The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-19
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tIirtina herself is amply repaid for
ali her trouble by the reception which
greets her as she enters ball room. All
eyes are turned upon her, and in them
she encounters but two expressions,
hatred and admiration, both catering,
the former especially, for woman must
be fascinating indeed to draw upon her.
self such marked disapprobation from
the gentler sex. Upon the latter, Fir
tina looks indulgently enough, though
she is too we'll seasoned to be con-
spicuously elated by it. Her mode Of
action in securing fresh converts is very
simple. Her favorite weapon is flsttery,
and it is rarely found to fail when
welded by her discriminating lips. The
vain and frivulous she meets upon their
own ground and trusts mainly to her
beauty and agreeable manners. To the
difiident she shows herself gentle and
re-assuring, while to men of an arrogant
disposition, she affects the most ell
chanting humility. OF course great
tact is needed in dealing with different
natures, 80 as to offend none; but tact
is faculty in which all flirts excel
Still, accidents occur in the best regu
lated families, and even under the hap
piest rule, the subjects sometimes rur
counter to the wishes of their sovereign
Also the affairs of the most discree,
flirts get into confusion, and men who
under peculiarly aggravating circum
stances, have been "done," have, in
stead Of submitting quietly to the in
evetable, taken leave to revenge them
selves in most disagreeable way. Some
Of these infatuated creatures have ever
taken the extreme method of blowing
out their own brains, leaving on record
their reasons for so doing in Language
the reverse Of fiattering to Flirtina
Clara We're de We're IL not the only lad.
who has dark memory Of past sir
on her conscience which efiectually
tempers the moderation of her triumphs
Flirts, indeed, enjoy al almost univer
sal reprobation among their own sex
In these latter days, especially, wher
marrying mon are so few, and the best
efforts of female competitors for honor'
matrimonial result often in defeat and
discontinue, We cannot wonder at thu
discontinue of tho dowagers with un
married daug lighters. 1t must be aggravat'
! ing for them to watch the insolenc,
with which q thorough flirt monopolize'
the attentions of the best men in hel
set. Old maids, too, long past the wal
flower stage, with its silent jealousie'
and entire dreariness, find pleasure il
abusing them, possibly, not withou
reason, for looking back at their owl
romance-which people tells US no wo
man can escape they think indignant.
what different ending it might have
had but for the counter destinations O
an unscrupnlous fiirt.
Nor do flirts receive any mercy, ever
at the hands OF the young and fair
The crime which human natnrs fintli
hards to palliats :, successful rivalry
But when rival is not oply successful
but carelessly disdainful of the victory
which was far above the ability of TIT
other, forgiveness seems out of the cues
ton, and hate is born, decorous, OF
with fierce Intensity, according to tenn
permanent. With men it is much ths
same. They enter the lists eagerly
enough, happy at first to receive but 9
smile of recognition from the reigninl
beauty. To those TO whom the Fates
grant subsequently, the bliss of finding
especial favor in her eyes ensues peri
Cd ofinfatuation more or less prolonged
from which the awakening is bitter, tc
jndgc from the rancorous sentiments OK
] pressed in the numerous Codes on the
Inconsistency Of woman" -'sisse34