The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-09
for the New Orleans Sunday Crescent !
KISSING.
kiss rhymes to bliss, In fact a. well as verse

kiss rhymes to bliss In fact well verse "
Rather strange subject, / hear you say, for
one of the male persuasion, but seeing two ladies'
meet and kiss on meeting, who kne,o did not
care sou marque for each other, brought train
of thought upon kissing that concluded to give
you the benefit Of.
The custom becoming SO prevalent OF kissing on
meeting between persons who would not shed
tear, or even draw a good long breath as an
apology for sigh, should the person they were
kissing die within the hour is not gonly ridicu-
Gus, but wrong. To me there is something almost
sacred in kiss, and the idea of making it so COM
mon mode of salutation has something in It really
profane. --1
A kiss of friendship between two tried and true
friends, can understand being pleasant to give
and receive, but the formal salute when the lips
just touch, and scarcely that, where there is
neither friendship nor even liking in the heart is
nsuseous and wrong. To kiss any one and every
one, think would be simply impossible. neither
could nor would. then, am disposed to be
select. When kiss. do so because like the
person, and to kiss them Is pleasure to me that
my heart delights in, and do il with a vim. The
kiss has ever been regarded as a signal of love,
ard the darkest reproach gwen to traitor WAS
HE betrayed with kiss" And yet how MANY
do we see greet with kiss, whose lips are not
cold from the pressure ere they are making
some slanderous remarks about the person whose
lips they have Just pressed.
Did you ever notice how differently persons
kiss-how some will snatch kiss, just brush the
lips as If il were a dose OF medicine and had 10 he
taken, while others dwell upon it until it is indeed
sweetness long drawn out! When was at col
lege some years, no matter how many ago, / had
for a chum young planter from -, one of
the most fascinating, handsome Youngsters that
ever caught the heart of pretty woman, and he
was NE very deuce at that game. He had what
he called the cumming. bird kiss" that he used
TO coax the girls into participating in with him,
that struck me once when happened /, over.
see the performance, as being very nice indeed in
its way.
Tom would steal his left arm round his fair charm
er'swaist. and drawing her closely up TO his heart
with bis right hand gently raise her chin. and
STOPPING his handsome head, kiss her softly but
firmly, fairly in the mouth, and it was truly a
humming bird slipping kiss-no hasty plate OF
soup and wipe of your mustaehe y affair, but
long enough to gather all the sweets from her
ruby lips, and yet so gently, softly done she was
always ready TO try yet another. All Tom was
sad dog, and no mistake but the girls did ike
to kiss him, and that's a fact, for be was master
Of the art. Fr .f. Il -
have often amused myself when riding in the
cars looking at the different mouths present, and
coming over TO myself what would possibly in.
duce me to kiss some Of them and how much
would like TO kiss some If HAD the chance. / was
looking the other day at a lady who would have
been beautiful if her lips had not shown what no
art can conceal from the knowing ones that she
cnewed snun, or pretended to use IL as denti.
rice. II we're married, (which. thank Heaven.
I'm not) and my wife would use snuff in that way'
would consider 1t fair ground for q separation
and she would have to give up one Of the two. the
snuff or me. II this lie the case with man. now
is II with delicate woman, viii she not natur.
ally turn with disgust from mouth foul with to.
oscco. yellow teeth and stained lipsl should
think so; and as l love kissing, don't chew,
though in this do not '
Compound for sins am inclined 70
BY damning those have no mind tor
Yours, truly Cousin JoHS.