The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-27
Should be denied, And set aside, and mortified.

Kisses of greeting, or parting, of good night, good morning and Of conratula- ton are still general, although by no means so frequent as they were form erly Indeed kissing as a practice IS much less popular than 1t once was Be- tween doctors and the morallsts IL IS constantly falling more and more into disravor, while, still more fatal, Fashloh with A big F. sets her face as flint against all demonstrations as ill-bred
 All the same, the man who becomes enga ged to be married, as usual thlhs expects a kiss from his fiancee to seal the bargain-not for publication so to say.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 De 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 unwritten law or tradi- ton On the other hand. the party or the second part has herself to consider in the matter woman should be sure of her own bona flde intentions of matrimony and doubly sure of those of her lover before she sets such a sign and seal to the contract. Engagements of marriage are by no means irrefraglble. ana she who kisses least Is likely to have least cause for future regret. At all events, prudent woman will wait until the engagement Is announced before she per mits any kissing. There are men who have serious objections to marrying 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. If matters little, 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 he grape It's soft From the rosebud you've shaken the del
 icate dew,
 What you've touched you may take
 A noted 'iady-killer'' of a past gener- atlon, who had been engaged many times, and who boasted to his intimates that no woman had ever refused an offer of Ills hand in marriage. was once asked why, in that case. he was still a bach elor Because 1 am waiting until 1 can find a woman who will not permit me to kiss her before we are married.' he replied.
 Even though a woman be fully assured 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 their rarity. Were dia- monds as common as pebbles they would be worth no more commercially than the common stones of the beach and high way. Moreover, one may have too much of a good thing. King Midass story Is an old one "Too much water drowned the miller" It Is a common practice with confectioners to allow a new ap- prentice all the candy which he or she can eat, certain that in a little while the surfeit of sweet will destroy all taste for sugar in any form. It 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 ob- tain.
 Consequently the -vo nan who Is chary of her favors. who Is 1ggardly even with her caresses. will find that her lover values them all Ihe nore. and that his respect, as well as his Affe ction, for her becomes greater In proportion as he hopes rather than Is sure of It has long been a maxim that no man shall kiss and tell nevertheless, the woman is safest by far of whom there Is nothing which 1t were better 1t were left untold.
 A mans bullheadedness is his worst en- emy.