Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-06-20
KISSES
kiss me softly, and speak to me low"

Mss me soitly, and speak 70 me low.
There is story told of an old Scotch
deacon who courted a girl for good many
years, but never found courage enough to
ask her to marry. One day after they had
been "keepin' company" for about ten
years, he ventured to solicit kiss. "Let
me first ask blessing" be said, and, fall
ing upon his knees, he implored the Divine
benediction. He next, with due circum-
spection and Scotch deliberation, pos
sessed himself of the kiss, when, with a
sounding smack, he exclaimed, Eh
woman, but it was good Let US return
thanks p
That prince of good fellows, John G..
SAKE, has added this to the kiss literature
Give me kisses-all is waste
Save the luxury of the taste.
And for distinguishes live
Only when we take and give.
Kiss me, then,
Every moment and again.
There are poetic kisses and Platonic
kisses-such as the beautiful Madame Re-
caimer gave to Chateaubriand there are
historic kisses-such as those recorded in
the Book OF Genesis; spiritual kisses
such as Solomon tells US about and treach-
erous kisses, that betray.
And the Jest seldom slips
But it strikes tender chord;
And a KISS was on the lips
OF the VI etch that sold his Lord
Who can tell? Passion puts sting into
its kisses-love is selish-duty cold. The
kisses of friendship are mere compliments.
The kiss of reconciliation between those
who truly love should be the sweetest of
all kisses. There is kiss that is the EN-.
bodiment of purity, innocence, and tender,
trustful love. 1t is fiuttering, clinging,
rosebud kiss, that leaves memory as pure
and loving as itself. 1t is the baby's kiss
Mistress Mary, quite contrary,
How does the baby grow?
Collie spells, and ears like shells,
And kisses from top TO toe.
It is upon the baby's kisses that the
ones that have been laid away baptized
with tears and kisses the kisses that
were given not back again, and yet which
were so dear-so dear.
"Dear as remembered kisses after
death, P" says Tennyson.
There is pretty legend that Christ had
dimple in his chin, laid there by an an
gels kiss, and whoever lie kissed would
surely receive that dimple, and SO the
Germans say of one who has dimpled
chin, "She is Christ. kissed"
The kiss of respect is given upon the
forehead !; that of admiration upon the
eyes that of beauty upon the cheeks
The kiss of love is given upon the lips.
1t is said men do not waste kisses upon
each other when they can do so much bet
ter, but in every other chapter of the Bible
some old patriarch falls upon the neck of
some other old patriarch and kisses him,
and the father of the prodigal son ran and
kissed him, and Henry Ward Beecher
kissed Theodore Tilton, and, however dis
tasteful it may be, men do kiss each other
at the present time when they meet after
long absences and are closely related, or
have David and Jonathan eort of friend
ship for each other.
The late Princess Alice, eldest daughter
of Queen Victoria and wife of an Austrian
Prince, lost her life year or two ago
of diphtheria, and she could not resist the
pleading of her dying boy to kiss mann.
ma ;" she kissed his paling lips in an agony
of mother-love and took the dread disease,
which resulted fatally.
No doubt the kisses of young lovers taste
better than any luxury yet discovered.
They must be spooney, and innocent, and
untutored, for kisses, like other nectar of
the gods, lose their flavor in time.
They stood above the world
In world apart,
And she dropped her happy eyes
And stilled the throbbUg pulses
OF her happy heart;
And the moonlight fell above her
Her secret to discover
AS though no human lover
Had laid his kisses there.
The hero of Lockesly Hall ssid:
Many an evening by the waters did we watch the
stately ships;
And our spirits rushed together at the nothing Of
the lips.
The dramatic kiss has attracted con.
siderable attention lately. The way in
which Emma Abbott kisses Castle, who
plays " Paup' to her Virginia, is too,
too much It is recorded variously as
emotional" paroxysmal," "spontane.
ous," absorbing" and everybody won-
dered when little Emma learned to kiss in
that way. Sarah Bernhardt makes little
rush at her Wis. a.vis, and kisses him behind
the ear before he knows what it is all
about. Mary Anderson's kisses remind an
actor who plays with her of the time he
put his tongue to frozen lamp post when
boy, and now all the old boys are looking
for frozen lamp posts to kiss. Here is a
daring bit of sentiment
Up to her chamber window
slight wire trellis grows
Aud up this Romeo's ladder
Chambers a bold white rose.
To her scarlet lips she holds him,
And kisses him mary a time;
All me it was he that won her,
Becluse he dared to climb