Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-14
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
CONCERNING KISSES
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
Copyright. 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate Inc.)

IN HE other day a woman applied
to the court for an order re-
straining her husband from
kissing her so often. She said
that he kissed her 300 times dav
and she was fed up on kisses, and
satisfied with demons STATIONS of af-
lection, and desired surcease Of
them.
Women are queer creatures, and
there is no satisfying Them" sighed
the magistrate as he signed an in
junction against the overly affec-
tionate husband, most women who
come to this court corr palm tina T
they are not kissed enough, and
want the law to make their hus-
bands kiss them oftener"
And there you are, up against one
Of the biggest problems of matr1-
mony, which is to fix the proper
number of kisses which should con-
household, and preserve the nice bal
ance which makes kisses plentiful
enough and yet keeps them in the
sWeetmeat class.
For, alas, we have no Sentimental
Hoover to ration kisses, and tell us
just how many per diem constitute
romantic profiteering, or how few
will starve affection to death, or
just what amount of OSCILLATION u
requires to keep a Woman's heary
nourished without it's cloying on her
palate, and making her cry out with
Solomon: Feed me on apples. Stay
me with flaggons, for I am sick of
love-"
Of course, this attempt to regulate
the amount of kissing is of no in
terest to the great majority of mar
ried men, except as they are inter-
ested in any protective measure for
their own greater safety and peace
Most married men hand out the daily
domestic kiss just as they put light
ming rods on their houses-to aver
the consequences of storms And
they are in no danger whatever OF
overriding it, Or forcing their wives
to call for help.
The average man does all of the
kissing in which he takes an active
fore marriage when he has to steal
kiss or beg for one. When it be-
comes his legal duty to kiss a
woman every time he comes and
goes, he does it in the Same spirit
IN which, he pays the grocery bill
Of matcimony, one of it's obliga-
tons, and he meets it like a man
Heaven knows he isrno welcher.
Why women lay such stress On be-
ing kissed husbands never figure out
Neither does anybody else. No WON
| an could tell you, to save her life
why she feels il1-used or neglected
If her husband fails to give her q
peck on the cheek when he starts
forth to business Of morning. Still
less does she know why she makes
the number of his kisses a test OF
love-
She does, however, and it is a fact
that woman will believe that the
| man who beats and starves her. and
makes her work to support him
| loves her deVotedly if he kisses her
twenty times a day, while she will
doubt the affection of a husband who
works himself to death to indulge
| her in IuXuries if he happens to be
| a poor kisser.
Certainly nothing more unromantic
or unsentimental than the matutinal
kiss with which women insist On be-
ginning the day can be imagined
| For nobody has a heart or a soul al
| breakfast time. These are organs we
| develop later in the day. Early. in
| the morning we are nothing but
stomach and brains and hands.
We are eager to get to work. We
are full of plans of action. We are
rot thinking of our feelings, or dwell.
| ing upon the state of our affections
And we dc MT want to kiss; we want
our coffee and to get busy.
And, although they don't know it.
women are no more in the mood fol
kissing than are men. If you will
notice, you will observe that a WON
an always turns the back of her
head, or her left ear to her hus-
bands ham-and-eggs salute. She