The Topeka state journal., 1919-06-21
GIRLS IN ARMS! COLD COINS RARE
They Resent All Insnuatons Few of Them Are Found in
About Their kissing. Circulation Days.
Topeka Lases Nothing Before Long Gold Piece NAV
To Learn From French. Be Real Novelty.
CRITlClSE JOURNAL REPORTER ONCE they WERE PLENTIFUL
Think He Must Used Them Pref
Lot in France. to Poker Chips.
Jay House Quoted Authority Responsible for
Oscillation. Their Disappearance.
They Resent All Insinuations
About Their kissing.
Topeka Lassies Have Nothing
To Learn From French.
GRITICISE JOURNAL REPORTER
Think He Must Have Learned
a Lot in France.
Jay House Quoted as Authority
on Oscillation.

"Oh. girls. did you read that story
in this State Journal last week about
how wonderfully the French girls
could kiss. 1t was written by a re-
porter Just back from France. He
must have kissed a lot of girls. They
don't learn without practice, you
know"
1t was around a booth in an ice
cream parlor they were gathered. Four
of them. Tres chic? Oui. monsieur.
From the tips of their stylish little
boots to their dainty, alIuring heads.
Tres chic? Well boy howdy. I'll say
so. To look at any one Of them was
to know why 1t was impossible to keep
Topeka's young white way moths at
home cutting the front yard.
She was a sweet. baby faced, blonde
haired, blue eyed little doll that spoke
and thus announced herself. And lips
there may never be another pair like
them. Rich, full, with Just enough
strength and just a touch of a faint,
elusive suggestiveness of yielding to
render them truly a fascination. OF
a crimson hue-weil comparable to no
red rose that ever bIoomed, regardless
of the attitude taken by many poets.
on boy. they breathed life itself. One
would almost have given up a chance
at eternal salvation to kiss them just
once. To have done so might have
been disillusionment - perhaps-but
who can say.
Another spoke then. A soft voiced
girl Dreamy dark eyes. without the
snap and sparkle of the blue pair. but
full with a glowing luster, irresistible
in a sort of mysterious fascination.
They cleaned brightly an instant. then
a soft cloud of thoughtfulness seemed
to envelop them. Man-but EOu en-
WED the cause of that sort of glow.
Once in a thousand years-and all
that sort of thing. you know.
Has Not Kissed Much?
II guess this newspaper man has
not kissed many Topeka girls l won
der where he has been all his life.
I've known a soldier or two in my
young life and they didn't need to go
to France to learn to kiss" Then
with a half-confused. half-proud air
she said. And I've kissed a soldier
who has been in France, too. He has
never complained of my kisses.
think he likes them. When he sees
me It is the first thing he wants and
when he leaves me-Ooo-la-la, we
never think of timing them. wouldn't
st take all the joy out of any kiss if
you held a stop watch on it, Fancy
that why the noise of it's ticking
would spoil it all besides giving you
something to think about. Further
than that he has never suggested that
! take any lessons from French girls"
Yes" from another fair charm
er. Il expect you're right. That news
paper man must be what the boys say
with a faint smile they never explain.
JGst S. o. L. Of course that means
Soldier Out Luck"
well. from his, story" chimed in
the fourth dainty belle. - should say
- lacks the ready tongue. You
l.now you can't please any girl If you
tell her only the disagreeable things
about yourself, whether they are true
nre not. / don't care If they do love
~
- be told about 1t. So when you tell
a lot of girls how much the French
maidens have on them-well-can
you expect any enthusiastic kiss. or
even any kiss at ALL
French Teeth Discussed.
my soldier says" another broke n.
the dark eyed one, that he cannot
understand why any soldier would
want to kiss the French girls for their
teeth are not clean. They are dis
co.ured and don't look nice
But you don't kiss their teetn.
Yes. it did appear that he never
experienced a long sweet kiss until he
went TO France. He just didn't under@
stand all he ought to know. Maybe in
France the girls do rush into a mad
embrace and make the first one a
big long visit. Perhaps Perhaps
not. Still IN American girl would pre-
fer FEW preliminaries If you waste
tue one at llTSL WITHOUT get
ting in the right mood for it there
isn't anything else to do. Then little
ones pail on you. 4 They have lost all
their attractiveness. Save the big
ones until they earn them"
Suppose the boys did kiss a few
French girls while they were in
France. That was all right. 1t was
just to keep in pra actice. But I am
willing to bet that none of them
learned much from the mademoiselles
Rltho this boy speaks so yauntingly
of them"
Boys are different from girls.
They have to learn to kiss" she was
some little philosopher who pulled