The Art of Kissing.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXV, Issue 4253, 29 June 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Art of Kissing.

Osculation Considered in the Light, of a Professional Science* 1 . Is kissing an art 1 Is there any geienoe in osculation ? There certainly is. There is just aa much art in administering a kiss as there is ia dressing with taste or writing an eseay. \ It ifl not every kiss that ia aooeptable, nor! every attempt that merits commendation. There are grades of biaeere, just as there ate grades of preachers cr painters. There was a time when kisses were administered upon the baok of the fair ladj's hand. The hand was ohosen because the faoe was bo painted and powdered that a kiss would sadly impair the beauty of the faoial enstmble. Bat the hands then were probably kept whiter than they are now. j A hand-kiss at best iB a barren ideality, and the hand would have to be attractive in its oleanlineas in order to be kiseable. Finallyj the hand took a back seat, and the lips, which! nature fashioned to be kissed, oame to the. front. 1 There was an art in bestowing a kias on a lady's band. It had to be done daintily, delioately, considerately and solemnly in order! that the fall effoet should be realised. lij there waa art in this, how much more neoes-i sity is there for artistio performance where! the lips are oonoerned 1 Look at two women) kissing. There is plenty innocent im-i petuosity in the aot but not tnnoh set. They! rush togeeher like two approaobing looomo-' tives and if there is not a peroUgeion equal in noise to the explosion of boiler*, there ia, enough to let the bystanders know thatj there has been some unusual performance. The genuine art of kissing it realised in its fall perfection where members of tha opposite! sexes are oonoerned. But there are fewoq men than women who know how to kiss pro-! perly. j Most men want delicacy, or if 70a please, idyllic tenderness in seoaring the delectable prize. They rash at the goal of their desires in a blundering way, like a tiger which gathers itself together and strains all ita muscles in one jump in order to overpowei its prey. There is no finish in a kias ao administered. It iB apt to be offensive, because it ia ao clumsy. A kiss to be perfect should be be. stowed deliberately and oaref ally and reverently, with somewhat of the same caution that a man would show if he were to walk among a lot of egga without injuring any ol them. I There ia nothing in the world that ia eap< able of mob. nice finish and sentiment aa an artiatio kiss. Bat heaven preserve the fail sex from the man who Itisaea them aa if ha were a aandbaggex and the the objeot to b« sandbagged. DTin'a charges for re-coloring old garment* should be bo maob per dye«'em. Tnc oomedianwho aima to pleaae deiertu