A PLAYWRIGHT'S STUDY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 50, 24 March 1909, Page 4

A PLAYWRIGHT'S STUDY.

Au American playwright, who has been studying the kissing customs of the world for* professional purposes, and has embodied some of his obervations in a successful play, complains that most women do not know how to kiss. lie says that kissing iu the chief countries of Europe varies as much as anything thai could be imagined. The kiss of the Englishwoman, he remarks, is the Gibson uype. It is enilly.

" The kiss of the Scotch girl is sincere. It is not emotional, but it comes from the heart, and cannot be bought.

"The kiss of the Italian woman is easily given. It is fervent, but not backed bv love. The flower girl in tile street presses boutonnieres upon you, and you can have a kiss for the taking.

"Tho Spanish woman has the most passionate kiss in the world. Jt is hard to get, but when she does kiss she abandons herself to it.

•• The kisses of the Krench women are pleasant, but they are the kisses of experience. I -Tile kiss of the American girl is j sweet, but it often lacks the backing of temperament. "The ideal kiss is not given with the lips alone. If is given with every atom of the whole body, and that intangible aonie tiling called' the heart and soul. " Kvery position i* a diflerent uiood a mood'of reaching desire, a mood of utter abandon, a mood of acquiescence, a spirit of purity, a spirit of curiosity, a spirit of barter. To those who study and know the positions, the expressions of the body, as well as the expressions of the fact all mean something, and he who runs may read.

"There is as much character "r lack of character expressed in a kiss as in anything else in the world."