WAUPACA POST

January 2, 1890

 

            The question as to whether or not a man should kiss his wife in public will agitate society, probably, as long as matrimony is popular.  It is held by many that this osculatory pleasure should be indulged in only upon the occasion of the marriage ceremony. In strange contrast then, is the custom at Fond du Lac where men kiss their wives on Main Street.  At Neenah, however, a man who would do such a thing might be expelled from the church and in Appleton he would be socially ostracized in a week. In that city men are allowed to kiss their wives in public only at the railway station. – Oshkosh Northwestern.  In Oshkosh it is seldom that the men kiss their own wives at all.