Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1881 — Kissing and Telling of It. [ARTICLE]

Kissing and Telling of It.

When the wrong man kisses the right woman or the right man kisses the wrong woman —and both sometimes happen—it does not always follow that there is a disturbance about it The world can never know how much unauthorized 1H «unng has been done and forgiven and forgotten. In the naturally wild and audacious career of the human kind there is a great deal of that sort of business, and it is just as well that It is not cruelly dragged before the public on every occasion. If that were always done it would be very discouraging to a reasonably delightful pastime which more or less concerns everybody. Many of the cares and trials of this world find relief in a kiss; it is a very little thing, uncommonly sweet for its size, and one of the few luxuries of this world which well organized people never get too much of. Nobody who understands even the rudiments of kissing disdains its practice, and those who have been so fortunate as to reach something of the scienoe of the thing are not easily restrained in their pursuit of supreme happiness. A kiss doesn’t cost anything, and it’s a pretty small matter to make a disturbance about, and most people will endure a great deal of kissing without getting angry about it and regardingdt as a misfortune to make public complaint. Now and then, however, human nature is put to an awful test in this way, and human nature breaks down. ' A man may not be so particular about putting his kisses where they will do the most good; the chief aim of man/is to get the kiss, and he is frequently too hasty and too reckless about it. But a woman is apt to be a little more considerate in her preferences. There was an Illinois woman, now, who had a prejudice against being kissed by a tailor—possibly because the other eight parts of the man were not around —although the tailor was perfectly free to say that he had no prejudice against kissing the lady. He regarded her as Bweet enough to kiss and frankly told her so. There are some cold, proud women who in some unaccoutable way have got into this world who would not be affected by any such talk, but the number of these is very, very few. Whether the Illinois woman was one of this rare kind or not is still a matter of dispute. It is also undecided whether she told the tailor he was a handsome man; she insists that, being a truthful woman, she could not have done so conscientiously, while he takes the opEosite side of the question. There is, owever, no controversy about the one point that he did kiss her, and after all this is the most important thing. It is not certain just what was the matter with this kiss—whether it was not up to the standard or whether there may not be something peculiar about a tailor’s kiss. But it is certain that the lady didn’t lose much time in telling her husband about it, and the husband lost no time in horse-whipping the tailor for doing just what be had doubtless himself done a thousand'times. In this way the matter became tfie property of the public, for the tailor proceeded against the husband for assault. Such a course is as strange as it is unusual, and if allowed to go on unrebnked must inevitably cut a tailor off from nkny of the good things of this world.— lfhil. Times.