The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-07
SMITHS FIR CRITICS.
The Poet Freeholder Han
died Without Gloves
by Hudson County
Girls.
A MERE MECHANICAL KISSER.
His Chewing Gum Accusation Pro-
nounced a Mean Retaliation
for a Deserved Snubbing.

The excitement stirred up among the
kissing girls in all parts of the county by
the reproduction in these columns of Free
holder Adam G. Smiths poem on kissing,
was not a patch to the frantic eagerness
with which they read his prose elabora-
ton of his poetic sentiments in his letter
published Tuesday evening,
That screed just set their saucy little
tongues wagging in ceaseless criticism.
Reporters of THE JERSEY CITY NEWS
have heard them delivering their opinions
on the subject in season and out the last
two days, and they could not resist the
temptation to take down some of their
pert sayings.
HE KISSED TOO MANY GIRLS.
One of our most popular society
bellies, is of the opinion that Free
holder Smith kissed altogether too
many girls to be able to judge correctly
which ones kissed the best. She was GER
tain that a Jersey girls face could never
appear Frozen" but melted into sweet
tenderness when she bewitchingly smiled,
as Freeholder Smith might have well
known had he given more time to the Jer-
sey practice of his kissing and more care
fully studied the effect The chewing gum
was of course pure invention of his i'm
aginatiye genius.
''Well, Ithink,n said handsome Lafay-
cite girl, after having carefully studied the
offending effusion Il think Jersey girls
kiss altogether too much; were they more
ehary of their kisses, they would be better
appreciated when bestowed. 1t appears
to me that Freeholder Smith must have
kissed so many Jersey girls that the oper-
alton has become mechanical with him,
and the warmth of the smile with which
he started out upon his kissing campaign
of course became extinguished after a
while, and the freezing process, which he
describes, must have been reflected from
his own face. The gum question is, of
course, entirely barred out.
Another young lady said; II am
very sure that the kissing manner
of the Jersey City girls is alto
gether influenced by the one who proposes
the kiss, and if Freeholder Smith has
met with girls to whom his kissing was
agreeable he would have formed quite a
different opinion in regard to their smiles
and lips. That the palm for the sweetest
kissing should be awarded to the Gutten-
berg girl is entirely unfair, as it requires
more than one person to judge OF so I'M
portant a question"
With naughty toss of her pretty
head, charming society girl re-
marked: ''Of kissing in general /
know nothing, as l have not been
so fortunate as the poet in question, who
evidently has had a great deal of expert
ence in that line. But | am sure that the
Jersey girls can kiss quite as divinely as
those OF Gutenberg, and to compare her
lips to an open book is an offence which
can never be forgiven. | know that the
girls in Jersey do not chew gum, and es-
pecially when they are kissing.
THE LONG, LINGERING BLISSFUL KISS"
''The Jersey GIRL" said a beautiful
girl of Palisade avenue, sis an adept
at kissing, which she can do per-
fectly, notwithstanding that Freeholder
Smiths opinion is to the contrary. The
long, lingering, blissful kiss is the one
which is most in vogue among them now,
and seems to be much liked by all those
fortunate enough to experience one, and
the author of this outrageous poem must
certainly have been snubbed by Jersey
girls. To accuse them of chewing gum is
mean retaliation for his disappoint-
ment."
Here is what another bud of fashion
said, 81 don't care what Freeholder Smith
says: know Jersey girls can kiss the
incest of any girls, and | am sure all the
girls he wanted to kiss must have refused
him.
"Freeholder Smith is very unjust to
Jersey girls, said still another fair critic
of the poet 81 guess he does not know
how to kiss at all.
MARRIED woMAN's EXPERIENCE.
l surprised Il young married woman in
Hoboken freeing her mind on the subject,
and she surprised me taking notes.
pray" she begged of me, don't put
my name in print.n
| promised I wouldn't if she would just
tell me all she thought about it.
Her husband objected to her going into
print, but she was willfGl.
I'm just going to tell the reporter" she
exclaimed, with defiant little toss of her
head. ''I'm just going to tell the reporter
all about kisses"
81 am sure she went on, "that Hobo
ken girls don't kiss as this wicked Free
holder says we do. Among all my friends
there is not one that does not kiss in the
very prettiest manner"
I explained that the writer of the
articles was man of considerable
experience and was considered quite
a critic. The lady then said that no.
body could judge without having expert
ence Hoboken girls, of course, don't all
kiss alike. Mr., Smith must have obtained
his experience in the Meadow district.
The nice girls, when they go to kiss, stand
on tiptoe, with their heads thrown slightly
back, and at the critical moment they
press their lips tightly together and open
them just little when their lips come in
contact with the other lips completing the
osculatory alliance.