The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-03


her with corsage decoration composed
OF diamonds and emeralds TO the value or
AliuSl The emeraids in this dazzling crea-
uon are pronounced the rivals OF those
possessed by the Empress Of Austria
Miss Gouid's marvellous wedding pres
ents ana her marriage to q foreign noble
man are already beginning TO exercise
the space writer's and-the American citi-
zen, one OF whom rises TO ask with fren-
lied eagerness; Are We not all mobiles
IN these glorious United States? Can you
conceive Of a greater being than an
American cit.zen?' In protest against
this expert, / answer. without the
slightest difficulty, my dear sir. especially
/ II one chances on him in an elevated car
and enjoys the exalted privilege OF look
ing down upon him from the attitude 81
I the seatless, as he covers behind his
/ spread newspaper"
The average young man. says the
/ Hartford Times. when he sees two ladies
I kiss ono another, is apt TO remark:
What waste of good MATERIAL and if
I the ladies' are young and pretty he be
Z means al the more the less OF the good
things thus wantonly thrown away.
The only consolation 20 the masculine
1 spectator OF the purely feminine kissing
process Is the knowledge that they are
not dealing in the genuine article. but on
merely for appearance sake, and not in
/ duiged in from any virtue in the mere
Z act OF kissing. lie knows very we'll that
"a kiss without a moustache is like an
egg without salt; at least, he was told il
! often enough before his own moustache
I had made its appearance. The ecstatic
| thrill of the lovers kiss. which lifts the
happy pair fer the nonce into a state Of
blissful forgetfulness of mundane mat
I tiers, is a fitting subject for the pen of lof-
ty poetic Inspiration. but what poet ever
bothered his brains to write a single
line on a pair of women pecking at each
others faces, amiably or otherwise?
That man was at once philosopher and
a man Of science who gave out that he
had discovered that the electric. tingling
sensation produced by a real kiss should
| be felt through the whole frame for at
/ least half an hour. He was, no doubt
A German. for only a German could be
so lSeenly athirst for knowledge as to
venture TO subject this divinest of sensa-
| tons to physiological analysis in his lab
oratOry-to measure its magnetic pulsa-
| tons. and calmly to count the accelera-
/ ted heart beats Of kisser and llissee; but,
/ though he probably looked out at the
world from behind beetllng brows and a
| pair of blue specs, he evidently knew
1 a thing or two.
| Ii is not imaginable, on any possible
/ slightest pleasurable result experienced by
| ladies when they kiss each other, much
/ less one demonstrate by the most delicate
scientific methods of investigation. An
ordinarily hearty hand-shake would lick
l 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 a
/ most of different kinds of kisses, though
/ they, after all, wound up the whole matter
| by admitting that there is only one true
1 kiss-the kiss of love; and they put the kiss
/ between women very far down the list, as
! a thing of no account or value being thus
/ in accord with the conclusions Of all SEN
sible people who have studied the ques-
| ton.
Still. 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. /
asked my wife whether she found any
pleasure in kissing any member of her
own sex.
POOH" was all the reply she delEned
to give. though presently. after apparent
| " cogitating and arriving at the con-
clusion that this ejaculation, expressive
enough in its way, could not help me very
much, she made some remarks which
were altogether too flattering to myself
and. by Implication to the male sex-to
| be here set down at large. Ultimately |
/ managed, by pressing the question. to
| elicit something definite on the subject,
! the g1st of which was that when women
/ kiss each other, they do so merely as a
/ matter of form, meaning by il for the
| most part. no more than q mere hand
/ shake. and often less, for there may he
| warmth in that, but nature has denied
the possibility of warmth existing in a kiss
between members of the same sex Some
| times, but very seldom. women kiss be-
cause they like each other.
! think, says a writer in the Washing
! ton Star, if women only understood what
/ foe to good looks, perfect health and
| conteutment they harbor when they enter
/ tain the demon of unrest they would
have a care how they invite so unwel-
/ come a guest TO visit them. | say in
| vite" because / know that women cul-
/ tivate the intense" manner that brings
| in its train such a string of ills. They
| seem to think that to be intense is to
/ be impressive, hence more attractive. In
| reality it renders them shallow and in
/ sincere. They thirst for distinction, rep
! uta ton for philanthropy. fame as racon-
/ tours and entertainers, celebrity as So
! cial lights, and imagine that intensity
| breeds interest, and interest Importance.
/ Like poor silly moths that SINCE their
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| how futile their ambitions are till broken
| in mind and body they lie al the mercy of
Tiberius, the hole they left in the world
filling up just as quick as that made by
thrusting your finger in a. bowl of water
and Withdrawing it again.
In the season of rest that is approach
ing you will have time to reflect on the
mad round you have Travelled daily dur
ing the past season. Has il been worth
the energy expended? Have you profited
by the outlay of strength and life forces
in insignificant pursuits? Sonora Sara.
Yes, madam" said the neat, pretty. re-
fined looking maiden, Il am very fond of
children and get on with them nicely, and
should be very glad to take the situa-
ton
The young matron. says the New York
Tribune who had been questioning vari-
Gus applicants for the position of nurse
to her small child looked approvingly at
this one. She was trim and sensible in at
tire, her voice was gentle, her eyes were
honest and sincere, her whole appearance
was intensely respectable, her references
were excellent.
rs this a treasure which I see before
me?" thought the mother of the small
child and the nursery at the moment
eaamed full of DleaSantnoss and paace