A WOMAN'S IDEA OF CONVENTIONAL KISSING.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1891, Page 4

A WOMAN'S IDEA OF CONVENTIONAL KISSING.

Persons who are decidedly averse to formal kissing are more apt to carry it to extremes than those who are not. They have so worked up their minds to the highest pitch of endurance that they insist, as a matter of course, upon kissing everyone who come 3 -within their reach. To such an extent do Eomepeople — generally gushing school-girls— carry the'business, that we see them kissing each other on the streets, or m the stores before the clerks. Nothing could be m worse taste, and it ought to-be prohibited by law. There are others who have made such a habit of it that I actually believe it has become necessary to their very existence to keep up an ' oscillatory fire from morning till night. I have seen people who m reality cared nothing for each other keep up the performance at intervals during an entire evening. If they did but know how ridiculous it looks to non-participants they would be apt to £y into the opposite extreme. I think some girls have an idea that it is tantalising to a man to see them kiss half a dozen friends of their own sex promiscuously. But I will venture to say that they are mistaiten. It is only apt to provoke ridicule, but; if I were m the man's place, I should care very little about kissing a girl who had made the subject so merely a matter of form that she would hardly be able to discriminate between one kind of kissing and another. The following is understood to be the language of kissing : If a man puts his arms around a woman like a bear, and stops her breath when he kisses her, they are not married, but. are -likely to be. If he puts his hands on her shoulders, leans forward a little, snatches the prize and falls back, they have been married two weeks. If he comes np with his hands m his pockets, looks out of the window, says, "Well, good-bye," gives her a tasteless smack, and rushes off, they have been married two years, and life is a desert. ■ - — , — &— —