KISSING CRUSADE.
New York Lady Doctor Says It la
Barbarous.
Great amusement has been caused in New York by a crusade against kissing, started by the local branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Dr Anna Hatfield, lady physician, the leader of the new movement, was interviewed. She says that kissing is a barbarous, insanitary custom, worse than drinking, and should be rigidly aboliied. No person should kiss another without first using an antiseptic wash on the mouth to destroy bacteria. “As for the moral, bacteria,” she said, that is even more dangerous. Girls are not taught to view a kiss with awe, as they once were. Engaged persons should bo allowed only one kiss at the time of betrothal. Mothers of to-day are to blame for imbuing their children with the kissing vice. Many children are litterally kissed to death.
“ Kissing between women is quite as unwholesome. It is time to make war on kissing, and 1 am willing to go on record as firing the first gun.”
The progress of the anti-kissing crusade is being watched with great interest, but its failure is generally predicted.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 1 March 1901, Page 4
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187KISSING CRUSADE. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 1 March 1901, Page 4
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