Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-13

IA
MI learned recently. for man
to have as warm red blood in
his veins at fifty as he had when he
was twenty-five.
My conclusion from this decision is
that no man 10 old enough to be trust
ed alone with woman not his moth
er, his sister, his grandmother or his
aunt.
May 23-I regret that l am not a
learned man. If were / would know
without the embarrassment of making
the inquiry, who it was who said that
kissing is the beginning Of shining"
May eff / knew who said kiss
ing is the beginning Of SHINING" 1
might spend few of my surplus mil
lions in erecting a monument to his
memory.
1t would be a strange monument.
It would not be beautiful, but 1 am
sure its effect on the minds of be-
holders would be forceful. l would
have carved on its marble sides pic
tured stories of what one little kiss
has led to: Disgrace, dishonor, aban-
doned women, reckless men, broken
hearts and the breaking up Of homes
It's Danger.
I would have engraved on tablets
set in every corner so that one might
read, no matter from what direction
he came, the real truth about the
kiss. So sweet, so innocent, so pure
in poem and prose. would have
scholars better Versed in expression
than I ever hope to be, tell what fs
in real life when a mans blood runs
warm in his veins.
and I would blame all the sin that
has such an apparently innocent be-
ginning on the ignorance of woman!
Or, perhaps, I would grow 30 bold
as to blame some of Ii on her cupidity,
her duplicity and her UNDER
STANDING OF MEN.
She gives the first kiss IN igno-
rance sometimes, but just az often.
Diary land / would have that en-
graved on the monument, though It
would result in women smashing ii
overnight) she gives It In full
realization of its power and effect!
She uses the highest expression of
love as a means Of appealing to the
lowest!
I can't quite decide II I would have
a broken hearted girl as a GROWING
figure or a man bound and shackled
with the chains OF matrimOny. Either
figure could be made appealing by
sculptor who understands human ma
ture.
Perhaps the bowed and bent figure
Of a man with the chains Of matri-
mony wound around his limbs would
be the more modern version of what
a kiss has done for mankind. So
many girls these days use kisses to
cry their wares when they go to mar
ket. and suffer no appreciable dam
age that the broken hearted girl. as
a crowning figure, would not Give eX-
preston to the changed sentiment of
the times.
May 2S-The man who said kiss
ing is the beginning Of SHINING" In
terests me / wonder if he was an
old bachelor like myself and had a
good friend whom he loved as he
would a favorite sister. / wonder if
this friend ever came to him with
her troubles because Of neglectful
husband. and If he tried, in honest
brotherly fashion, to soothe her.
I wonder if one day she suddenly
kissed him, and I wonder If that kiss
seemed in comparison to all others
life had ever offered him, the one
supreme KISS.
/ wonder what he did next. Won
der how ne found that kissing Is
the Beginning of Shining"
Did his sin consist only in thinking
about another mans wife much too
often
Not PlatomiC.
Did he accept it as the kiss a sis
ter would give a brother? But no,
he couldn't have done that. All the
sisters since the world began never
put into all the kisses they have
given their brothers the one little
vital spark Sally Spencer put in that
kiss she gave me!
Brother and sister, bah! What's
the good Of self deception2 We were
never brother and sister, and the kiss
revealed we were not. Maybe once
we were Platonic friends, and that
we can never be again!
When a man and woman do wrong,