Show KISSING GAMES london schools are making an el tort to stop kissing games the children are in the habit 0 playing games at school and to this practice is traced much disease in issuing instructions to have the games stopped ahe medical adviser 0 the board ot health of that city said promiscuous kissing among children highl easily lead to a most of diphtheria scarlet fever or any other infectious disease organized games are now played in the councils schools and no rational teacher would allow kissing to form any part of them that is a sanitary precaution all teachers ought to be acquainted with and the notice is probably intended merely as a reminder to a few teach eid who have overlooked ahe grave danger to health involved A single child suffering sui fering from an infectious disease mighty easily cause a whole school to fall victims to it 1 remember the case of a irish girl who died from diphtheria her parents held a wake and 27 children in her class kissed they all contracted the disease and three or loua of them died kissing among adults is just as dangerous as among children and this fact cannot be too widely known personally I 1 could never understand chy when two girl friends meet or part in the street they kiss each other surely they can show elior affection one for another in a more sensible and less risky manner than kissing it I 1 could have my way I 1 should abolish altogether besides being a positive danger to tho public health generally it is a stupid insipid custom unworthy of twentieth century enlightenment |