Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-03
LIZZIE'S IDEA.
Flirting Girls and Flirting Fellows
The Fifth Avenue Way.

Flirting Girls and Flirting Fellows
The Fifth Avenue Way.
FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL, Feb. 10.-Those
flirting Fifth Avenue fellows!
Everywhere L go the young ladies are fu-
rious at the way Browns boys are conduct
ing themselves this winter. Their chief aim
seems to be to get a young lady "On the
string" and then trifle with her affections.
They always talk, but they never propose.
They fuss around three or four months with
young lady and then plead poverty and
the I-don't-Want-to-take-y Ou-frOm-your-nice
home dodge. Now, the girls are willing to
go. They are willing to live in garnet
with brave, handsome, working fellow,
with heart big enough to kill them with
manly love. They don't like these timid,
calculating fellows. They like man who
will rush headlong wherever love beckons
him, knowing that happiness and wealth
will surely follow after. The young ladies
begin to get mad. They are tired of wait
ing.
This letter, from a Fifth Avenue belle,
came yesterday, and it tells we'll the syren
tale of love and Irritation;
FIFTH AVENUE, Feb. 9.-My Dear Eli:
We Fifth Avenue young ladies have got an
idea. You know the New York flirting
fellows have been going on dreadfully late
ly. We never know when they are in
earnest. They keep us waiting, watching
and fussiDg, but they never come right
out and propose. They talk sweet enough
but when we get them right down to the
proposing point they dodge off or remain
silent.
'Why, only Sunday night, Charley Brown,
whom | lOve-really love too much for
anything-called, and even he fooled me
like the rest. III tell you how it was:
spa and ma were at church, and sister
had gone up to Vassar to school, when
Charley-the dear boy-came. Well, we
sat on the sofa, where we always do. By
and by he took my hand; then he told me
he loved me. This made me blush-not
because it was anything new, for the fell
lows all say that.
"Do you love me ?'' he asked, leaning
forward so that l felt his head against
mine.
eyes, Charley, you know d." 1 re-
piled, and then why l waited for Char
ley to say the rest, but he held my hand
thoughtfully little while and then lodged
off by saying, "Well, Lizzie, I'm glad you
love me, for do like to be loved"
ooh, the mean fellow | could cry with
rage, but like him, and like to have him
come here, but l do think it was mean to
make me commit myself so, and then he
why, maybe he'll go right off and do the
same thing to some other girl tonight.
LIzzIE's IDEA.
"This is our new idea. All the girls have
agreed to it. We call it the honorable
dodge, and we are bound to put through
every flirting fellow in New York on it.
The idea is-but I'll tell you how l prac-
ticed it last night, and you will understand
it better. But you know it is a secret, and
of course you are to be trusted"
"WeI, last night Fred Palmer called.
You know he is an awful flirt. We sat on
the same sofa where Charley and l sat be-
fore. The gas was low, and pretty quick
Fred began to talk fSpoOney.' pre- tend
ed to be affected. Then he said, 'what
pretty ring you have, Lizzie The old
dodge, you know"
eyes, $3.50" replied"
SIS your crest engraved on ?'' he asked,
taking my hand. (Another old dodge, you
know at isn't half pretty enough for
your hand" be continued; 'you should
have diamond solitaire. Would you like
One?" he asked, looking lovingly into my
eyes.
yes I said, if it comes from the right
one.
'How would you like one from me, Lizzie%
he asked, with sigh.
'Oh! should be delighted, if L thought
you loved me- and then looked down on
his coat sleeve.
"But, Lizzie, you know do love you'll
love you dearly. =
do you love me enough to speak to faith
er about it% l asked, inturrupting him.
Yes, dear Lizzie, l will speak to him to-
morrow, he said, kissing my hand.
No, Frederick / remarked, removing
my hand from his convulsive clasp, I'm
glad you are willing, but l am engaged to
Alfred Smith, you know, and l was only
seeing how far you would goP
So keep the idea secret a little while,
my dear Eli, and we girls will fool every
fellow in New York. Mum is tho I'D
Yours, LIzZB-