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Show ii Dorothy Dix Talks j j CONCERNING KISSES fJH By DOROTHY OIX. the World's Hiphr-st Paid Woman Writer The other dav a woman applied to the court for an order restraining ber fr husband from kiting net so often She said that he kissed her three hundred times a dn and she was fed up on kisses, and satisfied with demonstrations demon-strations of affection, and desired a surcease of them. 'Women are queer creatures, and there is no satisfying them, " suhed the magistrate as he signed an injunction injunc-tion against the oerl affectionate husband. ' most women who come to this court complain that thev are not kissed enough, arid want the law to make their husbands kiss them ofi- ener." fAnd there ou are, up against one, of the biggest problems of matrimony.! which is to fix the proper number ofl kisses which should constltue the-' dally menu In a haipy household and preserve the nice balance which makes kisses plentiful enough and yet keeps, Ihcm in the sweetmeat class For, alas, we have no sentimental HoOVOr ration kisses, and tell us Justi how many per diem constitute roman- lie profiteering, or how few will starve' affection to death, or Just what amount of osculallon it require., to, keep a woman's heart nourished without with-out lis cloying on her palate, and mak-i lug her cry out with Solomon "Feed Inic on appics. me wun uifsonii for 1 am sick of love." Of course this attempt to regulate the amount of kissing Is of no Interest' to the great majority of married men except as the are interested in any protective measure for their own1 greater safety and peace. Most married mar-ried men hand out the dallv domestl kiss Just as they put llghminf rods on their houses to aert the conse-j o,uenccs of storms. And they arc in no danger whatever of overloading It. ori forcing their wives to call for help The average man does all of the kissing in which he takes an active personal interest in the days before marriage when he has to steal a Icjae or beg for one. When It becomes hist legal duty to kiss a woman every tlme he comes and goes, he does It in the same spirit In which he pays the grocery gro-cery bill. Kissing has become merely a part of matrimony, one of it obligations, ob-ligations, nud he meets itl ike a man.; Heaven knows he Is no welcher. Why w omen lay BUCh stress on being j kissed husbands never figure qui Neither does an body else So woman I could tell you, to save her life, why she feels ill-used or neglected If her! husband falls to give her a peck on the cheek when h- starts forth tO business of a morning. Still les.s does she know W hi she mnkps Ihe number I H "' '''' ki.'JSef ... te. of I o I 40 - She does, however and St is a fact I that a woman will believe that the U man who beats and starves her, and make- her work to support him. loves her devotedly if he kisses her twenty ' times a day, while she will doubt the affection of a husband who works himself to death to Indulge her in 1 ! luxuries If he happens to be a poor BHH kisser. ,s Certainly nothing more unluring. or I unromantlc, or unaentlmental than the matutinal kiss with which women In-j In-j slst on beginning the day can be Imag- j j Ined For nobody has a heart or a 1 bouI ut breakfast time. These are organs we develop later In the rlav ESarly In the morning we are nothing j but stomach and brains and hands. . We are eager to get to work. We! ; are full of plans of action. We are not thinking of our feelings, or dwell- J ng upon the state of our affections. I And we don't want to kiss, we want j our coffee and to get busy. And, although the don't know it. 1 j Women are no more In the mood for r I I kissing than are men If you will BMI notice, you will observe that a woman fl always turns the back of her head. H h' r left ear to iier husband's ham ind eggs salute. Sho doesn't even Wff ijko drwn h,?r curl Papers to receive . t, so little heart Interest has she in it. And no woman who wanted kiss or expected to thrill to one. would fall ' lo provide the proper scenery. The truth is, we cannot do anything everv day without its becoming a habit. Nor can we do anv thing that we are expected to do, r.iut reminded ! of If we forget It, and called down tor if we don i do It. without our coming lo look upon it as a duty, and which ! we loathe because it is a dut Nor is there anything of which we so soon become satiated a too much sweets. 1 No candy maker ever eats chocolate ' reams If wives would only remember thes few elemental) peculiarities of human nature and tall off the dally kiss, and make their other kisses few and fnr apart, and something to be sought instead in-stead of being thrust ii(.on their husbands, hus-bands, they would revive their husbands hus-bands interest In kissing and occasion -all, get a Mm that had the old time flav or Women do well to apply the acid test to kisses, anyhow, Judas betrayed his Lord with a kiss, and thousands of men betray women the same way ever) day For there Is no such easy way to blind a woman aa to kiss her even shut. As a rle the more a man kies the l-ss he Is to be trusted. So beware, ladles, of the kissing bug' |