Middletown transcript., 1882-03-31
THE DIFFERENCE IN HUGGING.
PROFESSOR PECK DIsCoURsEs ON
THE SUBJECT.

THE SUBJECT.
An eastern paper, to encourage hug.
ging in the locality in which it ispublish'
ed, says: GA Wisconsin man, while
hugging his girl of an evening, received
a atelegram stating that hehad fallen hei1
to a fortune" The eastern paper isright
in it's efforts to stimulate healthy senti-
ment in favor of hugging, but it does
wrong to hold out such inducements, as
it will not be one time in ten thousand
that man, while hugging a girl, will
receive such dispatch. He will oftener
receivea dispatch bound in leather, from
the girls father, which will inform him
that he has fallen over a fence and isheir
to lame back There should be no
money consideration in case of hug
ging, and no hopeof falling heir to any
thing It is fortune enough toa man to
have girl to hug. Hugging can never
become what it should be, our great
national recreation and enjoyment, our
picnic, as it were, until all thought of
outside matters is eliminated from it,
and the hugging is simply done for in
stance, because there is good opportu-
nifty, and no one to say nay. The diff
ference in hugging can readily be seen by
those who have done a little of it them
selves, if they go to theatre and watch
the actresses and actors. 1t is not once
in hundred times that hugging on the
stage is done because both parties like
it, but is always done for money, at so
much week and wardrobe furnished.
The actor comes up to the scratch like
hired man, and puts his arm around the
actress as though he was holding up
tobacco sign. and the actress smiles a
two-for-a-quarter smile and looks as
though she was taking pills. We have
often seen a couple of lovers in the au-
dience, who probably know scientific
hugging when they see it, look at this
stage hugging and curl up their lips with
scorn, and look at each other as much as
to say, "If it was US on the stage playing
that scene we would break the audience
all up" Occasionallya couple of stage
lovers unbend themselves and get in
hug OF two that break corset string,
but in those cases one or the other blush
es and looks around at the wings to see
whether the actors wife OF the actress
husband is looking. A year ago when
the Hundred Wives" was played here
MacGinley and little Ada Gilman hug
ged old fashioned, and it seemed as tho
he would break her in two, and she
looked as though she wished he would,
but the last time the party was here a
strange woman was in Ada's place, and
MacGinley Rugged her as though he
would rather hire man to do it for him,
and the woman acted as though she never
had enjoyed good hug in all her born
days. There has got to be certain
amount of fellow feeling between the
hugger and the huggee, or it is mere
matter of form, and not worth the price
of admission. Sometimes we think we
would like to go on the stage and give
some of these actors few points that
would be of great benefit to them in their
business, but if we should offer to do so
they would probably impute canister
motives to us, and hit us with stuffed
club. 1t is not that we would care for
the hugging, but the advancement Of
art. There are some actresses that
the best hugger in the world could not
hug and feel that he had got the worth
of his money, and there are others that
an actor would be justified in playing
without a salary and boarding himself,
Just for one hug per evening and We'd
nesday and Saturday matinee. How
ever, this is subject that we had never
thought of until we saw the item in the
eastern paper about the fellows having
fortune left him.-Peck'S Sun.