The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-07

NEW YORK, Jan. 7.-Ine KISS IS an enemy of longevity.
 This is the startling finding Of various distinguished scientists, who realizing that osculation has some effect on the cardic organ, set out to see just what damage the kiss really does. And their experiments included not only the long, finger ing kiss of lovers and the hurried peck of hubby jumping for the 8:15, but the effect of a movie kiss on movie fans.
 We have been repeatedly warned by bearded savants that the kiss was unsanitary, carrier of deadly germs. But did lovers heed the dire warning? Not bit of it. But per- haps they will heed the latest warning which tells of the danger to the life span when lips meet lips in a kiss of lover-like duration. Such a kiss means, according to cold, heartless science that from one to four minutes is knocked off the span of life And to back up whereof they speak, these unsenti- mental fact finders bring with them all kinds of mechanical contraptions and charts with which to prove their statements.
 Doctor A. J. Eaves, famous for his research work in the realm of electricity has submitted the kiss to the laboratory and tells with cold precision just how many kiss es knock off how many minutes of our lives. During series of exhaustive tests, he counted every heart throb that followed a kiss. And this is what he found:
 A short, snappy and perhaps slightly sentimental kiss showed itself equal to 18o second of ex- istence. Two hundred and eighty kisses take one full day of life. Reckon the rest for yourself. And the loverlike kisses Doctor Eavcs found, may count as much as from eight to ten minutes of our lives.
 Scientists the world over have also been working along the same lines. And various reports seem to indicate that men and women vary in their reaction to osculation ac- cording to their nationalities. Cou- pies from Tibet who were subjected to tests under a representative stethoscope did not react much. Their heart beats did not rise to more than ten above normal. But several Caucasian couples, under the same test, showed heart beats from 70 to 76 above normal.
 Doctor Eaves' experiments were particularly interesting. He select ed a blonde and brunette and invited 20 men to kiss them in turn while special apparatus regis tered the heart beats of the various sacrifices to the cause of science. The men selected included office workers, actors, and a gang fore man. The experiments revealed that the brunettes were far more susceptible and responsive than blondes or redheads. And the gang foreman was the winner as far as raising the heart beats was con- cerned. When he kissed the bru- nette she registered 66 above nor nal while the blonde registered only forty. And the same brunette smashed the apparatus to splinters when she was kissed by a musi- clan. And SO it is demonstrated by science that artists are danger ous, just as the novels and short stories have always claimed
 A doctor in Prague, Czechoslava- kia carried the tests still further. He hired a private box in a movie house where a Hollywood picture was being shown His tests were | made on eight boys and eight girls with an age range of from 6 to 9. They were wired to his stetho- scope. The experiment demonstrat- ed that every one of the boys and girls were stirred from to 75 heart beats above normal simply by watching Hollywood's best kiss On the screen.
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