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THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1918 Kiss Censorship to Dalete —— Those Which Don’t Delight; These Are the Kisses No Woman Wants — Wife's Right to Decide ED IN HELEN ROWLAND’S ARTICLE ON HOW AND WHEN A WOMAN SHOULD NOT | ae ane w Jersey Jury’s Decision That It’a a Crime for a Husband to Kiss His Wife Against Her Will Is Merely a Verdict—So Here's the Argument. By Helen Rowland Copyrigh 18. by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Pvening Worl@). CCORDING to the recent decision of a New Jersey jury, to kiss 4 A Time for American Woman | To ‘Take Off Her Gloves,’ | Says Mrs. ‘Private Peat’ Must Tackle Grim Business of Winning Wa; Bare-Handed, for It’s as Much Her War as Man’s -Woman Power BE “BUSSED.” of the United States Must Be Mobil’zod Se as a Solid, Working Unit. A KISS WITH Your { By Mrs. Harold R. Peat Mila inher a lion Copyright, 1918, by the Prose Publish New York 2 World [' was after a mecting in Chicago, a meeting of college club women 7 A KISS TO CLOSE AN ARGUMENT 15 A MISOEMEANOR which I had addressed on the work of the women In the war z I had told something of the work and endurance of the, alm tmliiion girls and women of Britain who are in munition factories doing men’s work, as apart from the three or four million on other than munition dut your wife against her will is a “crime!” Yes, and further+ more, {f you are like the importunate husband {n the case, and faney you can steal a kiss from a woman just ecause she has promised to love, humor and cook for you, you can be convicted of “assault and just as he was. Well, I should say eo! To kiss ANY woman against her will {s a crime! In fact, there ere lots of circumstances under which kissing is @ “1 Lope we'll never come to that,” sald a tall and handsome woman to me as she shook hands and congratulated me on my talk | 1 had no time to answer her, no time to tell | | her that we did not “come” to ft. We went. I do crime per se, } hot understand the point of view, I do not gras ak grasp A kiss is merely @ phystological demonstrat \ the outlook of the woman who makes any reserva duc parsoteaiéal SAMISN= Jy iat Coat Tae of a ay logica ond 0 Dut a sn" tion on the work which may le under the duty | x ee eerie cay cent une reo Sn se amen a HE someem you any idea of what it 1s lke, A kiss may be or . | anything from a benediction to a st 00 c place, the provoca eof the s war to even greater degres. Men are fighting to 1 Odetak : kel Per eeE er traenemeeee oe ety Chee } One man can kiss a we a way to make her fee save us and our children. We are fighting to sa ! Mead 2a es . 7 ila in Ahr ay openbaar cers as) tee ae ad done her a favor f roa cl e ‘ or man Han. the generations to come from war forever | TO RUVINHER] | BR SPONGE OE: Dal) Hee) & SOE UE Sn ene ARULLEE I rave cag wbealed! GHA iite ENG’ utaae: Be°tNS | may kiss her in a way to make her feel as though he had taken hor } 3 ° ” book r P| ’ psycl ion {n both ¢: German frau? It were better to “come” to any work, rather than that CAMOUFLAGE | gt ee , And yet, the psychological condition in both cases may be y ip dacity the Allies lose, and we aa women consequently “come” to the level of 1S SHBER ; = . the women of Germany } 9) Die kiss a woman with your hat on—even your own ¥ ould be That tes toen the attitude | ; ee FRIGHTFULNESS a “felony” In the eyes of the law, punishable by come extreme taken by many women. I have e HABKE OF (Clare | penalty noticed it In my tours up as atenosraphera? Way To kiss your wife when she tg just wint atin AH SASL no women figure in the b 5 down and acioss the various MR ghaLtsrine ead te ake the words right out of mouth | States—an idea of supertority to (s tp t eanor.” ms Nobmation for or ae anization on this #ide is a m AG iieaihs ees ota war as against that realized by tery to mo, TI heard tho Presi To kiss her when she {s right In the middle of the contortionist’s the women of the otber: Alles bah of a Red Cross a State py veal utting up her back hatr should constitute grounds for a cult for But the idea is waning. There ts nas one oS er emee 3 Seiad gradually working to. the top | “me 3000 women that he sup- i To kiss her when she has just finished putting on the last touch ieites “American women the | od he was made President be- DAMAGE of camouflage and ts going down to meet the guests for dinner, and fact that’ they must tako a hand | Ase he could not knit—but he ASWIT. thus ruin the beautiful ensemble of her face, ts sheer frightfulr in everything. Vote or no vote, | Could wind yarn, he added as un To pologetically, immediately after she ha iad my Ms * | extenuati de le iy . ‘ 2 tikes the world is Just as much ours as | 4 clr sat a e i Hees en it firing another woman, should be aoco ni emiains that an organisa a i nd we must pro- oifense. e i noth con e , eson {t is the men's @ ° ' : ; | ton whose workers are women in pifen There nothing on earth so tiresome tect our hare. It is only falr. ABAD RACHA RAR eae as that farnillar “kiss of remorse.” She KNOW pu are “sorry” Where is our much talked of and | ‘he vast majority yet hay no wo- ; Y ore is 01 : : i : 4 | man at Its head not sorry for what you did but sorry that she found you out. To vaunted independence ane = “ ‘ Lanka c I Sora ualehe altunsina in Doulaviiie i | Ht kiss her on “the morning after" a night at the club should como we do . 1 dey. Te waa (HORBAE clip Ghat KISS OF REMORSESS under this head also. I travelled from New York to | ‘SY ¥ I ‘ ' , FA . Boston the other day by the early | had luneh at the Red Cross Lunch A STATE'S On the other band, to be alle to kiss a wife's hand eye crarning aporedis. A ladys wendy | ne om. A falaly hie De charm. | PRISON “ory, 7 enthusiastically—your OWN wife's hand, I mean—after two years of - s ng shop. ‘The decorations tho a marriage should put you in line for a somely gowned, occupled a ch | \ } E I ine f ye ; Hes dcughtancn aome of perfection in taste and | OFFENSE \ \ opposite mine, Her daughter, @ | srt ag acheme. of red and \ 0 kiss any woman agat er will should be a penitentlary offense girl of elghtecn or nineteen, - Ua ec eneer irenoea at and yet to kiss her and not pretend to THINK ir f equally well turned out, accom- (Hooverized), yet fit for an epl- | her will should be a cau yr investigation Into yo i panied her, The daughter ato . j Gus AnD the historyorittahale | To kiss any girl without first asking her to 2 or at chocolate, looked out of the wine | O00 lt | least hinting that you love her, 1s a cc Aly act " dow and slept during the five | [ON! Ribs ve bebe Dh cate | rand A ibe ec uch ek dui Ge rae hours’ Journey. The mother pro- LOS Y INIB AL FOU: will) Some pecs: | an automobile salesman take you for a drive when you NO duced & oharnilng knitting bag— | “Me! money) saved and wisely ex- intention of buying the car. It should come r the “evasion” act 1 envied it. From its depths a rill lad Ohl incall fateh | To ASK any girl 1f you may kiss her before doing so is merely gray woollen sweater in course | Wiling Ai excracinely: Senenle, | a slacker's trying to lay all the blame on her. It ty enough to Of construction. From New York | ‘Sty cook: the half dosen — put you under suspicion as a Bolshevist and should be punished under Se oto ae knitted, 1am not | #&ai Karbed ax waltrontos, taking iS | | awecaveiay allan tha <aaek rating, possibly six rows, | Orders serving soup, vegetables | BUT" THE TENDER HAND a girl at the first opportunity fs caddish; to kiss 1 and kept on her white, chamois | %"4 meats clearing tables and | KISS” AFTER TWO YEARE i rat e Seatoonsiiy 4o0waie Fe ent ae Tee es ore Aiheapeaeestin | making out checks: ail voluntary, | } OF MARRIAGE DESERVES! he secon¢ provace mn ts saa ah we SENET , hile , all pacrOLe) ail tor Sierty held f ehivalro und to wait any longer {s foolish That is yet another typo whom Abii Saul emuibealved intanue || LAAT a CARNEGIE MEDAL, kiss ANY woman against her will {s a crime! 1 nays Naaal sigh in telat el | no more tired than from a dance, | —__—_—=> ——— naman — = a Well, I should say so! A kiss is about the only thing a woman you, but @ typo whic >>) ||) jhandea little wpugtoned taglever, | can keep or dispose of a she likes, in this State, without having her Pbis isn't a war of gloves, barring . p j those of iron, studded with eplkes WA MATTE niform), oyes & | husband's slxnature attached mvs fy vi ih sioe_| yuh fet ack to the chedule nh rh hr as nd hr i ct of steel. We women must tuce | ttle brighter, amiles a little more Her tooth brush, her vote and her kisses aro a woman's sacred facts. We must come out in the | “atl 8 Ute more serous as oS | property and privileges to do with as she pleases open, away from the softnessos realization of life and service has | And yet, WHO would live in a “kissless world” or have a “kiss: * mein less than three onths y M no * and luxuries of pre-war days. Ae eoees lor thar ad BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER | less husband E know! tt Eirecngnise | und all expenses cleared, net, New York Evening World) epidemics of imitation scalskin furs, hash riote, music on Staten {utand rs a —- cee —— the diMouttt readjustment destauing: abeci “wi . co-ed eloetic > was a shrill success, more ferry boats and other crimes, ukulele outrages, ten dangants and var . In Britain we were plunged int than 80,000 by ng knitted by the girlies, ‘ ‘ F ft t t t 18 other methods o iping, bro’ derbies, classical dancing, Heashineeabr ecrap ia betray i Seeuah ot coer wat Winks, | ous ether methods of eniping, brown derbies, classical das irst Bathtub Cause of Controversy. cones (Ous men ware wounded : sey ] Aryan is ele Vrositent isa precedent for ule America, ; : t t : Gying! dead asd butlea Getore eae | 1 also the reason why ny (arto ve starved ie cee Even if « lady is elected President, they will always be afral IKE most new things, the bath-, of mahogany A with sheet load See cian vn t e or S200 wirle ee, Wes, ree, eae uae bi VEG RO: CORSE 28: mice, and even if a woman 14 not clected Prosident the B, R. T. w _, tub had to fight its way to pub-| For water at aa in. N gon > learn unen winieanine rom | Nebraska, The election developed the olde » n Ne or f fir t int ' France. Here there has been : Lea da Aa Aaa ae Lita New York, | never run on schedule, So Suffrage seems to be an unnecessary lux. s favor. America’s first ¥ ulled in t fee rance has been a | 5 Kk in ¢ t | Kokomo or Manchurla, @ young lady over atury old crocheting i faut _ ‘ a inatulled i842 aroused a@ ViO- | hot 8 portod iment, a time of \ : | Ser Hout like Bullsheyiki's signature on a German peace document, Even in Matuea: i the faly an hard ehdugh to mot In § } t Congress ix Blondopublican or Brunetoc next season, there isn't a | lent ¢ ve ee dhs 20, 1842, for draxging h five; dai thecten , . , salen sg ancl ION 2 eriwene* | chance of the Kaiser and King George beth u the same toothpick | taeked by doctors prone es Christmas events which } earier mornin io ty Sra ree belles " ‘i Vaue as 16) this year, And even if the Kaiser and King George did both use the Sruminanoe tit t on to a years ago. I wish ® | ut the Red Crows room of the store iter POE) ORG IES JONG sak wager Wa8 | same toothpick there would be an uwful roar from the Etiquette Hounds |" Council’ to pr ne Nene: i a | tabuluted during Tuesday's election, A Titiun-haired voteress from bare : } Ph mmon Council to F h visitor, w would learn t t and WORK for patriotism, or it . ‘ . of South Bend, Ind, who woul! rather have the peace violated than the | jit bathing between Nov, 1 and/ risked a plunge, grandfathers did does not amoun ; sthat thes stady | Flatbush threatened to never touch « powder puff to her nose until a ind sanitary conventions. Everything must be run on schedules, | x 15; Virginia put a tax of $30! -It was the sensation of Oy to a row of pins in the ligh ravitee * | ped-hatred woman Was nominated for the office of high heel inspector iworhp! J | March 16; VI ‘ ate Nes a nsation of Cinetnnatt | © ns provided, to , | oothpicks, a year on tubs, e in 1845 Boston | next day eople wr to the present events. It in what we di batter tk veut ene ANG Wikeae for the charlotte russe district as eeareaern Oars tho pas 1 know how unreil r | ae wat ip w that the excitement of the election New York Which may ‘Be the n why the B, R, T. imagines that thetr © bathing unlawful except on | per A Fe 0 , r pportunities wh RENRNE (OF oe BEaiye . nee 7. le 1 was me doct miles away; whe ut , age to pedestrians, raids on gambling clubs, t ' hinleceat atria il 80 att t should be operated on—but not on a schedul his ¢ 5 On| tion of the lun 2 refuse to seo war ls rasta ase —| If tho 8, RT, carries out thetr threat to bugs along on a schedule, why t gland, he had be- | in winte pee HERE. What ab woe { Aili ‘men, iio: inmeninoes) the siria = maw be not include other litle things wh » make a trip to Europe so Sieh th tic ABE plantar factories, burned anc i APansy fromiteoan® “li nrobacaish t t t { | popular? Revolving doors could tur swith atime table | roduc re by Lord John Russell! son, produced the zine tu ships, fred schools, potsoned foods ve nd suil- | ackers wateh th 1 su | stating clearly in Sanskrit Just when each compartment of the door left | jn 1928 by a band of not and su . 1 y nf 4 finist may h | the terminal and when it expected to arrive at its destination, en h tub, merely k + Ww y ait hk } i} t eloves ter wit the » | " lan not su ; weekly dances. ve oon ) with glov | " rorities and ac The elevator systems in the Woolworth, Equitable and other down an . not Ve Ah V i Jetormina : As | ren, bu American Wo- town bungalows she publish tine: (ahics printed 4eeible in Bekim Tt r e designed one r nearl vd t i boy and | teeth iory Beet Maces. sti th Waa) Nt aaniee ‘ aint aa | is would enable elevator addicts to determine just when the elevator 2 ailie | oe Px rah) “li aerated Sar ite | boys would fintuh (heir erap shoo! snvention on the roof and hS Id FI f ey / : cone | eo ee? Journ to the ground floor the Times Square drug stores Eac fe) ier Uses eeceo eep three, eight or ton paxe r Maoniers |] and equipment | The A an’ oame publish rendezvous sehedu which would help to straighten out ROTA TA dil dine atl Grab gins four’ Wien ma pap as The Wor v Vv ne | } mands iration’ of rendezvous tangle which is 1 ging trac in Times Square, § S sae ma a Sgtovin with ankets, two pairs \ fu is t Ainer ful power | ail, 8 ed and clear many sweeties ure waiting for their cheesshearta in Times Square that | See Te Bont TEMA Chery ee light and On the other. band | Pn evne abs | as wanl or than that talks a jot, but her | all other rolling stock must be aldetrac It there was a date schedule | must stand a flock of twenty shoep.| ‘This increased demand comes; mapendiue enous wrt Ave t | any n To the out icads to action | printed in Mongolian for Tires Square dates, Fort Lee sweeties could | Bach of our fighting men will require) time of wor horta, waa i ati eresnisel nl | t n who con unbla and rm Hon once started. | meet their Hoboken sweeties at 1.45, Greenpoint sweeties could meet | 180 pounds of wool a year, the fle | 1910 we produced 321,06 pounds of ehn, e a Tak Yo a n the way yut p iL we oma 5 " s. uge yoo! t ; -€4 1 oe ee ve wa | wit LA ae E's woman sees thelr Harlem sweeties at 8.15, Flatbush debutantes could meet their [0 fa score of the animals. A huge/ wool: last year, 24,000,000 less, or wy As ‘ | Fi stab. | a greater friendship, palship, cox 7 ‘ ver path, she ts not Hronx boys at 9.36, and there would be a chance for real authentto drug | flock of 20,000,000 will be required bout enough to make a suit for every ea | wiv ya girl radeship -what you w raid » She knows : : . eat * | make comfortable an army of 1,000,00| third person in the cox at Saas er ieaut : store customers to get near enough to the drug store to borrow the pen untry, Since i f ea . of t Ina uni | women and women, than, previous | how; she X avinced why, Pe eate wcrc ttenigiece am Taine veai | men These figures are given by the] 1914 the flock of Australia, the great i hospital blue, of outraged women f sy und uabe. | to war conditions, there was be 6 sho di t grasping nec- and ink and a . e Wa he proprictors are ne an awfu’ “| United States Bureau of Animal In-| wool producer, has been radiined { and mutilated children, of the con once, | tween the won f other nae | essary lot of cash trade by not printing time tables, | dustry, writes Frank G. Carpenter, — | 000,000 by drouth, while thousands of | Unuous rumble of distant gunn, : nv doubt will iaprove | tlonw ‘The w | Ar woman Schedules would unravel the tramic snarl wonderfully, Of course, | Kach soldier, of course, will not re-| sheep In the warring countries have H the nearer thunder of raiding whe , ws tit to res | very sumotent nut | grasping tle ¢ nobody wants to know what time the next century plant 1s going to | quire 160 pounda of woolen goods each | been slaughte \gorous \ eat, bombs and torpedoes of place he overcoat with | A women'a tun | w t s " bloom or when Halley's comet ts going to tag second. base again, but | year, but as two-thirds of the fleece | efforts are being m by the Depart ul e. " one of w ry kom the er ie here a thivg vivk w \ ob ) yhen clipped is d anc Bs e | mer 0 joult t - I a peer 1 ner te her i y ' time tables would come in handy on little things like four-minute eaws, | ¥? pped is dirt and grease, while| ment of Agricuiture to increase wool } Take Washing Who Fi nent atid eparkle of wit and fre f circumstances, ‘but ny chewit machines and shoe shining parlors. |somo of it Is not suitable for making) growing in America, which may be : are giving time, money and lab. row pis with alin eet, whore, earlier th 4 » will n ko any quicker pean a shout be introd Se ere teen aut th, that amount of raw material alded by its great increase in rie i Pin, Women's Linerty 2 and for @xanip ata shan be tthe Alliew, she | Sepedules should be introduced tnto every phase of life. Hut we | wii be needed, ‘This (s the full equip-| The clvillan fuces the posstbitiey A Campaign, who ure conducting | probably: have fat and une | give uj ve hold nor | can't oe a tans Bona democracy, Like tho Kals Belgium, we | ment of man in active service: One | shoddy or wool and cotton clothes sia Mona on a ofite. or at " leave the ultimate decision up to a plebiset overcoa 0 servi nifo nree|the soldier comes i the affairs ot the w 8 A , : 1 Aron ; 3 ri \ wit ubliah ne 2) t is 1p u plobi overcoat two sery e unit rms, thre th ldier comes firat, and the sol +5 tional Council of Defense, who are w rs | be the clu adency of # triumphant peace Which, aa Kipling didn’t say, ls another argument, sults of boavy underwear, two olive- dier's needs will be filed, ns a,