Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1901 — Kissing and Non-Kissing Families. [ARTICLE]

Kissing and Non-Kissing Families.

The New York Sun says that kissing among relatives goes by families, and It is quite true that certain households are known to all their friends as “great kissers.” The members, men, women and children, kiss each other the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, and on any other occasion that they consider sufficiently emotional. Still one may go too far the other way. A woman who came of a kissing family married a man who came of non-kissing stock. At one time her husband went to the railway station to meet a son who had been absent from home for two years, and on his return the wife said: “What did you do when you first saw Jack? Did you kiss him?” “N-no,” faltered the husband and father, “of course I didn’t kiss him.” “I’ll tell you what he said to* me,” volunteered the son. “He said: ‘Well, Jack, was your train on time?' ”