The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-05-22
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Photographs CopyrIgh, by Underwood \ Underwood.
listener why. they're so stolid they passed
law once that man shouldn't kiss his own wife
On Sunday. And one man who had Just got
home on Sunday from a long journey broke the
ordinance and was hauled up in court for it.
Fact. 1t was good while ago, though"
FreS;hmen kiss each other-Ive seen them.
And ltalians-why you'd think to see couple Of
noble Palermitans fling themselves into each 9th.
ers arms that you were Witnessing the end of
some soustirring drama whereas it only means
all right What in creation those mercuria peo-
pie keep saved-up, to express their feelings in a
great crisis, | simply cant imagine"
The plump matron gigged.
They say King Edward has the true British
dislike of sentimental poses but when he goes
over to Germany acouSining among the royalties
he remembers his own German ancestry and he
and the mighty Kaiser Wilhelm embrace like
couple of gushing schoolgirls. 1t must be a
sight"
Speaking of kissing, didn't you suppose every
body knew that a kiss on the stage of theater
is just hollow show. little like the real thing
as a painted tree? Some friends of ours little
way out of town got up a very clever play last
winter and had professional coach and all that
1t was for charity hospital Well, Mrs Smith
and her husband were both in the cast, but Mrs
Smiths best scene with the hero her lover
The play was great success but poor Mrs
Smith found queer chill in the air when the af-
fair was talked afterwards with some of
the women on the board of directors at the hos
ptal. 1t was only later still and in a roundabout
way that she found they thought her beautiful
kiss was far too real to be proper. And wasn't
her husband mad when he heard of the gossip!
Why-you know the stage effect is the emptiest
show. AS matter OF fact all that happened
when his face bent close over hers was her
own frantic whisper, For heavens sake let me
straighten your wig; it's sliding over one ear"
did YOU ever them rub noses in New Zea
land' That's the limit. OF course you don't often
have the chance, for it's only the abort gines-the
Maoris-that do it, and now a good many of them
are civilized out of all their native picturesque
ness, just as American Indians etc. But out
in the mountain district where you go to see the
geysers ard hot springs there few that keep
up = queer mixture of store clothes and primitive
manners. There's native girl there who acts as
guide through the geyser regOn-shes really
quite well educated and upto-date, but-don't
you know how some coquettish French and Ger
man girls deliberately keep up a foreign accent
when they speak English, because they know it's
rather fetching? Well, this Maori girl will rub
noses with you in the most demure fashion. Il
YOU signify that you're interested in anthropol-
ogy or sociology or whatever head covers the
subject"
1t is really curious when you come to think of 1t,
how many ways the human creatures have of say
ing How dye do. The traditional cowboy fash