A Record of Kisses.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 264, 4 October 1884, Page 3

A Record of Kisses.

A.tf 3 anfhsing story is t6ld by a Frenchman who diejl recently . It is stated thiit 'on his 'wedding-day^ some . twenty' years' ago, he took the original — perhaps it may be said rather imprtfdenfc— resolution to . fceep a yearly account of the number of ki««es exchanged With his wife unfit their union 'become severed by the death of one dr. thft father:, He was <leKi« ihed to be the first td go, bat when on his sick bod, for^einjj that he Would 1 not recover, he -begged a friend' to let the 1 world know the "result of hig twenty . years' addoiint keeping. Jjuring, the first year; of wedded life the ki*ses exchanged; reached t lie colossal figure of thrrly-six thousand five hundred, or a hundred a <l:iy on an average; but i|i the fdllowing twelve months there', was: a notable 1 decrease, not more 1 thim v Mxteen thousand being inscribed . on his register,' whilst' 'the the third year shows a 'still greater falling off, the average number of kisses being about ten a day. And after the lapse of fire years a further reduction id recorded, and the acbount iceeperVtask wa« simplified, for only two kisses' were- exchanged during each 24 h'oiirfr— " on'e~'on" rising, lane on retiring to Test." Later on, during tlie £ laßt ten years of his married life, they "only kissed each other on leaviug for or rpturuing from a journey," and he had very little trouble, m making up /hi* annual domestic statistics.