ELECTRIC KISSING PARTIES

Some few years ago, a very peculiar kissing custom arose which deserves mention here because, from it, we can learn how to adapt the method to our modem devices. At that time, when young people got together, they held, what was then known as, "electric kissing parties." Young people are ever on ' the outlook for novel ways of entertaining themselves. In fact, when ether was first developed as an anesthetic, the young bloods of the town used to form "ether-sniffing" parties in which they got a
perfectly squiffy ether "jag." But to return to the "electric kisses." An excerpt from a contemporary writer
will, perhaps, give us some idea of what happened.

"The ladies and gentlemen range themselves about the room. In leap year the ladies select a partner, and
together they shuffle about on the carpet until they are charged with electricity , the lights in the room
having been first turned low. Then they kiss in the dark; and make the sparks fly for the amusement of the
onlookers."