THE PSYCHOLOGY OE KISSING.

Mataura Ensign, Volume V, Issue 224, 26 January 1883, Page 6

THE PSYCHOLOGY OE KISSING.

The bard who rapturously exclaimed, " One kiss more, sweet, soft as the — ," &c, knew very little about it. In these days, the analysis of the kiss is subtler than it was wont to be. Moreover have we not unkissed kisses ? In America the newspaper reporters or fine art critics have carried their investigations into the psychology of the kiss to an extent which neither Swinburne nor the bard of the Sunflower and Lily have yet reached. Speaking of the Abbot kiss a Western reporter says there is something about it which stimulates investigation. Another declares that it has breadth, but no depth, and a third detects a sectarian flavour in it. A fourth insists that it is cut bias. There was, says another judge of esculation, the Platonic kiss of Kellogg, who used to fling them like icicles from her fingertips, and as Sher. Campbell once said, there were chilblains in them. Then there was the Presbyterian kiss of Ada Dias, who used to plant it on Montague's left ear or on the back of his neck, and always created an impression in the gallery that she had bit him ; and the Lotta bubble, which always sounded like the pulling of a cork, and seemed to be a number of linked kisses effervescing; and the Corinthian kiss of Wainwright — a severe affair, somewhat motherly, and, when dropped upon a stock-actor, always frightened him a little bit ; and the Carey kiss — the romantic Carey kiss, that never began anywhere and never ended — that ran down the back and tingled in the arms and legs, and made the hair stand on end, and was accompanied with laughter whose echoes were undying ; and the cavernous Soldene kiss, that oped its ponderous and marbie jaws, with a report like the bursting of an indiarubber balloon.'— London Society.