Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1890 — WHAT KISSES HAVE DONE. [ARTICLE]

WHAT KISSES HAVE DONE.

They Have Played an Important Part in : the World’s History. That a kiss "has been of importance in history we all know and that woman’s kisses have made and un- j made kingdoms.. The most famous! of kisses always seem to me that one, ; or that many,, given by the duchess of i (Gordon when she recruited an entire; regiment, the Gordon Highlanders, ' better known as the Ninety-second, py having each man take the * ‘queen’s shilling” from between her teeth, so that he had, if he wanted, a good oportunity to kiss her. It is almost unnecessary to say that the gallant laddies who. fought so well at Waterloo did not resist the charm of a lovely woman’s mouth. .However, remember the kiss in vogue and just remember this too: You will find, my dear boy, that the dearly prized kiss, Which with rapture you snatch from the half wiling: miss. Is sweeter by far than the legalized kisses You give the same girl when you’ve made her a -Mrs. This is slang, but it’s the sad, sad truth. Do you know how to kiss? asks a connoisseur in the New York Graphic. If you are a man you give a semi"BCorn futlind semi-con descen ding smile at this question and make no answer. If you are a woman you laugh a merry laugh and wonder what .kind of a kiss you are expected. to r Be acquainted With. Why, the latest, of course. And it is? For your sweetheart to stoop over you and kiss you just back of your shell-like ear. If you are wise, that is where you put a little perfume, and the cllaheJs~aire that he will kiss you not once but twice there, and tell you that kisssing you is like putting one’s lips to the heart of a great red, rose. This is natural in him, but it shows that he does not realise the difference between a kiss made perfect by art and one that is flowerlike by nature. What do I mean? That the next thing to kissing a floweris kissing a baby. You take that in your arms, you look in its clear eyes —eyes that have never been saddened by looking on anything but the pleasures of life—you put your lips to its rosebud of a mouth and then * you kiss it, and then you know that you have inhaled the perfume of a flower—the flower of the flock.