St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-01

must be done according to artistic rules.
There are some who could not kiss il
they were to spend their whole lives i'll
attempting to master the art. Grant it
that most women like to kiss and be-
kissed. 1t is part Of their nature,
just as it is the nature of birds to sing
and owls to blink. And if they can.
not kiss a bewhiskered face they are
satisfied with smooth one. And if
the smooth one is the face of
one of their own kind the kiss counts
just the same. But they certainly do
object to being kissed brutally. By
this mean indelicately, forcibly,
burglariously. furiously, muscularly.
No woman wants to be bounced upon
for kiss as falcon seiZes upon its
fortunate mouse. A kiss to be enjoy
able must be artistic. There should be
the premonitOry warning, the careful
and delightful preparation. What
world of exquisite emotion there is in
this! The arm gently encircling the
waist and pressing the quivering
form with a tender and deep-sea
meaning. Then comes the next stage,
the placing of the finger tips on the
rounded cheek and its succeeding slight
elevation. With this the lips of the
fair one automatically quicker and the
eyes close as if in the intOXicatiOn of
the delirium that it is so near. Then
the realization. Heaven preserve usl
The application of the four lips in a
gentle, desperate, fully-realizing-t
mportance-of-the-situ aud soul
stirring style, comes the climax, the
real soul of the kiss, its inner conscious
ness, it's very living essence. This
cannot be described because it varies
with the individual. With some
there comes at the instant long drawn
out, symmetrical and suggestive sound,
something like the drawing of bow
over the mute string of violin. With
others there is the gurgling sound,
which carries the idea that the pair are
in the last stages of poignant frenzy.
Last and best of all the game is the very
choicest kind of a kiSS-the kiss accom-
panied by the velvety, adhesive sound
that plainly says now we have got what
we want and would like to stay here
forever. Goodness gracious! 1t sets
one all over in a Utilization, or a tintin.
nabulation, as you please, just to thinl:
of it'll
A Kiss, to be thoroughly appreciated
and enjoyed, should cause every nerve
center in the physical organism to dance
kisses go the very roots of ones being.
They are never forgotten. Even in the
throeS of final dissolution, imagine
that the memory of the sweet kisses OF
lifetime steal over one like the recol-
lection of something that is too lovely
to be perishable, but which, like all else
in this world must be sacrificed to the
inevitable. A kiss that is conceived in
the pure fancy and executed with
proper refinement and intelligence, ac-
companed by the necessary sentiment,
ought to live forever.
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Heaven preserve me, however, from
the perfunctOry kiss of two women.
There is something about kiss of the
kind that is as dismal as the desert of
Sahara. There Is not even one oasis in
it to mark the dreary waste. 1t is
worse than melody measured out with
yard stick or poetry doled out by the
quart. There is no inspiration about it.;
none whatever, of any kind. What a
dull, SOdden affair is the face of pretty
grill How the same pretty face be-
comes illuminated with the fire of the
soul when it is kissed by-well. per-
haps this is getting to be an over-deli-
cate matter, and something ought to
be left to the Imagination of the reader.
However, there is no rhapsody in the
kiss exchanged by two girls, OF two
women. 1t is as uninviting as the
fields in winter time.