The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-10
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KLCCING "A TINE ART

a natter-of-conrse air. ought to be- well. he ought to be snubbed. and he usually is. It shocks a woman's sem abilities, just as 1t would to see some body joking in church, or drinking toast in altar wine. or reading the prayer book backward. A kiss Is a sacred thing. It loses all its charm If it Is gone through with like new game, or morning chore, or a part of the evening program. man should kiss woman as if he had nexer kissed one before and never would kiss one again, and--'
 "oh. come. now. Kitty" I said re- proachfully; you wouldn't have us such hypocrites. Besides. no girl nowadays would believe she was the only one"
 No girl likes to believe she is only one of many." declared Kitty. And. besides, she IS the only one to whom you have given that particular kiss; and she ought to be the only one in your mind and the whole world at the moment. or else-or else you ought to belong to the anti-kissing ieaguers
 The whatr'
 explained Kitty. They wear little red silk buttons. to show that they dis aprove of kissing"
 Just fancy!, exclaimed admiringly. what an effect that would create in America Every time man saw girl wearing q red silk button he would be filled with desire to go up and kiss her. You know how 1t is with cat. Leave a piece of harmless paper on the floor and she will blink at 1t for hours, but tie a string to it and pull it away from her and she will spring up and dash after 1t. Wearing an anti kissing button would be just like tying string to your kisses. ''
 What fnniV exclaimed Kitty enthu- siastically. "But.' she added. leaning back and regarding her fan pensively, that isn't all there Is to kissing
 'oh, mo-" I agreed, there's the snub that follows, or the engagement, or the explanation. or the breach of promise suit, or-----"
 T mean,' pursued Kitty. ignoring me, that the place and the time and the mood and the atmosphere are to be considered as well as the--manner. Some men are so self-confident and in such hurry to make love to a woman that they will begin being sentimental on sight or fin the middle of a muddy street crossing, or a railway station, or the minute they find themselves alone with her They imagine that a tete-a- tete. or a dark corner, or the absence of chaperone. Is all they need for conquest: and others are so cautions and self-absorbed and diffident that they will sit in the conservatory with the music playing for hours and let the psychological moment slip right by them"
 What" demanded bluntly, 'is the psychological moment, Miss Glenn?''
 ''oh, it's the moment when a girl Is feeling sad, or sentimental, or desper- ate. or excited, or--or distracted. or something. It's not before lunch, nor when she's hungry, nor after she's been trying on frock. or come from a vau- deville theatre. It usually comes in !. the twilight. or at the end of a dance, or when she has been reading a roman tie book, or sailing In the moonlight; and when you have been together for a long time and the conversation runs down and your ideas drift and there's music playing somewhere. Or sonae- times 1t comes when there's been fire, or a runaway, or a catastrophe, and you've been very brave or brilliant, or after you've had a quarrel, or a great sorrow, or when you are going away. It's the dramatic moment when things aren't quite normal"
 And when you aren't thinking about kissing her or anybody else" I rejoined cynically, "and when your mind is so taken up with other things and other people and your own affairs, or the set of your coat, or the handling of a situation, or anything on earth but sentiment and
 'Of course" said Kitty coldly. "A mans mind Is always taken up with other things when 1t should be on love and with love when 1t should be on other things. And then they wonder why some little chap who understands women and situations and the art of kissing Is so popular"
 "It's a life study" I sighed. They ought to establish college for senti- mental artists and give medals and de- grees and prizes"
 Pooh" said Kitty scornfully. Tt wouln't do any good. Sentimental art ists are born, not made
 And they are all cured by matri- mony," I agreed hopefully.
 -Yes," sighed Kitty. husbands for get how to kiss, or get out of practice, or their kisses to their wives become so perfunctory or commonplace or regular that they cease to be benediction or a compliment and become a sort of pat on the head, or a habit"
 "Or duty"
 Or a morning chore. That's the trouble with married people They make 1t a habit, when it should be a privilege or a rarity. or luxury. Kiss ing Is like medicine; 1t has primary