Albany [GA] Patriot , May 3, 1860
The editress of the Weekly Herald, (Thomson, Georgia,) indulges herself in the following provoking and tantalizing strain:
“Well, we reckon some folks would really like to know what we thought of. Let’s see. In the first place, we thought what an absurd idea it is in a man to ask a lady to kiss him, just as if he, the senseless being, thought the poor trembling little creature was going to do it. The idea of a man asking for a thing so easily obtained! Why, it is ridiculous! and a man with the least particle of brains would hoot at the idea. She’d say not, till doomsday. And you, poor believer, would forego the happiness of drawing nectar from that rose-bud mouth, simply because you were ignorant enough to ask for what you might have taken. There are ten thousand ways to kiss a girl without asking the pleasure. Direct her attention to something on the table; ask for a book you know to be there, and while she is there, go with the affected purpose of helping her to look for it; be particular to get at the left side; do you need any more telling? If you do, you do not deserve the kiss that might be so gracefully taken. A man who would ask a kiss of a fair maiden ought to be tarred and feathered as a craven hearted monster. Don’t do it, don’t for goodness sake, ask the girls to kiss you. Kiss them if you want to, but do it like gentlemen. Kiss them if you can.”