Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-09-21
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lie street without witnessing manifesto |
ton oft in some one of its many odious |
forms, and the church pew is often the
field of its boldest action. The prevail
ence of ,tleseyh would dispel within me |
all the hope of becoming reformer even
if my words were less weak and INSULT
Gent to convey my. feelings ON the sub
ject. As it is, | only say, however feeble
my language, it comes frome a desire to
see the young of my sex who regard the
disgraceful practice as an accomplishment,
elevated above the offensive epithet, mere
hirt," to their true dignity, which is dig
nifty second only to that of heaven, and if
am ambitiously bold, the boldness is an
honest one.
Noah Webster tells US that flirt is a
pert girl" but why he should be so par
ty ticular to mention the girl and exclude
the boy / am unable to say.
Perhaps the masculine members of socie-
were more virtuous in his time than at the
present day.
Be that as it may, if Noah could have
had a foreknowledge of events as they oc-
, cur in eighteen hundred and seventy-one,
We feel assured his definition would have
been made as applicable to one sex as the
other, and might have read:
"A flirt is pert young person, either
male or female. nor is the former less
shockingly indiscreet than the latter"
However, it is with the female firt l
have to do, and leave, the pert young
MALE sincerely hoping that at no very
distant day he may see the error of his
ways, and face about with zeal that shall
set him forth IN his true light-that of a
manly man.
To pursue Mr.. Webster's ancient deffi-
milton. We find, on consulting the die
tionary again, that a pert girl is also an
impudent girl; an impudent girl shame
less girl; a shameless girl an immodest,
indelicate girl; and this, by merely tracing
the etymology of the word is the limo
cent f1irt" known in common parlance as
1.-THE Girl OF the Period" She is girl of
the period inasmuch as she lives at all,
but certainly she is not up to the times
This great age demands faithful, happy
girls, who shall live to become earnest and
great women.
We meet two classes of female flirts:
First, those who fiirt from a mere de-
sire for sport Second, those who boldly
wish to gain the attention and admiration
of the men, though it is matter of some
doubt whether the result is often entirely
satisfactory $500
To you who fiirt, just for fur" would
advise a less hazardous amazement. There
may be jealous Juno near at hand, and
if her suspicious once becomes aroused
against you, poor 10, she will be more
vigilant with her two eyes than Argus
was with his hundred; nor will her
righteous wrath be assuaged till the
gad-fiy of scandal has followed you we'll
To you who are so DESTROYS of gentle
mems notice, suggest new method OF
obtainingit.
Do you really want that light-haired
scion ofmasculinity to look at you? Then
don't shipper as if your brains, ashamed OF
the use they were put to, had taken polite
leave, or stare at him as though you were
on the point of convicting the murderer
of Mr. Nathan, but walllsnp to him, and
gently tapping his shoulder, say, like an
honest young woman, Dear sir, have
spared neither time nor pains in getting
myself up to-day, won't you please take &
good look ?" and I promise you he will.
If admiration is what you most desire
then do cultivate the most admirable of al
womanly attribut es-modesty
But you say, The gentlemen flirt Will
us So they do. and SO they will unit
you stop them by having sense enough t.
stop yourselves.
Adam ate the forbidden fruit because
Eve first did, nor have the daughters o
Eve lost one jot of their influence owe
the sons of Adam, in the thousands O.
years that have elapsed since the grea
episode in the garden of Eden. 1t take
a pretty strong-minded man to resis
the wiles of a good looking woman
though many of them have their satisfac
ton afterward in making sport of the ''fai
senchantress,' after the manner of a youn.
friend of mine, when, on being asked b,
his sister the other day how he liked
certain young lady, whom, as we botl
knew he had firted with but an hour be
fore, he replied. "She is mere holden
an abominable flirt, who cares more TO
the well being of her fiounces than tn
correctness OF her department, and think
every body else is delighted with her.
Every time young man seeks to en-
gage you in Irritation, he as good as says
t'lower your standard ofwomanhood; ar
If you take no notice of him, in his secre
soul he admires you for it, however mue
he may publicly denounce you as prir
and prudish.
1t hath not entered into the heart DINA
to conceive what shall be revealed in til
great Hereafter of the wonders wrought b
woman's influence; and will you have
said, 1t was oftener for evil than for gooC
Girls, this influence when used Alright,
to hasten the Millennium, but you can ne
er hope touse it Alright until you learn til;
life is too precious heritage to be waste
in mere child's play.
Hold fast your amules of modestyl Gil
the dear old grandmothers cause to e
claim less often and less bitterly, .Thine
weren't so when | was young"
Flirting is mean, vulgar, unwomanl,
therefore, don't f1irt.
AS you hope to win a husband WI
shall admire and respect you, and whol
In turn you NAV admire and respect, dor