The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-16
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caught in the arms Of . bisv Jolly looking
man, who unblu&hingly gave her a re-
Didn't I tell youl' exclaimed she Of the
lorgnon with o shudder. In spite OF her
good looks and clothes l have known from
the start that that woman was not accus-
Here she broke of with a gasp. A young
girl had been kissed vehemently by a young
man, evidently not her brother, who alighted
from the stage. 1t was not a brotherly
sshockingl' exclaimed tho owner Of the
Y heard that she Is engaged said one
Of the group Of friends consolingly and
almost sympathetically, her eyes following
the radiant looking girl into the house:
sits easily seen that those girls have
never attended a high class school, the lady
with the lorgnon next announced, with a
frown at the sight of two school girls fapt-
urously embracing a third girl who was
among the newcomers.
A fair woman waiting quietly At the top
from the critic with the lorgnon. Here
at least was one worthy OF being numbered
with the up to date contingent OF society.
With a conventional hand clasp and the
ceremonious lifting Of a straw hat wife
and husband met, the wife then turning
away from her husband to shake hands
with her brother and sister-in-law and to
ofer her cheek to be kissed by their boy
OF 10, the ~youngster plainly showing that
he expected to kiss and be kissed.
THAT woman and her friends, announced
with decision the social censor, dropping
her glass and taking up her fancy work,
Are the only ones in that crowd whose
manners will pass muster
and yet when l was a girl q woman
wasn't considered hopelessly vulgar II
she kissed her relatives and friends in a
- -z..kNaAo = wnNRasN0Iy 1atd NhA
oldest woman Of the group: I for one
always kissed my women friends II / felt
like IL. no matter where / met them, and
when my husband came to US from the city,
when l and the children were spending
the summer out OF town, l never stopped
to consider who W watching us when
l met him at the station.
Il didn't need to, for every other woman
wal saluting her husband just as l did
mine. And in those days l went in just
as good society a. l do now.
"For that reason / am inclined 10 think
all this talk and fuss when an anectionate
human being forgets to pose as an autom-
atom in public Is simply a fad, not an
Indication Of the superior refinement OF
the twentieth century woman"
The woman with the lorgnon looked
panied, but kept silent.
said a third woman rather timidly:
Seeing those school girls reminds me
that the principal OF the boarding school
nv niece attends Is constantly lecturing
the girls against embracing n another
in public. She does not even except the
| college campus.
my niece tells me that every time that
principal sees two girls rush into each
| others arms she breaches another sermon
against IL, on n occasion stating that
kissing was a perfectly Benseless custom
where girls and women alone were con-
cerned. And that school L. not an e1cep-
ton either. In nearly all the schools pat
ronized by wealthy New Workers girls
are taught that to kiss each other In the
street is vulgar in the extreme.
"For my part, although 1 think it's all
very well for older persons to restrain
themselves in public, l don't quite see the
necessity Of depriving school girls Of the
happiness Of efervescing over one another. :
Up went the lorgnon.
Il am really surprised that o should
feel that way" said the eyes behind the
| glasses a. plainly aaysyes could speak.
The teacheiK Hfe right remarked will