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Show f""""""! I have long studied my sisters, and havo come to tho conclusion that all that Wnmiin'G '8 S00( nlu nc 'n nem m subserves ifuuiuu (ho ea for which thcy secm t0 livo 06Sir6 to namely, to captivate men by their nttrac- mjj . tions. And, after nil, it is man who has raSCinate caused tho growth of this all-dominant LTf-r I passion in tho heart of womnn, notwith- standing tho , fact that ho is ever tho first to lay this failing to her charge, .. . . not omV as tll sourco of all tho world's By FA0LA LOMBR0SO. mi i. i t i- - . ' cvu, but as a manifest indication of her inferiority in tho scalo of humanity, and of her kinship to unreasoning animals like birds, which, more than any others, display all tho characteristics of i , coquetry. Yet it is woman's only lawful weapon in tho strugglo for existence, as well as in carrying out the duty sho owes both to herself and to society to find n lord and master. Naturo makes no mistakes, and it has 60 organized organ-ized tho relations of the sexes that in tho furthcranco of its designs coquetry co-quetry has become tho deepest paBsion of a woman's heart. It has become an instinct at onco conscious and involuntary, and has assumed in tho courso of long ages by hereditary iuiluenco and assimilation all tho proportions pro-portions of a primordial and fundamental characteristic. It is my experience that in their inmost hearts women novcr grow old. An aunt of mine, who was quito CO years old, onco spoko of herself as being in tho flower of her age. I was only 17 at the time, and considered even 30 tho climax of decrepitude. Now, however, that I havo passed 30, S I imagino that a woman can very well bo fascinating at CO, and so I take heart of grace in this complacent notion. And yet I am quito certain that I am far from being a coquetto a notion, strangely enough to say, I find to bo common to tho most hardened of coquettes. Their coquet-tishncss coquet-tishncss ia tho last weakness that women will admit. And thero is not a little logic in their refusal to admit it, sinco they much prefer that men Bhould think their channs and foscinations duo to their natural and spontaneous gifts of attracting men and 6cducing them, rather than to any adventitious aid from art. , L . |