Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-11-05

! bnv written essays On kissing before
this one, and tha didn't satisfy ne nss do
think this wa will, fer the more . man
undertakes 10 tell about . kiss, the
more be will reduce his ignorance to . Sci
snes.
Yu kant analize a kiss emmy more than
IN kan the breath Of flour. Yu kant tell
what makes a kiss ta.te - good emmy more
than you kan peach.
Emmy man who kan set down, WHARF
It 10 kool, and tell how . kiss tastes,
haint got emmy more real flavor tsw his
month Than . knot hole hsz Such
phello wouldn't hesitate tew describe
Paradise as fust rats place for gardin
sass.
The only way 10 describe . kiss 10
tew take one, and then Get dswn, awl
alone, out Of the draft, and smack yurs
lips.
you kant satisfy yussself how . kiss
tastes without taking another one, how on
arth kan ysu define il tsw the next mani
hav heard writer's talk about the essta-
tick bliss thars was 10 kiss, and they re-
ally seemed tsw think thu knew aWi abou,
It, but these are the same kind sv foks Who
psrspire and kry when they read poetry,
and then fall tew writing some OF their own
and think they hav found cut how.
want 1t understood that | am talking
about pure emotional kissing, that il born
in the hart, and flies tew the lips like hum
ming bird tew her roest.
am not taking about your lazy milk
and molssses kissing, that dtubs the face
Of emmy body, nor yurs savidgs bite that goes
around like roaring lion 10 search Of sum-
thing Ia sat.
Kissing an unwilling pair Of lips is az
mean a vlk,ory as rob, in birds nest and
kissing too willing ones IL about AZ unira-
grant recreation az making bcqusts out OF
dandelions.
The kind ov kissing that | am talking
about 10 the kind that must do i. or
Spite.
II you search the records ever so lively
you kant find the author ov the frst kiss
kissing, ike much other COED things, is
anOny nous.
But thar 10 such . natur 10 il, stitch q
world Of language without words, such Z
hcsp Of pathos without fuss, % much honey
and so little water, 90 cheap, - sudden and
% neat mode Of striking up an acquaint-
ancs, that consider it Q coed purchase
that Adam gave and got the first kiss.
Whs kan imasin greater lump ov earth
" bliss, reduced 10 finer thing than kiss
ing the only woman on earth, in the gardsr
ov Eden.
Adam wasn't tho man, don't believe. I,
pass such hand.
, may be wrong in my kenklusions. bu
= fsnny boldly kan date kissing further bacl
: I would like 10 see them do it.
: don't knew whether the old stock phil
osophsrs ever kisst ennyboddy or net;
they did, they probably did it like drsftinI
: . theorum on . blackboard more for th'
purpose Of proving something else.
lido hate to see this delightful invigora
\ ting beverage adulterated, It is nektar 70
the gods, but am often obliged to stan,
still and SEQ kissing did .aHd not say werd
: that hsint got emmy mere novelty, ne
meaning in it than THROWN stones tew
!, mark.
= saw two hayden ladys kiss yssterda,
u on the north side ov the Union Square,
times in less than 10 minutes; they ks
every time they bid each other farewell, an
then Immediately thought oy somethin
else they hadn't sed. couldn't tell 70
the life ov me whether tho kissing WAS tn
eHekt ov bat they scd, or what they &c,
wrz tho elfekt of The kissing 1t waz
= which and tother scene
: Cross matched kissing IL undoubssd
. the strength IF The grain. 1t IL trew, thar
Il no stAt,u regulashun against two ieinal c
kissing each other; but don't thin
thare u much pardon for it.. unless it
done to keep tools in order; and two me
kissing each c'he IL prima face evidence O
d dead boatery.
. Kissing that passes from parent to chile
and back nsin, seems tew bs az necessar
az shinpastcrs to do Dizziness with ; an
u kissing that husbands give and take
simply gathering ripe fruit from ens's ow
Z plum tree that would otherwise drop op
}. or be stolen.
Thsrsferc, | am druv tow konklude te,
y git out Nv the corner that mi remarks ha
, chased me into, that the lie ov kiss !
[, unly tew be had once in . phello's life, 4
), the orisinsl package. and that IL when
y Not tew waste tho time ov the reader.
hav thought best not tew finish the abu
> sentence, hoping thsrs amt no person ov
> good elukashun and decent memory bu
: What can rsckolekt the time which rsfs
to, without emmy Nv mi help.