Show psychology OF THE KISS learned english has divided div v osculation into two distinct classes in a learned disquisition on kisses sir ra rai lankes lankester ter dilden them late two classes one class takes the form ot of nose rubbing each kiss giver rubbing his nose against that of the other the second kind bind which la Is thit that familiar to us consists in pressing the lips against the lips skin or hair of another individual and making a short quick inspiration resulting in a more or less audible sound both kinds are really real of the nature of anif fiang 1 the active effort to smell or ex alore by the olfactory ol fator sense the kissing of one another by grown up men was abandoned in this country in the eighteenth century but we have most of us witnessed it abroad an and d perhaps been unexpectedly sub ejected to the process as I 1 once was waa by an affectionate scientific colleague ahe russians are arc the most profuse and indiscriminate of european peoples in their kissing I 1 have seen a russian about to go on a journey devoured by b the kisses hisses of his relations and household retainers male and female |