Show IS FLIRTING AGALNsT THE LAW One Jonx W TURNER of Minneapolis has brought suit so the papers say against Miss ETTA TERIVILLIGER to recover damages dam-ages in the sum of 5000 for trifling with his young and untried affections to quote the language of Sergeant BuzzFuzz in BARDELL vs PICKWICK Mr TURNER is engaged in the family grocery business and Miss TBRIMLLIOER is a pretty milliner Mr TURNER does not claim that his sweetheart sweet-heart promised to marry him but she kept company with him knowing his intentions were in the matrimonial direction and he had told her he despised flirting Yot notwithstanding not-withstanding all this and his constant attentions at-tentions and supposably his soda fountain foun-tain and ice cream saloon visits with her together with the supplies of candy and boquots she would not bestow her entire en-tire wealth of favor on him alone She has gone to flirting with other people says he and I intend to punish her for It Mr TURNER will have precious little sympathy and if ho can find a jury In Minneapolis Min-neapolis that will give him a cent the outside out-side world will at once conclude that the city is not onethird as large as St Paul He is insanely jealous He is too hoggish hog-gish to be human He would not know how to treat a wife if ho had one Who knows what flirting really isl Now if TURNER was in the habit of buying tickets tick-ets to take his girl to the theatre and the girl notified her other beau whenever she was to go so that he could be there too and she and the other beau kept up asuccession of glances whilst the man who bought the seats was looking Intently at the playwe should call that at least a mild description of flirting But he merely caught her looking look-ing around the audience nodding hero and there to some acquaintancethat does not come under this head The girl was probably proba-bly making sure that peoplo she knew could see she had an escort to the play Men are such fools that half of them are notaware girls generally dont care a little bit what is going on on the stage Perhaps TURNER passing along the street where the pretty milliner is sees a rival a little ahead of him He slows up observes the rivals hat rise in the air as his head inclines and comes on the scene just as his girls sweetest smile is collapsing col-lapsing Of course he swears she is a flirt and he walks on mutt rInJr and breathing hard But is the milliner flirting flirt-ing A thousand times no What on earth does a man in love with a woman expect of her Must she cease to be agreeable to a gentleman Must she wear a mien of how dare you tvhon an old flame smilingly pays her a compliment Another thing Many men feeling secure in thoir success are often a trifle slow in reaching perfect understanding as to the outcome of their courtship It is then the privilege if not the duty of the party of I the other part to draw their attention to the fact that they are not the only masculine mascu-line human beings on earth and that they must come to HECUBA or in other words come to the point This is perhaps the only legitimate and universally conceded use of coquetry Our word for it that was the game of the Minneapolis milliner and whilst It brought a suit in tho district court ot Minnesota instead of a client in the court of Curio she lost a husband and she found a booby |