Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-17
WHEN KISSING CAME INTO THEW ORLD.
BY c. LAuRox HOOPER.

No one has ever been able to i'm
prove the wheelbarrOw. II was perfect
when first invented. Since the days OF
Aristotle the science OF logic has re-
NAMED practically unchanged, for that
eminent Greek established 10 In its per-
lection az the outset. The first epoch
is still better than all that have fol-
lowed TO-, nor can any one ever learn 10
write such poetry better than did Ho-
mer. for he reached the utmost pertec-
tion OF the art at bound. So, also,
those who discOvered-Or invented
kissing did their work so well that no
one has been able 10 improve II TO this
dav. To nay seem strange that there
was ever q time when kissing was un-
known among men and women, but
such is the case. For many thousands
of years our ancestors lived in pro-
found ignorance of the bissful, kisStul
arr. and IL was only after the process Of
evolution had gone so far as TO rid man
entirely OF the characteristics OF his
tailed ancestors and there grew In him
those higher sentiments aud emotions
which The poets have been singing to
us since the days OF SapphO, that kiss
deeply for many years into the ancient
writings OF Oriental peoples and have
M last discovered the exact manner and
uIace-though the time is somewhat
d0ubtiul-in which kissing began.
Most things began in Greece. At
least many OF the best things OF life did,
aud kissing is among the number The
account of it's beginning is carefully
and accurately narrated In the old
writings which have mentioned, and l
will endeavOr 70 repeat it as best can,
knowing that I cannot, with our strong
and vigorous English speech, reproduce
the soft and tuneful flow Of the Greek
tongue. 1t would be well il l could,
for much of the charm of the account
is In the very musical sound OF the Ian
cuaCe in which il was first told, and in
deed the account needs this charm' Ior
il is not story in the true meaning OF
that word, story with an unexpected
and surprising end, but only little
incident which terminated just as any
one would expect So wholly unre-
markable was il that only one man IN
all Greece thought it worthy TO be
written down and preserved. But
thanks TO him and his pOsterlty, who
carefully kept it, il has at last come
into my possession. And as l shall
now tell IL to you in good faith you
must know that every word OF It Is
true.
Kisthenes was a shepherd in that part
OF Greece known as Beotia. DE ilVeo
with his father in q little village named
Thebes, which in after years became
great walled city, the most powerful
one i'm all Greece, about and in which
occurred some Of the events that have
been handed down to Us in the TRACE
dies OF Sophocles. Here lived hlSthenes
until he grew 90 be young mana
very handsome one, too, the writing
says-wheu home life became wearlsome
10 him, and, with his burden on MS
back and his shepherds crook In MS
hand, he turned his face 20 the north.
After many days be came into TheS-
saly. another province OF Greece.
Here be entered into the employ OF a
man named Dryades, who had many
sbeeD 70 pasture. Each day kiSthenes
ed the sheep up the slopes OF Mt. Peli-
nm and let them Craze while he played
an nine. In the distance he could see
tbe Fgean glistening 10 the sun, the
seme Eqean upon which the baby Per-
sens VAS sent adrift, the same Egean
mon which Agamemnon's fleets sailed
~ Troy, the same lEgesR TO speak OF
more authentic eVents) wMeA Aerxes