Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1886 — A Flirt’s Confession. [ARTICLE]

A Flirt’s Confession.

“I do not think that I ever flirted with the hope or intention of seriouslywinning men’s hearts. It was fun to receive their attentions and to be able to lure them away from other girls, and especially was this the case when the men were married or engaged. In most instances I think they went back to their own and their own received them. Why did Ido it? Well, I think the reason was this: I really liked all agreeable men and anything that looked like lack of appreciation on their part was so exceedingly distasteful to me that I straightway strove to overcome it. The young fellows just coming out came into my net as a matter of course for several years, but older men heard of me before being presented,and fought shy. I did not understand this then. I thought they disliked me, whereas it was probably caution or disapproval, and I set myself forthwith to disarm the caution and change the disappoval to liking. It was simply unpleasant to me to have anyone indifferent. I have cried time and again on my way home in the carriage, simply because some one whom I wanted to please seemed indifferent. Several times I was actually caught with tears on my cheeks by those of whom I was thinking, and I always managed to let them guess the reason of my tears. That was always effectual. It never failed to bring about the desired end, but I declare solemnly that I never did it on purpose —cried, I mean—and I never intended to be caught in tears. I suppose that most men will refuse to believe this, but it is true. I was simply at my wits’ end with wretchedness, because I thought some one had taken a dislike to me.” —The Hour.