Show JiLTING AND now TO DO IT It is practically admitted even by matrons of no particular charm that though a girl behaves very badly when she jilts a man she behaves better bet-ter than if longing to jilt him she abstained from exercising her privil age This to be sure is exactly one of the concessions which gojlnatui man makes to the frailty of the fair and it is certain to irritnie earnest womankind very mucn I cannot hop itmen do tolerate a lady jilt They say Poor soul We never heard that any girl was miraculously struck dead in the act of jilting I have heard of a lady who in an unguarded moment accepted a devout de-vout evangelical clergyman He bade her kneel down with him and implored implor-ed a blessing on their union and as he did GO she was occupied in thinking think-ing how she was to get out of it I Surely we cannot blame her for getting i get-ting out of it indeed the blame attaches at-taches to those who get into it Andrew An-drew Lang in Longmans Magazine |