The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-12-14
OSCULATORY OBSERVATIONS

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! In. and Joy Reasns
I UnconAnsd.
| Right or wrong, everybody hkes Il
zee kissing that Is, everybody who ism,
soured on life. The sight isn't equal tl
the act, but, nevertheless, it is cheer
ing sight. There are places in this city
where every variety of osculatory salu
tation can be witnessed several times Q
week.
It il on the pier when some big ocean
steamship comes in that this deliciov.
drama Is played. It in at the time ol
year when those who have been doiuA
Europe HE themselves homeward, and
when their brothers and other fellow q
brothers, their husbands, sisters and
friends gather on the pier to welcome
them. and, finding language made.
quate, do just what Adam and Eve
would have done under similar circunl-
stances.
The end Of the pier is packed with as
happy an aggregation of mortals as can
be found anywhere. Out in midstrealn
is the big, black-hulled steamer. Near
ly everybody on the pier is going to kiss
somebody on the steamer, and vice
versa. and In most instances the ex-
change will not be limited. Plcasurable
expectancy makes everybody good
natured. The crowd doesn't mind hay-
ing its toes trod upon or it's elbows
jostled.
Pushed and pulled by painting little
tugs. the ocean leviathan, itself power
less and unwieldy, crawls toward the
pier. At length she gets near enough
for recognitions to be exchanged.
Handkerchiefs are waved franticaIly.
Kisses are waited across the interven-
ing space. Greetings are hurled from
shore to ship and from ship to shore.
Everybody is in tight place, but no
body can keep still. Women on pier and
on steamer jump and clap their hands
ecstatically.
1t takes an awfully long time to get
the big steamship snug alongside of the
pier. 1t is deliciously tantalizing to
those who are impatiently waiting to
rush into one another's arms. But it
glves the mere spectator, who has 40
such reason for impatience, time to OBJ
serve that there are some stunning girls
on board that steamship. The glow OF
health is on their cheeks and the light
OF love in their eyes, and they look their
prettiest because in the excitement
they forget themselves entirely. The
breeze toys with bangs, whisks veils
aside and sets their hair adrift. But
their eyes are on ''Tom," or ''Harry," I" or
Charley" on the pier, and they are OBJ
livious to such trif1es. They won't be
so tomorrow; they will be Just like
other girls then, but now they are dis
ferent, and that very difference makes
them SO attractive and makes you wish
that you were 'Tom," or Harry" or
Charley"
The steamship is made fast to the
pier at last. the pudgy tugs scurry off
in search OF others, the gangplank is
swung out and the race to get the first
kiss begins.
A man starts in the lead; he is half
way down when puff of wind lifts
bis hat; he pauses to clutch it and loses
the race. a superb brunette, with hat
securely moored, darts by and in an
other moment is embraced by stalwart
arms, and two spirits have crushed to-
yether at the touching of the lips"
Nor do they mind who sees it, and the
spectator looks on without compunc-
ions of conscience.
In moment the osculatory engage
nent becomes general. It is kisses to
light of you and kisses to left Of you.
1on can't see then, all; cant see one
enth OF them, but the regret vanisLes
when you recollect that it will be prac-
ically repeated two or three times
week for month to como, so that you
an come again and see what you missed
he first time because nature limits you
0 one pair of eyes.
o-and naturally the kisses which
overs exchange interest one most.
here is something about them-the
ook which accompanies them, the
lush which acknowledges them-by
1hich they are recognized and c'assi-
ed. But perish the thought that they
re the only kind Of kisses worth seeing.
here an old man, with the SHOWS OF
inter on his head but eternal spring in
is heart, kisses q white-haired lady.
nd the way he does it and the way she
eceives it aud returns it tells story OF
,utual devotion and loyalty that has
TODD the test Of twoscore years or more,
nd makes you feel like taking of your
At
Then there are kisses between moth
p and their children. and brothers and
sters and girls and girls-sweet and
holesome to look on. and sufficient in
1emselves to make misanthrope re-
re his miserable philosophy and &C.
that there il genuine happi-
-. In this world and much to make lie
orth living.
CIRCULATION continues unrcstrained
& half an hour or more. There 10 con-
gion about Il. II makes you feel like
ssing somebody yourself. It-ailnost
'ompts you to 60 mp to some girl and
y: pardon me. but am > stranger
everybody he!e and there Il NO ono
kiss me. Don.t you feel sorry and
pnt ron try to cousole me-
But the rules Of polite society forbid !
1nd u they didn't Tom, or i
harley. - Harry would have
n1akhin9 = say that wouldn't - = /
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