The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14
Kansas Girls Are Now Getting
Them Frequently.
Art of French Oscillation
Brought Back by Heroes.
MADEMOISELLE'S LIPS LINGER
Five-Sixths of $4,000 Returned
Soldiers Know Secret.
San FARRELL Estimates 5,55O,00O
Sweetheart Deliveries.
BY SAN FARRELL.

This article is for the exclusive use
OF the Kansas girls who have been
kissed by the soldiers just back from
France. It's a tip to them, and I'M
less you come under that class, turn
over a page or two and read the golf
column. or concentrate on the market
reports. 1t is estimated that the
10000 or more A. K. F. men who have
returned to the sunflower state have
warmly embraced at least 100, 900 OF
their kansas sweethearts.
1t would be impossible to figure
how many times these 100000 girls
have been kissed by their $4,000
sweethearts and husbands. The old
american system Of kisses permitted
them to be of one minutes duration
the trip hammer method. Now we
have the cistern pump method. be-
cause il is believed that $4,000. of the
heroes kiss a la Paris now. These
kisses last at least fifteen minutes.
Some more. Some less.
A well known authority on oscula-
tion, in Topeka and in France, esti-
mates that Kansas girls in the past
two months have received 5,55O,OOO
French kisses and less than a million
American kisses. This is in the face
OF the fact that the American type,
like a machine gun, is a rapid fire
kind. while the French is slow and
methodical. like the 1856 howitzer.
4 question that has arisen in many
minds is this: What did the boys
learn from the mademoiselles?
kissing a French Art.
In France. the kiss is more than
greeting. or an expression of love. 1t
is an art. one might almost say that
the French kiss is an institution.
When the mademoiselle kisses a
young man, there is no doubt in the
mind Of the recipient that he is being
kissed 1t is apparent, on the face
of II. or him, rather.
Occasionally a Yank would find the
opportunity. if he were so inclined. to
experience one of the osculatory feats
of a French damsel When he did
this. he learned much. And now. has
he. in turn, kissed his Kansas sweet
heart a la Paris? or was he wise
enough to let well enough alone, and
embrace the girl iof his heart in the
simpler and probably just as affec-
tionate old fashioned embrace?
That is something that only the
girls permitted to read this story can
say. II their sweethearts' kisses are
improved to such an extent as to be
roticea BILE. then it is a fact that some
thing must have happened over there
to cause the change.
The French embrace, as explained
by some of the daring Yanks of the
35th and seth divisions, is something
very hard to describe in adequate
terms. Its duration is longer than
that permitted on the screen by the
movie censor. To witness one would
cause the advocate of gauze or hand
kerchief kissing to wiring his hands
in despair. The mademoiselle kiss
cannot be properly put in words; it
can only he done. in order that any
one can obtain a full appreciation of
its value and unquestioned sweetness.
How To Get Tab on EN-.
II your sweetheart has brought
home TO you kiss of ethereal lowell
ness a vast improvement over the
one he babe you goodby with, then
il is a ten to one shot that he was
taught the new method of OSCILLATION
by rosy lass of Nice, or Clermont-
Ferrand. or Nancy, or some other city
in France famed for it's pretty and
quite kissable mademoiselles. If he
Crasps you, the sweet, bounteous,
blushing bunch of femininity that you
are. and fervently kisses you as he
never did before. then you have the
right to ask him whether her name
is Henrietta or Marie. It probably is
Marie. Most OF them are named
Marie-the kissable type.
No lasting impression remains in
the mind Of the Yank, because he
never was matrimonially inclined
when the mademoiselles were around.
But he did catch onto one or two of
their coy and artistic little tricks. and
the kiss la Paris is one of them.
Those for whom this story is writ
ten will understand now what the
French kiss is like. They have either
had them wished off on them .wheR
the boys came home, or they have
not experienced them. II the dis
charged soldier kisses you the same
as ever. a warm. affectionate en-
brace. tits true. then. all was well in
the land across the sea. But If he
introduces something new while seat
ed on the porch swing. well-thats a
different story altogether
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