The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-14
Wotpap's World.

fellow girl When they meet. says the
Chicago Times-Herald. they shake hands
after the latest style and beam at each
other by way of expressing cordiahty. II
the two girls are chums they may give
each other a Htde squeeze but That Is an
"A very god thing. too" says Miss Fin
de Steele kissing is an idiodc custom
anyhow If you kiss one girl whom you
care for you must kiss ever so many 9TH
ers You dettst Then kissing Is unhealthy.
Men don't kiss"
She should have said Euglishmen. When
Chere Pierre meets Chere AlDhonses they
rush into each others arms and brush
each others cheeks with their nous
taches at a great rate. For the French
kiss is a good deal of n sham. French
women touch checks, first one, then the
other, and this touching of checks is
known in England as the French kiss.
and has been adopted 20 a considerable eX-
tent in London among society women.
Germans hug and kiss each other when
they are dear friends or relatives meet
ing after separation.
The Russians are an emnently kissing
nation. The kiss is a national salute, ana
has been in vogue from the early ages.
1t was handed down from Oriental ances-
tors and is more Of greeting than ca
ress. Fathers and sons kiss military off
GERS kiss, whole regiments kiss. The en-
peror kisses his officers, and on the day
of a field review there are almost as many
kisses exchanged as there are shots. If a
juvenile cadet corps distinguished itself
~ 10 1lc "A . h.,
head boy who passes il on TO the next boy,
and so on through the line until il has
gone through the whole number by proxy
from one to another.
On a fete day the mistress of a Russian
household kisses not only her maid serv-
ants, but her men servants also, and if
there be a gentleman visitor who respect
fully kisses her hand the chances are that
she will kiss his cheek. The Russian ia
Their of a family, however numerous that
family may be- kisses every member of it
whenever he goes or comes, if it be half
a dozen times day.
As a religious ceremonial the kiss has
obtained from early ages. II Is mentioned
again and again in the Old Testament, and
apears to have been an old Semitic and
Aryan custom. The earliest mention of
kissing in the Bible occurs in Genesis
xxxvii, 26, when Isaac. thinking he is ad-
dressing Esau, says to Jacob: Come
nearer. now, and kiss me. my SON" In
those days the kiss formed part of the
blessing bestowed by father on his son
The practice of kissing is mentioned no
less than forty-three times in the scrip
lures, but in only three of them do man
and woman take part. one was when ia
cob kissed his cousin-once i'm Proverbs
the kiss is used as illustrative of the tempt
tations In a young mans way, while the
third is when Mary kissed the feet of
Christ. Judas betrayed the master with
KISS. Greet We one another with an
holy kiss wrote St. Paul to the Corinth-
ians, and some Protestant sects still re-
tain the kiss as part of their service of
the Lords supper, although with greater
number the right hand of fellowship
takes its place in all religious ceremonies.
SaVages rarely or never kiss each other.
The salutations of the Polynesians Ma
lays Mongols and of the Eskimos and
Laplanders are conveyed by smelling
smiling or nose rubbing while the Aus
tralian or Fijian idea of a prineely salute
Is a grip like that Of bear
mere Is no kissing in Japan A young
man never kisses his sweetheart nus
band never kisses his wife nor a rnotber
her children. A French traveller once
asked a japanese woman of high rank
why her people never kissed and received
LOT answer, physical contact is disagree
able to us"
II has been a long time now since the
apostles or hygiene raised the alarm crv
stop Kissing more than twenty wears
since Princess Alice of Hesse paid with
her LIE the price of a kiss 10 her diving
child, but lately, as the germ theory he
comes more and more established the cry
gains force. When i'm 1895 Dr. Frank w
aFt 70 4,
OF Health, gave the advice 20 the public
10 AVOID indiseriminate kissing, and when
oscuidtlon became necessary TO use car
oollzed rose water az an antidote, that
aoVlce provoked much amusement Ger
talnly the idea of carrying always a mock
ct flask of carboized rose water for nee
before and after kissing seems absurd
YET the advice was eminently sensible In
no way are disease germs so readily proo-
agaled as through the medium of a Kiss
mouth. ~
Consumption and diphtheria. indeed an
KINDS OF lung and throat diseases as wen
as typhoid fever and cholera. are eas;l,,
inhaled Dr. Reilly tells of a minister in
country town who made a practice az
kissing his flock after church every sun
day. He-the preacher-had cousumption
ana the mortality in the village. increased
% per cent. in one year
lndiseriminate kissing Of children is ac-
tuaiy criminal 1t was a wise child--the
S-year-oid Boston boy, who turned his
cheek TO his Western cousin with you
mustn't kiss me on the mouth beoauth of
the germth"
The aiarmists and decriers of the tender
custom are quite right. kissing is q prac-
tee 20 be suppressed. or at least restricted
within narrow limits If one stops 90
consider the matter it is not pleasant
thing to kiss promiscuously. Aside from
me hygienic view of The custom, the grow
ing dislike Of the public demonstration
of affection among h,gh-bred people has
had much 70 do with lis decadence
Society agrees with common sense that
kisses should be reserved for friends
the nearest and dearest--and for private
Aie. Inc autocrats OF fashion pronounce
them bad form In public places The vVo
man who kisses casual acquainiances at
church, on the street, or In the parlors of