Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-09

Clarence, into trouble. The duke, dur
ing visit to Canada, crossed over into
the state Of Vermont and called at a
BARRIERS shop to be shaved. The bar
ber's wife CHANGING to look in Just as
the prince was rising from the operat-
ing chair he greeted her with hearty.
sailor-like kiss, remarking to the as
tonished lady: "Therel Now tell your
countrywoment that the son of the king
OF England has given a royal kiss to a
Yankee BARRIERS wife" Whatever
sclace this information brought to the
ladys ruffed feelings, her husband did
not appreciate the honor accorded to
his spouse. Selling the duke by the
shoulders, with the adroit assistance of
No. 9 boot he bundled him out of
the shop with the parting shot:
"There Now you can go and tell your
countrywomen that a Yankee barber
has given a royal kick to the son Of
the king Of England"
It was another duke, his grace of
Bedford, who is credited with having
made the kiss an essential part of the
ceremonial at the Dublin viceroyal
court. Certainly before his time the
lord lieutenant had given the ladies a
labial salute at the New Year levees;
but 1t was a cold, paternal, even pat
ronizing kiss on the forehead-an "in-
slpid morsel." This by no means was
the duke of Bedford's idea of how the
thing ought to be done.
What man, viceroy or peasant, could
pass by a pair of bewitching lips when
he had the privilege of pressing them
Certainly not his grace of Bedford, who
gave his lady hearty smack on the
lips-one, we are told, II she were
medieval and homely, and three or
four times If she were young and fair
to look upon. Thus was a cherished
precedent established and when q re-
cent viceroy wished to return to the
more restrained form of salute of
earlier days a beautiful young lady
pursed up her lips and presented them
to his coy lordship. What could the
poor man do?
But every man does not enjoy a lord
lieutenant's privileges and opportun-
tiles, as n certain Indian major found
to his cost a dozen years ago. This
officer, in a moment of indiscretion,
asked a married lady for kiss, which
she emphatically refused. The major
apologized to the lady's huband. who
accepted the apology, but reported the
incident to the governor. The result
was that the major was called on to
resign his commission under pain of
dismissal; ana, IN spite OF all MS eILOrlS,
this verdict has never been Cancelled.
Seldom, perhaps has man paid a
heavier price for a moments impulse
so promptly regretted.
An Australian recently Jared still
worse than the army man. Yielding
to the fascinations of pretty face, he
kissed the owner. He was taken before
the magistrate and heavily fined his
wife worried him into brain fever; and,
to crown his punishment, the clergy
man of the parish made the incident a
text for a sermon on the iniquity of
kissing.
More satisfactory was the issue of
similar adventure on the part of
Sydney man not long ago, who, after
kissing a girl, paid for the indulgence
by a heavy fine The affair was made
the most of by the papers, one of which
fell into the hands of a Sydney solicitor
who for year had been looking for
the neXt-to-kin to q wealthy man who
had died intestate. In the victim of
osculation he recognized the
missing heir, who thus romantically
found fortune in a kiss.