The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-11-20
MONROE LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 90. 1886


KISSES
The Style Of Lip Made Essentially for
the fusposc.s
| [Boston Herald,
! A kiss ia cosval with the creation Of
the world. As an old author has
quantity said: ssI, is certain pature
was It's author, and II began with the
drst courtship." think it was Byron
who wished that all the world had but
one lip, that he might kiss It.; but the
! writer, and certainly many reader OF
the Herald, has seen lips which the
whole wealth OF the universe would
not induce them to kiss. Yes, the ki iss
was certainly born with the FIRST court.
ship. What better authority can we
have for this than John Milton, who
thus desclbes Adam for the arst time
gaztpg upon Eve in the delightful aud
delicious bowers Of Eden, who
In delight
Both of her beauty and submissive chai ms,
Smiled with superior love, as Jupiter
That shed May flowers; and rress'd her
| matron lip
With kisses pure.
Nature initiates mankind, and We
SEQ
How the trees enwreathe
Their q. ns, in amorous embraces turned
The gurglings Of the ril that runs beneath
Are but the Kisses which it leaves behind,
While y softiy sighins through these fond
The wanton wind woos everything it meets.
Various, delicate and delightful are
the functions Of the lips, but who can
deny that the greatest delight derived
from them is in kissing. For descrip-
ton Of the style of lip made essentially
for kissing let us take the words Of q
writer Of some sixty or seventy years
ago: GA lovely nymph In whose look
and lips the bows Of Apollo and Cupid
seem intertwined and indented. She
does not simper from afiectation, nor
smile because It is becoming, nor conn.,
press her lips to hide defective tooth,
nor open them to dislpay the symme-
try Of the rest, but her mouth has that
expression which the painter Of Bathyl-
lus In the Greek anthology was in-
struced to catch:
And give his lip that speaking air
As il word were lowering there.
Hers is not Of that inexpensive, doll
like character which seems TO smirk,
as If 1t were conscious Of its own silly
prettiness; nor has che the pouting
come-kiss-me-under-lip Of sealing wax
hue which one sees in the portraits Of
Lely and Kneller; but while in the
animation of her looks intelligence
seems to be beaming from her eyes,
enchantment appears to dwell within
the ruby portrals Of her mouth its
very violence is eloquent, for hers are
the lips which Apollo loved in Daphne
and Cupid in his Psyche-which Phi
dias and Praxiteles have immortalized
in marble, and which immutable ma.
ture still produces when she Is in her
happicst and most graceful moods.
Hers is the mouth, in short, to use an
appropriate botanical phrase, conducts
us, by a natural and delightful iuoscu.
lation, to the second division, or rather
union, OF the subject-kissing."
The story runs that F'ssing was in.
troduced into England by Rowena, the
daughter of Hengist the Saxon. At a
banquet, which was given by the Brit.
ish monarch In honor of his allies, the
princess, latter pressing tho brimming
beaker to ner liz, saluted the aston
ished and delighted Vortigera with a
little kiss, after the manner of her own
people. So we'll did the kiss thrive in
the genial climate of England, that,
from being an occasional luxury, it
became an everyday enjoyment, and
the English soon became celebrated,
far and near, as kissing people. 10
fact, 80 far bad their celebrity spread
in this respect, that when Cavendish,
the biosrapher of the "great child Of
honor, Cardinal Wolsey," visited a
French nobleman at his chateau, the
Ia ~ of the house, on entering the room
with her train OF attendant insidens.
for the purpose OF welcoming the guest
of her husband, thus accosted him:
"Forasmuch as ye be an Ergiishman
whose custom 1t is in your country to
kiss all ladies and gentlewomen with
out onense, and although it be not go
here in this realm, yet will be so bold
as to kiss you, and SO shall all my
maidens." Whereupon the rafters of
the chateau rung again with the heart
iness of the osculatiou, no doubt to the
great satisfaction Of the fair chatelaine
herself, her many and merry maidens,
and above all to Cavendish himself.
In the reign OF Edward ". a guest
was expected on his arrival, and also
on his departure, to salute not only his
hostess, but all the ladies of the family.
In fact, no occasion was lost on which
to bestow kiss. and Shakespeare makes