The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-30
A FEW FACTS ABOUT KISSES.
The Hearts Tongue Trembling on the
Lips and Thrilling With Delight.

The Hearts Tongue Trembling on the
Lips and Thrilling With Delight.
Kissing is an ecstasy. 1t goes by favor,
and goes through favored aud favorite
with that eectrifying object that no Ian
guage can express, says the London Sot,u'-
dan ReUielU. 1t is a science as old as crea-
ton Eve learned it in Paradise from an
angel with a white fur collar and wings of
light, who taught her all its beauties, virtue S
and varieties.
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 valued kiss by its
strength, and measured its strength by its
length, but the mensuration of kisses went
out of fashion long ago
Sydney Smith found much virtue in a
well-delivered kiss, and the Earl of Chester
field looked the world over for cool, careSS-
ing kisses; Harriet Martineau, who never
had any one to kiss but vagrant blues,ock-
ings and the neighbors' babies, wrote about
1.-THE kiss of the mouth that touched not the
mouth" and dear little Meta Comstock
would not take second time kisses that
have been called the hearts tongue, and,
though lover be never SO great an orator,
one kiss on the lips of his idOlatress is often
more eloquent that library of words or a
cantO of verse.
A gift returned is the voice Of displeas-
IRE but returned kiss botokenS esteem.
Dickens valued a kiss above a thousand
kicks Sir Sidney Garth lived to learn that
Il kiss might prove a traitor i'll an angels
sF,ls r.r,g To-
have had a passion for kissing crying
women, for he thought it delightful to kiss
the eyelashes of love with fresh tears on
them, Poor John Keats wrote one evening
as he sat with his knee in hi, arms toasting
his toes in front of Jennie Welch Carlyle's
hearth fire:
Il came to feel how far above all fancy,
pride and tickle maidenhoOd, all earthly
pleasure, all imagined good, was the warm
tremble of a devout kiss.
De Lewis calls kiss the door that opens
the citadel of the heart, and poets and peo-
pie of all ages have found mysterious viz
tue, bitter-sweet, magic and eliXirs, and
lotions of greater or less potency, but the
acme of human happiness, wrote poetess,
is that we may kiss whom We please and
please whom we kiss.
A kiss to be a success must have mutual
interest there must be a reciprocity in the
operation, or somebody suffers the punish
ment of disgust. Kissing an unwilling pair of
lips j. as mean a victory as rObblng birds
nest and kissing too willing ones is about rs
unfragrant a pastime as making bouquets
out of dandelions.
At the start the average man makes q
botch Of kissing The beauty of kiss lies
in its impulsiveness and its impressibllity,
nor is it possible to make the first one too
brief. There is danger III the attempt to
make the initial Kiss complete The girl
won't have it. There is too much auda-
cious avarice about it. The thing to do is 70
90 at the fair creatures lips slowly, so as not
10 brighten her. 1t is to he 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
the cheek, the temple, behind the ear or on
the hair.
A womans fancies are as branching as
the trees of forest, and. however unsatis-
factory to the swain the misplaced kiss may
have been, it will, if left to ITSELF make the
recipient wondrous indulgent next time
She will cares the spot whore your lips
have been, look at the place with a hand
glass, and dream Of the one who placed H.
there. When sufficient progress has been
made in the love-maflng to warrant the
ideal kiss, take it methodicallY with both
hands and ''the gentle touch that love can
teach"
Lot the left arm 20 about-not her neck,
to wrinkle a crepelis-e ruche--but about
her shoulders. Take her chin in the right
hand, allowing the tlfoe fingers 10 touch
the pretty white throat, holding the face
with the thumb and foreilngor which will
form sort Of wise fof loves conquest.
Move her head % one siue, and IA little Uack-
ward, aad, approaching 50 as 10 make the
quartet OF lips de,cribo the dl0meters Of an
imaginary square, lIss nor swice-the Soc
ond double the length of ito very short pre-.
decessor.
This double kiss is a clew 10 "A mans cul-
ture. Only the uncouth, Inbred lover
Kisses as he learns 10 c1ult--by units. The
gentleman who has hal the good fortune %
he born iu an atmosphere Of refinement
makesa duct Of bio first and final saluta.
ton. whatever may he the numerical value
of The INTERMEDIATES The weil-bgpd gIrl
wapts sharp, appng kisses that pop in
oudby, bat still pop A kiss on tho hair
IL tho Hiss II poet. Tenderness Is implied
whel the lips press the eyeiids. koyer-
oaee t. spoAen when the DrOw IL cafossed
and protecting love when the check is inn
peHrlDd.
Nothilg can sanctifya kiss but love, With
out which the sweetest lips arc unsavory
and unwbOlo'omo
a Good Appetite