The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-01-10
The Time Limit on kissing
BV or. FRANK CRANE
tCoprEnt 1sl5. by frank tranel

a young woman writes nae asking that
give her some advise ON the subject of
Missing Sho Says She is keeping com
-Vang with 4 gentleman and times is i'm
doubt hoA 10 act re kissing especially.
said man has proposed marriage and
been accepted Bot parties are Of good
moral character. decent bat not prudish,
and have reached the age OF discretion.
Nov She inquiries j, the woman re-
sirctng the man too much by insisting
that he moderate rdor bit in the
osculatory phases u their communion?
is She justified an being offended when
he VIII mot listen 20 her when she tries
20 rcpress this manifestation of his af-
lection. and is he justified In saying that
she does not love him when she takes
this atupde?
First OF Az. Geraldine wish 10 thank
y0u That YOU have turned % me upon
this momentous issue warns the cookies
of ms heart and gives the lie to those
enemies who east asparagus at my per
sona charms.
hasten 20 give the widest publicity to
She fact that one person at least regards
me as kissing expert That you did
not come TO me ia person is still further
complimentary, AS it implies that in ac-
,ualiy receiving from me a dcmonstra-
tion OF the various modes of oscillation
1you feared the fatal perfection of my
technique You did we'll Geraldine.
Now to the point The question seems
20 b. now long should friend Gance hang
on when oncc engaged in the sou-swap-
,pinQ process What is the time limit?
/ Is i nice Tor twenty seconds and
naughty when il lasts twenty-one? At
what hour 90 The clock does Satan come
|Aso?"
Authorize. differ Lothario's WELL
known Dictionary of kissing" under
1.-THE heading OF Time, says that the lady
should be allowed TO come up TO breathe
occasionally while Don Juan's Handy
( Wade Mecum of Oscillation @. li6,
l.eipAg edition. remarks. quoting Soc
rates, "nunc minis. or never TOO much.
/ The Icelanders have a proyerb. "Slobber-
+ cash igloo nonskom, but as nobody
knows what il means il doesn't matter.
/ Boston ladies have clock manufac-
ltuscd by an ingenious Yankee. which
they set at the incipiency Of the opera
ion, and which rings bil wAsn the
time is up The only trouble with this i'll
that the happy occasion often comes by
surprise ard by the time one has hunted
around and found the clock the gentle
man may have changed his notion.
There are, some who look upon kissing
Ms a SIN; and surely it has all the qualif-
cations In the FIRST place it is pleasant,
and it's poor sin That Is not agreeable
Secondly 70 IS dangerous And thirdly,
t rapidly develops into habit
Il seems 10 me- however, that it de-
Ipends on circumstances Some hundred
or So years ago. when | was youth. the
girls fought shy of me kissing in those
days was come al only by much strategy
land expert prcarication Now alas,
The young ladies KISS me and never bat
,n eye. the same as If were little
baby They give me but little pecks.
however. and notice no inclination to
inger
But. finally. cheer up, Geraldine after
You've boon married awhile you will be
ln9 longer troubled with Archibald's exu-
lberancc So worry along TIL then. and
tho problem viii settle itself.