The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-07-06
SOMETHING ABOUT KISSES.
An Extraordinary Dissertation for the silly Sea.
son from a Learned Authority.

An Extraordinary Dissertation for the silly Sea.
son from a Learned Authority.
! From the London Saturday Review.
Kissing is an ecstasy, insolvable problem.
! IL goes by favor, we are told, and goes
through favored and favorite with thnt cleo.
trifyiug subtlety that no language can ex-
press. II is a science as old as creation. Eve
learned it in Paradise from an angel with a
white fur collar aud wings Of light, who
taught her all its beauties, virtues and yarie-
ties.
A kiss has as many definitions as the world
has people. In every grade of society there
is kissing; go where you viii, to what coun-
try, or among what people, and you are
tolerahly sure Of finding some facilities for
kissing. 4 kiss is the seal Of affection. Byron
valued a kiss by its leugth, but the mQnsura-
tion Of kisses Went out Of fashion long 20.
Sydney Smith found much virtue IN a we'll
delivered kiss. and the Earl Of Chesterfield
looked the world over for cool Cnr"Ssing kiss
rs. Harriet Murtincau, who never had any
one to kiss but vagrant hluostockings aud
the neighhors' babies, wrote about 1.-THE kiss
of the mouth hat touched not the mouth
aud dear little Meta ComstO"k would not
take a second time kisses that were not
quick, crisp and elastic. Kisses have been
called the heart ; tODgU" and, though q lover
be never SO great an orator, one kiss on the
lips of his idulatress is often more eloquent
than a library of words or q cauto of verse.
A gift returned is the voice of displeasure,
but a returned kiss hctOkcns esteem. Dickens
valued a kiss above a thousand kicks. Sir
Sidney Garth lived to learn that n kiss might
prove a traitor in an angels dress. Walter
Savage Lander seems to have had q passion
for kissing crying women, for he thought it
delightful to kiss the pyelashea of love with
fresh tears on them. POorJohu Keats wrote
one evening as he sat with his knees in his
arms tOasting his toes in frOnt of Jennie
Wech Carlyle's hearth-fre: II cam to feel
how far above all fancy pride and tickle
~maidenhoOd, all earthly pleasure, all imagin-
ed good was the warm tremble Of a devOut
kiss"
De Lewis calls a kiss the door that opens
the citidel of the heart, and poets and people
of all ages have found mysterious virtue, BIT
ter-sweet, magic and ~eliXirs, and lotions Of
greater or less potency, but the acme of hui
man happiness, wrote a poetess, is that we
may kiss whom we please and please whom
We kiss.
4 kiss to be a success must have mutual in
terest; there must be a reciprocity in the op-
GRAFTON, or somebody suffers the punishment
of disgust. Kissing an unwilling pair of lips
lb as Hledu u victory us TODDl0g q DlfQ 8
nest, and kissing too willing ones, is about as
fragrant a past time as making bouquets out
of dandelions.
At the start the average man makes q
botch Of kissing. The beauty of a kiss lies in
its impulsiyeness and impressibility, nor is it
possible to make the first one too brief.
There is danger in the attempt to make the
initial kiss complete. The girl won't have it.
The thing to do is to go at the fair creatures
Inns SLOWLY Gn rs mot m frirhfan har. Il "a
to be expected that she will draw them away
from the point Of attack, but instead of re-
treat the thing for heroism to do is to kiss
her on some place-on the cheek, the temple,
behind the ear, or on the hair. A woman's
fancies are as branching as the trees of a
forest, and however unsatisfactory to the
swain the misplaced kiss may have been, it
will, if left to itself, make the recipient won-
drous indulgent next time. She will cares
the spot where yourli lips have been, look atthe
place through q hand-glass, and dream of the
one who placed i there. When sufficient pro-
gress has been made in the love-making to
warrant an ideal kiss, take it methodicaliy,
with both hands and the gentle touch that
love can teach" Let the left arm go about
not her neck, to wrinkle aerepe Iisee ruche-
but about her shoulders. Take her chin in
the right hand, allowing the three fingers to
touch the pretty white throat, holding the
face with the thumb and forehnger,
which win form a sort Of vice for loves
conquest, Move her head to one side and a
little backward and approaching so as to make
the quartet of lips describe the diameters Of
an imaginary square. kiss her twiee--the sec
ond double tho length ofits very short pre-
decessor. This double kiss is q clue to a
mans culture. Only the uncoath. iI-bred
lover kisses as he learned to eonnt-by units.
The gentleman VINO has had TIE good for
tune to be born in an atmosphere OF reiae-
ment makes a duet Of his first and final sal.
~utation, whatever may be thenumerica value
of the intermediates. The wellbred girl
wants Short sharp, swapping kisses, that
snap inaudibly, but still pop. a kiss on the
hair is the kiss Of o poet; tenderness is inn
piled when the lips press the eyelids; rever-
ence is spoken when the brow Is caressed, and
protecting love when the cheek is empearled.
Nothing can sanctify a kiss but love, With
out which the sweetest lips are unsavory and
unwholesome.