“AN UNCLEAN HABIT.”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 55, 10 July 1913, Page 8

“AN UNCLEAN HABIT.”

Pottsville, Tj.S.A., is agog over the presence of a woman of 130 years who has never been kissed—not only not kissed by a man, -but not by a woman either. And the townspeople who have had the pleasure of her society were simply astounded when Miss Elanroe Stager, of Cincinnati, who is visiting in the city, refused to be a party to the kissing habit.

At a recent social function in the homo of her relatives Miss Stager refused point-blank to be kissed. She confessed to her age, and then declared that osculation was a habit and a practice which she despised eo much that she had never had the temerity to adopt it. Miss Stager said she was opposed to women kissing each other, because they never meant affection for the other when they kissed. They are always hypocritical, and when a woman kisses, Miss Stager says, it, is with the thought “You wretch, I’ll get even with yon for this” on their minds. She added that she is not a man-hater, hut that the habit was unclean, against her scruples, and that she would never kiss anyone while she was alive. After she was dead, she said, she did not care.