Category: Poetry
ORIGIN OF KISSING; THE SCANDINAVIAN TRADITION; AN OLD POET’S IDEA—KISSING IN ANCIENT ROME, AND AMONG THE JEWS AND EARLY CHRISTIANS—BIBLICAL KISSING—RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE—KISSING IN EARLY ENGLAND—ANCIENT KISSING CUSTOMS AS DESCRIBED BY ERASMUS—THE PURITANICAL VIEWS OF JOHN BUN...
There is a certain gluttony of kissing of which many examples might be given. There was once a jovial vicar who was such a glutton for kisses, that when he obtained the wished-f...
2. Part 2Of course hugging is often a legitimate part of kissing. A Western writer has given us a humorous account of the dangers of hugging. He claims that hugging is a comparatively mo...
4. Part 4There is the pleasing punishment of a kiss. In an anonymous poem, a lover tells what he would do to his sweetheart if she offended him; he would whip her with a feather, give he...
3. Part 3The laws of husking every wight can tell, And sure no laws he ever keeps so well; For each red ear a general kiss he gains, With each smut ear he smuts the luckless swains; But...
1. Part 1ORIGIN OF KISSING; THE SCANDINAVIAN TRADITION; AN OLD POET’S IDEA—KISSING IN ANCIENT ROME, AND AMONG THE JEWS AND EARLY CHRISTIANS—BIBLICAL KISSING—RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE—KISSIN...
6. Part 6When we write an advertisement and tell you we have something extra good—=a real LIVE novelty=—we mean what we say. The fact that we sell our goods to the same people all the ye...