Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1901-05-09
SENATOR pEpEw OH KISSING.
Tells His First Experience And Com
missratss Professor Creek.

Inc statement Dy PROFESSOR Alglc II.
Crook, of the Northwestern University,
Chicago, that he he's never kissed q
woman, had never INDUCED in . "swear
word" taken q drink or used tobacco
has called forth comments incredulous,
sarcastic and plying in all parts of the
country. Professor Crook IL only 81
and Ii said to be quite good looking, and
il has been suggested that If his state
ment Is true he ought to be in a museum.
A late dispatch from Chicago represents
him explaining that while he had
neve e used Q girl he did not mean to
him
Commenting on Professor Crooks
original statement, Senator Chauncey
NJ. Depew is quoted as expressing the
hope that missionary movement would
be started 10 rescue the Professor. Pref
ty missionaries, fiirtatious girls With
kissable lips, he says, must save the un-
fortunate Crook for the sake of the sex.
Professor Crooks statement to class of
undergraduates at the Northwestern
University, in Chicago, last week that
he had never "chewed, smoked, used q
profane word, drank liquor or Rugged
or kissed q girl" has aroused the deepest
commiseration of the Senator.
And he says he's 81" said the Sena-
tor. swell, IL is not too late. Still he
can never know the exquisite Joy, the
thrill, the bliss Of boys first kiss
Poor fellow
81 have read about Professor Crook
with the deepest concern for a misguid-
cd fellow-man. He almost brings me
back to doctrine which for many,
many years i have been trying to get
away from-the Calvinistic doctrine of
total depravity.
Just TO think that for 81 years fel.
low-being has existed, with heaven all
about him On every side, the portals all
open and inviting, and that he has not
entered in oncei I've either got to be-
lieve the fellow Is not telling the truth.
or, what Is worse, 60 back TO the total
depravIty doctrine.
why, worlds couldn't buy the men,
DRY of my first kiss, there on the river at
Peekskill, in the moonlight remem-
Der it yet with an exquisite thrill. l
can feel the brush of her curls against
my cheek, feel the thrill of her touch.
see her blush and her roguish eyes be-
fore me now. Pity, pity the poor crea-
ture who has never enjoyed an expert
ence like that
when / was boy in my teens was
great oarsman, and was often on the
Hudson in my boat. This night my liz
tie bright-eyed sweetheart was with me.
The moon was shining. Have you ever
seen the big round moon shining on the
Hudson ut Peekskill on q June night ?
If you have you know what it is for a
boy to be out alone with his sweetheart
in that moonlight.
81 remember how l pulled out into the
silvery stream, her mischievous eyes
upon me. A king on his throne was
never happier and he never had half the
right to be. A young fellow with pref
~ sweetheart who likes him just little
bit and loves to be in the moonlight with
him is the most blessed of mankind.
"Well, we talked. After a while we
let the boat drift, ! rather think May
be her pretty eyes drew me nearer 20
her. Maybe her loose curls touched my
cheek. Maybe We were saying tender
nothings. Maybe touched her hand.
"Then IL happened. IL Is the touch
that does 1.-THE electric thrill. A young
fellow could no more help it than he
could stop 4 storm, and the girl couldn't
silvery quiet, there is the pretty girl dar-
ing him, there's the young fellow-then
there's kiss"
The Senator was blushing a rosy red,
and he laughed loud and heartily as the
delicious memory. "Don't ask me just
how 10 happened, ! don't know, but /
know IL did happen. and that Is one of
the sweetest memories of my life All,
what pretty girl she was, and how her
eyes stirred something In me!
1T was the old story Of Eve and the
apple. railways Is. The right sort Of
young fellow can't resist the forbidden
fruit, and Eve doesn't want him TO.
"The conditions and the provocasion
must be right for kiss. The girl must
like the fellow little. Unjust be moon
light or something like 10. Itneyer hap
pens in broad open sunlight, never, I'M.
less II Is st picnic in the woods. They