei some
! simpering school girl turn their heads,
aside, as il they really thought us in earn
1 est. Well, we'll tell you what, il we were
in their places, no young lady under the
sun should th-eaten;to kiss us and not do it.
We saw young man kiss lady's pic
ture once, and she present. Now we
wouldn't have done that, and we told HIM
so. Kiss cold inanimate picture, when
the original was sitting before us,swith rosy
red lips and defiant eyes? No, never!
"Jacob kissed Rachel, )" is the earliest re-
cord we believe OF love kiss, though we
/ ieeI assured that long before this the luxury
was INDUCED in. In oden time peope
/ kiss, bul fashion has substituted the formal
! bow or the shaking of hands. Poor ex-
change, we say Mark Antony resigned
the world for kiss. Our poets have writ.
len some OF their sweetest lines in praise of
/ kissing. We humbly beg our friends, those
81. II eH- ~.
ure OF kiss, not TO poster themselves IN
picking 10 pieces because we nave thus
expressed oursei. If lbey do we'll pay
them back. There is one thing pretty cer-
tain, there's only one objection we would
raise 10 kissing /; if any one wishes 10 know,
lei them in4uire through the Herald We
4 do not condemn kissing, but if any one
was 10 attempt 10 kiss us-well, never mind
the rest"
Prentice says: 'Ah, Belle you start a
good many kiss-memores to our lips. And
we guess you'll have TO take sweet kiss,
('it will DO you no harm } Tor your snGges-
ton. We don't intend 10 'lmporune you
till all your patience is gone oa The wings
OF kisses, but you needn't think we'll kiss
you quick and let yon go. Go along with
your kiss winged patience. How much
patience have you, and does your patience
on a monument smile al kissing Let an
swer slip 'twixt The kiss and our lip now.
MARX Antony resigned the world for a
kiss" you say This was case OF bills
pay able,' Tor valuable received, we doubt
not, aud Antony was conscious of having a
kiss pay for :he blow struck by Augustus
Cesar ior Oclavia, Autony's wife.
we agree with you thai il is 'poor ex-
change. we say the substitution OF hand
shaking or head inclining for the old hearty
meeting kiss (this was the origin OF love
leasls in The churches, we believe.) Bet
Ter far an exchange OF kisses we say, than
any silver fragments o. a broken voice" OF
any other currency; better this ringing coir
which cannot be counierieiied than any
earthly mintiag; better than any poetry o
the dead languages this lambric and spon
daic OF the living lp-language.
"Ah ! the poetry of kisses! All the love
: poetry OF the world bears the print and i'm
print Of kisses! Spiritual or otherwise =
/ Love literature is embalmed in kisses. Love
itself is sealed and laid away in the hear
envelope. sealed with kisses-and how
many of the treasures laid up in HeaveI
are kissed TO sleep in The dreams of Para
disc. TennYson sings:
, .sDsar as remembered kisses afte death
: And said as those on peoples fancy feIgne'
: On lips that are for olhers.'
! "Perhaps these last mentioned kisses ar
1 the saddest unreaizalions that heart cal
4 feel On B-We have tried these ksse
' feigued, on lips that are ior others'-se
, our unpublished "Reminiscences Hoo
b seems 10 have appreciated as well as on
: greater Tennyson, the sad lovers fancy, i
/ his most sadly SWEEP ballad of Inez, for
r is full Of The soul OF lo-t kisses-.ieigned o
5 lips that are for olhers:'
S Farewell, farewell sweet Inez,
a That vessel never bore
, So glad a freight upon ils deck
Nor danced so light before;
Alas, for pleasure OH the sea,
: And sorrow on the shore,
g The smile that blessed one lovers hear
Has broken many more"
This should have BEEN
s'The kiss that blessed one lovers hea
Has broken many more"
. Kisses have become historical Ever
man has historical kisses in his life, bI
they embalm unwriiten histories. the kl;
ses that Antony wasted world so gadi
. for 'on brow of Egypt never grew OLE
. and Margaret's kiss on The sleeping lips {
Allan Charter comes to the dream OF ever
e poet. Do you remember il Allan Char
tier The poet was The ugliest man IN France
u but the Queen with her maids iound hiT
. one day asleep anc bent over anu kisse
: his dreaming lips. 4 kiss mol The man sh
said, 4 kiss the soul that sings So Franc