Omaha daily bee., 1920-11-29
Kiss Dissected
And Weighed by
French Savant
Scientist Concludes That Per.
sons Osculate on Lips From
Habit; Same Sensations
Obtained Elsewhere.
BY Universal Service.

Paris, Nov. 2s--The kiss has been
discovered.
In S3-page treatise just printed
i'll La Marcurc, fweightiost and most
solemn OF French reviews, Prof.
AdoVard Halespine. one OF Frances
most learned savants, describes,
analyzes and disSects the kiss i'll all
its phases. He even weighs it.
nj the latter effort he arrives at
the astonishing conclusion that per
sons kiss on the lips from force OF
habit and not because the lips are
the most sensitive part Of the human
body.
\ Weighs Kiss On Body.
q excite the same sensations, he
aftIrms. it is necessary to impress a
kiss equal to the weight of two mil
hgfams on the forehead, temples,
nose and cheeks, three milligrams
on the palm of the hand, five milli-
grams on the lips, eyelids or stom-
ach and IS milligrams on the palm
OF the index finger.
"In the white race he continues,
the kiss is above all achieved by
touch and its characters may be
sexual or social. But with the yel-
low peoples the kiss has strictly a
Specification of voluptuous nature
and is formed by ohactive impress
sions. The Mongoiians do not
ksow either the kiss Of friendship or
of politcness. With them the kiss is
reserved to lovers, TO fiances or man
and wife
DR.. Maiespine approaches his sub
jcct with the assertion that kissing
is not fundamentally natural act
but an acquired art. .
MANY persons think that kissing
is habit in vogue throughout the
world. Hut not only are there
countries where the kiss is un-
known, but there arc many more
where it is of a totally different
form to our own" he writes.
After asking what a kiss really is,
the professor answers himself:
THE kiss" he says, is the union
Of two lips with simultaneously a
myriad of sentiments and sensa-
tions--love, desire, fear, respect
purity, abandonment. n !.
"The centuries have modified and
petritied the. soul of men, And al
though in our day one judges a peo-
pies degree of culture by their kiss
ing and the kiss has become the mir
ror of society, it remains in The last
analysis plain Sbarbarous, nature seek
ing to satisfy the brutality and
violence of it's desires" .J..
DR.. Malcspine proceeds to analyze
The psycho-physiology OF the kiss:
Under the subhead of "the elements"
he states that "the kiss is the first
carnal manifestation of love. The
passionate look is nothing but desire:
The handshake is full of reserve, of
constraint, or full of hope. The kiss
is simply another and more exquisite
manifestation of the sense of touch
than the handshake. And it is from
the sense of touch that. all ouf other
senses are derived"
Kiss Must Be Hot.
According to the professor, askiss
can be very disagreeable if it is cold.
Ones lips should be warm, he as
serts, to get the full value Of the SEN
sations. AT the same time he ad-
mits that Charicles and Pygmalion
apparentlygot lot out OF their pas
sionate kissing Of marble statue.
After 10 pages of learned discus
sion on whether anyone without
sense of taste could hope to derive
pleasure from kissingthe savant pro-
cceds to the assertion that kissing is
an acquired habit because no newly
born babe understands anything
about it.
Prof. Maiespine closes his disser-
tation by a reference TO Wares
"Kissi.g-the Science" wherein the
Virginian campaigns for the prohi-
bition of the kiss between tubercu-
lars. al.
"Despite all rules, despite all dam
gers, the kiss will persist and form
a part of our very nature" ne con-
cludes. Society models and modi-
iies it. but its source is profounder
than our being. 1t is one OF those
instructive gestures, mysterious like
our life and our soul"