Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-11-26
Josh Billings OF, Kissing.

| have written essays on kissing before
this one, but they didn't satisfy me nor
dew think this one viii, for The more q
man undertakes tew tell about kiss the
more he will reduce his ignorance to a
science. 49,, -T
Yu kant analize kiss emmy more than
yu kan the breath ov flour. Yu kant
tell what makes kiss taste SO good emmy
more than yu kan a peach. ee ~
Emmy man who can set down, whar it
is cool, aud tell how kiss tastes, haint
get emmy more real flavor tew his mouth
than knot hole has. Such phcllo
wouldn't hesitate TO describe Paaadise as
a fdst rate place for garden SASS.
The only way tew describe kiss is
few take one, an then set down all alone,
out of the draft, and smack your lips. =
Ifyou kant satisfy yourself how kiss
tastes without takin' another one, how
on earth kan you define it tew the next
man. s...gE -r Id
| want it understood that am talking
about pure emotional kissing, that is born
in the heart and flies tew the lips, like
humming bird to its roost as
kissing an unwilling pair ov lips is az
mean victory rs Robin birds nest,
and kissing pair ov willing ones IL about
as unfragraut recreation as making bo-
quets out of dandelons.
4, The kind on kissing that am talking
about IL the kind that must dew it or
spile.
If you search the rekords ever so lively
you kant find the author ov the first kiss;
kissing, like much other things, is annony-
| nous.
But thar IL such nature in it, stitch a
world Nv language without words, such
heap ov pathos without fuss, so
much honey aud SO little water, so cheap,
SO sudden and SO neat mode of striking
up an acquaintance, that consider it a
good purchase that Adam give and got
the fast kiss.
Who kan imagine greater lump of
earthly bliss, reduced tew a finer thing,
than kissing the only woman on earth in
the garden of Eden.
Adam wasn't tho man, don't believe
to pass SIGH hand
| don't know whether the old stock
philosopher ever kist emmy body or not;
of they did they probably did it like
drafting a theorem on "a blackboard,
more for the purpose of proving some
thing else.
do hate to see this delightful invigora
ting beverage adulterated; it is nektar for
the gods but | am often obliged to stand
still and see kissing did, and not say
word. that hain't got any more novelty.
nor meaning in it, than throwing stones
to a mark.
saw two maydcn ladies kiss yesterday
on the north side of Union Square, 5
times in less than ten minutes; they ki,t
every time they bid each other farewell
aud thou immediately thought Of some
thing else they hadn't sed | couldn't
tell for the life ov me whether the kiss
ing was tho effect ov what they sed, or
what they sei was the effect ov kissing.
1t was which and tother scene.
Cross matched kissing IL undoubtedly
the strenth ov the grain. 1t is true there
IL 90 statu regulashum against two fe
males kissing each other, but | doa't
think there IL much pardon for it, unless
it is done TO keep tools in order; and two
men kissing each other is prima face evil
dence Of doadbeatcry. .
kissing that passes from parent to
child, and back again, seems to me az
necessary az shiupIaste,s to do business
with; aud kissing that husbands give and
J take is simply gathering ripe fruit from
ones own plum tree that would otherwise
drop off or be stolen.
Therefor am driv to kouclude to GIT
| out of the corner my remarks have claS-
ed me into, that the lie Of kiss il only
to be had once 10 phello's life, iin the
original package, aad that is When
n OF to waste the time oY the reader, l
hav thought is best not to finish the abuy
sentence, hoping that there amt no per-
son of good education and decent men,
DRY, but what kan recoIect the time | re-
fer TO, without any of mi help.
A MEREToRIoUs Article. We are
tired Of this idea of putting" humbug
medicines that are constantly thrown into
drug stores, and are merely an imposition
nnon community Rut whan an article