SCOTTISH KISSES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 579, 8 October 1932, Page 15

SCOTTISH KISSES.

The Different Varieties Classified. “BOOM LIKE A GUN.” LONDON, September 20. Despite his 92 years, Australia might engage Sir James Crichton-Browne, vice-president and treasurer of the Royal Institution since 1899, scientifically to classify its kisses, in view of his definition of British osculations. In a book of reminiscences he says: Glasgow’s kisses are sound and satisfying; Edinburgh’s short, crisp and airy; Dundee’s resonant, and Aberdeen's are like the boom of a gun.” Scottish lassies generally agree as to the Dundeeites, admitting” that recently a millgirl’s sweetheart, charged with a breach of the peace, pathetically pleaded that he was merely kissing. It is also alleged that when migrants are leaving Dundee the reverberations of their kisses drown the engine’s whistle. Aberdeen agrees that the local kisses go off with a pop; nevertheless, they are sweet and lovely, because they are genuine and sincere. Glasgow girls are delighted with Sir James’s tribute. Although they do not distribute their favours freely, they say, a kiss of real affection is certainly satisfying. But Edinburgh's maidens declare that when Sir James was collecting local colour he must have played postman’s knock too nervously. Edinburgh’s kisses, they assert, are infinite ,n variety, and very few are “ short, crisp and airy.”