Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-03-17

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any other game. Money, Of course.
as the root of all evil, is the
prime factor of trouble 1t possesses
a peculiar faculty of annoying both
by its presence and absence. Those
who possess 1t have trouble to keep 1t.
and those who are without it have
trouble to get it.
Kisses have got men and women into
all sorts of difficulties. They always
occur before wedding and frequently
before an application has been made to
the divorce courts. They have caused
pain and happiness, riches and poverty,
and sometimes death; also deafness,
diphtheria and tonsilitis. The puritan
rightly of New England suppressed
every sort of kissing in that part OF the
country-that is, so far as human ma
ture would bear the prohibitlon-whlle
among the blue laws of Connecticut
there was one which prohibited man
kissing his wife on Sunday.
A very pretty young girl got into
trouble in Vienna, and all because OF
kiss. She was II and very attractive,
but had to 60 to an ear hospital and
would only confess her story to the
physicians. It was this: She had a
lover who had been away, but who had
returned few days before. In the pro-
cess of greeting he implanted kiss
upon the maiden's ear. From that mo-
ment she was unable to hear The
physicians examined her ear and found
that the drum had really been frac-
tured.
In September, 1884, there were three
kisses exchanged which made all Eu-
rope quake with fear. This was when
Germany, Austria and Russia formed
the famous triple alliance. The confer
ence was held in Polish castle, after
which Emperor William, Emperor
Francis Joseph and the car of Russia
kissed one another several times. The
czarina and the grand duke Of Russia
were also kissed by the visiting mon
archs.
Then there was an instance on record
where a man and his wife were locked
up all night in New York for kissing
one another in public. The man was
Alexis Gisika. He was supping early
one morning with his wife in Broad
way restaurant, when, in moment OF
amorous enthusiasm, he leaned across
the table and imprinted kiss upon
the blushing Augustina's red lips. He
got angry at the unseemly laughter OF
some Of the other patrons and the af-
fair ended in row. The walters set
upon the couple and they were finally
locked up in the West Thirtieth street
police station. In the Jefferson Market
court the following morning they were
fined SO.
Former Superintendent Murray is on
record for having called kissing in the
stree disorderly conduct, even when
accomplished with the lady's consent.
The case was that of John Mowatt, who
was arrested in 14th street, together
with the lady to whom he was bidding
good-by. They were locked up all night
and fined $40 in the morning.
Jack the Kisser" has appeared in
many cities and has got himself into a
peck of trouble.
Gen. Sherman had national reputa-
tion as a kisser. 1t is said that this
famous general was never introduced
to woman that he did not greet in
this manner. To be kissed by him was
considered an honor.
In 1888 woman in Erie, Pa, died .
few hours after kissing a corpse. She
was Mrs. William Savory, who kissed
her dead friend in her coffin. The I'M
dertaker had just bathed the dead wom-
ans lips with poison and Mrs. Sayory
died almost Immediately.
Children often take an aversion to
kissing. Little Frank Celia ran away
from his home in Williamsburg to avoid
kissing an admiring female relative
He was lost several days.
Quite a pretty woman went to Brook.
lyn once to pay visit and while theirs
contracted diphtheria. When she re-
turned to her home in Chatham, N. j.,
she greeted her friends with kisses, and
It was not long before an epidemic Of
diphtheria made it's appearance in that
picturesque town. About forty people
suffered from the disease.
A matinee kiss is distinctly kind Of
it's own. The less woman likes an
other the warmer is the salute. Then
there is one place where kissing pre-
dominates and that is on steamship
pier. If you want to see sight worth
seeing Just go down to some ship as sht
is getting ready to sail. When "Al
ashore" is called there seems to be
mighty effort on the part of all CON
cerned to get in as many kisses as pos
sible in the shortest space Of time
Men are seen to kiss one another-foF
eigners, of course.