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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue VIII, 14 August 1897, Page 232

The ancients counted three kinds of kisses—Basis, that between friends and relatives ; Oscula, the kiss of veneration ; Snavia, the kiss proper—that between lovers. The monks of the Middle Ages—great theorists —divided the kiss into fifteen distinct and separate orders :—I, the decorous, or modest kiss; a, the diplomatic, or kiss of policy ; 3, the spying kiss, to ascertain if a woman has drunken wine ;4, the slave kiss; 5, the kiss infamous—a church penance ; 6, the slipper kiss, practised towards tyrants; 7, the judicial kiss ;8, the feudal kiss ;9, the religious kiss (kissing the cross); 10, the academical kiss (on joining a solemn brotherhood); 11, the hand kiss ; 12, the Judas kiss ; 13, the medical kiss—for the purpose of healing some sickness; 14. the kiss of etiquette ; 15, the kiss of love —the only real kiss. Oliver Wendell Holmes calls a kiss * a lisping consonant.* He might have added that it generally follows a-vowel ! Jesters sometimes pay dearly for their jokes. One, at Home, who frightened a married woman into fits by telling her that her husband had been severely injured in a railroad accident has had to pay /’loo for his fun. ONE BOX OF CLARKE’S B « PILLS is warranted to cure all discharges from the Urinary Organs, in either sex. 3rave!, and Pains in the Back. Guaranteed free from Mercury. Sold in boxes. 4s 6d each, by all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors. Sole Proprietors Tsx Lnrcout asd Midij.xd Cocsnia Dace Co., Lincoln, England.