The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-02-15
From the New York CoM'he'cia.'
III, Flirting GIFTS aAs" hAf'
;I,m Fellows.

1-,rrrr AVENUE HOTEL, February H.
THOSE flirting FiltIl-avenue fellows!
everywhere ] 60 the young ladies arc III
,;n,,. 1T the WAY Browns boys are CONDUCT
INC themselves this winter. Their cilc1 ann
SONS TO bc to sci young lady ION Tie
strin~" and then triisc with her affections.
riley always talk, but they never propose
1'l,rr fuss around three or four months With
= Young lady and then plead poverty and the
[-lon't-want-to-tak om-your-nlce-home
dodge. Now. the girls are willing to go.
They are willing to live in garrett with
brave, handsome, working fellow, WITH Il
heart big enough to kill them with manly
love. They don't like these timid, calculating
fellows. They like u man who will rush
hcadlons wherever love hcckons him, know
ing that happiness and wealth will surely fol-
low after. The young ladies begin to get
mad. They ;re tired OF waiting.
This letter, from Il young Fifth-avenlle
belle, came yesterday. and it tells well the
syrcn tale of love and Irritation:
FIFTH AVENUE, February G.--ny near
EN,-Wc Fiith-aycnuc young ladies have got
an idea. You know the New York flirting
fellows have been going OH dreadiully lately.
We never know when they are IN earnest.
They keep Us waiting, watching, and fuss
lny, DllJ llltN uSNcl CoillC SlS"'i1 oNs
and propose. They talk sweet enough, but
when we get them right down to the pro-
posing point they dodge oil or remain 81
lent.
"Why, only Sunday night, Charley Brown,
whom / loyc-rrully love too much for any
thin~-smllcd. and even he fooled me like the
rest. I'll tell you how it was
PA and na were at church. and sister had
cone up to NHssar TO school. wtnii Charley
the dear boy---camc. Well, we SIT OH the
sofa, where We always do. BY and hy he
| took lnv hand; then he told me he loved me.
! This made me blisll---n0t because it was any
thing new, for The fellows all say that.
"Do YOU loyc nc:' he asked, loining for
| ward so ina, felt lis lead jg;,in>t mine.
Yes. Charley, you know | do | replied,
and then I-wiy | waited for Charley TO say
| the resi-. but he held my hand th"nGitilllly a
little Willie, aud then lodged OFF by saying,
"Wrl, Lizzie, I'm glad you love me, for |
do like Ia Ire loyedw
"Oh, the mean fellow! l could CRY with
rage. but | like him, and | like To have him
! come here, int I do think il Was mean to
make me commit myself 50. and then he
why. maybe he'll 90 right oil aud 10 the
same thing TO some ether cir! Tonight"
LIZZIE IDEA.
''Tllis is our new idea. Ali the girls harr
a-rccd 10 it. We call it the hoao7 rff: dodge
and we are ho,r!id to nut tiiTc;igh every tlrt
ing fellow in &eW J OK on ii. The idea is
''':i XII IL! you how practiccd it last night
+, ana YOU will understand it better. Bur you
know it is Il secret, and Of course you Hic tc
be trusted.
"WcI, last night Fred Palmer called. YOU
know lie is IN awful ililt, We FAT on tllt
same sofa where rharicy and l sat before
! $40 nns uas low, and pretty quick Fred bc.
! gan to talk 'spooncy.' l pretended to EC
affected. Then he said, What pretty rine
YOU have, Lizzie The Old dodge, you
! know
"Ics. $3.50" replied.
SIS That youi' rre-i engraved on L" h
asked. taN;M. my hand. (Anoti,cr old dodge
you know 1T isn't haif pretty enough iul
! your h0nd,r he continued. "you should hay'
Il diamond SoiiI*ir". Would you like one =
! he ASKED, looking lovingly into my eyes.
YES" / said, if it COMES lrom the rish
one"
Glow would you like onn FROM sac, Liz
zic = he asked, with : sign.
ION | should be delighted, if though
YOU loved me-" and then | looked down OF
his coat sleeve.
But, Lizzie, you know l 60 love you--'
love yo, dearly, | -
"Do you love me enough to speak to father
about it," asked intclrupting him.
"Yrs. dear Lizzie, will speak to him to
/ morrow he said, kissing my hand.
NO, Frederick" / remarked, removing
my hand from his r5iyulsivc clasp, "l'n
1ld ynn de willing, but I'm engaged tt
Alfred Smith, you know, and was only see
ing how far you would go!"
So keep the idea secret a little willie, my
dear Eli, and we girls will fool every fellow
in New York Mum is the word!
lUtiIs. LIZZIE -.