Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
WHOM TO KISS, AND WHEN.

There are still occasions, however rare, when inactivity, much as it has fallen into disfavor. continues to be masterly. One of these is with regard to kissing. When a modest maiden is in doubt as to whether CT no she should kiss or allow herself to be kissed by any man not related to her by close ties of consanguinity she best displays her wisdom by giving herself, not him. the benefit of the doubt, and so re- Training from osculation.
 An absolutely safe list of men whom it is allowable to kiss might be com piled from the list given in the book of common prayer oi persons whom it is forbidden to marry. There can be no possible impropriety in any woman's being kissed by her father, grand father, brother. uncles, etc, whenever occasion may offer; still, public opinion is much less in favor of kissing than of yore. and afectionate greetings are no longer considered good form in market places, or what answers to them in the present generation.
 To the prayer book may be added cousins. within the degree forbidden in marriage by the Roman Catholic I young man cousin who is greedy in the matter of kisses from his pretty cousin is not to be trusted, he
 Should be denied,
 And set aside, and mortified.
 Kisses of greeting. or parting, of good night, good morning and of con- graduation are still general, although by no means so frequent as they were n nR1x- T.,.- Ii
 tice is much less popular than it once was Between doctors and the moral ists it is constantly falling more and more into disfavor. while, still more fatal Fashion, with big F, sets her lace as a flint against all demonstra- tions of feeling as ill bred.
 All the same, the man who becomes engaged to be married, as usual thing. expects to kiss his fiancee to seal the bargain-not for publica ton. so to say, but ais guarantee of good faith on her part. If she is willing to promise u marry him, he reasons. she should be willing to. let him kiss her. Moreover. he desires a kiss. or kisses. upon general pprinciples. as something to which he is entitled by the unwrit- ten law Of tradition. On the other ndS herself to consider in the matter. A woman should be sure of her own bona fide intentions oi matrimony. and doubly sure of those of her lover be- fore 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, laT1+ engagement is announced before she permits any kissing. There are men who have serious objections to mar rying any woman who has been en- gagged 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 a lover It mat ters little. rather more, that the kisses have been given in good faith to an affiancied husband. It's a way men have,
 Sir. shes yours,
 You have brushed from the grape its soft blue,
 From the rosebud you've shaken the delicate dew.
 What you've touched you may take
 \ noted lady killed" of a past gen. eration, who had been engaged many 1 times. and who boasted to his intimate tes that no woman had ever refused an offer of his hand in marriage, was once asked why, in that case. he was still q bachelor. Because I am waiting un- til l can find a woman who will not permit me to kiss her before We are married 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 valuable in direct proportion to theil rarity. Were diamonds as common a! pebbles they would be worth no more commercially than the. common stones of the beach and highway. Moreover one may have too much of a goot
 thing. King Midas's story is an ole one. "TCo much water drowned tht