Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-02
AS YOUR LIPS NET HERS
Ar Expera's Oplngsn on The UaaLloysd
Joy OF KIssing-ThsIe Ia Nothing
Liks IL in the WeFlQ.
Various ways in Which soms Well Known
society Ven Salute the Icofs of ThsiE
HeRrrs ad "D0n's Yell"
New York Press,

New York Press.
There is an Old story that kisaing
originated with the Romans. & law was
passed, so the story ruas, tat the women
should drink no wine, and the husbands,
in order TO satisfy themselves that their
wives were oaedient, used TO make q
practice Of tasting their lips. This dnty
became so much Of 3 pleasure the custom
wac continued, snd the people from other
parts Of the world who went to Rome OF
course c1nioImed to the universal decree
that they must do IS the Romans did, and
in every case the practice OF kissing be-
came habit which they not only retained
but transmitted 30 their children.
The story is all right IS far s. 1t goes,
out It's little h&rd to make 8 nineteenth
century individual believe that men snd
women lived in this world 5000 years be-
fore they learned Whist delight there Is Ia
the meeting OF lips. It would be much
more reasonable to tell one
that Eve's rosy lips lured
our universal grandfather to dis
obedience by other means than spoken
argument. Scientists have tried TO anal
yz3 kissers; they give long disssrtstions
upon the "contact CT terminal neryers,"
and all that sort of thing, bu. I'n guar
sntee that The wisest Of them forget all
about foundations when ne kisses the
woman he loves
wonder that some one hasn't written
G book setting forth the different styles
OF osSulat;op, for, although the fashion
is ~ an old one and 80 universal, it
admits OF many variations.
We ali remember how mother used to
kiss US when she came TO tuck in the
blanket and say "good night" It is
something we can't forget, and wouldn't
Il we coulC, for the memory goes with Us,
clings 10 us, and with some it is the only
clesn thing that does. l hold that man
or woman cannot DO wholly bad who
orce hsd good mothers kisses. There
will be one white spot on the blacklist
record because Of the recollection.
Then there Is the kiss Of friendship that
usually falls on cheek or brow, somewhat
frosty sometimes, and as rule q ATS IN
satisfactory. l don't think kisses were
intended for Platonian tokens. IL you
ask me where all the sweetness and ten
derness and ecstecv OF kissing culminatee,
/ vii! answer you, upon msiden's lips
waen her lovers first csress falls there.
Some one, with the true artists sense OF
eternal fitness, ought TO paint q picture
OF dainty golden hslred girl In white,
standing By q rose tree In full bloom, with
June sky above her aud the sir filed
with bird songs and balmV zephyrs. You
couldn't paint these, but the public imag-
nation Is pretty well educAted--her girl
ish dimpled hands prisoned in stronger
ones, her innocent eyes uplif5ed with sll
her love mirrored in them, her sweet,
soft lips, full and rosy, parted just little
for the csrees from the mustsched mouth
so ne&r.
"Breathes there the man with soul SO
head" that the picture would not thrill
him tnrou Oh and through? o. 8 woman
who would not instantly remember her
own sweet experlenclP An ancient song
maker wrote! "There's nothing half SO
sweet IN life as loves young dream"
say there's nothing in life, death or
eternity to compLre with loves first kiss,
those that come efterwerd, such IS occur
in "The Q lick or the Desdf" are more
in;ensa no doubt, but the dew is f the
rose When In the "closet scene" Jsck,s
lips met Bsrbare's in g touch "as light8
rose leLVes, Is fac IS fire, and the It&
moment their lips had clupg into kisS'i
l venture that both were more Ssnss
premelY hsppy than when II the carriage
he pressed burning kisses on her
shoe. It's little amusing to hear about
the different methods our society men
have for giving the tender salute. 7EiVs
inestone HamerelY-so some one Gays
who knoWs-is not the lesst ungeuHSp US
in the matter of kisses. His manneHkSt
OSCILLATION is g lingering pressure that
culminates In resounding smack. Il
has been likened to sill sorts Of things.
Some one I. ON the wild, woody west said
Il WAS like the sound Of cows foot
lifted out OF the mud, but residentsSf
the cultured city near US puts It: 'sThe
agitation of sound waves caused " en-
the pedel ex.remities OF bovine leeyfs
the contact of clay" But then, L.Y#g.
stone Is 9 bachelor. Practice WHIT no
doubt, improve him.
Colonel Washburn makes kissing 3 f le
art. he lays his lips SO 3elicksely upon
the OF his "lsdye iairf J." and bis srsez
cratic, gray mus.sche sestles SO lognglyI
over her dimoles that she almost deciG
she Is dreaming, ard this is onss1e
shadow CT kiss. Most Of the ceHhePs
habits are danny, but his k.ssiyssfs the
deintiest Of all.
, Nat Chatter loves 10 lirger. He believes
that you should hold 90 to good thing
as long SIS you can. Not long since
somewhat romantic maiden quoted, By
way CT description:
And then with one long K So
BE drew my whole soul through my lips
As sunlight drinketh dew.
Somewhat overcrAwn you msy think,
but, as rule, M. Chater's kissing &C
count is desrdrAWn, too.