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Post No.2260

Date: 20 October 2015

Time uploaded in London: 20-27

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Edwin Booth was a nineteenth century American actor who performed in Shakespearean plays around the world.

Edwin was very shy about women. He tells of a harrowing experience that once befell him on a tour, when he had lain down to rest in his rom and failed to lock his door. “I heard a sound and opened my eyes. The door was being stealthily opened. I felt it was a woman. I couldn’t move. She came in – the most determined woman I ever saw. She was tall, and gaunt, and strange. She couldn’t help seeing I was trembling. She came to the bed, looked down upon me. Without smiling she bent over me – and kissed me on the mouth. She didn’t say a word. She walked out of the room. I never was so frightened in my life. I bolted the door when it was too late, but I am not over it yet. I have tried to reason it out, but I can’t. she was not silly. She looked to be the last woman on earth to care for kissing. I should say she was a hard woman.”

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What is a Kiss?

The witty Oliver Herford has defined a kiss as, “A course of procedure, cunningly devised, for the mutual stoppage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.”

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Flirtation

Gilbert Stuart, the early American portrait painter, once met a lady on the street in Boston who saluted him with, “Ah! Mr.Stuart, I have just seen your miniature, and kissed it, because it was so much like you.”

“And did it kiss you in return?”

“Of course not!”, she answered laughing.

“Then”, said Stuart, “it was not like me.”

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Kiss to Right Hand only!

When in Washington, Lieutenant de Tessan, aide to Marsha Joffre and Colonel Fabry, was approached by a pretty girl who said:

“And did you kill a German soldier?”

“Yes”

“With what hand did you do it?”

“With this right hand”

The pretty American girl seized his right hand and kissed it. At this Colonel Fabry said:

“Heavens, man, why didn’t you tell her that you bit him to death?”

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10,000 Kisses to a War Hero!

No figure of a popular hero in American public life probably was ever as much kissed as Richard Pearson Hobson who had distinguished himself in the Spanish American War.

At a big function in Chicago, two pretty young cousins stood on tip toe and kissed him. This started the ball rolling, and all young ladies present, enamoured of the brave young Lieutenant, lined up to kiss him too. Count was kept up to one hundred and then given up. The audience stood by and rooted, calling out, “Good for Number 76!” and other helpful comments. The kissing went on for 36 minutes. With an average of five a minute.

The publicity arising from this incident led to its repetition in every city to which the hero toured. He collected some 10,000 or more in all. A caramel was put on the market, called “Hobson’s Kisses!”

Source: Collected from an Old Book of Anecdotes