The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-08-22
MUTE LIP LANGUAGE.
OF No Use in SOlilOQuy but Great In
DlalOSue-..SOme Facts
Regarding The History ana Posi-.
biIIGIrs Of This ancient and
still EavOrCd Method.

and I've kissed? Do you like to take in
your arms rlpan, sweet, chubby and
rosy-faced baby, Ni'h,ut re;ard to sex,
and impress pat rnal or maternal
kiss on its bright red lips? Do you like
to Kiss the modest boy and the demure
and blushing lit maid? Do you Ike to
plu K the rherr es, II you are man from
the poutinI lips Of pretty iris whose
cheeks are sufiused like the blush Of
rnse, whore he lth is rs sweet rs all the
perfumes nf Arabia, whose air is one Of
expectant rhamody? Or, II you are n
young woman, do YOU like to kiss the
m"IIstache-adOrred mouth Of some hand
some AdOnis?. DO you like to kiss the
Gr.y-haired father ar mother, srandi .ther
or grandmother? do you Ike to kiss the
wife Of your bosom? Iisn. you may find
something in these silhOuettes to interest
you. II you do not like to kiss, you may
Us well turn your attention ClseN here for
amusement and instruction. There is no
substantially in kiss. It is as intanHi.
BILE Us the baseless fabric Of u vision. II
Is such stuff rs dreams are made Of; ergo,
any article based on the kiss as subject
must likewise be unsubsiantial and
ephemeral.
Bless,d be the man who invented the
kiss. Who was he? Is there any stone
ruised to mark this .reat benefactiOn to
humanity? We read Of the kiss in the
Holy Bible. We hear Of It as far back as
the beginning Of the world. Although
there Is not on Ierord the kisses exchanged
between Adam AMI Eve, yet it is fair to
presume that they dill not fail to profit by
their numerous opportunities. There WIS
no one nigh to interrupt III ir felicitouS
discourse. The pot Milton writes in his
..'Paradise Lost"
Adam. the gollIcst man Of men since born,
His sons, the "a rest Of her daughters, Eve,
Grace was In all her steps, heaven In her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love.
Two such persons would not long re-
main together in the garden Of Eden
Without indulging in an occasional kiss.
So that, althou III their initial kiss may
not be recorded, yet tncre il every reason
to believe that it was given and enjoy ed
vi b Il peculiar happiness.
No one can fix the BEGINNING Of the
kiss. 1t must have begun with the
wOrlh. 1t must have had an existence in
'haos, for so heavenly thing could not
have sprung from mere earthliness. Or
ators have framed it in most rotund and
glowing periods. Pot Is have sung about
i in living rh!m 1t has been the theme
{ the lover, the celibate. the benedict,
he Niihtred and the weary. Some say
that the world was brought into being
ST kiss, for did not tile egg Night
riuat on Chaos until Day kissed It and
Love sprang forth? II we can not fix the
beginning of the kiss, we can at least
trace it to its earlier practices. The first
recorded kiss is that given by Jacob b.
his deceived father Isaac. The next kiss
and first kiss noted between man and
woman is the kiss that Jacob gave to
Rarhel, which is pnriray,d in the twenty
ninth chapter Of Genesis. 1t must have
Jeen cold and Clammy and altogether
'nrrOwful affair, because we redd in the
eleventh v,rse Of that chapter that Jacob
kissed Rachel and lifted up his voice and
wept." II there had been any peculiar
Jdy in the encounter Why should he have
%ept? Why did he. lift up his vol e
Was It because his joy was too great to
hold back, and his voice asserted itself?
All kisses are not of the exhilarant
kind. There are some that disgrace the
name. Julas IsCar.Ot gave his master
kiss. 1t is pity that some other name
was not invented by the wise men Of tina
period. The kiss is frau.ht with too
Tany sweet and tender memories in the
minds Of everyone possessing spark Of
continent. It's realm should not be in
vaded by Judas Iscariot or any Of his ilk.
This Is the only kiss on record which
,hould be expursated from the catagory
Of kisses. It is foul outrage upon the
Iame--a beslial ravishment on an act
which Is entirely lovely and sincere. A
kiss without sincerity Is like summer
NiIhout sunshine. Il is at best a barren
Vl,al ty-a surt Of dead sea fruit that,
while pleasing to the eye outside, Is filIed
With tlber and fiber dust. InsinceFity has
no place in kiss. Happily, the inventor
II that deli ,htful diversion 80 modelled
the kiss that insin, Gritty can ut once I've
detected. There is hollowness about an
insincere kiss that ut once shows itself
The lips be ONE. cold and dry and acrid.
There Is no maSnet snI in them, and a
kiss Of the kind is not only fat, stale and
Improbable, but II Is positively blight
ing. A sensitive nature feels one Of
those oyster like kisses just as u sensitive
plant fells the harsh wind.
There are degrees In kissing, just as
there are degrees n everything else. We
will take the kiss Of Judas Iscariot rs the
positive deerCe. the kiss Of King solomon
IN the comparative degree, and the degree
that Christopher MarlOwe describes in his
drama, DR.. Faustns, US the superlative,
I will not attempt to define that Judas
kiss. It has won its own eternal dan,na-
ton; for Judas kiss Is the meanest
thing whiCh the human mind can CONF