The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-24
DOES KISSING
 DENOTE LOVE?

"One kiss from all others prevents
 me,
 And sets all my pulses astir,
 And burns on my lips and torments
 'Tis the kiss I fain would give her. lone kiss for all others requites me,
 Although it Is never to be,
 And sweetens my dreams and invites
 Iris the kiss that she dare not give me-"
 There's many a stern, elderly man of business and practical woman who have no patience with sentiment who will wonder why I have given time and space to an article bearing the above caption. To such I would say let us look into the matter and we will soon all agree there is a reason and a grave need. Hundreds of letters on every conceivable subject reach me in the course of a weA-. Among these are several hundreds from young girls confiding to me their love affairs, 1n- genuously asking, in one form or an. other, Does kissing denote lover
 It is my duty to give these hundreds of innocent young girls earnest advice upon pleasure which may lead to fa- tai results if, the girl is not forewarned and forearmed.
 I might write the most learned arti- cle my brain might be capable of con ceiving upon the urgent questions of the day, but I know in my own heart, no matter how grac1ously and heartily 1t might be received by those who ap- preciate articles of acknowledged sen- .l1 ~,<,k a n hundredth part as much good as this one article on kissing, which will, I hope, sink down deep into the youth ful, innocent hearts near and afar by the thousands.
 It is not the girl carefully watched over, guarded and chaperoned who has pression of sentiment, but the young girl who has no parents, no home. TO friends. no one in whom she can con- fde. It is the nature of the young to be romantic, some to be more inclined toward sentiment and influenced by it than others. When her first lover crosses her path, many such young girl is at loss as to whether shs should give or deny the kisses her suitor pleads for.
 It is these young girls to whom a strict word, a sharp but kindly meant rebuke in the nick of time, may pre- vetn youthful heart from knowing life's saddest lesson, a young life from going astray.
 While no hard and fast rule can be alid down to offset a lover's argu- ments, girls should be made to realize that there Is no way by which a girl can lose young mans respect and her own self-respect and maiden mod esty more quickly than to permit man who has not yet proposed mar riage the privilege of kiss. A man may pooh-pooh this statement as much as he likes, but deep down, in his heart he knows it to be absolutely true.
 All men warn their own young sis ters against it, but are not so careful about the girls they meet and fancy who have no, one to, tell them that there is a wide difference in lovemak- Ing and that the youth who pleads for } kiss Is not in love probably, but merely wishes to while away a duh hour and then hurry off to a stricter maiden whom he dare not ask for kisses, to propose marriage.
 Real danger to an unprotected girls morals begins with the Judas kiss from the man she believes to be in ove with her. Girls should avoid giv- ng an affectionate young man an op- to whisper words of love nto their ears ere he has manfully declared his matrimonial intentions.