ENJOY THE THRILLS OF KISSING

But don't be in a hurry I As in all matters pertaining to love, don't hurry the process of kissing. A kiss istoo rapturous a thing to be enjoyed for the moment and the moment only. Linger longer on her lips thanyou have ever lingered before. Forget time. Forget everything but the kiss in which you are in the midstof. Don't be like that bashful young lover who, after a sweet, long kiss, drew his lips away from tlips
of his charmer. Immediately, She burst out into tears.

"What's the matter?" he asked solicitously.

"You don't love me I" she said between sobs.

"But I do!"
"Then why did you draw your lips away?"
"I couldn't breathe," he said naively.
Breathe? Who wants to breathe, who even wants to think of breathing in the middle of an impassioned
kiss? Breathe through your nose if you have to breathe. But kiss, keep on kissing, as long as there! Is one
minim of breath in you. Kiss, as Byron said we should kiss, with the "long, long kiss of youth and love."
Recently, in Chicago, there was held a marathon kissing contest to determine Which couple could hold
their kiss the longest without being forced to separate. One pair was able to hold their kiss for fifteen
hours. Think of that! Fifteen hours. And yet the naive lad stopped kissing because be couldn't breathe.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning must have spent many an ecstatic night of kissing with the poet, Robert
Browning, if we are to judge from an excerpt from her "Aurora Leigh," in which she described a kiss as
being "As long and silent as the ecstatic night."
Another poet, unknown, but certainly one who knew whereof he speaks, wrote the following poem which
deserves to be quoted in its entirety.
Oh, that a joy so soon should waste,
Or so sweet a bliss as a kiss
Might not forever last!
So sugared, so melting, -so delicious.
The dew that lies on roses,
When the morn herself discloses,
Is not so precious.
Oh, rather than I would it smother
Were I to taste such another.
It. should be my wishing
That I might die kissing.
At this point, it should be explained that the lips are not the only part of the mouth which should be