THE PASTOR’S KISS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9148, 18 May 1908, Page 6

THE PASTOR’S KISS.

Some time ago Bishop Olmsted, of New York, preached a sermon in defence of the “ministerial kiss,” and since then that particular brand of osculationjhas become an institution in America. New York is considerably agitated about the right or the wrong of it, and amongst those who hold the latter view is Miss. Clara Morris, who has some very hard things to say about what she calls the “Tabby-cat Parson” and his kisses. And this is how Miss Morris describes kisses in general: There is the monarchical kiss, the courtier’s kiss, the fraternal kiss, paternal and sisterly kiss, the kiss of charity, of pardon, the Judas kiss of betrayal, the kiss of lust, the kiss of love, the melodramatic and the halfminnte blazer, the kiss operatic., the “soul kiss,” on and np to the number of 30. Butfthe kiss with the least right of existence is the bland and unctuous tabhy-cat kiss of a tea and gossip-loving pastor.