Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-09-08
KISSES analysed.
Ella Wheeler Vie Writes OF the
Progressive Kiss,

ApropoS Of the ca recently brought
before New jersey court where a
pretty RI was fned $40 for allowing
! her lover to kiss her while they
were in the hall OF a board.n g house,
Ella Wheeler W lcox gives the follow
ing analysis OF a kiss:
somebody has published a book
with the title Unkist--unkind.
don't know what its purport
may tie, bus from the fantastic de-
velopmeats Of SOM OF our courts OF
justice one might take it thai unRist
people were unkind.
Two presumably u1kist maiden
ad es preferred charge recently
against u young woman for kissing
her lover good night. an judge
| also presumably uakist, actually fined
the girl $40.
IL the austere women who made the
charge Of Il sorderly conduct AGAINST
the fair culprit had ever known the
happiness OF Il kiss Of real affection,
they could not have been SO vicious,
And the Judge, What can We think
or say bad enough o, such cruel
| curmudgeon! Had he never teen
young? Could his me mory evoke no
sweet doorway scenes, n veStihule
adieuN- no lingering good nights at
summer moonlit portals, when part
ing was such sweet sorrow?"
1t is a curious fact that women
never forget the sent ment of life
once they experience it: bit men oft
mes utterly outgrow It, and are in
capable of recalling even an echo 4
It,, to help them understand the
young, Some of the most unfeeling,
severe, unsympa hetiC cid men are
those who have trod every hyway in
the primrose path Of pleasure" dur
Ing their youth, while the cru lest OF
women are usually those who have
experienced the least OF loves rap.
lures. The women who have never
been offered the tempting apple OF
knowledge are usually secretly jeal-
Gus of the woman who has declined
It. They hate her for having had
the opp rtuntty Of re'using; and woe
unto her If she has taken even a bite.
Many a dried Sour grape" In wo-
mans heart passes with the world
at large for tn" seed OF great vir ne
The lips that have been innocent
of pass on's kiss frequently ooze with
gossips poison
The accumulated knowledge of ages
is SOMETIMES revealed In a kiss; and
one might add that where wisdom Is
bliss it is folly to be ignorant
Never to have been kissed Is
never to have fully lived. Perhaps 1t
is n secret Consciousness Of this
which renders the unkist women Of
earth so bitter In their denu Citations
Of the love enlightencd-just rs the
very poor denounce the very rich al
enemies to the world
The Kiss Is not all sweet, ii con.
Ia n the sting as well as the honey
Of The bee.
Loves fayGrite pas Inc is the pro-
gressive kiss.
When man woes a woman he
usually begins his dem )nstrations by
/ kissing her gloved hand--an innocent
e. o9gh act surely.
But 1t does not Ions satisfy him!
The glove is in the way, and he
longs To press his lips to her soft
tiesh--the white fingers flrst-then the
pink palms and the blue-"s ned
wrist.
She bushes a little at this and
draws her hand away, ye,, surely /,
s not very wrong, sic thinks.
After that he begs to kiss her cheek
just one tile touch Of bis lips Ia
its velvety surface-no more Such a
tiny favor to ask? And If one cheek
is caressed why not the other? 1t ia
unfair to show fav rltism. Crossing
from the left cheek to the right, leads
directly over loves own domain the
lips, the home OF kisses.
After woman has given her lips
10 IA man she becomes either great
deal or nothing to him. Unless she
is thorough woman OF the word or
a great reader of human nature, she
can never be sure which result will
ensue l. depends upon the man, the
bAN""NA'h ubb bbI MIDI iIN tihy
adore her, or despise her; believe in
her, or distrust her; cling TO her al
ways, or leave her forever.
Marriages are made. and missed, by
The kiss II is the lasso which leads
some men to the altar and 1t Is the
Tia lie which sewers the tie uniting
others TO their lady loves.
Therefore, the game Of the progres.
siye kiss is the most perilous Of
pastimes for any save the woman on
the eve Of her marriage, TO indulge
in.
There is subtle psychological diff
ference In the temperament OF man
and wgman. which underlies the
danger. He does not turn from her
lips with the same sentima INT with
which she turns from his after the
kiss is exchanged She is excited
by her emotions; he is only irrtatec
TO her 1t is an epoch, the first ardent
kiss she has known. To MIN 1t 4
merely the latest. II she has known