THE KISSING FEVER.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 131, 29 November 1902, Page 10 (Supplement)

THE KISSING FEVER.

American women have most deservedly earned a reputation for kissing any and every hero that comas in their way. The latest idol or victim has been a jockey named BreabßpJL He is only nine years old. weighs 54ilb, and is probably the yonngesfc jockey in the v. or!d. As he brought his horse home a winner, he was immediately surrounded afc the- post by hundreds of 1 wram«>n. It was some time "before he coi;ld be rescued from their embraces, aivd when released he cairfided to admiral's of his own sex that it ■was enough to sicken a fellow for life ol winning if he was to be treated like a blooaiing baby. Tho ladies of Brooklyn, ho'.rever, have gone even fiutber in their oscillatory attentions, the recipient in their c:;se being " Phroso," the wonderful mechanical doll, who has made so much money for his inventor, tiis Brooklyn admirers lmgjred him, and declared' h m to be Hindi nicer than a real man. At St. Louis he was also kissed, but had to suffer having hat-pins djivc-n into the calf of his leg, to see is he is as not flesh and blood. One lady fainted in his presence, and when brought to declared him to bs the embalmed corpse of her defunct husband. Phro?o's proprietor had some difllcully in convincing her of her mistake.