Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-08

Visit to the Theater Not COmuIete
without Lots of Oscillation.
From the New York Herald
There ISN'T much that men don't know as
to the way in which men kiss girls. What
they never stop to consider is how girls
kiss girls. If you stand outside a New
York theater after a matinee and watch
the young women saying adieu to each
other you will see every variety of oscula-
ton known to connoisseurs. The less they
like each other the warmer is the salute,
cynics think.
Mamie and / never did care for one
another very MUCH says a young woman
to another, but it's worse since / got my
new cape. The things she's been saying
about me are just as horrid as they can
be. Why, Mamie! she exclaims. as she
sights a girl just ahead Of her, lis that
you, dear?" Then they fall upon each
others shoulder and kiss.
1t is a matinee kiss and 1t doesn't count
When girls come out Of the theaters
where tragedy has been played and where
the stage has been left Uttered with corpses
stiff and stark In their gray and white
makeup, there is something a little hys-
ter.cal in their kiss. The women who have
just left the grewsome dead house like to
feel the pressure of a warm cheek against
their warm lips. 1t shows them that there
is at least something left alive after the
fiery onslaughts that the tragedian has
been making with his broadsword and dag
ger upon helpless humanity. They grab
each other wildly and sometimes there are
three or four kisses exchanged before they
let go to wipe out the chilly feeling caused
by the cadavers they have just seen.
He looked at me twice." says a little
pink and white idiot in a pretty bonnet to
81 H.
She is speaking about the dignified tenor in
the well-ttting tights, whose wife and eight
children are at home, wondering IL father
will bring them home a pocketful of nice
their Thanksgiving. He looked at me
twice. I'm sure he was thinking about me
when he sang that serenade." Then the
girls kiss. II is little ecstatic; just about
the way in which the pink and white idiot
thinks size might kiss the tenor after their
engagement had been ratified by the stern
but ultimately forgiving parents of the
twain.
count, either. They never do, or rarely
Women don't waste kisses that are any
good upon other women, it has been said,
but perhaps that is too strong.
Matinee women have a right, il they care
to kiss. to do so until they are black in the
face. There is nothing in constitution
statute or common law prohibiting it. But
that isn't any reason why they should block
up the gangway while they are doing it.
Their favorite standing place while ad-
ministering their farewell salGtes is right
In the doorway There ought to be special
exits for men attending the theater alone,
with their wives, and who consequently
haven't any one to kiss. Then the feminine
kissers and kissees could incumber the
other exits as much as they pleased.
I'm so glad. dear. We saw that play"
says Mrs. Lipz to Mrs. Phace-kiss sd
always wanted'-kss-"to see it"-kiss
isn't he perfectly lovely?'-kiss
Yes. dear iss-"Give my love to the
chldren''-kiss
And all the while half hundred angry
men are waiting their turn-not for a kiss.
but to climb out of the theater in some
way or other. But they have TO wait
Matinee kisses can't be dispensed with be-
cause a lot of mere men want to scramble
out and run to their offices for a few mo-
ments to have last dab at some unlinisn-
ed business.