Smell me = kiss me

Herodotus, the father of history, relates that the Persians kiss one another on the mouth when they are of one and the same degree or rank. And if they are of differing social degrees, they content them-selves with kissing the cheek. To this day the custom of kissing by rubbing noses still prevails in some countries of the Far East, above all in China and India, where it is more widespread than anywhere else. There are the "Hill" tribes of India, whose members say "smell me" instead of "kiss me." So too say the inhabitants of the island of Borneo. And in Malaya the inhabitants greet one another by smelling...

It is one of fate's ironies that the Chinese — among the oldest of the peoples who carried the torch of liberty high to light the darkness of the earth — should retain to this day the method of smelling, which is the original kiss, in place of the modern kiss.

And no wonder: for the Chinese count the modern European kiss trivial, or vulgar, and predatory in character. Mothers in Indochina have grown accustomed to threat-ening their little ones with kissing them in the European fashion if they do not stop crying!!

In the Japanese language there is no trace whatever of the word kiss or kissing. The whole matter is that the kiss is confined to the family alone: the mother kisses her little ones, and the father his children, from their birth until the day it becomes possible for them to walk by themselves... In Palestine, the kiss that Esau pressed on Jacob's neck as the two embraced developed until it became some-thing like the European kiss. The African tribes do not know the kiss of the whites: one Briton described the fright and agitation that came

over an African girl when he kissed her in the English fashion!!

The inhabitants of the island of Madagascar and of the Malay country consider the kiss the sole means of communion between two persons.

Thus we see that the kiss is of ancient stock. Nor is the kiss confined to ordinary or temporal life; it carries over into religious life. Kissing is a familiar custom

in religious rites and observances. The priest kisses the child when he has finished baptizing it, and worshipers kiss statues, holy pictures, and icons.

And at the celebration of solemn Mass the priest kisses the veils that cover

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