Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1910 — GO TO IT, GIRLS! [ARTICLE]

GO TO IT, GIRLS!

Kissing’s Safe and Sane, Says Chief Wiley, of Federal Bureau of Chemistry. Washington, June 28.—The proposition to abolish the gentle practice of osculation by antikissing crusades and health societies is scoffed at by those medical men of Washington who have the least grain of sentimentality left in them, and is regarded as the hugest kind of a joke. Dr. Hdrvey F. Wiley, Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, who probably knows as much about disease germs of various kinds as any other man in this country, says he.has yet to see a single instance in which life has been wrecked or shortened as a direct result of disease germs transmitted from a diseased person to a healthy one by the kissing route. Out in Cincinnati the women have-formed the World’s Health Organization, or anti-kissing league. In this month of roses and orange blossoms, wedding marches, blushing brides, and slightly agitated bridegrooms, the league is doing its utmost to abolish the time-honored custom of kissing. \'o more spooning in parks.-or darkened doorways just before good night is said, is the

edict of the society. All of which tas caused Dr. Wiley to wonder what is the matter with the (Jt’wetv City women. "jX society for the prevention of kissing," said the doctor, “is nothing less than a society for the' prevention of pleasure. Just imagine a kissless courtship! Can you contemplate a more uninteresting predicament? I certainly would like to get one peep at the members of an organization which approves of such thing. ‘W hile I long since have reared from the spooning, business, still I have memory, and whenever anyone quotes.me as saving that I believe the kissing habit should be abolished you- can put it down that I have been misquoted. . ’

“I have reached the stage where 1 ce>nfine my kissing entirely t<» relatives and babies, bit’ that is not because I feel the ill effects of disease" transmission from mouth to mouth. ‘‘Take a darkened nook on a moonlight niglH. with the beams playing, around, a couple idly swinging in a hammock; let the amti-kissing society get to work m sue'', a case, and see •■.-mid happen. It would not be i -ng befort- the pair would shift their position and find a mote secluded spot. "You can’t keep it down and .there’s no use trying, and so long S' gdod. red blood courses through the veins of the American youth, and the adults and the youth, and the adults and the aged, too. so far as that is concerned, that delightful sensation which is experienced when" lips touch and arms clasp and ‘two hearts beat as one.’ will'continue to exist.” ’ -