The Columbia Herald

KISSES ILLEGAL.

That is if This Bill is Made a Law by Virginia Legislature.

Richmond, Va., Dec. 3.--If the bill introduced in the Virginia Legislature by R. R. Ware, of Amherst county, becomes a law, sweethearts cannot kiss each other without a physician's certificate pronouncing them free from all diseases without paying from $1 to $5 for each osculation. The bill reads:

Whereas, Kissing has been decided by the medical profession to be a medium by which contagious and infectious diseases are transmitted from one person to another, and whereas, the prohibiting of such an offense will be a great preventive to the spreading of such diseases as pulmonary tuberculosis, diphtheria and many other dangerous diseases; therefore, be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That it shall be unlawful for any person to kiss another unless he can prove by his family physician that he has not any contagious or infectious disease: if physician testifies that the defendant has weak lungs he shall be found guilty of a misdemeanor, and the same penalty shall be imposed as if he had some contagious or infectious disease. Any person violating the provisions of the first and second sections of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than $1 nor more than $5 for each offense.