The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-11-01
kissing q Sweetheart.

Jake, Of tbs Boston Globe, says
Everybody believes they Iknow how to
kiss, but they don't; not one man or
woman in a hundred knows anything
about it. kissing is an art, science,
and numherlea: people 90 through life
without ever extracting the bliss there is
in kiss. Yet they will all acknowledge
there is bliss in kiss. Yes, that's 80,
but the more you know about it the more
bliss.
Now l know sweet girl (I know lots
of 'cm(, but she don't know any more
what to do with her mouth than n demi-
john. She hasn't been educated. / had
been saying tender things to her for some
time, no one night made bold to ask her
for kiss. Kisses should not be asked
for. but taken.) She Immediately ac-
quiesced, but how ? She pursed her rosy
lips into ring rs though she were going
to whistle, and when touched them they
were 30 hard it was like kissing tho husk
of cocoanut. (She is learning, now
every
To learn kissing there are three things
requisite to make beginning, a man, a
woman and love. The first two are use
less without tho last. II would be like
the cook and the cake without fro. Yes,
there must he warmth to make kiss a
success, and the only appropriate warmth
is the fire of love.
Boys and girls, know lots about kiss.
ing and shall lose nothing by imparting
my knowledge, for, as Byron says of wine,
30 repeat Of kiss
The more that enjoy thee, the more wo enjoy"
and make any number of you happy by
uivinu v0u tba kapaE,t of r,,,
This instruction is offered only to peo-
pie of sentiment and refinement. Others
will please not read.
matter how old or young, short or tall,
large or small you are, SO YOU have n
mutual liking for each other. There 10
no fun in kissing a person you do not
wish to kiss, and what pleasure could
there be in kissing struggling, shriek-
ing girl who vows she will not b. kissed
That she Ia not telling the truth goes for
nothing. She makes known the fact that
she is about to be kissed, and by 40 doing
deprives it beforehand of half its pleas.
ure. Two are enough to know il. A
legal contract is not required, neither is
fife and drum accompaniment nscessary.
Haste mars everything. when you
meet your h,3art's idol for the purpose of
pursuing and capturing a kiss, don't
hurry: Put your right arm over her left
shoulder, clasp her right hand with your
left: Slide your arm slowly down her
back to the belt, then pass your hand
gently round her waist; now send little
thrill down your arm, draw her close to
your heart-don't hurry-look lovingly
into her eyes, bend your head till your
lips almost touch hers, till you feel hsr
balmy breath, then sweep your mustache
softly across her lips by way of prelimi-
nary. Aim fairly; don't strike at the
corner of her mouth or the end Of her
nose, but let the four lipssscome squarely
together, then let them melt SLOWLY, as It
were, into pulpy oneness accompanied
by tender glance that gradually fades
away into a misty nothing: and thought
wenders off on wings that float you
through an atmosphere, of rosy light that
is felt but not seen; then, with long
sigh, you come gradually and reluctantly
back to earth. But you don't stay. Oh.
mol You begin all over again and try
to improve on the first effort, and you
succeed 30 we'll that the experiments con.
tinue indefinitely. aud when that young
woman's ma yells from the top of the
stairs: "Sakes alive, Charlotte Matilda,
hain't you gone to bed yit? it's almost
midnight" you feel certain that old wo-
man is q liar until you hear the church
bell striking the hour as you turn the
next corner.