Smyrna times., 1903-03-11
Should be denied
And set aside and mortified.

Should be denied
And set aside and mortified.
Kisses of greeting or parting, Of good
night, good morning and of congratu-
latiOn are still general, although by 10
means so frequent as they were for
merly. Indeed kissing as a practice is
much less popular than it once was.
Between doctors and the mOralists it is
constantly falling more and more into
disfavOr, while, still more fatal, Fash
ion, with a big f, sets her face as a
flint against all demonstrations of feel
Ing as i'll bred.
All the same, the man who becomes
engaged to be married, as a usual
thing, expects a kiss from his fiancee
to seal the bargain. not for publication,
so 10 say, but as a guarantee of good
faith on her part If she is willing to
promise to marry him, he reasons, she
ought to be willing to let him kiss her.
Moreover, he desires a kiss or kisses
upon general principles as something
to which he is entitled by the unwrit-
ten law of tradition. On the other
hand, the party of the second part has
herself to consider in the matter. A
woman should be sure of her own bona
tide intentions of matrimony and dou
bly, sure of those of her lover before
she sets such a sign and seal to the
contract. Engagements Of marriage are
by no means irrefragible, and she who
kisses least is likely to have least
cause for future regret. At all events
a prudent woman will wait until the
engagement is announced before she
permits any kissing. There are men
who have serious objections to marry
ing any woman who has been engaged
to another man. for the simple reason
that they do not choose that any man
shall be able to say of the woman
whom they take to wife that he has
kissed her as her lover. 1t matters lit
tie, rather more. that the kisses have
been given in good faith to an affianced
husband. It's a way men have.
Sir. she's yours!
You have brushed from the grape it's soft
blue:
From the rosebud you've shaken the deli
cate dew.
What you've touched you may take
A noted LADY killer of a past gener-
alton who had been engaged many
times and who boasted to his intimates
that no woman had ever refused an of
fer of his hand in marriage was once
asked why in that case he was still a
bachelor. Because l am waiting until
| can find a woman who will not per-
NIT me to kiss her before we are mar
vied," he replied.
Even though a woman be fully as
sured of the inevitableness in due time
of her marriage she will be wise not to
be too liberal of her caresses. Most
things in this world are rated as valua-
bic in direct proportion to their rarity.
Were diamonds as common as pebbles
they would be worth no more CONNER
cially than the common stones of the
beach and highway. Moreover. one may
have too much of a good thing. King
Midas story is an old one. TOO much
water drowned the miller" 1t is a COM
mon practice with confectioners to al
low a new apprentice all the candy
a little while the surfeit of sweet will
destroy all taste for sugar in any form.
1t is human nature essentially to tire
Of what we have much of and to prize
most the fruit which hangs highest
and is most difficult to obtain.
Consequently the woman who is
chary of her favors. who is niggardly
even with her caresses. will find that
her lover values them all the more. and
that his respect. as we'll as his affec
ton. for her becomes the greater il
proportion as he hopes rather than is
sure of her. 1t has long been a maxim
that no man shall kiss and tell; never
theless. the woman is safest by far Of
whom there is nothing which it were
better it were left untold.-Helen Old
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