Show WHAT IS A KISS ah who cau can tell surely if anything in the world goes without saying it is a kiss and the more one says the farther one seems removed from the true comprehension of the idea viewed in the calm light of reason a kiss is rather an absurd rather a disagreeable certainly a very extraordinary proceeding two people set their mouths months against each other contract cou tract and press the lips together and emit a sound varying from the explosion of a toy pistol to a faint lation or a gentle concussion concus eion why now should any one have hit upon this strange performance as an expression of affection was it an inborn instinct of humanity like eating or looking at bues reflection in mirrored pools did adam kiss eve and did she abe understand what he was attempting or did she fancy he was about to eat her A very strange a decidedly uncouth proceeding and yet how very natural and how very common I 1 what divers manners of kiss have been invented since that adam and eve inauguration theirs would be the kiss of tender and assured devotion well that is very nice and satisfying to the feeling but then there is the timid experimental |