Show tJ II v O CA I J JI I I FLIRTATION AND THE RIGHT GIRL By Jane Dixon I 1 n p of f f an how eye hOW I a man has fallen tp to t o the lure of I Have you ever watched an otherwise otherwise otherwise other other- wise sane and sensible man miss two subway trains star gazing into a set of strange orbs laughing orbs daring orbs orbs with a threat and a promise promise promise prom prom- ise in their depths All the way to wherever ir IT 13 is going the man wonder if it he has missed the best bet What if the thu girl with the flirtatious eyes ees was the right Miss Right and he had let opportunity go Be not discomfited my hunter bold There is a way of forever settling the question a fair and square andI and certain way a way as sure as the I rising and setting of the sun Did the tae girl drop her yes eyes before your a admiring gaze Did she look coy Did she get off at the next station without giving you a tumble And as the train was pulling on its wa way while you sent a last lingering longing look after her disappearing person did she turn around and give you the full sunshine of or a merry mischievous smile No malice aforethought In that smile She knew you were helpless There was n not nt t a specter of a chance for you to accept the invitation She was spoofing you The teasing girl may have been the right Miss Right If It on the contrary she returned your too ardent glances if she met you half way along the hazardous highway if it she she- responded lightly to your free and easy greeting she is not the right girL Authors Author's Foreword Recently Recently letters Idlers have hac come to me from all aU par parts of the country as asking ing how horn a girl who is anxious to marry and have her own home a man with wilh honorable Intentions and a desire to settle down may mayI I I meet the one qualified d to share such uch happiness Such seeping seeking would stagger Solomon Man has sought his male mate to the four corners of the earth and returned returned re re- re- re turned to find her sitting on the stoop sloop next door Fate Fale alone can write the answer The best I 1 can do is to lo single Ml k d out the rhe three most likely meeting grounds ground v J and discuss something of their values V and opportunities After that the Uthe moving finger writes wiles l I l Tear up her proffered card bearing home address plus telephone number I Throw It where the iron wheels of ot progress will grind it to dust Such a card is only a scrap of paper Your future happiness may rest on its destruction The right girl does not sit at a cafe table casting about for She is not strolling along long the avenue avenue avenue ave ave- nue stopping to gaze at a hat In a shop window with one eye trained to see if it you will loiter alongside She does not worm herself into a conversation with you because you happen to occupy the tho next seat at atthe atthe atthe the theatre If It you are thoughtful enough to toI offer her your our lower berth in a I Pullman in exchange for her upper she does not for the remainder of ot the journey journe claim you as a sort of ot personal personal personal per per- bodyguard She accepts the courtesy with thanks and if there is further conversation it is on your I initiative JU A RIGHT GIRL DOESN'T LURE YOU You will never find the right girl flaunting her feminine charms in the tha faces of men that they may feel the tha call of the blood and pursue Dozens of men have told me the they have no respect for a girl who will accept an invitation to lunch or dinor dine din I or take supper with one man and while she Is enjoying his Ills hospitality eating his food and sipping his re refreshments refreshments re re- deliberately play eyes with a man at another table j You have played interested audience audience to countless flirtations of this caliber So have I. I I have always had an almost uncontrollable uncontrollable uncontrollable un un- un- un controllable desire to get the hoodwinked hoodwinked hoodwinked hood hood- winked host aside tip him to what is really happening and advise him to pay the check and walk out In a fashionable restaurant along Broadway not long ago one of these brazen little flirts received a lesson she will not soon forget The flirt and her escort were seated at a side table Across the glistening expanse expanse- of ot dance space was a male of the species It was but natural the two should discover each other the girl flirt and the man flirt It was equally equall written the they should begin plying their trade surreptitious smiles burning glances simultaneous lifting of ot glasses in silent toasts The escort of the girl was oblivious to what was waa going on His attention was centered on his own table The girl confident she was out with witha a blind man or a dumbbell grew more careless A waiter walter approached He was a clumsy clums waiter or the scene might never have He had been j I commissioned to slip the male flirts flirt's the card to girl Suddenly the hand hand of the e escort cort shot out and grabbed the card from the astonished waiters waiter's grasp Ho lie strode across the floor tore the card into bits tossed it into the male flirts flirt's face There was no come come- back There would not be from a cad of that type because the basic In Ingredient ingredient ingredient in- in of a cad is cowardice Now Nowr said the tho escort suppose you take talce care of the lady You want her a whole lot more than I do So saying saing he left the room The girl dissolved into copious tears Her TIer flirtatious friend took a quick sneak He was in such a hurry he never even stopped to collect his hat It was not exactly a pretty performance performance per per- but out no one who had witnessed witnessed wit wit- the prologue failed to offer wit wit-I three quiet cheers for tor friend escort When you vou are dealing with pirates it often becomes advisable to counter with pirate weapons The next time that young youn lady la lo tempted to flirt promiscuously she he will think twice and then watch her step Quite the most flagrant offender at atthe atthe the game of flirtation is the girl who is never content to have the admiration admiration admira admira- tion of one man in the party If there are six men present she must draw the attention of all of ot them She must have the center of th the ta state stage e. e The spotlight must follow her around ad lib I have watched one lady peacock Jeacock of ot this type Her tricks and cajoleries cajoleries her silly to to hold the attention of ot all men within listening listening listen listen- ing and looking radius is not only tiresome it is disgusting r When a real man first meets her I he says she clever So in ingenious ingenious in in- i genious j I After about the third sitting when the real man discovers the artless lI little arts used to ensnare his interest I are being applied d too to to every man he hits the earth with a crash His il illusions ii 11 crash with him He does not noi notI stop to gather up up the pieces I FLIRT IS IS-A IS A THIEF l He te e has no more use for the lady peacock peacock pea peacock cock than an honest man has for tor t t. t thief For after all the flirt Is Jus just that that that-a a thief She is seeking affection under false falsi pretences Her shallow shriveled heart is Is as capable of honest love of loyalty as a sieve is of holding pure spring water A confirmed girl flirt is like a confirmed confirmed con con- I firmed drunkard a confirmed drug drug- fiend She could no more give up trifling i than titan the drunkard can his drink the drug fiend can his dope If gullible man thinks to marry her herand herand herand and reform her he is due for a Bad sad awakening The girl flirt seldom If It even re re- re forms If she has not shed the habit by the time she Is well wen into her twenties twenties twenties ties it is a hopeless case The disease is progressive It grows with the the they y years rs Need I call can attention to the fact a middle aged woman flirt is an abomination abomination abom abom- Would you like such a woman for tor- your our wife the mistress of your our home the mother of your children Be lonely awhile longer man In search of the right girl The right Miss Right will come along some fine day but she will not arrive bv by way of the Flirtation Limited |