Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1888 — FOLLY OF FLIRTING. [ARTICLE]

FOLLY OF FLIRTING.

How the Practical Coquette is Regarded by All Young Men. N. Y. Ledger. If young ladies who pride themselves on their skill and tactin the art of flirtation, could only hear all that is said of them behind their backs, we think they would renounce their meretricious blandishments forever, and blush, if not past that wholesome indication of shame, for the false part they have so far played in society. The practical flirt is looked upon by all young men, save those green enough to be her victims, merely as a frivolous piece of human trumpery, with whom it may be well enough to while an idle hour, now and then, when nothing better in the way of amusement offers. She is freely discussed in clubroom conversation, and her tricks of fascination are the subjects of the coarsest jests. Instead of the respect with which all honorable men regard’ true women, she earns for herself their contempt, while the good and amiable of her own sex look upon her with loathing. Of obtaining a desirable husband she has not the slightest chance, and the probability is that she will either die unmarried, or accept, as a last resort, some wretch who will avenge upon her, by his brutality, the deception she has endeavored to practice upon better men. In either ease she will deserve her fate. We would advise any young lady who is inclined to flirtation, to ask some old jilt, who has been that sori of thing pays in the end.