St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-19
MANY KINDS OF KISSES.
The Genuines Have Unmistakable Quail
tiles.
THE ETIQUEr OF KISSES.
The Two Elements of Perfect Kiss
Baby 0sculations---Kisses That
Are Like Dried Apples.
Chester (Pa.) News.

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f There is considerable etiquette in
kissing. by which Imean there are rules
ior proprieties which make a kiss proper
or improper. A baby furnishes free
lunch for kisses, but if that baby is
/ girl there comes time when said free
lunch ceases. You run no risk at six
teen months, but you must be careful
about it at sixteen years, although in
my opinion she is really more kissable
at the latter age. never had passion
I for kissing babies-it seemed like pluck
/ ing fruit before it is ripe, and, besides
that, | do not believe it is right for
smokers, chewers, and snuff-dipperS to
glue their tobaccO-tinctured lips to a
baby.
Kissing that is genuine must be done
by those who want it. 1t takes two
willing people to make one kiss, Just as
it takes two blades to make scissors.
Any other sort is not perfect, although
it may be pleasant. 1t requires the
combined effort of both sexes to make
it success. Women kiss each other
because it is the custom. but they have
none of the genuine flavor, and they are
as dried apples compared to the Juicy
fruit when it hung on the tree. Their
action, their cOuntenanceS, and their
whole bearing show that there is no en-
jOyment in it, and some of them take 1t
like distasteful medicine. In saying
this | have reference to those who have
no affinity either by the ties OF consan
guinity or love.
[ like to see children kiss each other,
because there is no deceit nor dress pa
rade in it. They are genuine and have
some meat in them, although they have
,nf tbD Il thOCp
by lovers. They are first-class in every
respect, because they are gathered when
they are ripe. 1t makes me laugh to see
two men kiss each other. l know 1t is
the habit in some countries, and |
have frequently seen it at the Broad
street station in Philadelphia, but can
not believe that it is luxury. 1t is an
unseXed kiss, and that is sufficient to
destroy all its magnetic sweetness. L
might 90 on and give sermon on this
sort of kissing, but as l desire to intro
duce the opinion of others deslst for
the present Here is what celebrated
writer says OH the subject. There are
both sentiment and sense in it.
"a kiss to be success must have
mutual interest; there insult be rec
iprocity in the operation, or some
body suffers the punishment OF dis
gust. Kissing an unwilling pair OF
lips is as mean victory as robbing a
birds nest, and kissing too willing
ones is about as unfragrant a pastlme
as making bouquets of dandelions.
'At the start the average man makes
a botch of kissing. The beauty of a
kiss lies in its impulsiveness and its i'm
pressibility, nor is it possible to make
the first one too brief. There is danger
in the attempt to make the initial kiss
Il
There is too much audaciouS avarice
fair creatures lips slowly, so as not to
| frighten her. 1t 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,
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 mis-
placed kiss may have been, it will. if
left to itself, make the recipient Won
drous indulgent 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 the love-making to war
rant the ideal kiss take it methodi-
calIy. with both hands and the gentle
touch that love can teach.' Let
the. left arm go about-not her
neck. to wrinkle a crepe lisse ruche. but
about her shoulders. Take her chin in
the right hand, allowing three fingers to
touch the pretty white throat, holding
the face with the thumb and forefinger,
which will form a sort wise for loves
conquest. Move her head to one side,
and a little backward, and, approaching
so as to make the quartet of lips des-
cribe the diameters of an imaginary
square, kiss her twice-the second
double the length of its short predeces-
sor. This double kiss is clew to a
mans cultureH