West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-03-05
KISSING
Some Poetry Prose. Law. Sentiment
and Philosophy ON The Subject.

A bill has been introduced in the
Minnesota legislature making il un-
lawful for one person to kiss another
person without first securing a
certificate that he is free from con-
tagious disease or any weakness of
the heart. Violations are subject
to penalty of 81 to IS.
We suppose this law is aimed at
the women who persist In kissing
each other in public and all the
babies that come along and il would
be a good thing to break up such
foolishness and stop such woeful
waste of sweetness, as many men as.
there are who would gladly garner
in such luxuries. The law can
hardly apply to courtship kissing,
In the parlor with the 'lights outs"
or turned low or out in the hammock
in the twilight or at the front gate
under the starlight, because all
this kind Of kissing and the best
kind and the kind that man would
pay the most for in license fees or
hnes, could not be found out or
proven by the minions of the law
and man or maid could not be
made TO incriminate themselves.
SO we take II that the law Is for the
protection of poor little helpless
innocent babes, to keep the old
women from slobbering over them
with kisses that taste of their teeth
and perhaps false teeth at that and
mayhap getting powder in the baby's
eyes and sometimes paint or even
snuff in its mouth. Then again il Il
will keep the women both old and
young from kissing each other in
public, we say pass the law and let
them make IL up sub rosa with the
other sex. However the women
have their excuses (of course, as
all women do for anything they are
accused of) for this kissing mania
and when we quoted the following TO
one:
Men scorn TO kiss among themselves,
And scarce would kiss a brother;
but'women want to kiss so badly,
That they kiss and kiss each other"
She retorted with the following
lines:
Men do not kiss among themselves.
lis well that they refraint
For the bitter dose would vex them so,
They ne'er would kiss again"
This was one on us but the best
answer we ever got was from the
young lady who explained that the
reason the women kissed each other
was because they had nothing 6effey
TO Kiss and that men did not kiss
each other, because they had some
thing 6eifer 10 kiss. Right there we
"got in the game" and went the
limit.
IL was "a round of pleasure, and
doubly so because we had two
"full hands" and "stayed to finish.r .
We will call this draw, as these
terms are not strictly appropriate in
Cupid's Court although they refer
more or less to game Of hearts
and may cause "fush" so we will
cut for new deal and quote from
Lord Byron when he says:
20 that woman had
But one lovely mouth.
So that we might kiss them all
From North TO South"
That may be poetical but not
practical and it would be an awful
thing II they all had but one mouth
to talk with. Wouldn't that poor
old mouth have to get hustle on
itself We believe that women would
rather do without the kissing even
than to lose their favorite weapon
which they never let rust, the best
thing and the worst thing IN all the
world--a tongue, for
Dame nature. wise In all her ends.
Made man the strongest;
In justice then 70 make amends.
Made womsn's tongue the longest"
AS we are married now we had
better stop as we have probably
gotten enough wrath laid for one
time.