The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-02

Listen. girls,
Did you read that story in the papers
about a Boston man who had kissed
a girl. 10 whom he had been engaged.
every day for twenty-five years, and
then deserted her and married a girl
whom he had never kissed at all?
OF course he did. It's human ma
ture, and especially Is 1t masculine ma
ture, to get weary OF the things we
have and know too well, and yearn
for the thing that we haven't got and
that we have to struggle TO get.
This man who had kissed the girl
every day for twenty-five years had
sampled every possible variety OF kisses
that she carried In stock, The cling
ing kiss, the rapturous kiss, the wet
salt tear kiss, the ~perfunctory kiss,
tho kiss Of forgiveness, the welcome
kiss, the goodbye kiss. the ham
4 K kiss. He had tasted them all and
they had cloyed on his palate.
What he craVed was q kiss with a
brand new flavor. something novel,
piquante, with a thrill TO 1t, and he
married the girl who made a wedding
ring the price OF such a kiss Instead
Of handing ii over the counter free,
gratis, for nothing
There's food for thought In this little
story OF the Boston man and his Tilted
sweetheart, girls, and II has, a moral
that each Of you will do well to lay
to heart. And the moral Ia this:
Every man takes a girl at her own
valuation, and then some, II she holds
herself high. he regards her as some
thing vary f1FarinDg and to he va Aimed
and treated accordingly, But II she
holds herself cheaply he discounts her
valuation and holds her more cheaply
still, and his conduct toward her is
colored by the contempt that We all
feel for a common article.
You see. men know that they have
no tests and measures by which to tell
the worth Of a woman, but they think
that the woman herself must know
what she Is worth, and 30 they accept
the price tag she writes for herself on
ita face.
This Is why, quite aside from any
sense Of deltcacy or modesty, q girl is
foolish TO permit any familiarities from
men, BY doing so she takes herself
out of the fine, desirable, Just beyond
reach class and puts herself down in
the commonplace, every day, ordinary,
take-me-or- cave me = as . you = please
class. And We all know which class
llltFA 9 w 'bl AnAhNANHF
Also the girl who permits familiart-
ties from men shows hat she does not
know how to play the game. h ig-
, nores the basic fact that I'M IL born
a huntsmau and that the harder his
quarry Is to catch the more ardently
does he pursue 1t, There isn't a man
living who wouldn't rather risk his neck
climbing Il tree to get the peach that
hangs highest on 1t than to eat the
one that falls into his mouth,
Nor Ia there a man who wants to
kiss the girl whose mouth Is always
pursed up into kissing shape, and who
cuddlcs into his arms If he SO much as
crooks his elbow The girl he dreams
about kissing and folding to his boat
ing heart In the aloof, cold maiden who
Is holding herself sacred for the one
Man, and whose first kiss will be a
sacrament to love,
II In a pity that women have never
realized that things are valuable SEN
timentally just as they are practically,
according to their scarcity, II dia-
monds were as plentiful as pebbles on
the seashore we should make roads OF
them instead Of wearing them as neck
laces n rings,
fact that the fewer endearments they
lavished on men the more valuable
they became In mems eyes, and that
the more that they made men pay fot
thom the more eager men would he
to raise the price, w should have
fewer sad tales Of young women mourn
ing faithless lovers who have kissed
and ridden away, and fewer Tilted la
dies would ho calling on the courts tc
collect a debt from Cupid that they
had not wit enough to collcct them
selves.
For Il Is, %uuhappty, only too true
that men have not the Unsuitable appe'
title for sweets that wonen have, 4
woman can cat candy all day long ant
still ask for more, and she can Thrill
at the ten thousandth kiss Just q,
much as abe did at the first, But aftel
a very few chocolate creams a man
stomach cries Out for pickles or sauer
kraut, something to break the ever
lasting monotony OF the sweet. Like
wise kisses send no warm and col,
ohtlls down his spine after the thirt
or fourth,
II follows naturally, therefore, tina
the man who has been fed up on love
and satiated with kisses before mar
rtaEe, looks forward with no keen rel
ish to HIS wedding day and u continu
anCe of the sacchariue diet that ha
already palled upon him, and for white
he has no further appetite, Rather h
wants to break over the fence int
frcsher fields and pastures of new re
nance,
This IL why the long engagement
invariably a disaster for the woman
The man becomes tired OF a girls ktsse
and weary of her love even befor
marriage, lust knowing that she
waiting for him and hat he can hay
her any old day he chooses to nam,
and that In the end he IL doomed
marry her, takes all the thrill and n
lurement out Of matrimony and max,