The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-05-18
Kisses.
"Kiss me softly, and speak to me low"

| for about ten years, he ventured to
solicit kiss.
',Let me first ask blessing" he
said, and falling upon his knees he i'm
plored the Divine benediction.
He next, with due circumspection and
/ Scotch deliberation, possessed himself
of the kiss, when with a sounding smack
he exclaimed: "Eh woman, but it was
good Let us return thanks !"
That prince of good fellows, John G..
SAKE, has added this to the kissing lit
erature:
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 Madam
Recamier gave to Chateaubriand; there
are historic kisses-such as those re-
corded in the book of Genesis; spiritual
kisses-such as Solomon tells MS about,
and treacherous kisses, that betray:
And the jest seldom slips
But it strikes tender chord;
And kiss was on the lips
OF the wretch that sold his Lord.
What is the sweetest kiss in the
world? Who can tell ? Passion puts
sting into its kisses-love is selfish
duty cold. The kisses of friendship are
mere compliments. The kiss of recon
ciliation between those who truly love
should be the sweetest of all kisses.
There is kiss that is the embodiment
of purity, innocence, and tender, trust
full love. 1t is a futtering, clinging,
rosebud kiss, that leaves a memory as
pure and loving as itself; it 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
! heart of the mother lives. Oh, the lit
tie ones that have been laid away bap
tized with tears and kisses the kisses
that were given not back again, and yet
,yhich were so dear-so dear.
"Dear as remembered kisses after
death" says Tennyson.
There is pretty legend that Christ
had dimple in his chin, laid there by
an angels kiss, and whoever he kissed
would surely receive that dimple, so the
Germans say of one who has dlmple
chin: "She is Christ-kissed."
The kiss of respect is given upon the
forehead that of admiration upon the
ewes: that of beauty upon the cheeks.
The kiss of love is given upon the hps.
1t is said men do not waste kisses
upon each other when they can do so
much better, but in every other chapter
of the Bible some old patriarch falls
upon the neck of some other old patrl-
arch and kisses him, and the father OF
the prodigal son ran and kissed him.
, and however distasteful it may be men dc
a kiss each other at the present time when
thev meet after long absences and are
closely related, or have q David and
Jonathon sort of friendship for eacl
D other.
+ The late Princess Alice, eldest daugh
ter of Queen Victoria and wife of al
Y Austrian prince, lost her life year o.
= two ago through a kiss; two OF he
n children died of diphtheria, and sh'
q could not resist the pleading of he
diving boy to "kiss mammal" she kisseC
h his paling lips in an agony of mothe
n love and took the dread disease, whicl
2. resulted fatally.
. No doubt the kisses of young lover
n taste better than any luxury yet discoy
: ered-they must be spooney and innC
n cent and untutored-for kisses lill
! other nectar of the gods lose their fla
vor in time.
e "They stood above the world
q In world apart
= And she dropped her happy eyes
~ And stilled the throbbing pulses
.e OF her happy heart
n And the moonlight fell above her
" Her secret to discover
q As though no human lover
~ Had laid his kisses there"
- The hero of Lockesly Hall said:
Il "Many an evening by the waters did We watC
- the stately ships
~ And our spirits rushed together at the meetir
" of the lips.
II The dramatic kiss has attracted col
siderable attention lately. The way
a which Emma Abbott kisses that hanC
u some Castle, who plays "Paul to- hC
"Virginia, is too, too much 1t is II
/ corded variously as " emotional" "pa
III oxysmal. d" +" spontaneous, absorbing
T. and everybody wondered when lit
Sc Emma learned to kiss in that wa
Sarah Bernhardt makes a little rush
rs her vis-a-vis, and kisses him behind Il
~ ear before he knows what it is all abou
nc Mary Anderson's kisses remind an act
al who plays with her of the time he p
o. his tongue to frozen lamp-post when
IN boy, and now all the old boys are loo
et ing for frozen lamp-posts to kiss. He
9, is a darling
BIT OF SENTIMENT:
u6 cup TO her chamber window
OF slight wire trellis grows,
And up this RomeO's ladder
Chambers bold white rose.