Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1879 — A Flirt at the Theater. [ARTICLE]

A Flirt at the Theater.

She sat in the front row of the parquet circle the other night, and when she wasn’t flirting with the gentlemen whose faces she cauld see, she was discussing the people on the stage. She was a beautiful blond, with dark brown eyes, and her face attracted much attention. A fair, white skin, rosy dimpled cheeks, lips like the cherries that grow nearest the sun, in the top of the tree, pearly teeth, the regular rows of which “showed themselves whenever she chose to let her musical laugh be heard (which was often); and a pretty shaped head, crowned with a wealth of golden hair and thecunniugestof hats. She talked aloud, and even made up faces at the gentlemen who stared at her. Ordinarily, such a character, even though a female beauty, would have been unpleasant at the theater, but somehow, everybody seemed pleased with the lady. If T. G.’s glass did not deceive him, she was about four years old. The only portion of the play she seemed to understand and appreciate was a love-making scene. When the laughter that followed the exit of the lovers in the play had subsided, the little one turned to a young lady and said in a perfectly audible voice. “Della, ’at’s des ’e way cousin George tissed oo ’e uver day.” The star was much disconcerted to hear a roar of laughter from a portion of the audience just as she made her tragic entrance on the next scene; but her tribulation was insignificant by comparison with that of a certain couple, who will henceforth leave the “little flirt” at home when they go to the play.—[Detroit Free Press.