Stolen kisses are the sweetest.

THE REASON WHY.

An impertinent youth at Saratoga amused himself by exhibiting the following lines to some of the ladies at a hotel:

Men scorn to kiss among themselves,

And scarce would kiss a brother;

But women want to kiss so bad,

They kiss and kiss each other.

Whereupon a young lady pencilled this retort on the back of an envelope, and left it for the fool’s instruction:

Men do not kiss among themselves,