Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-18
Kissing and Telling oft. Philadelphia Press.l

When the wrong man kisses the right wo- man or the right man kisses the wo- man-and both sometimes happen-it does not always follow that there is disturbance about it. The world can never know how much unauthorized kissing has been done and forgiven and forgotten. In the natur- ally wild and audacious career of the human kind there is great deal of business and it is just as well that it is not cruelty dragged before the public on every occasion. If that were always done it would be very discoura- ging to a reasonably delightful pastime which more or less concerns everybody. Many of the cares and trials of this world find relief in kiss; it is a very little thing, un- commonly sweet for it's size, and one of the few luxuries of this world which well or ganized people never get to much of. No body who understands even the rudiments of kissing disdains it's practice, and those who have been so fortunate as to reach some- thing of the science of the thing are not easi- ly. restrained in their pursuit of supreme happiness. A kiss doesn't cost anything, and it's pretty small matter to make a dis turbance about, and most people will endure a great deal of kissing without getting angry about it and regarding it as misfortune to make public complaint. Now and then, however, human nature is put to an awful test in this way, aud human nature breaks down. man may not be so particular ab- out putting his kisses where they will do the most good and he is frequently too nasty and too reckless about it But woman is apt to be little more considerate in her pre- ferences.
 There was an Illinois woman, now, who had prejudice against being kissed by a tailor-possibly because the other eight parts of the man were not around-although the tailor was perfectly free to say that he had no prejudice against kissing the lady. He re- garded her as sweet enough to kiss and frankly fold har Thara cold proud women who in some unaccountable way have got into the world who would not be affected by any such talk, but the number of these is very, very few Whether the Illinois woman was one of this rare kind or not is still a matter of dispute. It is also un- decided whether she told the tailor he was 8 handsome man she insists that, being truthful woman, she could not have done so conscientiously, while he takes the opposite side of the question. There is, however, no controversy about the one point that he did kiss her, and after all that is the important thing. It is not certain just what was the matter with this kiss-whether it was not up to the standard or whether there may not be something peculiar about tailor's kiss But it is certain that the lady didn't lose much time in telling her husband about 1t, and the husband lost no time in horse whipping the tailor for doing what he had doubtless himself done a thousand times. In this way the matter became the property of the public, for the tailor proceeded against the husband for assault. Perhaps when the case is brought to trial we shall get some idea about what there is to a tailor's kiss which induces woman to tell her husband about it and create a disturbance in tue community.
 Such 8 course is as strange as it is unusual, and if allowed to go on unrebuked must in evitably cut a tailor off from many of the good thin gs of this world.