Arizona silver belt., 1895-05-18
KISSING BETWEEN WOMEN.
Osculation That Is Devoid of All
 Sincerity.
It Is Done as Mere Matter of Form and is Otten Full of Deceit ana Treach- ery--The Moro tho Hate tho
 sweetor the Kiss.

1t is not imaginable, on any possible view of the subject that there is the slightest pleasurable result expe- rienced by ladies when they kiss each other, much less one demonstrable by the most delicate scientific methods of investigation. An ordinarily hearty hand-shal5e would lick it all to fits in this respect,
 Learned men in the middle ages, who spent much time in discussion of trivial ties and in hair-splitting, enumerated host of different kinds of kisses, though they, after all, wound up the whole mat. ter by admitting that there is only one true ltiss--the kiss of love, and they put the kiss between women very far down on the list as thing of no account or value, being thus in accord with the conclusions of all sensible people who have studied the question,
 Still, says a writer in the New York Advertiser, we have to do with facts, and women, for all that may be said against the practice, do kiss each other, and in the pursuit of knowledge on the subject, 1 asked my wife whether she found any pleasure in kissing any member of her own sex.
 "Pooh!" was all the reply she deigned Co give, though presently, after appar- cntly cogitating and arriving at the conclusion that this ejaculation, expres- siye enough in its way, could not help me very much, she made some remarks which were altogether, to the male sex too vague to be here set down at large. Ultimately managed, by pressing the question to elicit something definite on She subject, the gist of which was that, when women kiss each other, they do so merely as Q matter Of form, meaning by it for the most part no more than a mere handshake, and often less, for there may be warmth in that, but na- ture has denied the possibility of warmth existing in a kiss between mem bcrs of the same sex Sometimes but very seldom, women kiss because they like each other.
 They also kiss because they don't like each other, and in that case, they arc sure never to lose an opportunity of kissing each other most punctiliously. They may hate to dc t ever 50 much, and yet, whenever they meet they eagerly mallc'a pretty little dab at each others faces, which passes muster in the eyes of outsiders as quite a touch ing exhibition of womanly kindness nnd affection, though those who know the real state of affairs only smile, ana perhaps remark; How Mrs. 4. and Hrs B, do hate each Gther, to be sure, See how swectly they llss.
 The wholo-hearted kiss of young girls, as yet innocent uf the ways and dcccitfulness of the world, is a pleas ant thing in itself; but once they are initiated into the wiles of socIcty, there is no social usage which jars more on their tender feelings, bcfor. these be- come case hardened, than the feminine habit of kissing, which so transparent. y cloalls all manner of unpleasant and unchoritablC thoughts. They loathc it, yet, by degrees, they arc drawn un- willingly into the whirl, until at last they, too, become adopts.
 When the female side of a family, mother and grown-up daughters, be- come known to their acquaintances as given over to the vanity of kissing visitors all round, both on arrival and departure, the making of call on them becomes such an ordeal that, rather than run the gauntlet of 50 many osculations. however perfume torily performed, many of their friends, who find them in every other respect charming, feel constrained to reduce the number of their calls as far as pos siblc, in despair of any feasible rem cdy, There is no excuse for evading what has become Q rule of the house You must take them as you find them, or leave them severely alone It twould be dire offense to refuse to offer the cheek to the lsisser
 Perhaps the time will come when all kissing will be strictly prohibited un- der threat of the scyersst penalties of the law. This has teen tried, with more or less success, in some peculiar ly-ninded communities, So far the doctors have practically put their veto on kissing of all kinds; but, then, what is there that the doctors have not for