The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1881-12-31
WHAT Is A Klsse

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swered by the London Truths Vast Army
ofRiddle- Wrestlers-Defin Esthetic,
Scientific and Commonplace.
The puzzle editor of the London Truth
recently offered prize for the best brief
definition of q kiss. An immense number
of answers were received and many of them
published. The following list, containing
the best of them, make interesting reading:
A language all can understand,
In any age and any land
harmony in red (Grosvenor Gallery.
A kiss is declaration of love by deed of mouth
My definitions a commercial one,
A bill presented, and stamp thereon.
The ever Questionable seal-skin.
The right of mother,
The toy of flirt,
The hope of a lover,
The true ones desert
/ Kisses are moths that steal from out the night,
Flutter awhile, and perish In the light
speechesstoken
OF things so sweet
They can't be spoken.
A kiss is merely contraction OF the orbicularis
orismuscle.
Loves proof impression taken both before
And after letters. Oddly, too, the more
The prints repeated the impressions stronger,
And the true artists best effects last longer.
monosyllabic form of communication, COM
posed only of labials, frequently used con-
than proper.
A free press.
Child and mothers fond delight:
Lovers draught of sweetest bliss;
Woman's veil of keenest spite:
A kiss.
A popular abridgment of an old story, which,
while judiciousy curtailing the more involved
passages OF the narrative robs ii of none of its
eloquence, and manages to preserve the authors
meaning.
IT fit material for kiss you seek,
You need but two lips and little cheek.
The key which opens the fatal door
To thoughts unknown, unguessed before;
But whether It's for veal or
Those cen who use it do not know.
Two pair of lips and couple of fools.
A kiss to be sweet must be under the nose,
But sweeter by far when It's under the rose
The soft touch of mothers lips on a sleeping
| The impress warm, on rosy mouth, that seals a
lovers vow;
no word may speak;
Affections last fond tribute press'd on the chill
and changeless cheek
| Sir. kisses are many and hard to define,
| But kiss defined singly, by Venus dovei
Should be the first clasp of strong letters OF love-
The best definition of kiss?
Why, barely, two mouthsful of bliss.
1t may mean little, it oft means much,
And oftener nothing at all;
And it's always off as soon as it's on,
| And 1t is never the same to all.
What part of speech is it? A noun some say.
Common and proper, yet no speech it hath,
| Nor Is 1t e'er part. 1t takes away
The breath, so that we tell it not in GATH
Noun it may be. yet is its leading function
To lead the lips to form a sweet "conjuncti on"
Scientifically considered hearty kiss resembles
| in principle nothing so much as the action by
| which the lump-sucker fish attaches itself to
stone, that of the leather suckers with
| which urchins delight to lift pebbles. The lips
OF the kisser are pressed against those of the
kissee, slight exhaustion of air is caused by q
drawing action on the part of the agent active.
| ana the TWO actors in the farce are temporarily
attached to each other by the pressure of the ex
| ternal air. The kisser ceases to exhaust the air
! within his mouth; the attachment is broken the
, farce ended.
The salute by labial COTTON, the sweetness Of
which depends upon the age of the parties.
most un@sthetic result of the close contact OF
| two faces sometimes exquisite oftener dangerous
! and always unsatisfactory
What is a kiss? Simply this:
Four lips meet two hearts greet;
| Sans deceit, union sweet!
Rapture! bliss! That's kiss.
To pout your lips and place them. sir.
| To others close; and then,
By suction to compress them, sir,
vacuum within;
And, when this doth distress them, sir.
To open them again.
Humid seal of fond affection, promise of future
Outward sign of inward passion, such thy defni
ton, kiss.