KISSES AND EMBRACES.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2858, 1 February 1916, Page 4

KISSES AND EMBRACES.

TOMMY'S FRENCH WELCOME

f In tho early days of tho Avar, when , English troops were first landing in I'! ,, ranee, they were often greeted by their allies in the French fashion — with eager ki;*>es and embraces. An Americaji- who witnessed the debarkation of ;i troop of tall English c.a-valrjr men laughed to tearfulness —so lie renortot! ai'to-rn'ivrds —at tho speckiole of small and oxcittxl Frenchmen excitedly waving little. English Hags, and reaching up, or ac-luaHy jumping up, to peck the abashed Britons first on ono cheek and the.ii on Ihe other. Tlie viotims of the a-ffectiunato onslaught ondured it. patiently, although unhappily; occasionally a resolute suil'eror uould even rise to the point of reciprocally paUmg a French back. But no kis.se.s worw returiit'd, eveai wlien bcstewe-cl with laughing audacity "by pretty girls, dashing out of the crowd for tho purpose and runii'iiig back. Th<i only difference was Mia,!, the man-kissed dragoons looker! dazod and miserable; the girlkissed ones daw<l but complacent.

funniest sight I ever saw!" tlie American pronounced it. "And one tlia.t could qnlv haro ]iappeiiftd in