A "KISSINR LIMP."

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6120, 5 March 1898, Page 7

A "KISSINR LIMP."

The idea of establishing a " kisaing line " on piers to keep enthusiastic incoming passengers and their equally demon* strative friends from meeting for prolonged embraces before the baggage-lias been aisposedof was recently discussed by New York Customs officials. They have complained for some time thatrthetr workflow enough in the best of circumstances, is greatly hampered by the hundreds of kissing couples, whose greetings seem never to end. To remedy thiß they suggest that a line be established on the piers; which shall hem in arriving passengers until their baggage has been passed, and which shall keep their friends out. The officials did not say whether they would cause the arrest of any young man who might so far forget himself in his eagerness to greet a returning 'friend of his Bister as to jump the line and kisß the passenger beforethe word was given. They think, however, thatisuch cases can be provided for by a little discrimination. One custom house man says that on the arrival of the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse an old maid who hadn't anyone else to kiss pretended she knew him, and, grabbing him up, embraced him before he could protect himself. The-offlcials assert that frequently persons who^itis supposed, are embracing each other, are .really transferring smuggled goods to each other's pockets.