The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-08-18
ALL ABOUT KISSING.
a Dissertation for the silly Season ton
Learned Authority.

a Dissertation for the silly Season tom
Learned Authority.
De Lewis calls kiss the door that
opens the citadel to the heart, and5oet
and people of all ages have found nys-
FERROUS virtue, bitter-sweet. magitand
eliXirs, and lotions of greater or less
potency, but the acme of human hppi-
ness, wrote a poetess. is that we may
kiss whom We please and please WON
we kiss.
A kiss to be a success, must lave
mutual interest; there must be reip-
rocity in the operation, or SOMEBODY
suffers the punishment of disgust. Kiss
ing an unwilling pair of lips is as mean
a victory as robbing bird s nest, md
kissing too willing ones is about as I'M
fragant pastime as making bouquets
out of dandelions.
At the start the average man makes
botch of kissing, The beauty of kiss
lies in its impulsiveness and its irnpressi-
bility; nor is it possible to make the nIst
one too brief. There is danger in the
attempt to make the initial kiss COM
plete. The girl won't have it. There
is too much audacious avarice about it.
The thing to do is to go at the fair
creatures lips slowly, so as not to
brighten 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 the cheek, the temple, be-
hind the ear or on the hair A
woman's fancies are as branching as
the trees Of forest and however I'M
satisfactory to the swain the misplaced
kiss may have been, it will, if left to
itself, make the recipient wondrous in
dulgent next time She will caress
the spot where your lips have been,
look at the place 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 1.-The gentle
touch that love can teach" Let the
left arm go about-not her neck to
wrinkle a crepelisse ruche-but about
her shoulders. Take her chin in the
right hand, allowing the three fingers
to touch the pretty white throat, hold
ing the face with the thumb and fore
finger, which will form a sort of wise
for loves conquest. Move her head to
one loves conquest. Move her head
to one side and little backward, and,
approaching so as to make the quartet
of lips describe the diameters of an
imaginary square, kiss her twice-the
second double the length of it's short.
predecessor. This double kiss is clew
to u mans culture. Only the uncouth
ill-bred lover kisses as he learned IN
country units. The gentleman who
has had the good fortune to be born in
an atmosphere of refinement makes
duet of his first and final salutation.
whatever may be the numerical valua
of the Intermediates. The well-bred
girl wants short, sharp, snappinp
kisses, that pop inaudibly, but Still
pop. A kiss on the hair is the kiss of
a poet; tenderness is implied when
the lips press the eyelids; reverence is
spoken when the brow is caressed and
protecting love when the cheek is EN-.
pearled.
Nothing can sanctify kiss but love
without which the sweetest lips are
unsavory and unwholcsome.-Lond
SATURDAY ReUiea0.