Not Afraid of Animalculac.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 222, 1 October 1887, Page 2

Not Afraid of Animalculac.

Tnr.ni: is a Scandinavian tradition to the effect) that kissing was first inttoduced into England by Rowena, the beautiful daughter of Hengist. Again in Cromwell's time, says the DesMoiuesflowa) "Journal," when the banished Cavendi&h \i^itcd a French nobleman at his own chateau the mistress ef the house, at the head of her maidens, thus greeted him : " Forasmach as ye be an Englishman, whoso custom it is in your country to kiss all the ladies and gentlewomen without oilence, and although it is not co here in this realm yet will 1 be so bold ax to kiss you, and so shall nil my maidens.."" And now at this late day the habit which is as old as the iirst courtship, and which has produced barrels and barrels of satisfaction from the clay which is mentioned in the sixth chapter of Genesis, when " the .sons of (jtod saw the daughters of men thafc they wore fair," this beautiful habit- is condemned by a hardhearted old fceienjlist, who is piobably &o repulsive and gloouiy that no pretty woman has ever ventur<sd to place her pearly lips in contact with his cuticle of mucous membrane. The idea ! Onlj think of it. This old fellow r-ays that kissing is unhealthy, that the mouth is inhabited by an innumerable number of animacula?, end that these are set in the act of kissing, and pass from one mouth to another. All li^ht ; let them come. We are not afraid of aniinalcuku.