HOW TO KISS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2587, 9 February 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOW TO KISS.

A person of genius has established a kissing school in Philadelphia ; and the "Professor" has been telling an interviewer, all about it. "To be able to kiss well, and to put into the action that gentle animation which must be combined with a wilful resignation to the act, is a science over which very few people in America have control. All your American kissers do their kissing impulsively, and without considering the great advantage and ethereal pleasure to be found in calm, coo! deliberation and premeditation. The next time you go to see your girl, young man, kiss her lightly and with deliberation. If she happen to be standing, just put your left arm round her waist and draw her to you. Of course she'll be bashful. She will turn her head away. Then you must put your right hand to her left cheek, the hand open, and draw her face round to you. Then look her straight in the eye for half a minute, bend your head down slowly and prepare for action. Don't pucker up your lips. Allow them to remain in natural repose. The lips should just meet, and there should be just the slightest pressure Then a little playful motion of the lips by the kisser and the kissed sends through you a thrill that is unction to the soul itself. When you can do this you will be an accomplished kisser. Of, course, there are other and more advanced stages in the art of kissing. There is that delicious, lovable, abandoned kiss that Mary Anderson gives to Imjomur when she plays rm-lheniu."