Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04

more chary of expressing them.
Ask girl of twenty what she thinks
of kissing, and she will probably blush
like cGrnation, laugh, look sharply
into your face to see if you mean any
thing, and then will say more or less
demurely: ''I like to kiss mamma; -
or, "Dear me, how should l know any
| thing about it? 1 never was engaged?'
AS for the young man asked such a
questiou-weil, he would be very cor
rect young man indeed if he did not at
once offer to demonstrate his opinions
and his methods. did, however, in the
interest of science, ask q friend of mine
to ask her brother, q young fellow of
twenty three, and she reports that he
looked at her with a slowly gathering
smile, half closed his left eye. and
emitted that peculiar sound introduced
into English by "The Mikado' and abb
surdly spelt "Yum- Yum!''
These reports not proving altogether
satisfactory, we first attempted to evolve
a theory from our own experience, but
finding this impossible, began course
of observations of the world about me,
and also looked little INTO the history
of kissing, both oral and written, for,
like everything else under the sun which
closely interests mankind, this gentle art
has been reduced to q science, aid has a
cold and abstract cult, apart from its
warm and personal practice.
Perhaps the most popular bit of science
in this connection that l could offer the
public is grave theory of the Baron Won
Reiohenbach g, whom all of us who have
dabbled little in hypnotism will re-
member as the exponent of new school
of ghosts. He says there is a something fly
ing about in the world which he calls odio
force, and when it is used by a disem-
bodied spirit as means of making itself
visible, we call ghosts. But the baron
also says that the odic fol- ce is visible to
experts, playing as light fame upon
the ends of magnets, and upon the sem
sitive portions of the human frame, es-
peoially the lips, and he grave
ly asserts that the pleasurable
sensation of kiss is owing
to the polarization of odio
force upon the fifth pair of nerves. -
The baron states that his occult expert
ments were carried on by the aid of four
delicate and sensitive young ladies, and
that they found the contact with this
flame of odioe force, even when eman-
atlng from magnets and crystals, very
agreeable. He omits to state whether
playing upon each others or his lips,
but we know that your true scientist win
make almost any painful exertlon in the
interests of knowledge.
Descending from these abstruse re-
Eions to everyday life. let US consider
what are the proper limitations of kiss
ing, and what latitude may good girl
allow her friends, relations aud lovers,
for of course 1t is they who prefer and
she who accepts the salute. We all
know the French proverb, but my idea
is thot the one who holds up, the cheek is
generally the girl.
Parents and children, and sisters and
brothers, kiss as a matter of habit, and
mean more or less by these oscillations
Cousins kiss as matter OF privilege,
aud in many cases the girl sadly sings in
after years:
''oh, had visit ere was kist
That young mans love was so i'll to win,
had locked my lips wi an iron key,
Or thrust them through WI silver PIN"
For il is q mournful truth that famil-
larity breeds indifference, especially in
the male heart. for lover likes to long
for what be cannot have; and another
painful fact is, that the heart of man is
nsver satified. The deceased wife Is sis
ter, as well as the cousin, Is apt to learn
this truth, and We hereby advise both TO
be very chary of those cousinlYs and
brotherly privileges which the best Of
men are fond of claiming.
Outside OF this privilege, may girl
ever allow herself to be kissed by man
until she belongs to him?
Just to-day, and now, and In our
present development of civilization, we
OF coure say. No. not IL she can help 1t: