Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-10

Congress by about POO majority over
Organ, the Democratic candidate. This
is nearly double any previous majority.
THE SCIENCE OF KISSING.
A High Authority Gives an Inter-
esting Discussion.
Kissing is an ecstacy, insolvable prob
lem. 1t goes by favor, we are told, and
goes through favored and favorite with
that electrifying subtlety that no Ian
guage can express. 1t is 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
society their is kissing 60 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 it's 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
Chesterfield looked the world over for
cool, caressing kisses. Harriet Martineau,
who never had anything to kiss but
vagrant bluestockings and the neighbors'
babies, wrote about "the kiss of the
mouth that touched not the mouth. !"
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 library of words or a canto OF
verse. A gift returned is the voice of
betokens esteem. Dickens valued
kiss above thousand kicks.
Sir Sidney Garth lived to learn
that kiss might prove traitor in an
angels dress. Walter S. Lander seems
to have passion for crying women, for
he thought it delightful to kiss the eve
lashes of love with fresh tears on them.
Poor John Keats wrote one evening, as
he sat with his knees in his arms toast
ing his toes in front of JEANNE Welch
Carlyle's hearth fire: 81 came to feel
how far above all fancy pride and tickle
maidenhood, all earthly pleasure, all i'm
agined good, was the warm tremble of a
devout kiss
De Lewis calls a kiss the door that
opens the citadel to the heart, and poets
and people Of all ageo have found mys-
FERROUS virtue, bitter-sweet, magic and
elixiIs, and lotions of greater or less po-
tency, but the acme OF human happiness,
wrote poetess, is that we may kiss
whom we please and please who we
kiss.
A kiss to be success must have mu.
tual interest; there must be reciprocity
in the operation, or somebody suffers the
punishment OF disgust. kissing an un-
willing pair of lips is as mean victory
as robbing birds nest, and kissing too
willing ones is about as unfragrant pas.
time as making bouquets out OF dande.
lions.
At the start the average man makes a
botch of kissing. The beauty of q kiss
lies in it's impulsiveness and its impressi-
bility; nor is it possible to make the first
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 90 at the fair crea.
tuie's lips slowly, so as not to frighten
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, behind the ear or on the hair,
woman's fancies are as branching as
the trees of forest, and however unsat-
isfactory to the swain the misplaced kiss
may have been, it will, if 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 love-making to
warrant the ideal kiss, take it method.
ically, with both hands, and "the gentle
touch that love can teach" Let the left
arm 60 about-not her neck to wrinkle
crepelisse ruche-but about her shout
ders. 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 of wise for loves con-
quest. 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 its short predecessor. This
double kiss is clew to a mans culture.
Only the uncouth, ill-bred lover kisses as
he learned to country units. The
gentleman who has had the good fortune
to be born in an atmosphere of refine
rent makes duet of his first and final
salutation, whatever may be the numer.
ical value of the intermediates. The
well-bred girls wants short, sharp, snap
ping kisses, that pop inaudiblly, but still
pop. A kiss on the hair is the kiss of
poet tenderness is implied when the
lips press the eyelids; reverence is spok-
on when the brow is caressed, and pro-
tecting love when the cheek is en-
pearled.
Nothing can sanctify kiss but love,
without which the sweetest lips are un-
savory and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Sat-
urday Review.
Wife-''I was 80 annoyed, my dear,
to-day to find one of my pictures dis.
played in photographers show win
dow" Husband-"Why didn't you 20
up stairs and tell him to take il out?"
Wife-''I declare didn't think of that
and. besides, the picture is very good
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