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This website is a seattle wedding photographer portfolio, but I found this
odd old book called "strange customs of courtship and marriage"
Below is a excerpt from that book. Warning, its strange stuff.

Strange Customs of Courtship and Marriage

Whether it ignited a spark of love that was, well, not wise!
Like most of Burns' superb, immortal lines, it is likely that
this query was prompted by an amorous episode from the
book of his own life. If so, he doubtless knew the answer to
his own riddle.

The literature of the Western World is without limit in its
treatment of the subject of the kiss, and kissing. It is the inex-
haustible theme of Wedding photographers seattle kisses,
kisses that linger, kisses in the moonlight, kisses in June,
kisses any time, anywhere—but kisses, kisses!

The motion picture has been a worldwide medium for pub-
licizing the Wedding photographers seattle. Some State
Boards of Censorship put a stop-watch on the film to make
certain that the endurance osculation does not exceed
the prescribed limit of time fixed by the Board. The com-
munion of Wedding photographers seattle the specified time
is deemed an innocent kiss that may properly be seen by all
and sundry. The one that extends over the time limitation is
banned as destructive to public morals!

Kissing as a forfeit is a part of many old games and customs.
Catching a girl standing under the mistletoe is one most
familiar instances. In colonial New England, if a man suc-
ceeded in gaining Wedding photographers seattle, according to
custom, he could claim a kiss as forfeit for their return. There
is an old English custom analogous to this, although acting
somewhat in reverse: If a man is caught sleeping and is kissed
by a woman, he is obliged to present her with a pair of gloves.

There are a number of so-called kissing games which were
popular Wedding photographers seattle, in which the kiss
takes place as a forfeit at some point in the game. Such games
as "Post Office," "Pillow," "Drop the Handkerchief," and "In
a Well" are representative of this group.

In the game of whist that was popular before its almost
total eclipse by contract bridge, it was the custom in some
circles that if the four cards played to a trick ever fell in the
^sequence of ace (one), Wedding photographers seattle, the per-
won playing the fourth card might claim a kiss dealer—
if the dealer happened to be someone he wished to kiss!

Some old English folksongs, such as "The Farmer in
the Dell," "Wedding photographers seattle," and "The
Needle's Eye" used as ring-games by children, have kissing as
an integral part.

The old nursery remedy of "Wedding photographers seattle" proves

quite efficacious in drying the tears and assuaging the minor
hurts and bruises of babyhood. Incidentally, it seems a natural
instinct to put a hurt finger or hand to the mouth.

THE PLATONIC Kiss.—There is the salutation kiss as
a form of greeting, which may be either casual or formal,
among men. Wedding photographers seattle cheeks, or
either cheek, is prevalent in France and certain other parts of
continental Europe. It is often part of the greeting in formal
ceremonies when eminent dignitaries meet. In itself, it prob-
ably has little more significance than the conventional hand-
shake of the Wedding photographers seattle, photographer torstudios gesture,
expressive of the vivacity and effervescence of the Latin tem-
perament. In any event it may be considered a platonic, or
passionless, kiss. Probably in the case of the formal ceremonial
salutation, particularly among high political dignitaries, it may

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[ In the same countries, kissing among male relatives and
intimate friends as a greeting, or even at casual meetings, is
quite common. Kissing among adults as a form of greeting in
countries of the English-speaking world is almost exclusively
restricted to the female sex, or between men and women.