Arizona republican., 1892-03-24
ABOUT THE HOTELS.

Mrs. Sydney Drew: TIE REPUBLICAN readers would like to know about the stage kiss? Well, really, don't know what there is to say about it. The stage kiss is most unsatisfactory thing. It IS like everything else about the stage unreal and meant to be unreal. It serves its purpose, however, and that is all that is required by it or any other institution.
 There are, to begin with, three dis tinct kind of kisses on the stage, as there are of. First, the reverential, spiritual, respectful kiss, which is imprinted on the forehead second, the paternal, ma ternal, fraternal, friendly kiss, deposit ed on the cheek; third, the loving, con jugal, burning-with-pa passion, goodbye forever kiss, which is is not placed in either one of the mentioned places. Per haps you are as well posted on this mat ter as any one
 Nearly everything on the stage, as every body should understand, is unreal and artificial from the scenery down to the sou brette's complexion, and the kiss is no exception. Very few of them are real, nice, genuine ones, but oc- casioaally when the pair love one an. other they do 1t with realism that cannot be mistaken. The forehead kiss is, perhaps, mostly genuine, and often there IS actual contact in the cheek kiss, but this is very seldom when rosy lips are held up so invitingly.
 The actor and actress merely bow their heads, and nearly touch, but their lips seldom meet. With a slight in- clination of the heads backward this can be done very artistically. The well known smack sounds for all the world like beauty" The deception is frequently aided by the hands, which hide the rich carmine lips of the lair one from the audience.
 This trick is resorted to for various reasons. In the first place the parties may not like each other well enough to relish the osculation process. In the second place, grease, paint and carmine do not set well on the palate, and finally, genuine kisses are prone to have an exhilarating or depressing effect, as the case may be, either of which is to be avoided.
 Col. John DeLacy. a prominent cotton broker of New Orleans: The situation Ol the cotton market grows more desper- ate, and those who sold few weeks ago at what then seemed ruinous prices, are now graduating themselves on getting out so timely. Even the government feels called upon to note the great over production, amounting to a million and half bales in 1890, and further greatly eulargiug the excess in in 1891, glutting the markets, increasing the visible stocks during the past year more than HOO 600 bales, and reducing the Liver pool price of middling uplands from 6 l-6 pence in January, 1890. to Az pence in January, 1892" The decline has stead- fly continued since January, yet the preparation for another big crop goes on. The department of agriculture predicts :
 In two years this country has produc- ed an excess above normal requirements of more 2,000, 900 bales. It indicates a heavy reduction in acreage as the possi- ble remedy, otherwise the agriculture of the south will suffer worse than west ern agriculture ever has. It declares that the cotton states must be agricul- turally self-sustaining, that new crops must be introduced, as the agricultural population has outgrown the capacity Of cotton to support it.
 Dr. II. R. Seeley, prominent Phila- delphia physician says
 "The French don't use Keeley's method. Its idea is unscientific. Con- siderable bi-chloride of gold produces special stimulation of the brain, which has been called by Lallemand, 'ivresse aurihque,' or golden drunkenness. , Atropine, which forms part of Keeley's treatment, is violent poison and has a disastrous effect on the nervous system, producing delrium. hallucinations and ivresse airopique, or atropia drunken ness. It is . singular idea to hope to cure alcoholism by combining two prep. ara'ions, each causing a special form of inebrity. Hence it is dangerous method not to be used. It is bad and injurious, capable of producing acci- dents, especially disorders of the intel. lectual faculties.
 ''No remedy has yet been found for chronic alcoholism. Moral treatment, the rational use of opium, cinchona, a search for the causes, careful treatment, stomachic disorders which frequently induce alcoholism, hydrotherapeutic treatment, zinc oxide and sometimes small doses of calomel-these means, handled by skiillul doctors, succeed better than violent means, which are always dangerous, |"