Show Game Laws Off for Prot Protection of o f flea Hearts rt if it Ie I t While All AIl Except Cupid Are on Va Vacation on I Fall Will Bring Bring Usual Usual Boasts Boasts of I Big Strings Caught and in Confidence the Stories Stor es of Wary Ones Who Got Away Only Two Wont Won't Tell of Catches or Even Admit Fishing Fishing Fishing Fish Fish- ing the Wife at Seashore and Husband Husband- Left in Town Copyright ht 1918 l byr by the Ire Press Publishing Co I nY ln S liE Flirting Season la is here Now NowA ow THE A that everybody c but Cupid Is en entitled entitled entitled en- en heart hunters hunters vet vet veterans titled tl a vacation on erans and novices should novices should get et out their tackle and look 1001 It over overt just Juat as the fisherman examines his reels and files s the tennis fiend fl nd his rackets orthe or orthe orthe the pedestrian looks over his knapsack before taking the open road O Of course I there are p persons who hunt or fish for hearts all tho the year car round In defiance of game laws or the tle perils of ot poach- poach lug ins 1 But In general genera the UlC open season eason for l I hearts begins Just as the June weddings wed wed- weddings eddings ed dings are over and continues till the thelast thelast thelast last has returned to to town n When he sots gets back more particularly will hear tales tale when she gets back we of the tho strings of ot hearts that captured captured cap cap- and as usual of ot course the tall est cst tale will deal with the great big fellow that got Jot awa away Officially of ot course uch such fish dont don't get set awa away from girls When the string of ot conquest Is small they report that the they got tired pulling them them In or Ot that the they threw back a lot o of little fello fellows s that the they didn't want But unofficially when women who like each other get got together and toll ten the truth to each other is m they never ne have told it to men there thero will be an nn exchange of or facts real stories s of ot nibbles nibbles nibbles nib nib- bles of wary fish that ran away with the rocks ands and the tho line Hue or ducked under s snapped It It or Rot got of off with the hook hool still sUll in their quivering gills And at the hour of or the third drink men too will compare notes of the seasons season's seasons season's sea sea- sons son's flirtations And then all of us savo save perpetual hunters heart-hunters will settle down to sober citizenship for tor the thereal rest real of the year car There will be two sorts o of flirts who will not tell each other othel of the string of hearts the they caught ht nor nOI even admit thc they went wont fishing They are aro the tho summer widow and nd the roo root roof garden arden w widower the wife h by the thc seashore and the husband she I 1 t left lett in town I 1 I What I b Flirtation t What is 18 flirtation flirtation- How dO does dors H It I differ from love Io Is It Justifiable pastime or or reprehensible practice to be discouraged by tho the stern moralist Should men and women flirt It seems useless to ask if It they do flirt Do American boys and girls girls' and men and women flirt too much Our young oUng people enjoy a liberty not accorded to youth any anywhere here else elee In the civilized world Do they abuse it Or is the success success suc sue cess of the honor system on which we have lave placed them one of ot our national glories glories' To begin with what Is flirtation flirtation flirta flirta- tion Uon It Ij Is a sparkle In the blood a gentle genUe fermentation which If It long IonS continued may become life lifes life's s greatest intoxicant love but buts which differs from love as a firefly differs from a a. beacon light Kipling wrote of ot the tho the o wisp o of love but flirtation Is more like tho the o the It It is the star to every wandering bark is in my opinion the most exquisite ox- ox definition of or love that has ever been written So It should be easy enough to distinguish distinguish dis dis- a n. star from rom a the o to tell teU flirtation from love And yet ct many unhappy marriages are made and many once happy marriages are broken brok brok- en because men and women arc are unable to mako this distinction A man forsakes forsakes forsakes for for- sakes his star to pursue a a. will the wisp Into a quagmire or or a 0 woman follows follows follows fol fol- lows a the o to the altar and When sh she she- discovers her mistake feels fecla as dismayed as a a. child when he tries to tc domesticate a June bug in A A. paper box bo and finds that It ha has lost its light and anc looks like Ilka an any other bro brown n uninteresting eating esting thing I Flirtation Flirtation Skirt Skirts Infatuation George Meredith In advising a young oung man to learn to distinguish between love hove and Infatuation said that love lov-e Is patient it knows know how to wait walt through distance and disappointment as infatuation Infatuation cannot In t fact t that the capac capacity capao- capao ity for tor waiting is th the tho only thing by which I true love hove may be bc determined Flirtation of or course merely merel skirts the b border line of or infatuation It Is 10 love lore In miniature rc Many any good and earnest persons are opposed to flirta flIrta- tion There Is 19 still a widespread tradition tra tra- to the effect that a girls girl's first kiss belongs belonG's to her fiance But how far this belief belle affects life and conduct and how far it Is merely an archaic decoration of or columns etc I dont don't pretend to sa say I know there are area a a. great many girls still in high school who could qualify for fOI this Ideal of or per per- For boys bOs and girls begin to flirt very early earh with us and in the main Innocently and harmlessly enough If an any hunter heart-hunter has any information mation matlon which he or SILO she thinks of or value val al ue on the general subject of when and how low to flirt and any o opinions o oc fJ- fJ cs a as aH to what the game a. t f should be I shall b be e g ro 4 tear lear from him or her 1 1 Jj I sl J i 1 |