Do Flirts Make Good Wives?
If you were a man, would you prefer for a wife the demure, retiring maiden who loved you manslaughter. Fortunately few of|in the morning to find another has such women win the heart of a man stolen his prize while he slept. to the point of matrimony.
If vigilance is necessary on his Tae QaAmM oF ELaarvE It is the way of the world that part, elusiveness is vital to hers.
But the other type of flirt? does what we have we donot appreciate.!"i and hold her mate. Why?! We value that for which we must devotedly, but on whom no other; Simply because she embodies the] strive.
It is not the attain-man was interested enough to cas; sential qualities of femininity-/ ment, but the effort to attain even a casual glance of approval,; ivacity, Caprice, attractiveness, which holds. Therefore if 2 woman or would you take pride in the; elusiveness. And this last quality} would hold her husband, if she possession of a tute who was the!holds the balance of power in would keep her husband her lover, cynosure of all eyes? There would marriage more often than any other, she must keep him always '"'on the s in either case. In the, the man who rests on his oars, or run'—never over-confident that she you might suddenly wake his laurelsor his vanity-when be is his. Nothing will do more to to the realization that life was has "'captured" his bride, will wake i keep him on the alert to win her dull and monotonous, for you cannot love without pride. In the latter you would need to be continually on the alert, lest unhappy some other man might steal away the pride of your heart. But in the main, would yeu not find more happiness with the woman who appeitled to other men beside yourself? Ask any man the same question and he would first deny that he liked to have his Wife please other men; but press the point, and even if no other motives appear, he will be compelled to"admit its truth, if for no other reason than that his vanity is Hattered by such a woman. He is proud to be*seen in her company: he delights in a, feeing of lording it ever envious glances.
Fuirrs any Frits.
For want of a better term we shall cal] such a woman a flirt. But remember there are flirts avd flirts. It is those who, without ulterior i ave conscious of their ion to the other sex and take delight in maintaining and proving the attraction, of whom we now spe ing in this sense is bred in the bone of woman. It will "out" whether she will or no, unless the instinct has been suppressed +o the point of extinction in childhood by ultra-austere parents. Even then i appear in later life, under 1 eivenmstances it will become a dangerous malady instead of the rightful instinct it is. Mother Nature, being a wise woman, gave her daughters charms over men} and the instinct to challenge the masculine world to pay due homage. Woman hag many other fumetions—ask any suffragist-but she was given the power and the right to please men. To. charge her with immodesty for utilizing her, powers would be as unjust as to stigmatize as a brute the athlete who displays his physical prowess.
Should she, by any chance, be the type of flirt who deliberately sets herself—whether married or single—to win a man's heart, merely is complete and he is enthralled, Hing it at his feet when her conquest the charge would not he so mild as immodesty. It would be neater to! yin ceria frock Naming colourings ang fnitied "wath wactband of Blet, lace, lity white lawn, attractively embroidered in con-threaded black Tibbon, sleeves and flounce finished with
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