The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-18
Times Lecture on Flirts and Flirt-
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The most supremely chiyalrous and
the most supremely ludicrous thing in
the world is young fellows love; it is
the spirit of Richard the Lion. hearted,
done up in the armor of Don Quixote.
Upon the other hand, there is nothing
so supremely bewitching and so SUI
premely heartless as a young girls
love pretending. The first impulse of
a generous, brave-hearted young fell
low is to fall in love, and the first in
stinct of girl is to flirt him. We may
sympathize With the boys, but we are
not going to abuse the girls for their
coquetry it is in the course of nature;
and they can no more help it than the
sun can help shining, nor than the
roses can help blooming, nor than the
birds can help singing. Indeed, we
take it, that the instinct to firt, so
powerful in the gentler sex, is for a
wise and benefcent purpose its in
diligence furnishes infinite amusement
to the girl, while she weavcs about her
lover a web Of enchantment, and holds
spell bound in fairy world Of happi-
ness, which, when she snaps the
thread of the web, he seldom or never
enters again.
Oh, the misery Of the awakening
from the bright dream! When your
Angelina, whom you have believed the
most beautiful, amiable, unsophistica-
ted and artless creature on the earth
or in the heavens. above, and who has
been blushing for weeksat your COM
ing, md letting you hold her little
hand, and say all sorts Of soft things to
her, and who has been saying soft
things back, .coolly, and with queenly
dignity tells you she has been, mistaken
in her sentiments toward you that she
has awakened to the painful fact that
she does not love you that indeed she
does not feel worthy Of such noble,
brave and generous fellow, and for
shat reason, if for no other, she cannot
marry you, but that she will be your
friend, ETC.! The internal cussedness
of getting sober after having been
drunk is nothing to it,
We never see a young fellow that we
like in love, but we think of those VIC
tins who were designed for sacrifice to
the Mexican deity, and who were per-
famed with, the richest doors; feasted
on the most delicate viands, robcd in
purple and fine linen, and served by
the loyeliest maidens for days, until
the hour of sacrifice, when they were
upon the altar aud their beat
ing and quivering hearts plucked by
the pliestess from their agonized bo-
SONS. We always feel a tenderness
for him, for we know that out of the
fairy land in which he is wandering
there Z is but one egress, and that
through season of certain wretched-
ness and misery; but when the agony
is on him, we are amused, for the worst
is over, and we know that he will come
out Of the scrape wiser and better
man. To put the whole thing in a nut
she'll, the tendency of girls to flirt, is a
greater educator of young men, and we
venture to affirm it as a general propo-
sition with few exceptions, that a fell
low never amounts to much until one
or two Of his sweethearts have literally
taken the starch out of him, and tenn
pered the overweening vanity ofyouth
with a dash of humility. Some philes-
CIPHER has argued that death must be a
beneficial thing because it is universal,
and upon the same ground we must
hold that drifting is good and proper
thing for it is almost equally as uni
versaI. No man can get far beyond
twenty without going through tile or
deal young fellow is just as sure to
fall in love as he is to have the Group