Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-04
kISSINE.
Eve Learned 1t in Paradise from an Ange
With Wings of Light


kissing is an ecstasy, an insolvable prob
lem, says a writer in the London Saturday
RecieW. 1t goes by favor, we are told, and
goes through favored and favorite with that
electrifying subtlety that no language can
express. 1t is a science as old as creation
Eve learned it in Paradise from an angel
with white fur collar and wings of light,
who taught her all its beauties, virtues and
varieties.
a kiss has as many definitions as The
| world has people. In every grade of So
ciety 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
length, but the mensuration of kisses went
out of fashion long ago.
Sydney Smith found much virtue in
well-delivered kiss, and the Earl of Ches-
| terfeld looked the world over for cool,
careSsing Kisses Harriet Martineau, who
never had any one to kiss but vagrant
blue stockings and the neighbors babies
wrote about the kiss of the mouth that
touched not the mouth and dear little
| Meta Comstock would not take second
| time kisses that were not quick, crisp and
elastic. Kisses 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 than n
| library of words or 4 canto of verse. A
| gift returned is the voice of displeasure.
! but returned kiss betokens esteem. Dick
ems valued a kiss above thousand kicks.
| Sir Sidney Garth lived TO learn that a kiss
might prove traitor in an angels dress
| Walter Savage Landor seems 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 his arms toasting his toes
in front of Jeannie Welch Carlyle's hearth
fire: 81 came to feel how far above all my
fancy pride and tickle maidenhood, all
earthly pleasure, all imagined good, was
the warm tremble OF a devout kiss"
| De Lewis calls a kiss the door that opens
the citadel of the heart, and poets and peo-
pie of all ages have found mysterious vir-
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 is as mean victory as robbing
a birds nest, and kissing too willing ones
is about as unfragrant pastime as max
ing bouquets out of dandelions.
At the start the average man makes a
botch of kissing. The beauty of kiss lies
in its impulsiveness and its 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 1t. There is too much auda-
cious avarice aboutit. The thing to do is
to 60 at the 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-the cheek, the temple, behind
the ear or on the hair.
A woman's fancies are as branching as
the trees of forest, and however unsatis-
factory to the swain the misplaced kiss
may have been. it will, il left to itself,
make the recipient wondrous indulgent
next time. She will caress the spot where
your lips have been, look at the place
through a hand-glass, and dream of the
one who placed it there. When sufficient
progress has been made in the loyemaking
TO warrant the ideal kiss, take it methodi-
eally, 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
the three fingers to touch the pretty white
throat, holding the face with the thumb
and forefnger, which will form sort o.
wise for loves conquest. Move her head to
one side and little backward, and ap-
preaching so as to make the quartet of lip.
describe the diameters of an imaginary
! square, kiss her twice-the second double
the length of its very short predecessor
This double kiss is clew to mans cult
ure Only the uncouth, ill-bred lovel
kisses as he learned to count-by units
The gentleman who has had the good for
tune to be born IN an atmosphere Of refine
ment makes duet of his first and fna
salutation, whatever may be the numerical
value of the Intermediates The well-bres
girl wants sharp, swapping kisses that POI
E inaudibly, but still pop. A kiss on tn,
hair is the kiss OF the poet Tenderness
: is implied when the lips press the eyelids
Reverence is spoken when the brow is ca
: ressed, and protecting love when the cheel
is empearled.
5, Nothing can sanctify a kiss but lovs
q without which the sweetest lips are TN
/ savory and unwholesome.
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