| Show WHAT A FLIRT IS A word ilao n dueer I 1 remember a long ion time ago h oaring hearing it a singular definition of a term very well understood by must most of us given ty by an old scotchman liman w lie ho spoke with a strong it rong accent IN havis a flirt said he be A it man mail who proposes and is refused now how lie came to be la iu such a state steff ot benighted ignorance is more than I 1 can bay but so it was and I 1 am reminded of the story storby seeing in a book that the verb to flirt means to move mor c to and fro with a pert motion as S t to 11 flirt i rt a fan the fan being used for coquetting those who coquetted were called fan flirts lady frances shelley h el anti inti the word nord while on this subject says a writer in the new york journal I 1 should like to tue mention ution as the result of observation ti that flirts are arc born not made and that unless s the he faculty comes by nature it is not dot very much use to try and alid acquire it because not only does the effort recall sometimes the attempted gambols of a cow which only draw attention to the natural heaviness and sol of the animal but it is il as likely as not that in putting on a manner and ways that ire are not consonant nant with ones temperament one may make hideous ini mistakes stakes just as when vilen a very beliy person tries to bo be cool and assured in bearing it happens often that the co coine ine seems like rudeness ond and the assurance liko like insolence 1 I dont believe we can really alter our natural selves even externally any more than we can hange change our physical appeal atice ance much av without its being found out it is the ass in ti the le lions skin alter after nil all |
