The Washington times., 1920-06-26
STOLEN KISSES
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"If a fellow hasn't got sense enough
TO fnd out in advance whether girl
wants to be kissed he ought to bsve
To pay. or course the price he should
pay depends on how much he's worth
and how pretty the girl II, But III
say that no man has right to KISS
girl II she doesn't want to be kissed.
In reply to the question: But don't
you think all girls want to be kiss
ed?" DR.. SVEN said: "fm afraid j
couldn't commit myself on that sub
ject. ! haven't got the nerve"
DEFENDS ON TINE AND PLACE.
A stenographer In the Munsey
Building says that II depends entirely
on the time and the place.
"Of course a kiss stolen In an Of
fice, say, while a girl was trying to
transcribe a flock of pot hooks and
dashes, would be worth more than a
kiss stolen while canoeing on the Po-
tomac on a moonlight evening. There
are kisses and kisses, you know
Mary Fuller-you know Mary, of
the curls and the movies-says that
a stolen kiss may be worth every
thing or nothing.
"A stolen kiss" she says. with just
the proper intonation. 1T may be
worth everything, the riches of the
world. empires. lives of thousands.
or worth nothing. r-
Wasn't 1t Cleopatra's kiss, stolen
from Marc Antony while he was on a
weekend visit to Egypt. away from
friend wife, that caused the fall OF q
dynasty?
KISSES HAVE MADE HISTORY.
"And there Is the famous case Of
Aga.nemnon versus Paris-all on ac-
count of Helen's stolen sweets. Juliet,
Mary Stuart, In fact all the ladies
who have figured extensively in our
historical gazettes-when they are
all simmered down. doesn't history
in great measure rest on stolen
kisses: ..a ..-..- ..-.
"And the price? What worth to put
on ity Well. ii. is as / have said--all
according to the viewpoint of the in
dividual. You know, there are all
kinds of people-those who do what
they want to when they want; those
who live by the compass Of con-
science, or figure out their conduct
for what 1t will bring them, in other
words, calculating two-plus-two-
equals-four kind of people: and those
who vacillate between these two
policies.
EACH MUST DECIDE FOR SELF.
"The first kind live by the heart
and get the most out of life, but
usually paying well-perhaps too
dearly. The second class live by the
head and content themselves with
well ordered happiness or a negative
content. The third class hold a falter-
ing course between these two policies.
swayed between delight and, fear,
hoping to get something for nothing,
but always paving in the end, 1t Ia
for eaach one to decide for himself
what his or her course will be.
''0f course the stolen kiss theory
can be argued from each standpoint,
for and against, voluminously. Life
Is short and in the end, to sum up the
worth while moments of life, are they
not mostly those, Humorous inebria-
tions of love-ever youthful. ever
beautiful?
EROS IS A USURER.
"On the other hand, our estimable,
outstanding historical figures of men
of unimpeachable character, are they
not the bone and sinew of a higher
and freer life? After all. our existence
is so transient: we are like snow
flakes, here today, tomorrow melted,
gone--nothing but a memory. And we
can make that memory sweet and
pure and lasting as lavender, IL we
win.
"But. you see, that's the equation
reduced to the root-whether to drink
the cup of life to the full, joy or sor-
row, come what will. like a full-fla-
vored god of Olympus--or whether to
live by the rule OF conscience and
weighing of results. without the