Miscellaneous

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 54, 16 October 1886, Page 4

Miscellaneous

The "Rer. I. H. B. Fenron, rentnr of Norton i it- the Moors, near Stoke-on-Trent, thus writes to a London paper upon th«* subject of •' kis.s-in the ring" : —We aave no hesitation in saying that tin* is a most objectionable pastime, in fuel it passes our understanding how any mode*: DiHiilen can allow boy «r mnn to cmc and ki*K her as part of a game, it i* a sort of familiarity which. ought to be nipped in the bud. We always imagined there was something sacred in a kiss, bui such kuses as we witnessed, at ike Ladies Mnb Festival struck us as being simply disgusting. We unhesitatingly exclude bII such games as ''kiss^in-tue-ring" from the, list of what ia permissible to modest self .respecting Christian men and woman. It is stated that quite a sensation has been; ? caused in political and clerical circle* by the publication of a pamphlet by the \rchbishop of Bordeaux, and entitled •• The Social and Religious Future of Democracy/* It is an eloquent exposition and earnest defence of deinoratic principles. Democracy the prelate declares to be an irresistible movement which nothing can arrest. It. will leave no room for despotisms, and in the near future government for the people by the people will be the universal rule. He proriounces the political tendencies of modern society to be Providential, and prophesies that in a few years democratic principles will hare made the tour of the world, and will raise downtrodden races to tite level of their already enfranchised brethren. 'Mbnseigneur Guilbert re-i-njimses democracy as* the twin sister of Christianity, whose virtues it most practice in' order that its ascendancy may be beneficent and durable.