The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-01-11
ANTI-KIssING ARGUMENT.
Dr.. Anna Hatfield. who Has studied the
Kiss From Medical Standpoint,
SAYS Is Is Vicious Habit.
New York World.)


the WOman's Christian Temperance
union at its meeting Wednesday, has
studied the kiss fromGboth the medical
and the human standpoint, and knows
whereof she speaks.
"It is a vicious habit" she reiterated
yesterday, sand if the vice crusaders
really want to purify society they
should commence by tutoring children
from their earliest infancy that kissing,
is an evil"
"But what Of the kisses Of a mother
for her chiId?"
"They should be fewer. Mothers
have kissed their children to death"
'Then there is no condition which
justifies kiss? Don't you ever p"
Il am married"
Dr.. Hatfield uttered the only except
ion with great dignity
"Phen there are no lurking bacteria
10 married peoples Hps?"
There are, at least, no moral bac-
terra lurking there, but from q medical
standpoint no person should kiss an
other unless an antiseptic wash Is used
on the mouth daily.
"Lf you would take a microscope and
examine the teeth you will realize how
Iimitfess are the dangers Of kissing"
"And the moral bacterial"
''You won't require a microscope for
that Kissing has come to be q great
or pIauge than drink It is insidious.
It's more deadly. Girls are not taught
TO view a kiss with awe, as they were in
the days when was young. Girls then
considered kiss a bethrOthal."
"Then engaged people may kiss and
be saved?"
No" said DR.. Hatfield, positively;
"engaged people should not kiss. A.
bethrothaI kiss is different thing. 1t
is simply a token Of respeet-the seal
ing pledge.
'NOw, to most people," DR.. Hatfield
continued, seriously, "these ideas may
seem very extreme, but they are not.
Almost all my dealings have been with
women. a large part Of my practice
consists of young girls, because for
some reason I win the love and conf
dence of young people.
these girls confide in me- they tell
me their little hopes and aims and
plans and secrets, And nine out of
ten of them confess they kiss the men
they know. When 1 warn them
against such a course they say: "Why,
what's the harm in it?" To think that
mothers should neglect to answer this
question: Mothers who rear their
daughters with a view TO perfect eul-
ture and endeavor to provide themwith
an ethical educationl
"The mothers Of to day" continued
Dr. Hatfield, aare to blame for nine
tenths Of the evil that exists. They
don't know how to train children.
When their sons aud daughters were
babies they were kissed incessentIy.
Every one who comes in is allowed 90
torment the infant IN the same fash
ION. By the time the infant becomes a
child Of several years It has become
used to the kissing, and you viii find
that most children before they are
have cultivated the kissing habit. It
Is like any other wise. which, to be
dreaded but needs to be seen bat, seen
to oft, familiar with its face, We first
endure, then pity, then embrace
~Of course, the crusaders know the
habit is q very deep-seabed one and
wiz be hard TO break Up?"
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with the mothers. Girls are left alone
too much. When a young girl and
young man are left night after night
down in the parIor their CONVERSATION
becomes exhausted and they resort TO
billing aud cooling
-The trouble IS with modern mothers /
that they are too liberal, and their
do not receive the protse- /
ton that is their due. If some Of the /
hours spent In solitary association With
young men we're given up 70 teaching
them how to become good wives and 1
mothers. girls would realize that the
way to win 8 good husband is not
through the medium Of spo0BinR.
kissing between women is quite
IS unWhOIesome q praoties as could
possibly exist. I have seen Eomen kiss
zach 61her-not-Oncs Or twice, Dut
hundreds Of tfmes-Who hate each
,tber, Who talk behiud each others
backs. Eho would kin each othst
through the medium q their Kisses II
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