The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-07-28
THE SCIENCE OF KISSING.
A High Authority Gives an Interesting
Discussion.

goes IQIOtlgN favored ana IdVOIltG Will
that electrifying subtlety that no Ian
guage can express. 1t is a science as
OLD as creation. Eve learnedit in Par
adise from an angel with white fur
collar and wings Of light, who taught
her all it's beauties, virtues and varie.
ties:
A kiss has as many definitions as the
world has people. In every grade of
society there is kissing; go where you
will, to what country or among what
people, and you are tolerably sure of
finding some facilities for kissing. A
kiss is the seal of affection. Byron val
ued kiss by its strength and me ensured
its strength by its length, but the men
suratien of kisses went out Of fashion
long ago.
Sidney Smith found much virtue in a
wsll-delivereG kiss, and the Earl OF
Chesterfield looked the world over for
cool, caressing kisses. Harriet Mar
tineau, who never had any one to kiss
but vagrant bluestockings and the
neighbors' batie5, wrote about 1.-THE
kiss Of the mouth that touched not the
mouth" Kisses fave been called tho
hearts tongue, and, though q lover be
eyer SO great an orator, one kiss on the
lips OF his idolatress, is often more elo-
quent than a library Of words OF canto
of verse. A gift returned is the voice
of displeasure, but g. returned kiss be-
tokens esteem. Dickens valued kiss
above a thousand kicks. Sir Sidney
Garth lived to learn that q kiss might
prove traitor i'll an angels dress.
Walter Savage Landor seems to have
passion for kissing crying women, for
he thought it delightful to kiss the eye
lashes Of love with fresh tears on chem.
Poor John Keats wrote one evening, as
he sat with his KEGS in his arms toast
ing his toes in front of JEANNE WEIGH
Carlyle's hearth fire: II came to feel
how far above all fancy pride and tickle
maidez.hood, all earthly pleasure, all
imagined good, was the warm tremble
Of devout kiss.
De Lewis calls a kiss the door that
opens the cidadel to the heart, and poets
and people of all ages have found mys-
FERROUS virtue, bitter-sweet, magic and
elixirs, and lotions OF greater Or less po>
tency, but the acme of human happiness,
wrote a poetess, is that We may kiss
whom we please and please whom We
kiss.
a kiss to be q success must have MIL
Eual interest: there must be a recipro-
city in the operation, or somebody sui
fers the punishment OF disgust. kiss
ing an unwilling pair Of lips is as mean
a victory as robhing birds nest, and
kissing too willing ones is about as UNI
fragralta pastime as making bouquets
out Of dandel1ons.
At the start the average man makesa
botch Of kissing. The beauty OF kiss
lies in iu lis impulsiveness and its i'm
pressiblity; nor is it possible to make
the first one too brief. There is danger
in the attempt 60 make the in
itial kiss complete. The girl won't have
it. There is too much audacious avar1ce
shout it. The thing to dc is to go at the
far creatures jipa slowly, SO as not to
frighven her; it is to be expected that
she will draw them away from the
point Of attack. but, instead Of retreat,
the thing FOR heroism to do is to kiss
her on some place---on this cheek, the
temple, behind the ear or On the hair.
4. woman Is fancies are as branching as
the trees Of a forest, and however un-
satisfactory TO the swain the misplaced
kiss may have been, it will, If left to it
self, make the recipient wondrous in
dulgent next time. She will caress The
spot where your lips have been, look at
it through hand. glass, and dream
of the one who placed it there. When
sufficient progress has been made in
love-making to warrant the ideal kiss,
take it methodically, with both hands,
and ''the gentle touch that love can
teach.'' Let the left arm 60 about
not her neck to wrinkle a crepe lisse
ruche-but about her shoulders. Take
her chin in the right hand, allowing the
the three fingers to touch the pretty
white throat. holding the face with the
thumb and forefnger, which will form
g sort Of vice for loves conquest. Move
her head to one side and little back
ward, and, approaching SO as to make
the quartet of lips describe the diane
tiers Of an imaginary square, kiss her
twice-the second double the length Of
its short predecessor. This double kiss
is clew to q mans culture. Only the
uncouth, ill-bred lover kisses as be
learned to country units. The gen
leman who has had the good fortune to
be born in All atmosphere Of refinement
makes duet of his first and final salu-
tation, whatever may be the numerical
value Of the intermediates. The we'll
bred girl wants short. sharp, swapping
kisses, that pop inaudibly. but still
pop. A kiss on the hair is the kiss Of a
poet. tenderness is implied when the