The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1882-04-01
THE DIFFERENCE IN HUoGING.

Stu EsdStSIu pAptIs W encourage mug
ging in the locality in which it is pub
lished, says: "a Wisconsin man, while
hugging his girl of an evening, received
4 telegram stating that he had fallen heir
TO 4 fortune" The Eastern paper is
right in its efforts TO stimulate healthy
sentiment in favor of hugging, but
il does wrong TO hold out such induce
ments, as it will not be one time in ten
thousand that 4 man, while hugging n
girl will receive such dispatch. He
will often receive dispatch bound in
leather, from the girls father, which
will inform him that he has fallen over
a fence, and is heir to lame back
There should be no money considera-
ton in case Of hugging, and no hope
OF falling heir to anything. II is fortune
enough To- man TO have a 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 il, and the hugging is
simply done for instance, because there
is good opportunity, and no one TO
say nay. The difference in hugging can
readily be seen by those who have done
little of il themselves, If they go to 4
theatre and watch the actresses and
actors. IL is not once in 4 hundred
times tha; hugging on the stage is done
because both parties like il, but is always
done for money, At so much week and
wardrobe furnished. The actor comes
up TO the scratch like 4 hired man, and
puts hisarm around the actress rs though
he was holding up 4 tobacco sign, and
the actress smiles a two-for-a quarter
smile and looks as though she was taking
pills. We have often seen couple OF
lovers in the audience, 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 rs to say, ''lf il was US
on the stage playing that scene we would
break the audience all up" Occasion
ally 4 couple Of stage lovers unbend
themselves and get in hug or two that
breaks corset string, but in those cases
one or the other bushes and looks
around At the wings to see whether the
actors wife or the actress husband is
looking. \ year ago when the "Hun-
dred Wives" was playing here, Mac.
Ginley and little Ada Gilman hugged
old fashioned and il seemed as though
he would break her in two, and she
looked As though she wished he would,
but the last time the party was here 4
strange woman was in Ada's place, and
MacGinley hugged her as though he
would rather hire 4 man to do il for him,
and the woman acted As though she
never had enjoyed good hug in all her
born days. There has got TO be a GER
tain amount of fellow feeling between
the hugger and the huggec, or il is a
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 a 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 10 us, and hit us with
4 stuffed club. II is not that we would
care for the hugging, but the advance.
mcnt 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 play.
ing without a salary and boarding him.
self, just for one hug per evening and
"Wednesday and Saturday matinee
However, this is a subject that We had
never thought Of until we saw the item
in the Eastern paper about the fellows
having fortune left him.-Pe6k'S San.