El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-11-30

A MAN who was recently hale
~ into court for wife desertiol
= - declares that he was drive
fromN home by his spouse's excessive
demonstrations CT affection
s'Why, Judge" he exclaimed, "whel
I came home Of an evening from wOrl
and when L was starting to work of
morning, she would kiss me for tel
/ minutes at a time. IT made me sick
L just got so 1 couldn't stand it an!
more, and so 1 beat it,
Can you blame him?
There is a whole bunch of morals il
this true tale, and women who are the
chief offenders in the osculatory line
would do well to take a few of then
to heart.
The most obvious lesson is, of course
that any one can get too much of {
good thing, even of love, and that kisse:
by wholesale are not so desirable as by
retail You can smother affection tC
death by too many caresses just as you
could drown a person in a vat of mo-
lasses.
1t would be sweet death, but il
would be death, ali the same.
Women are wholesale murderers OF
love. not by intention, but through ig-
norance- Their craving for affection
and the indications thereof are so in
satiable that they cannot understand
that mans tastes are different, and
that he cares only for love as q rel
ish, not for the whole meal.
Men, at least those of the Anglo
Saxon breed, are also chary Of demon
STATIONS. AS Kipling says. they do
not kiss nor fall on the neck when
they come together" as women do.
They don't grab up every baby and
kiss its unfortunate head off after
the manner of women and even in love
making they value kiss in proportion
to Its rarity, whereas a woman esti-
mates the worth Of a kiss rs a proof
Of affection in direct ratio to its fire.
quency.
- All of this. is merely by way of say
ing that men are not kissers by nature,
and women are; that men are not
aemonstrative of their affection, while
women are, and that the women who
persist in showering caresses on men
make the mistake of their lives, for
the men are not pleased thereby They
are bored, satiated, Disguised.
1t was man who voiced the eternal
masculine protest against too many
kisses when he cried out: stay me
with flagons, feed me on apples, for
I am sick of lover
There are a great many misguided
women who think that because they
happen to be engaged, or married, they
have a right to exhibit toward their
fiances, or husbands, as much affection
as they please. Alas, they are the VIC
tins of their own errorSi
Many a man runs the risk of a breach
of promise suit rather than face the
prospect of a life that will be over-sup-
piled with kisses. and many a husband
is driven from home to save himself
from being loved to death.
The second moral Of this story is
that in kissing the man should always
be the kisser and the woman the kissee.
This holds good both before and after
A man only takes an interest
in kissing as long as the kisses have to
be stolen - The minute woman's lips
are offered to him he takes kissing out
Of the pleasure class and puts it on
the duty list.
Young women often write to this de-
oartment and ask if they should permit
young men to kiss them. Never The
girl who doesn't positively refuse to
ct a man kiss her is an idiot. And
'he is likely not to get kissed at all.
It's always the kiss for which a man
las to risk his neck for which he is
willing TO climb. The one that is prof