The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-30
KISSING AS A FINE ART.
YOU KNEW 1T WAS FINE, BUT IT
Is ALSO AN ART.

Gus Modes of Osculation-Scientific
Il essures Which Lovers Would Do
Well to study and Adopt-Four Lips
Required for the Acme.
From the NetO York Advertiser
There is no substantially in q kiss. Il
10 as intangible as the baseless fabric of
vision. 1t is such stuff as dreams are made
of; ergo, any article based on the kiss as a
subject must likewise be unsubstantial and
sphemeraL
Blessed is the man who invented the kiss.
Who was he's is there any stone raised to
mark this great benefactor 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 are no records that kisses
were exchanged between Adam and Eve, Yet
it is fair to presume that they did not fail to
profit by their numerous opportunities.
There was no one nigh to interrupt their
felicitous discourse.
Two such persons would not remain to-
gether in the Garden of Eden without in
dulging in the luxury of an occasional kiss.
That is what two sentimental and devote ed
modern lovers would DO in their visit to
Washington or Douglas parks after sun
down, if all the conditions were favorable
as they were in the Garden OF Eden.
Although the initial kiss of Adam and Eve
may not be recorded, yet there is good reason
to believe that it was enjoyed with peculiar
transport, for the experience was novel to
both of them.
No one can definitely fix the beginning of
the kiss. 1t must have begun with the
world It must of had an existence in chaos,
for 80 heavenly a thing could not have
sprung from mere earthliness.
Orators have framed it in their most
rotund and glowing periods. Poets have
sung about it and lmmortelized it in living
rhymes. 1t has been the theme of the lover,
the celibate, the benedict. the withered and
the weary.
Some maintain that the world was
brought into being with kiss, for is it
not said in the old Grecian mythology that
the egg Night floated on choas until Day
kissed it and Love spranR forth. II we
cannot Ak the beginning of the kiss we can
at least trace it to its earliest practlces.
Tho first recorded kiss, | believe, is that
given by Jacob to bis deceived father. Isaac.
The next kiss, and the first kiss noted be-
tween man and woman. is the kiss that
Jacob gave to Rachel. 1t must have been a
cold aud clammy and altogether sorrowful
affair, because we read in Genesis XXX, II,
that "Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted up his
voice and wept"
II there had been any peculiar joy in the
encounter, why should he have wept9 Why
did he lift up his voices Was it because his
Joy was too great to hold back and his voice
persisted in asserting itselfi
A kiss without sincerity is like sum-
uer without sunshine. 1t is at best bar
rem ideality; sort Of Dead Sea fruit that,
while pleasing to the eye outside, is filed
with fiber and dust. Insincerity has no
place In a kiss.
Happily the inventor of that delightful
rhapsody so modelled kiss that insincerity
can be at once detected. There is hollowness
about an insincere kiss that at once shows
itself. The lips become cold and dry and
acrid.
There is no magnetism in them, and
kiss Of the kind is not only fat, stale and
Improbable, but it is positively blighting.
A sensitive nature feels one OF those
oysterlike kisses just as sensitive plant
feels the harsh winds.
There are degrees in kisses, just as there
are degrees i'll everything else. We will
take the kiss OF Judas Isceriot as the positive
degree, the kiss of King Solomon as the
comparative degree and the kiss that
Christopher Marlowe describes in his drama,
doctor Faustus," as the superlative.
| will not attempt TO define that Judas kiss,
II has won its eternal damnation, for a
Judas kiss is the meanest thing that the
human mind can comprehend. 1t is
synonym for baseness, for perfidy. for
treachery, for everything that is false and
deceitful. With these words we can dismiss
that kind Of an osoulation and be done with
1t once for all.
AS an illustration Of the comparative de-
gree of the kiss we have only to turn to that
exquisite anacreontic, the Song of Solo
mon," to find it. That wise and pleasure
loving philosopher wrote:
LET him kiss me with the kisses Of his
mouth for thy love Is better than wine"
"Thy lips, o my spouse, drop as the
honeycomb; honey and milk are under thy
tongue"
"Ais lips are like lilies dropping sweet
smelling myrrh."
Solomon's kisses were Of the inviting
kind, otherwise he could not have enjoyed
them so much. But in his rhapsody there
is reason and method. The great kiss the
climax, the apex of ecstatio bliss, is to be
found in the speculative kiss of the dra-
matist, Marlowe.
Beyond any and all question, this kiss is
the most powerful on record. What vast
stride there is between the kiss Of Solomon
and the kiss of Narrowed Solomon's is like
Lilies dropping sweet smelling myrrh,"
a very pretty figure of speech, by the way,
and one that is very delicate.
Compared to the soul-sucking affair of
Marlowe it is as idyllic as a June morning
set in contrast with March blast.
IL there are degrees in kissing, there is
also an art in the kiss. 1t is not every one
that can kiss properly. the kisser is born,
not made. He may achieve greatness 10 his
particular lines, 1t must be done according
TO artistic rules.
There are some men who could not kiss il
they were to spend their whole lives in at
tempting to master the art Nearly every
woman likes to kiss and be kissed. 1t is a
part of her nature, just as 1t is the nature
of birds TO sing and owls to blink.
II she cannot kiss q bewhiskered face, che
Is satisfied with smooth one. And il the
smooth one is the face OF one Of THAR own
sex the kiss counts just the sane But
she certainly does object to being kissed
brutality. BY this / mean forcibly, buTglari-
ously furiously, muscularly.
No woman wants to be bounced upon for
kiss as falcon seizes upon its feathered
victim or cat pounces upon an unfortunate
mouse. A kiss to be enjoyable must be
delicately artistic.
There should be the premonitory warning,
the careful and delightful preparation.
What world Of exquisite emotion there
in this The arm gently encircling the
waist and pressing the quivering form with
a tender ami deep-seated meaning.
Then comes the next stage; the placing of
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