Show GREAT GOD DELIVER ALL OF US FROM THE HISSING DEVIL Nothing has more of ot heavens heaven's tire fire or orthe or the he the fire of Of- t. t hell than B. B kiss The best things thIngs thIngs' perverted are re the worst f for br r d deadly evil And I know nothing st sq sub subtle le an and so damning as aa a burning turning thrilling lt kiss ss Great God Go deliver de de- liver us horn from the kissing devil In these words has the Rev L. L D. D Bass of Cairo Ill warned his congregation against the evils and temptations th that t lurk urk in the kiss lie He takes the position that hat osculation is the devils devil's most mos cherIshed cher cier- and fruitful instrument for tor bringIng bringing bring- bring Ing ng i la iA his harvests and does more t to till ill hell than whisky whisk drugs and all aU other evils ever invented rolled into one Of late there has been a revival in the 1 anti kissing propaganda g but td tho ha lg lons thrust S to tu the foreground heretofore re have lave been chiefly upon matters of ot mere physical al hygiene In which germs played the he most Important Im part Physicians and bacteriologists have ha issued solemn warn- warn f inga nga a against the practice which they knew would would- n never r b be- be heeded and have maintaIned In the most forceful language of f the laboratory that he who kisses takes his lilt tate fate In iii hia hands of or rather his mouth Not long ago a scientist who ap appears appears appears ap- ap pears to have a little more red blood in iii his system than the average man of hl his class made a slight cone concession to the sweet sin J If it sin it is by saying It would be je robbed of most mot of or Its Its' terrors It if kisser hisser arid and kissee would gargle a germicide after after af at af- af ter every fifth kiss I It has remained for the minister of Cairo to give the final condemnation He Heg does soul blighting g r. r not 1 point quality u specifically gets r in wherein its e deadly the work but he seems to know something about the kiss for tor the following could be i e prompted by nothing except original Investigation There Is something wonderfully wonderfully won won- magneto magnetic and thrilling in a kiss When two se sets s of f lips lits come together itIs it itIs itis Is like two clouds charged with electricitY electricity elec dee the one positive and the other negative And the result Is an emotional explosion and cloudburst of excessive excessive- passion and ecstasy We strongly suspect that the Rev L. L I D. D Bass has Jias had some unfortunate experience ex ex- pe lence in which either the kiss or the want of it pla played cd a star part All he says may be true yet his condemnation bears signs sign of or some bitter disappoint disappoint- ment meat If H he has started out to hunt the i kissing devil to lilt his lair all we can say say- IJ is that f he has undertaken r na a colossal j job The kissing devil must be a strictly strictly per personal per per- devil If there ever was one and he hem m masquerades in most une unexpected places and his stock of oi temptations is Is the most bewitching that ever turned the he heads of men and maidens Still if Ir Mr v Bass thinks he can change the current of ot Ims Ime hu human mi- mi man sentiment e r cool the blood by mere rih sih ifs words s uproot the most cherished h d r institution s tion of ot the ages and bring argument to Intervene intervene In In- between man and two cherry lips turned upward for tor the sacrament of or a kiss 1155 let him go ahead until he realizes his own weakness and folly Kansas Kansas City Journal |