, 1880-01-01
Kisses.

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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 baby without
making botch of it.
The reason for this is that kiss, to
be kiss, must be something more than
lp.service. 1t must have heart in it.
And when man has given his whole
heart to woman las he always does),
the baby has to take his fathers kisses
without that which alone makes the
worth having.
But when woman kisses baby
Bless you, what 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.
Oh, to be a baby rs u; su..t
She cares not for dirty face, she shrinks
not for aught foreign or domestic that
may rest upon those pouting lips. Though
nose be untidy, though chin be ditto,
though cheeks be daubed with every,
thing daubable possible for a baby to
dsub with, what is that to her9
Nothing!
She sees nothing but this--a baby!
She has but one impulse--to eat It'll
What one may not eat, one may kiss.
And she kisses that baby
Oh, don't She
To fly to the other extreme, there Ii
the kiss of friendship. This is between
two of the softer sex, the kissing sex,
and is lifeless affair, the very mummy
of kiss. 1t is performed in this wise
for 1t is performance |:
Two ladies meet. They pucker their
mouths into an angular protuberance,
and cooking their heads to one side, as a
hen will before picking up grain Of
corn, two faces, full of unspeaksble resig-
nation and infexible devotion to duty,
approximate touch, and retire.
The schoolgirl kiss is very different
affair. As unlike the kiss of friendship
as August is unlike December, as fire is
unlike ashes, as Life is unlike death.
/ Two school girls meet. Mouth flies
to mouth, and lips to lips.
Each would swallow the other. 1t is
well it is so, a .ta.
The swallowing tendency of one is
offset by the like tendency of the other
Thus are both preserved for the sons
of men.
They talk while they kiss!
Each says to each, "Oh, you dear darl-
ing creaturel Where have you been
these ages [since morning. I've got SO
many things to tell you !" ETC., etc., etc.
And all this is said contemporaneously
with that kiss; in the same instant Of
time. f .,.... H N- as. ..
Sometimes two men kiss, but this
branch of the subject is not attractive
. We have no sympathy with it.
1t is an abomination. aa 5ae
The kiss par excellence is, of course,
the kiss of love.
What is it likef
Don't ask us. 1t is indescribable.
Try it. " '''' W
1t is sweeter than honey and the
honeycomb, sweeter tar than the oran.
ges that are "all sweet" 1t is sweetness
in the concrete, concentrated, boiled
down.
Try it. '.'F '"ai "f
The matrimonial kiss is necessarily a
tame one. #l.. ..I.,......,. ..teuY. ..... 4,
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 given his 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 but
a heartless collocation Of lips