Show MAKE MONEY BY FLIRTING Flirting Is by no means the aimless pastime which it appears to be Cynical Cyn-ical persons may look upon it as a kind of madness but If It deserves that description de-scription it is certainly a madness in which there Is often agood deal of method Flirting Is for some people an education a school of experience teaching the knowledge necessary to the proper selection of a suitable partner part-ner Motives more doubtful sometimes inspire the flirt For instance a young author who is beginning to make for himself a name finds u good deal of Inspiration fOr his stories In this wa Most oC his characters char-acters are drawn from life and to obtain ob-tain his surprisingly deep and varied knowledge of different types of womankind woman-kind the writer In question has had recourse re-course to flirting on quite a wholesale plan Possessed of a good memory he hasbeen able to reproduce some of the scenes In which he himself hiS been one of the chief actors with a naturalness natural-ness and fidelity which has lent a very convincing air of realism to his pages Flirting helps to swell the Income of a fashionable young jeweler whose clientele entele is largely composed of members of the gentler sex On being advised by a friend recently to marry and settle down he declared that nothing would I please him better but he was prevented prevent-ed from < doing FO by the fact that his business prosperity depended almost solely upon his remaining single and disengaged His predecessor had once been In the same position as himself and was doing a lucrative trade but on his marriage he lost half IUB customers custo-mers and was obliged eventually to sell out Warned by his example continued the young man of precious stones r shall remain single and continue con-tinue to flirt till further orders or at least until I have managed to attain I condition of comparative Independence Independ-ence The value of flirting Is well appreciated appre-ciated by many publicans and hotel proprietors who are well aware of the magnetic attraction exercised by a sprightly barmaid In many instances It may he said that the young lady behind be-hind the bar creates and keeps the trade of the place The custom of mann man-n house which bus been allowed to decline de-cline through bad management and the employment of Indifferent attendants has been revived and placed In a nourishing nour-ishing condition by the importation of one or two smart and stylish barmaids who were not averse to a little midI mid-I flirtation with tho patrons of the bar A London dancing master attributes the suress o the CInderellas and balls to the fact that he Is a single man and has many women friends In the surrounding rounding parishes A week or two previous pre-vious to the occurrence of any special event of his in the terpsichorean line he makes a tour of culls on all these feminine admirers In order to persuade them to use their influence In getting their friends to attend the festive gathering gath-ering which is Imminent This he says Is the beat method he knows for malting Ing any dance which he arranges a success In order however to keep l the connection permanent he is obliged to pay an occasional visit to his women wo-men helpers during the ofC season and he generally manages to do this by taking them each in turn for a day trip to the seaside during the summer Commercial travelers especially those engaged In the drapery business find it greatly to their advantage to Indulge In 0 little harmless flirtation sometimes with women occupying good positions establishments In large establshments One knight of the road whose ground Includes Birmingham Bristol Cardiff and a few other large provincial towns r 1 is blessed with a handsome appearance and manners which never fall to charm the women with whom he comes In contact In the course of business He Is not unaware of his personal advantages advan-tages and makes the most of them to such a degree that he reckons by judicious Ju-dicious flirtations to increase his returns re-turns by several I thousand pounds a year Pearsons Weekly I i |