Douglas Island news., 1919-06-20
THE CORpOVA KISS

Now that Spring has climbed out of the lap of Winter and tho sun slowly rises toward the zenith, the melting snow. the twittering Of the robins and the music of rushing waters have also awakened the spring poets. and tho papers Of the territory ure deluged with Quatrains, sonnots and madrIgals from those who have taken on their winter fam nels and dosed their systems we'll with calomel and rhubarb.
 It takes but little to bring out Che poetic side of the average Alaskan. who hears music in the clump of the snowshovcl, the smash of tho aX Into the chopping block, Che roar of the avalanche and ho eternal round of keeping the home fires burning. all conducive to poetry; and there fore the aged and worn take their pens in hand and spout like a sperm whale i'm a herring run. We have read columns of verse about almost every conceivable subject but it remains for a Cordoya pootcs3 to rip the hem on the skirts of tho Muscs over kiss. One wecnty toenty klss-maybc laden with book beer substitute from Indianapolis and disguised by the germs of twony years hirsutc facial adornment
 The bliss of Cordoya kiss is SO evident that we cannot refrain from comment after reading tho follow ing:
 But in that last mad moment
 We hrsed-our mouths were met Dear Godl I'd die a thousand deaths To kiss and finger yet!
 There have been many varieties Of kisses described by poets silco Adam ravishcd the lips of Eve and found lt good. including the kiss of friend ship. the kiss man gets from his wife upon her return from thc States after a dozen female friends have left divers and sundry germs upon her ruby lips; the kiss of your first sweetheart; the osculatory episode with the hired girl; the old maids kiss leaving a reminder of dill pick les and lemons; the kiss one pays ten cents for at a church fair; the mothcr-in-law nightmare; the kiss of the sweet young thing that leaves a taste like clover in May time, and the kiss Theda Bara left with the movies: but the Cordova brand, if accurately described, has them all beaten too bad for comparison.
 When one thinks about the oscu- latory luxuries enjoyed by the citi- zons of Cordova free gratis for noth- ing. it has the old forty-rod kils of our childhood days backed up a tree with the ladder broke. They kissed and their mouths mot" Um-m-m! It sounds good. doesn't it? IT their mouths had never met also think Of the disaster Co future generations yet unborn. If one Cordoya kiss causes a million ccstatfc desires Co crecp up your spinal column what would hap pen if a bargain lot could be secured with the war tax paid.
 We give it up. Our imagination covers a wide latitude but thc Cor dova salwation. chastc though it may be. is too exciting for man with a weak heart old ago crccps upon us and tastes have changed. Kissing at sixty is not like kissing at sweet sixteen. The trimmings arc lacking. A dose Of physic and an hours work with hoe will cure an desires for death in the Cordovau fashion and bring on the same cc- tatic symptoms.
 When that last mad moment de- scribcd in meter by the Cordoya poetcss comes Co our readers we beg them to don flu mask and seek the castor oil bottle Kissing hos its compensations and it's thrills but it takes a torrid temperament and Cor doya climate to bring out the sym chronous vibrations. Valdez Miner.
 The Seward division of the gov ornmont railroad is to receive con- siderable attention from now on. Recently two steam shovcls, thirty five cars Of equipment and fifty mon were taken from the Anchorage di-