Show the she Is the product of arrested flirt development t by FRANCES M IN author constitutes a flirt that depends if it is a young girl W to whom reference is made the particular attribute that makes her a flirt if she be a flirt is the eager passion for experiment that is very properly the characteristic of youth flirtation love making without a serious purpose aa the dictionary puts it is in youth nothing more nor less than I 1 play practice and bears the game same relation to the serious business of mating as the gamboling in of a kitten bears to the ef of the grown cat we laugh at it and ate it and deep down don in our heart of hearts have a profound sympathy for it instinct has always told us and nowadays reasons rea reason soni fortified with the dis co colenes veries of psychology has also begun to declare that thit there is a definite purpose in all this and that the part of wisdom is to keep ands bands off oft and let the young girl flirt as she will if however reference is made to a grown woman moman the answer to the th question must be very different she who can continue to play at love when when I 1 play time is past who can carry over into maturity this lovemaking love making without a sincere purpose purposed 5 that belongs to auth is moved by no such normal impulses as those that impel the young girl to respond playfully to the playful advances of the boy overweening personal vanity unwholesome preoccupation with sex absorption in petty personal affairs to the exclusion of large general interests a shallow craving for mere amusements in place of the deep experiences of life all these thins have something to do with it but the real thing that makes males a flirt in the cabe ot of a grown woman is lack of development if not indeed utter incapacity for development this fills cannot be characterized as eternal youthfulness or any such graceful thing ae e d do 0 not admire those unfortunates who in adult life continue to have only the thoughts of childhood we call them idiots nor would 1 ve me prate of eternal youthfulness were we to discover a man born bom to 4 the heritage of civilization engaging in the practices of savagery flirtation Ilir tation belongs to an early stage of development in tho the human female whenever we find it indulged in by an adult we have an abnormality arrested development is therefore in the case of a biown taj L woman what constitutes a flirt |