Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-03
SMACKS ON MOUTH.
,,ous KINDS OF KISSES As coNsrD.
xsrp BY DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
,,,.,O,,eal Touches Of the LIPS BY which
victories Were Won.
&C, &c, &C.

,1.e. snd foolish kisses imaginable
-, q " hen they are not between rels-.
49, LIS an abuse Of the lips"
waste Of sweets" suggested the
,ulbs.'
IL tbst. but waste Of patience, and
.+,u,,d on courtesy that is excessively
,,,i,c." and with this explosion Of mo
,tr,,ty wrath, which lady readers
t.,e,ll occasionally felt, the lady set
80 herself in an easy.chair and listened
- ,ho scribe, while he took occasion to
,LeNfes remarks on kissing and the
sam Slick said a kiss was like cres-
con. =, VAS made out Of nothing, and
VA, yer, good. That applies to kisses
dvte Aissts, not 10 kissing between
,.op.tr or between men. Among our
I,cl,>h ancestors il Was customary for
mn TO hiss each other, bat the vile
l,lit was turned over entirely
~ our French and German friends.
C,,st bearded men among them
l,,s each other, and i. is
rot pleasant to SEQ. Nor does Mr..
,nrk's definition apply 20 those kisses
If ceremony or state symbol, where the
.,h,ect kisses the hand or the foot Of
r.. sovereign or the ground before him,
ssfAs been customary in one sge or Az
cher of the world. When Gladstone
.r,rerdered the seals Of Office the other
J,,. and Salisbury received them, they
lIih Arelt dosn and kissed the Queens
t,rd. The Roman EmPerors demanded
t,te kissed on the feet, and later TO
have the ground before them kissed.
There have always been religious
l;.ses. daily erioined in the writings Of
ue apostles. The Bible has many
lender and some terrible passages
concerning Kissing, the extremes of
which are that Of Mary Msgdalen, so
NH Of love and ps,hos. kissing the feet
If the Saviour, and that Of Judas be-
uayirg hin.
But II, e are not the kisses one
thinks Of when the word is spoken, but
rather Of toe kind Sydney Smith speaks
Of: We are in favor OF certain
,mcrr.cf shyness p hen kiss is pro-
=, .e3. but 1t should not be too long,
t,l when the fair enc gives it let it DO
t.,..i.tered With warmth end energy;
t.ttlcre be soul IN it. If she close hsr
t, ana seh immediately after it, the
,.,ct;s greater. She should be careful
90. 90 slObbcr kiss, but to give it as
= l.mmirg bird runs his bill into a
l.rosuckle-5oep, but delicate. We
have .ne mtm5'r Of one received IN
,.rtcuth which a,ted us forty years,
~. &C believe will be one OF the last
r.-e, sc shall hiuk Of when We die
=. ~ the witt. divine, sad there are a
To-. uAry Of US who have similar rs
collections.
~, hiss ores sister is not psrticu-
luly uurieGaat, bat it is onlyI bread
gra buster aHsi5-good, but not Reet.
10 LIS ones cousin is somewhat diff
f,r,nt ard gives am taste to the opera
trn. particularly If she comes undor
tie denomination dangerous. But to
E,. ,omebody else's sister or cousin,
tf.t .urussses the other as far as ice
,iesu s.d cake surpqss bread and jAm.
Eair.e frat and the Iest nowhere.
s.tIre called 1t flesh and blood with
an angel on the inside"
Shakespeare has many epithets for
Kisses aud innumerab.e illusions to
them. but be nowhere undertakes to
GIVE fcn description Of kiss. POSI-
ID, even be could not do the subject
Justice. In the "Midsummer Nights
Dream" be calls lips "those kissing
treasures 90; TitaniA kisses the fair,
large ear, Of her gentle joy" and
seems to take much pleasure in 1t, while
twihcr On comes the quaint kissing
o. uranus and Thisbe through tho
chunks Of Tinker SHOUTS fingers.
ThGeis the kiss Of Petruchio:
Ire took the bride aboa, the neck
ALo Kissed her iiis VITA such clamor'ns
Tlsi a. lie parting a! the church did
echo.
Then there ia Romeo's kiss in the
vault, so tender and sad. and OthellO's
farewell kisses that almost did persuade
Justice to break her sword, and An
thongs dying kiss:
Cfsomsny dyisg kis,ea, the poor last,
.sy upon my llIs.
And the grand kiss Of Ccriolanus
q m mi
And Bsssino and Portals kiss, full
Of such wealth Of loyalty and love.
Byron's wish
That wora uhood had hut one rosy mouth
Io k.ss them al al once icom nOrth 10
south
tcts not particularly commend itself to
the cnnOisseur in kissing. It's rather
too vast a concentration. One at
time would be more practical and more
pleasant. Leigh Hunt says:
stolen sweets are always sweeter,
stolen kisses much cOmp.eter.
Eut there is room for argument on that
proposition. For real enjoyment 1t IS
a tIife too humid, but it may be
c,assed under the same head as kissing
your cousin. OF such kisses one must
never kiss and tell. Sweet and lovely
is the maiden's kiss in Paradise and
the Peri-"the last long kiss, which
she expires in giving" Tom Moore
wrote some most excellent verses on
the kiss.
One Of the most famous kisses in his
tory ID that OF Georgisna, Duchess OF
Deyonshire, when she was canvassing
for Fox's election. A butcher said he
would vote for Fox il the lady would
kiss him, which she thercupon did,
thereby making the kiss, the butcher,
and herself immortal in history. The
Duchess Of Gordon, in Scotland, re-
cruited 4 Highland regiment in the
same way.
Gilbert Stuart, the great painter, was
once net by lady on the streets OF
Boston, who said to him that she bad
Just seen his likeness and had kissed 1t,
because it was so much like him.
And did it kiss you IN return
"Why, no."
Then it was not like me, replied
The gallant painter.
Tom Hood once wondered in his
oddities" il Hannah More, that prim