The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-08-06
Shall There be HuggIng in the Parks

The law abiding people OF this COM
munity were startled few days since,
and the greatest indignation prevailed at
an editorial article in a contemporary,
denouncing the practice of hugging in
the public parks. The article went on
to show that the placing of seats in the
parks leads to hugging, and the editor
denounced hugging in the most insane
manner possible.
Great heavens, has it come to this?
Are the dearest rights of American citi-
zens to be abridged? Let us call the at
tention Of that powerful paper to clause
in the Declaration of Independence,
which asserts that call men are created
free and equal, endowed with certain
inalienable rights, among which are
life, liberty and the pursuitof happiness. ="
When the trainers Of that great declara-
ton Of independence were at work on
that clause, they must have had in view
the pastime of hugging in the parks
Hugging is certainly ''pursrit of hap
piness." People do not hug for wages,
that is, except ON the stage. Nobody is
obliged to hug. It is sort of sponta-
neous combustion, as it were, of the
feelings, and has to have proper condi-
lions of the atmosphere to make it a sue
cess. Parties who object to hugging are
I'D, usually, and are like lemon that
has done duty in circus lemonade. If
they had job of hugging they would
want to hire man to do it for them. A
man who complains of little natural
soul inspiring hugging on back seat in
park, of an evening, with fountain
throwing water all over little cast-iron
cupids, has probably got soul, but he
hasn't got it with him. To the student
of nature there is no sight more beauti-
full than to see flock of young people
take seats in the park, after the sun has
gone to bed in the west, and the moon
has pulled feecy cloud over her face
for q veil, so as not to disturb the wor-
shippers. A couple, one male and the
other female, will sit far apart on the
cast-iron seat, for a moment, when the
young lady will try to fix her cloak over
her shoulders, and she can't fix it, and
then the young man will help her, and
when he has got it fixed he will go off
and leave one arm around the small of
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wonder where he left it, and go back
after it, and in the dark he will feel
around with the other hand to find the
hand he left, suddenly the two hands
will meet, they will express astonish-
ment, and clasp each other, and be so
glad that they will begin to squeeze,
and the chances are that they will cut
the girl in two, but they never do.
Under such circumstances a girl can ex-
list on less atmosphere than she can when
doing washing.
When, in strolling through the parks,
you run onto case Of sporadic hugging,
instead of making a noise on the gravel
walk, to cause the huggists to stop it,
you should retrace your steps noiselessly,
get behind tree and see how long they
can stand it without dying.
1t is claimed by some that young peo-
pie who stay out nights and hug, are not
good for anything next day. There is
something to this, but L they didn't get
any hugging they wouldn't be worth a
cent any time They would be all the
time looking for it.-Peck's 1ilwaukee
Sun.