The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-17
Concerning Kisses

4, the amount OF kissing Is OF no interes
TO the great majority OF married men
except as they are interested in an,
greater satety and peace. Most mar
| ried men hand out the daily domesti,
kiss just as they put lightning rods OF
| their houses--to avert the consequence
Of storms. And . they are in no ; DANCE,
their wives TO call for help.
The average man does all Of the
kissing In which he takes an active
personal interest In the days before
marriage. when he has TO steal kiss
or beg for one When II becomes hil
legal duty to kiss a woman every time
he comes and goes. he does It In the
same spirit IN which he pays the gro
Gerry bill. kissing has become merely
part OF matrlmony. one Of It's obliga-
tons, and he meets II like a man
Heaven knows he Is no welcher.
Why women lay such stress on being
kissed, husbands never figure out.
Neither does anybody else. No woman
could tell you, to save her life, why she
feels ill-used or neglected II her hus-
band falls to give her a 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 q test Of love.
She does. however. and II 10 fact
that woman will believe that the
makes her work to support him, loves
her devotedly II he kisses her twenty
times a day. while she will doubt the
affection OF husband who works him
self to death to indulge her In lux
urles II he happens to be . poor
Certainly nothing more alluring or
unromantic, or unsentimeptal. than the
matutinal kiss with which women In
sist on beginning the day can be Inn
a N N
soul at breakfast time. These are
organs we develop, later In. the day.
Early In the morning we are nothing
but stomach and brains and hands.
": are q ss. q e sst to W. wsrs Ar. no
thinking OF our feelings, or dwelling
upon the state Of our affections. And
we don't want TO kiss: We want our
coffee and to get busy.
And. although they don't know y.
kissing than are men. II YOU viii
notice you will observe that a woman
always turns the back OF her head or
her left ear 70 her husbands ham and
s ssss salute; She doesn't - ,s even !, take se
little heart Interest," has she IN 1t. And
no woman who wanted q kiss, or ex.
pected 70 thrill TO one. would fail to
provide the proper scenery..
Nor can we DO anything that we are
expected 20 do, and reminded Of II we
forget II. and called down for II we
don't do II. without our coming TO look
upon II as q duty. and which we loathe
because II IL q duty. Nor In there any
thing Of which we no coon become sa-
tiated as too much sweets. No candy
maker ever eats chocolate creams.
II wives would only remember these
few elementary peculiarities Of human
fttra and call OfY tbA sdailv kiaa n nd
make their other kisses few and far
apart. and something TO be sought in
stead of being thrust upon their hus-
bands, they would revive their hus-
bands interest in kissing and ocna-
sionally got kiss that has the old
time flavor.
to Kisses, anyhow. Judas betrayed his
Lord with kiss. and thousands Of men
betray women the same way every
day. For there In no such easy way 70
blind a woman as to kiHs her eyes shut.
Az n rule the more n man kisses. the