The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-05-31
Oscillation the Mode.

kissing has come in again.
Nnen Two young women who met last
week ia the crowded shopping district of
big, city, raised their wells, bent over and
imprinted il hearty salute. lip on lin. those
observing the little tab!cau declared it
The spectators Immediately forgot all
about the old blue laws of etiuuette
against public demonstra tons of affec.
ton.
Now, there may not have been any af.
lection lost between the two young WON.
en-; they were probably only amiablt ac.
qualntances, or, perhaps, even deadly RI
walls, but such tritling considerations az
private feelings never affect women fol.
lowing IL fashion.
And kissing is a fashion again. full
hedged and in active practice, with ali
It's code of observances drawn in lines
as hard and fast as convention can make
them. 1t usurps the place of han;lshake
and curtsey, of which, with their mani.
fold varla tions society has grown deadly
weary.
Every woman this spring. on her daily
round of tasks and pleasures, is ant 70
Kiss half a score more of her sex he
tween sunrise and sunset. Her philo-
soplicti mind is not bothered in the least
as to the possible hypocrisy or probable
disease lurking in this lip-tp-lip greeting.
LII the street OF theater. church or horse
car. elevator or shop, drawing room or
ballroom her kisses are dispensed as free
~ as hand clasps, and her conscience and
health none the worse for it,
The nlodisl, hostess how kisses her
guests; of course. only those of petticyat
persuasion, as she receives.
10 draw back from the proffercd kiss
of friend is to in'lict terrible wound
on even the least sensitive feelings. now
that kissing is in vogue and everyone
adopting the habit.
She who drops in for afternoon tea on
one she has reasons to suspect is angling:
party OF the first part feels proprietary
rights, gives a deadly kiss of jealousy
through the veil. The jealous kiss take,
as many phases as there are variety in the
circumstances bringing rivals together.
1t sometimes assumes the guise of knock,
ing your rivals hat wickedly away with
the wing Of your snug little bonnet, as
hers or merely grazing her chin with your
cold and narrowed mouth, or put ting your
arm tight about her waist in !, hyDOcritic.
al little squeeze of affection. and givu:
her three or four feather kisses as far
away from her mouth as her cheek vii,
permit.
But the triumph of diplomatic kissip:, is,
achieved by the women who never kiss
each other at all. They drop over 50
gracefully, into each others arms. ard bv
drawing their under lips against the upver
teeth make a little sound on the vacant air
that passes for Il cordial salute. while the
admiring world is none the wiser for tht
mockery.
When woman meets another woman
on the street they exchange smiles, the
short wells are lifted ever so little, the.
first ones mouth touches the second ones
chin just below the neither lip, there l.,
a sound like Il ribbon 1uttering in til :,
breeze, not unpleasant to the musical ear.
and man possibly would call it only half
kiss or fourth of one; to the lartc-
pants it was satisfactory and made a pref
ty picture. They will probably criticise
each others gowns after turning opposite
corners: 1t is easy to tell Girl chums by
the veil lifted very high and the two
hearty salntes, fairly Oh the red lips. cx.
changed with hands on each others shout
ders. and women who are relatives by the
kiss at meeting and repeated at parting
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