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Show I A NEW APOSTLE OF THE KISS j 1 tbe world has touched bis lyre without bursting into song over the bliss of a kiss or dreaming dreams of its glorious mysteries. mys-teries. At first glance it might seem that such a prescription as the French investigator proposes ought to be popular; but second thought will bring the conviction that the effect is more likely to be otherwise. Give a kiss the guise of medicine, and Its delights de-lights vanish into space. There is no longer sweetness in It; there Is no romance ro-mance In It; there is no soul in It. It becomes be-comes twin sister to quinine! s Better far that the kiss continues as an apotheosis of the microbe then to take a place on the apothecary's shelf as a cure for dyspepsia. Better a rose with its thorn than dog-fennel. In the meanwhile, this new Apostle of the "Kiss is a deceiver. He Is degrading the kiss Instead of glorifying It. Louisville Louis-ville Courier-Journal. Lovers who have abandoned the exchange ex-change of kisses In the belief that the practice Is pernicious, unhealthful and bacteriferous, may take heart. A friend of the kiss has arisen in Parle, and he is denouncing In polite but vigorous terms those who would decry the divine salute. This benevolent thinker la not moved by any wayward romanticism. It Is on plain, hard principles of therapeutics that he bases his defense of the kiss. He admit ad-mit that kisses carry microbes, but says so much the better. In his view, the Interchange In-terchange of certain bacilli Is a laudable and healthful practice, and In kissing it is not so much the bad microbes as the beneficent ben-eficent ones that are transferred from Hp to lip. These good bacteria, he argues, are not only favorable but essential to digestion. However, it Is a dubious compliment that this authority pays to a kies, after all. It is plain that he alms to make of It a medicine. First thing his patients pa-tients know he is a physician he will be prescribing the bsculatory treatment for dyspepsia. Instead of a teaspoonful of pepsin after each meal, he will recommend recom-mend "a brunette kiss three times a day, well shaken before taken." Of course, he will vary the dose to suit the needs of tho case. According to the dictionary, a kiss Is "a form of affectionate salutation expressed ex-pressed by the contact with or pressure of the Hps; a caress of the llpn." Flat and proealc and unsatisfying definition defi-nition that! The ooet who describes a kiss as "the flashing ecstasy of two souls was svldently according to common reportnearer re-portnearer the truth. And Tennyson apparently ap-parently gave a slight, a very slight, suggestion sug-gestion of the potency of a kiss when in "Locksley Hall." he had a speaker eay: "Our spirits rushed together at the touching touch-ing of the lips." And In his other verses Tennyson lavishly lavish-ly scattered apostrophes to the kiss. Hardly Hard-ly b. poet for that matter In the hlntory of |