Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-01-05
Flirts.

Flirtina herself is amply repaid for all
her trouble by the reception which greets
her as she enters ball room, the scene of
so many bloodless battles, !: All eyes are
turned upon her, and in them she encoun-
ters but two. expressions, hatred and ad-
miration, both fattering, the former es-
pecially, for women must be fascinating
.hleed to draw upon herself such marked
rdisapprobation from the gentler sex.
s Upon, the latter Flirtina looks indul-
gently enough, though she is too well
seasoned, to be conspicuously elated by
it. Her mode efaetion in securing fresh
converts is very simple. Her favorite
weapon. is fattery, and it is rarely found
to fail when welded by her discrimina-
ting lips. The vain and frivolous she
meets upon their own ground and trust
mainly to her beauty and agreeable man
ners. To the different she shows herself
gentle and assuring, while to meu ofan
arrogant disposition she affects the most
enchanting humility. OF course great
tact is needed in dealing with different
natures, so SIS to offend none but tact is
faculty in which all hirts excel. Still,
accidents occur in the best regulated
families, and even under the happiest rule;
the subjects sometimes run counter to
the wishes of their sovereign Also the
affairs of the most discreet hirts get into
confusion, and men who, under peculiar
ly yaggarvating circumstaees, have been
/" done,n have, instead ofsubmitting quiet
ly to the inevitable, taking leave to res
xenge themselves ina most disagreeable
way, Some of these infatuated creatures
have even taken the extreme method of
blowing out their own prains, leaving on
record their reasons for so doing in Ian
guage the reverse of fattering to Flirtina.
Clara We're de We're is not the only lady
vino has dark memory of a past sin ON
her conscience which etfectually tempers
the moderation of her triumphs. Flirts,
indeed, enjoy an almost unixerstl repro
baton among there own sex. In these
latter days, especially, when marrying
men are so few, and the efforts Of female
competitors for honors matrimonial re-
suit often in defeat and discontinue, we
cannot wonder at the enmety Of the do W
ages with unmarried daughtrs. 1t must
be aggravrting for them to watch the
insolence with which thoroughbreb
fiirt monoqolixed the attentions of the
best men III her set. Old maids, too, long
past wall flower stage with its latent jel-
lousies and entire dreariness, find pleas
ure abusing them. Some of them possibly
not withontreason, for looking back at
there own romance-which people tell
no woman can escape-they think indig
nantly what a different ending it might
have had but for the counter destinations
of an inscriptions firt. Nor do airts re-
cieve any mercy, even at the hands of
young and fair? The crime which human
nature finds hardest to palliate is sue
cessful rivaly. But, when a rivals not
only successful, but eaaelessly disdatnful
of the victory which was far above the
abilities of the other, forgiveness, seems
out of the question, and hate is born deco
aious or with fierce intensity, according |
to the temperament. With men it is
much the same. They entere the lists
eagerly enough, happy at first to receive
but smile ofreeognition from the reign
ing beauty. To those to whome the
Fates grant subsequently, the bliss of
finding especial favor in her eyes ensues
period of infatuations more or less pro-
long from which the awakening is bitter,
to Judge from the rancorous sentiments ex-
pressed in the numerous ''Odes on the In
constancy of woman" T 4