WHERE TO PUT A KISS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3603, 29 January 1883, Page 4

WHERE TO PUT A KISS.

An esteemed young friend of the Times asks a funny question. He wants to know ■where to put his kisses. Probably any number of people, without much thought, would rush rashly forward to tell him all about it, and consider the conundrum an easy one. The problem, however, is really difficult, and anyone who hashadexperience enough to know what kissing is will shrink from quick or direct advice on the .subject.

As a matter of course, the young man who has kisses to give away will give them to his girl, if she is willing; if she isn't willing—but that is so impossible that it would be a waste of time to say anything about it. If a young man has no girl of his own he will naturally—such is the waywardness of human nature—find someone else's girl or girls, and to some a good many girls are not any too uracil of a good thing. They say it isn't such a bad thing - sometimes when you find you have kissed the wrong girl, if there could be any wrong girl in a matter like that. But the trouble on the young man's mind seems to be regarding the proper place for a kiss. He does not feel certain whether he should kiss the girl on the lips, or the chin, or the cheek or the hand. There are some young men who would regard the poorest of the chances as the extreme of bliss. But such young men lack tho snap and enterprise which a wide-awake and desirable girl rather likes. The young man who hesitates and trifles with uncertainty about the proper site cm which to build his kiss will lose tho delight of kissing. If there were a worse fate ho would deserve it, There is, however, no worse fate.

Kissing the hand is a very neat but colorless .sort of compliment. It is unsatisfactory to both parties, they say. We are also reliably informed that kissing the forehead or the chin is a cold sort of tiling, and not largely indulged in by people of good taste. The eheekj' if not too hard, is understood to be very fair kissing ground, but good judges have been generally agreed upon to lips as offering superior inducements. If his mouth is not too large, or his girl's mouth too small, or if his girl's mouth is not too large and his too small, perhaps the young man who wants tho Times advice had better stick to tho lips. If there is anything sweet, in a kiss- and doubtless there is—he will find it there. — Phil a delph i a Tmi es.