The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1903-08-12
How to Prohibit Kissing.

COme nOUOrleUy craving Legislator
made a short time ago, a vain at
tempt to stop kissing by statutory
enactment. Now some railroad
officials are going to make, it is
said, rule against kissing in
train sheds or stations or on car
platforms. The enactment of a
rule is one thing, its enforcement
quite another. Mothers, we know,
prohibit their daughters from kiss
ing, but kissing goes on merrily,
fervently and frequently, just the
same. No prohibitory order has,
so far, proved equal to it's suppress
sion. Shall railway officials snc-
coed where legislators and parents
fail?
Kissing, according to railroad
officials, binders traffic. 1t takes
too much time These unthi1king
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pursuers of gain forget that kisses
are like grains of gold or silver
found upon the ground, of no value
themselves, but precious as they
show the proximity of mine
priceless in resource. Men are
proverbially eager mine hunters.
For this reason, among others,
they acquire the kissing habit.
But rice throwing having been
stopped, kissing may also, in the
opinion of railroad men, be sup
pressed, or largely restricted.
The office of the brakeman and
conductor, who shall inform peo-
pie that kissing is forbidden, will
not be enviable. A bride may, for
example, leave her husband on II
fortnights visit to her mother.
What right has a soulless corpora
ton TO step in, virtually telling
her that she must kiss her husband
goodbye at home, and part from
him at the station as demurely as
strangerp Suppose she defes
tile corporation, and says to her
beloved:
"Give me kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty add hundred more,
A thousand to that hundred, so kiss ON.
To IN axe that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun"
Is any railroad official to
step up while the loving, kissing
and kissabie bride is wrapped in
her husbands arms and tell the
affectionate pair that they must
break away right there and then?
Would not that train be held till
that offended bride told the
officious railroad representative
what she thought of him personally,
mis- railroad particularly and cor
porations generally.
Kissing is not the only hin
derance to railroad traffic. Fare
we'll conversations take much more
time than oscillation. A young
lady, accompanied by dozen girl
friends, goes to take train, a
lively interchange of messages
takes place. "Be sure to tell Mary
and Hattie to come down." "Ask
George if he has forgotten the pic
mic last summer" Tell Lily and
Amy to be good" "Be sure to
write tomorrow" "Kiss Aunt
Emily for me-" and hundred 9TH
ers. What is a railroad to do in
the circumstances. The time for
blue laws has passed. But often
sive, neatly framed notices might
be hung up in and around stations
NOTICE TO KISSERS:
Passengers kissing goodbye are
requested to do most of their kiss
ing at home and make their oscula-
tions brief at stations.
No railroad ticket good for more
than one kiss when trains are leav-
ing.
Take one kiss at time.
Don't kiss on platforms.
Don't kiss the wrong fellow.
The company will not be respon-
sibie for biow-ups and hot boxes