The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-28
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Kissing Rules Are Numerous-Poes Have Sung Beauty Questions Regarding Proper Attitude Both to the Kissed and the "Kissee'' Kisses Platonic Kisses Plutonic and the Good 0ld-Fas
 toned Variety.

My Dear Miss Dolly Dalrymple;
 T. Why do young men kiss young ladies upon seeing them home?
 ''2. Is 1t proper for young man to kiss a young lady without giving her mo- tice? Yours truly. KISSING BUG" If were to answer these questions cat egorically. would say:
 l. To see whether they can.
 ?. The really adventurous never give ask and ye shall receive" cannot be applied to osculation: rather, take and ye shall get,' Is more apt to be true. As I receive numerous questions from Anxious Readers Ardent Admirers, '' ''1nquirers' and scores of Yours Trulys" each week regarding all sorts of things that l am afraid I know less about than the questioners, perhaps a calm and impassioned discussion of this subject before us, as the preachers say. would not be amiss.
 Kissing seems to be a matter of great concern to my feminine readers, and the questions asked are frequently of so in- definite a nature as to preclude the pos- sibility of a positive answer. which in
  to Miss Ruth N. Trashmore. in the Ladies' Home Journal. or some equal ly reliable authority.
 The renowned inventor of kissing, like the person who invented sleep, seems to be represented by "x"-the unknown quantity-but I verify believe 1t was a woman. Indeed, have formulated in my mind a nice little fable which has to do with the good frau, who while her husband pursued the even tenor of his way, and chased the mastodon over the plains, remained at home carefully de- ducting a form of greeting which would not disturb the powder on her nice little lady-like nose, nor yet disarrange her carefully arranged coiffure.
 And surely this lady builded better than she knew.
 Poets have sung of the kiss and des- tinies have hung upon it's bestowal since time immemorial.
 One instinctively recalls the charming manner in which MT. Richard Mansfield used to speak the lines that Rostand delicately proclaimed in Cyrano de Ber- gerac, in alluding to a kiss: "A kiss. when all is told-what is It? An oath that's ratihed-a sealed promise,
 hearts avowal
 Claiming consolation;
 A rose dot on the "I' of adoration. A secret that to mouth is cen not whis-
 pered,
 Brush of a bees wing that makes time
 eternal
 Communion perfumed, like the spring
 wild flowers.
 When to the lips the souls flood rises
 brimming."
 However, 1t is not so much the descrfp- ton of a kiss that my correspondents are concerned with as the proper time and place for 1t to be administered, vet we must consider in this treatise the various and several kinds of kisses before we can arrive at safe advice as to the latter questions
 For instance, the kiss that is exchanged between women is scarcely worthy Of the name. It Is merely a peck"
 Haven't you seen two of the gentler sex meet, fly at each other frantically. like center rush in a football game, gaze rapturously and cry:
 Dear Maryr'
 Darling Mabel.'
 And implant nasty peck" on each others cheek, through the mesh of A tightly woven veil and then turn aside with: Perfect cati,v'
 Nasty old gossip,in'
 And smile and smile and smile,
 That Is not kiss. In fact.
 Their chaste salutes are not rniunIa,os when women kiss a friend or brother