COMPULSORY KISING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XV, Issue 5173, 15 June 1878, Page 6

COMPULSORY KISING.

Everybody in Paraguay smokes, and every female above the age of thirteen, chews. I am wrong. I hey do not chew, but put tobacco in L':eir mouths, keep it there constantly, except when eating, and instead of chewing it, roll it about and suck it. Only imagine yourself about to salute the red lips of a magnificent little Hebe, arrayed iu satin and flashing with diamonds, as she puts you back with one delicate hand, while with the other she draws forth from her mouth a brownish black roll of tobacco two inches long, looking more like a monster grub, aud then depositing the savory lozenge on the brim of your sombrero, puts up her face and is ready for a salute. I have sometimes seen an over delicate foreigner turn away with a shudder of loathing under such circumstances, aud get the epithet of "savage" applied to him by the beauty for his sensitive squeamishness. However, one soon gets used to this in Paraguay, where you are, preforce of custom, obliged to kiss every girl you are introduced to, arid one-half you meet are really tempting enough to render you regardless of the consequences, und you would sip the dew of the profcrred lip iu the face of a tobaccofactory—even in the double-distilled honeydew of old Virginia.