Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1911-03-04
is KISSING
HEALTHY ?
All Right When Selected With
Due Care and Taken On
InStaIment Plan

II have heard" writes J. b. S.,
Bridgeton, New Jersey. that some rep
utable psychologists have declared that
osculation is very dangerous pastime
that divers and sundry varieties of bac
terra hop blithely back and forth, engen'
dering disease and death. | have read
too, where others of the medical profes
sion have announced with equal empha
sis that osculation was tonic and g
sure cure for dyspepsia. Being some,
what nonplusssed by these professiona
though conflicting statements, ! should
greatly appreciate brief disquisition or
the subject by the "Searchlight." I"
The "Searchlight, Brother j. b. S..
is in hearty accord with view No. 2.
The reason, we believe, that the doctors
arrived at conclusion No. is that they
kissed indiscriminately and reasoned
inductively. The "Searchlight" unhes.
itatingly ventures the opinion that oscu.
lation, when practiced with reasonable
discretion and unfaltering industry, is
an infallible antidote for at least half
the ills to which humanity is heir.
Kisses, when selected with due care
and taken on the instalment plan. will
not only restore a misplaced appetite,
but are especially beneficial in cases OF
hay fever, as they Danish that tired feel
ing, tone up the liver, invigorate the
heart and make the blood fairly sing
through the system. A health microbe,
as well as disease bacillus, nidificates
on the osculatory apparatus. and failure
to absorb a sufficient quantity Of these
hygiologic germs into the system causes
old maids to look jaundiced and bache-
lors to die sooner than benedicts.
Great care should be taken when col
lecting the germs not to crush them by
violent collision or to blow them away
with loud explosion. Some time be-
tween 10 and IL p. M. invite your best
girl into the garden to watch Venus
flaming orb hanging like a Kohinor
pendant from the crescent moon. You
pause beneath the great oak, its myriad
leaves rustling softly as the wings of
seraphs. Do not be in hurry, and do
not talk. On such an occasion silence is
the acme of eloquence.
She watches the fireflies respiring in
phosphorescent flame amid the clover
blooms, while you watch her, and twine
a spray of honeysuckle in her hair. Some
how her hand gets tangled up with yours.
and after spasmodic flutter there, re-
mains willing prisoner. BY this time
the firefies fail to interest her, and she
studies the stars. You move your
shoulder forward to give her head a
rest and get hold of her other hand. Be
patient when she wants you to kiss her,
depend upon it, she will find means to
make it manifest, and lady despises an
anxious, nervous man. She looks beau
tiful with her face upturned in the moon
light; but you must not now say word,
for there is a little of the poseur about
all the sex.
She withdraws her eyes from the stars,
turns them dreamily upon yours, and you
note that they are filled with astral fire.
They roam idly over the shadowy gar
den. then close as beneath weight o.
WEAKNESS. Her head rests more heavily
against your shoulder, and her bosom
trembles with half-audible sigh. There
is no occasion for further delay. DO not
swoop down upon the health-germs like
a hungry hen-hawk on a young goose.
but incline your head gently until your
carefully deodorized breath is upon her
lips, and. and-well, pause right there,
for the essence of enjoyment is in anti
cipation.
The man who gulps down glass Of
old wine without first inhaling its oenan-
the and feasting his eyes upon its ruddy
splendors is simply sot. Wait until
you have noted the dark lashes lying
upon the cheek of sun-flushed snow, the
throat of alabaster. the dimple in her
chin. the wine-tint in her half-parted
lips with their CLINT of pearl-wait until
her eyes half-open, look inquiringly into
yours. and close again, then cincture her
gently but firmly with one arm, support
her chin with the other hand, and give
the health germs ample time to change
their happy homes.
A kiss. to have any scientific value,
hould last one minute and seven Sec
onds, and be repeated seven times. There
is no human III. unless it be hypocrisy,
for which nature does not provide a rem
edy. and the health germ which builds
its nest on lovely woman's lips is worth
more than the whole materia medica.
Kisses properly taken-beneath the stais
and among the roses s-are the perennial
fount Of youth for which Ponce de Leon
sailed far seas in vain search for the