European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine Safe in a season of colds and flu by Sarah Booth Conroy Washington Post s the flu season gels underway in Earnest it s Lime to Lake up a serious Issue of the Las bos turning Iho other Cheek this is a most common gesture at close encounters of the parly kind the  hollered up in All its plump pleasure is an Effort to Reserve the lips for better things you see mutually consenting adults kissing and being hissed on the lips Cheeks ear hair air you also see people hurriedly putting out a hand to avoid kisses pulling men hand in another s shoulder in a Strong. Arm Effort to keep kisses Al Bay knocking Heads together in various degrees of avoidance or passion and even occasionally trying the Vulcan death grip. And then there Are those who simply turn and run. Saving themselves As their Rno Hera taught them to saturday november is 1988 below things especially when threatened with a kiss trom someone obviously suffering ram Hay lever cold flu no matter if Hong Kong asian or Home grown or some other plague of our Lime. The practice of turning the other Cheek once limited of Southern politicians Ana Snake ail salesmen has. Over the years corns to Fth Scalen the More formal  Lect politicians extended the Pra Clico irom kissing babies or substituted it Lor handshakes alter too much pressing of the Llesh at rallies is hard to say. Casual kissing in the old Days  you were born was a Mailer of simple logic and immutable rules. Social kissing As opposed to Tho serious kind expected to Lead to other things was practice according to a list. Consanguinity kissers co otherwise known As kissing cousins were decreed by one s grandmother assisted by Maiden aunts and Tau Gril members of the family upon birth. Kisses were expected irom grandparents parents Brothers Sisters aunts uncles great or otherwise Virgl cousins second cousins and cousins once removed in Laws and All wealthy cousins no Mailer How lat Oul the Branch on the family tree. You kissed a cd upon greeting on roofed occasions or in the front Yard in they were from out of town and All Comers at family reunions funerals christenings and graveyard cleaning ups. This was expected even if in the absence of the arbiter you Couin l quite remember who was who or Why you should be rubbing up against them. Such kisses were full fledged lips in kisses and you could t even hit anybody Lor kissing lips instead of Cheeks. Such tribal customs were practice of course with a great degree of Dill Cence in enthusiasm. Children of All Ages up to threate Nabto practice kicking squirming escape Maneu vers of All varieties. Kisses were Only the Hall of it. Hugging was of Ion two thirds of three fourths. Tho degree Well from one Arm. Distant to two Arm close encounter including touching As far As was mutually agreeable or singularly inescapable. The question that now arises is How Lar is in going to go in Washington social kissing is now practice by those people who calf you by your first name without asking permission or waiting Lor he introduction to be completed which include All who wish to give Iho impression that they re closet friends than they really Are agents of the worse kind Thoss who need your Vole and All people to whom you be taken an instant dislike any Day now beauticians fashion Sale ladies lawyers accountants and perhaps panhandlers plumbers and the Man who comes to fix the roof will demand to press the Llesh at your first appointment. Is there no and to this no Desense no measure to be taken no Laws of be passed indeed there is an answer. We Otter an ancient and. Antique imported Man Euver hand kissing known in Vienna Austria by the euphonious phrase Kuss die hand. In fact in Vienna a land of Lino phrases As a Susti fut for questionable actions saying Kuss die Hants Flen is a merciful substitute for the actual gesture. " hand kissing in Washington has Long been an underground gesture practice by Aust nans germans and members of the former Austro hungarian Empire. And kissing the hand Al least among members of. Nobility pretenders to various thrones and those who wish Lobo thought one or the other Florde permutations at least As extensive As kissing farther up / properly practice in the Leslie Howard Anthony Andrews Mode the gentleman or slave or supplicant bows Over the hand of the lady mistress Prie parsonage and makes a kiss about an Inch away from the hand not actually touching lip to hand Al All bolder types with More in mind have been known to grab a defenceless Palm turn it Over and kiss the Palm. Anyway perhaps what we need is a general agreement a platform a Standard to be brought in under Iha sponsorship of the new administration and passed by Congress to become the Law of the land. Provisions would include no kisses of any kind ,.exchanged by people who have never before me or who have not mutually agreed to Call each other by heir first names. The stars and stripes Page 13