Show About Flirting Why is it that though every separate curl of a womans fringe will bristle with indignation if she be called strong minded or plodding only the mildest of simujated anger ruffles her brow if he be dubbed a flirt The reason is i perlias not very far toseek qui dit flirt dit a certain mount of attrac tivenessand fascination with a spice of devilment not without its charm And yet is there any creature more conventionally abused more hacdly Her own sex done by than the flirt se is especially hard upon herIt says unpleasant things about unscrupulousness unscrupulous-ness and heartlessness and all sorts of other unamiable qualities At 5 15 or 50 the flirt proper will easily distance her sisters men gravitate gravi-tate to her naturally not because of her beauty necessarily nor because of her wit but because of a nameless attraction at-traction For look you whatever her sisters may say to the contrary a flirt is never a fool possibly she may be profoundly ignorant of all the ologies the higher mathematics may be to her a sealed book nay she may have the nerest nodding acquaintance with the literature litera-ture of her own country nevertheless she Is clever She understands human nature r ceer knows its weaknesses its foibles its contradictions and she plays a tune of her own making upon the clavecin of the masculine heart Once in a while perhaps she may snap a cord and set the whole Instrument hideously ajar but by the time the catastrophe has happened she has visually ually spread her butterfly wings and fluttered off to fresh fields and pastures newwhich she rarely has any difficulty diffi-culty in finding for verily there is no man so difiidantj so absolutely filled with at sense of his unworthiness who is not immediately ready to Imagine a woman is ready to live for him die for him only for him if she does but smile upon him with a little more than common politeness Pall Mall Budget |