Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-07-26
SOME FAMOUS ROYAL KISSES.
Sa~!utations Which Have an Importan,
Place in History.

Tit-Bits: From the time when kissing
was first introduced into this country by
the beautiful Saxon Princess Rowena, this
delightful "~osculatory operation" has
never lost It's popularity either with roy
alties or other persons Of less exalted
rank.
According to a veracious old record,
''the fair Princess Rowena, the daughter
Of King Hengious of Friesland, passed the
beaker with her lipkins and saluted the
amorous Vortigern with a busken." Vor-
tigern was one of the earliest kings, and
the occasion OF his receiving the famous
kiss alluded to was a great banquet at
which the fair giver was the monarch's
honored guest.
kissing soon became extremely popular
with other royalties; and even in Crom-
wells day Christina, queen Of Sweden,
went so far as to command the English
ambassador to teach her that pleasant
mode Of English salutation." She no
doubt proved an apt pupil and must have
found the gallant ambassador a most
willing subject for her to practice on.
A famous royal kiss was very much re-
sented by q not disinterested party, If the
chronicles Of the period can be believed.
1t Is recorded of that Duke OF Clarence
who afterward became William " that
when on a tour in lower Canada he
crossed over the boundary INTO the Amer
lean state Of Vermont.
Entering a BARRIERS shop to be shaved
the duke noticed the wife of the tonsorial
artist, who happened to be a pretty wo-
man. From her, after he had been shaved,
His Royal Highness was rash enough to
steal a kiss, remarking: There, now, tell
YOU countrywomen that the son Of the
king of England has given a royal kiss to
q Yankee BARRIERS wife"
However, the lady may have taken this
liberty, her husband was furious at it, and
unC~eremoniously bundled his royal GUS
toner out of his establishment with the
advice: There, now, go and tell your
countrywomen that a Yankee barber has
given a royal kick 10 the son Of the king
Of England.
A notable royal kiss Is we'll remembered,
perhaps with pious horror, at the Vatican.
Some years ago the king q Sweden went
to pay his respects to the pope, and In
stead Of taking the papal hand to kiss, In
accordance with Vatican etiquette, cor
daily saluted the head Of the Roman
Catholic church on each cheek.
great many more ladies have been the
recipients of royal kisses than have ever
owned to them, but a certain Russian
lady, who once received a royal kiss by
mistake, was so proud of 1t that she ex-
pressed her determination never to wash
that particular spot on her face where the
kiss had been imprinted.
Some charming stories are told about
the kisses bestowed by the young King
Alfonso Of Spain, whose coronation is
| about to take place. On ono occasion
Madame Patti, the great songstress, had
been singing before the queen regent and
the Spanish court, when his infant Ma
jesty was brought into the room in the
arms OF his nurse.
On the queen of song pressing the tiny
monarch's dimpled hand to her lips, the
I queen regent exclaimed: my son shall
not be so ungallant as to be the first
Spaniard to permit a lady to kiss his
hand. Allow him to give you a kiss"
This the infant king did, putting his arms
| around the prima donna's neck and salut-
ing her warmly.
A royal kiss which is still remembered
in France was the one that the late Queen
Victoria publicly imprinted on the cheek
of Napoleon III, on the occasion OF her
visit to that country at the conclusion of
| the Crimean war. hat kiss was said TO
have lone more than anything else to-
ward camenting the feeling of friendship
between the two nations.