The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-04-30
Kisses.

He next, with due circumspection and
Scotch deliberation, possessed himself
of the kiss, when with sounding smack
he exclaimed: "Ehl 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 us 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
citation 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 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 hap
tized with tears and kisses the kisses
that were given not back again, and yet
1shich 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 a dimple
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 better, but in every other chapter
of the Bible some old patriarch falls
upon the neck Of some other old patri-
arch and kisses him, and the father of
the prodigal son ran and kissed him,
and however distasteful it may be men do
kiss each other at the present time when
they meet after long absences and are
| closely related, or have a David and
Jonathon sort of friendship for each
other.
The late Princess Alice, eldest daugh-
| ter of Queen Victoria and wife of an
Austrian prince, lost her life year or
| two ago through a kiss; two of her
children died Of diphtheria, and she
could not resist the pleading of her
dying boy to "kiss mammal" 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 discov-
ered-they must be spooney and limo
cent and untutored-for kisses like
other nectar of the gods lose their fla
vor in time.
''They stood above the world
In world apart
And she dropped her happy eyes
And stilled the throbbing 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 said:
"Many an evening by the waters did we watch
the stately ships;
| And our spirits rushed together at the meeting
of the lips'
The dramatic kiss has attracted con.
siderable attention lately. The way in
which Emma Abbott kisses that hand
some Castle, who plays "Paul to hel
"Virginia,' is too, too much It is re-
corded variously as g emotional "par
oxysmal, spontaneous, absorbing,
and everybody wondered when little
Emma learned to kiss in that way
Sarah Bernhardt makes a little rush a
her vis-a-vis, and kisses him behind the
ear before he knows what it is all about
Mary Anderson's kisses remind an actol
who plays with her of the time he pu
his tongue to frozen lamp post when /
boy, and now all the old boys are look
ing for frozen lamp-posts to kiss. Here
is darling
BIT OF SENTIMENT:
Cup to her chamber window
Aslight wire trellis grows,
And up this Romeo's ladder
Chambers bold white rose.
To her scarlet lips she holds him,
And kisses him many time;
All, me! it was he that won her,
Because he dared to climb
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