Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-11-13
Kisses.

Kisses, says the Boston Transcript,
are as various as the kissers, and each
kisser is unique. There were never
two just alike, any more than there were
ever two faces just alike.
There is the kiss given the baby.
The power to do this is peculiar to
woman.
No man ever kisses a baby without
making botch of it.
The reason for this is that kiss, to
be a kiss, must be something more
than lip service. 1t must have heart
in it.
And when a man has given his whole
heart to woman Gas he always dOes,)
the baby has to take his fathers kisses,
without that which alone makes the
kiss worth having.
But when woman kisses baby!
Bless you, what a difference!
Her kiss has heart in it; two hearts,
in fact. Her own and the one her hus-
band has given her.
And she is so lavish of those two
heart-power kisses.
o, to be a baby.
She cares not for dirty face, she
shrinks not for aught foreign or domes-
tic that may rest upon those pouting
lips. Though nose be untidy, though
chin be ditto, though cheeks be daubed
with everything daubable possible for a
baby to daub with, what is that to her?
Nothing!
She sees nothing but this-a baby!
She has but one impulse-tO eat it!
What one may not eat, one may kiss.
And she kissed that baby!
Oh, don't she!
To fly to the other extreme, there is
the kiss of friendship. This is between
two of the softer sex, the kissing sex,
and is Efeless affair, the very mummy
of kiss. 1t is performed in this wise
(for it is performed):
Two ladies meet. They pucker their
mouths into an annular protuberanee,
and cooking their heads to one side, as
hen will before picking up grain of
corn, two faces, full of unspeakable
resignation and infexible devotion to
duty, approximate, touch, and retire.
The schoolgirl kiss is very differ
ent affair. AS unlike the kiss of friend
ship as August is unlike December, as
fire is unlike ashes, as life is unlike
death.
The two schoolgirls meet. Mouth
flies to mouth, and lips to lips.
Each would swallow the other. tits
well it is so.
The swallowing tendency of one is
Offset by the like tendency of the other.
Thus are both preserved for the sons
of men.
And they talk while they kiss!
Each says to each, Oh, you dear
darling creature! Where have you been
these agesP Tsince morning. I've got
so many things to tell your ETC., etc.
And this is all said contemporaneous-
ly with that kiss; in the same instant OF
time.
Sometimes two men kiss, but this
branch of our subject is not attractive
We have no sympathy with it.
It is an abomination.
The kiss par e1ceILence is, of course,
the kiss of love.
What i5 that like?
Don't ask us. 1t is indescribable.
Try it.
1t is sweeter that honey and the hon
eycomb, sweeter far than the oranges
that are all sweet" 1t is sweetness
in the concrete, concentrated, boiled
down.
Try it!
The matrimonial kiss is necessarily
a tame one.
Duty is apt to grow onerous.
And that is not all.
We have said that the true kiss must
have heart in it.
But the man has givenhis heart to his
wife.
The wife concentrates her sweetness
upon the baby.
There can be but one sequence.
The kiss of husband and wife is buta
heartless cOllocatiOn Of lips.
TRAVELLERS have noticed that their
appetites are best at stations where
there is least to eat