The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-20
THE MARRIED FLIRT.
A Product Of Summer Vacations That Is Pro-
baby Everlasting.

A Product Of Summer Vacations That is Pro-
baby Everlasting.
Now is the winter of her discomfort
made glorious summer to the married
flirt
Conjugal jars are forgotten, marital
misery Is banished, household woes are
hushed. In fact connubial cares gener-
ally put away in camphor. so to speak,
TO be resurrected, fresh as ever in the fall.
Though, like death, she has all seasons
for her own, the married flrt has seized
upon the heated term as her especial and
peculiar OF portunity ASIAN army W.T. ban
nels, she goes forth conquerirg and TO
conquer. While her undulating laces and
cool muslins modestly invite. her feathers
and turbe lows watt warning and her
ribbons rustic defiance. She is coquette
armed cap-a-pie.
But there are coque.tes and coquettes,
and the married fiirt is not to be mistaken
for thesingle specimen OF the same species
From the tops of her abnormally long
gloves to the tips of her preternaturally
short slippers she is Sui geReris Even
such light things as the Needless wave OF
hand the freakish fall of a fan show
her for what sue is. The giddy girl re
cognizes her with envy and anguish, the
elderly dowager with, discreet detestation.
Both mother and daughter know her and
fear her She has marred many match,
destroyed many an air castle, ruined many
a season.
If genuine cursing,. not loud but deep,
could kill her, she would have been dead
long ago. But she is perennial She
pervadcs all places, and spoils all plans.
She gets new Zest from the disappoint-
ments Of others, and like the vampire,
feeds upon the heart blood of young
hopes. No summer resort Is without her.
From the hotel of high degree to The
meek and lowly camp meeting she is ON
nipresent The trail of the serpent is
over them all.
The married flirt is not only multitu,
dinous. but nulIifarious She is of all
ages and degrees, of all classes and CON
ditions. One season she is languid and
languishing, another she is fast and
| furious. Now she is demure and de00te
and again she is Eighty and frivolous
You like her limp and Iymphatic. and
surprised to like her better brisk and
soubrettlsh. One day she is shrinking
and skittish, the next, she is audacious
and impudGnt She takes her cue from
| Cleopatra. Age cannot whittier MOI
| custom stale her infinite variety" She is
also absolutely apostolic she is all things
70 III IL No Il
signals are always out. she finds "a too
every time she takes the trouble to oper
her eyes.
And then the whole thing was so easy;
it is a part of the general summer
scheme-no care, no worry, no fretting
but plenty of folly
1t is no wonder the young girl is dis
tanced. There is no risk, no danger Of
falling. Breach of promise suits are
foreign to the married fiirt's thoughts a:
genuine sentiment She is fascinating, bu
You cannon call her false She is evi
IDENTIFY fitted to conjugate love in all it
| moods and lenses, but the sense Of safety
makes her cruel.
'-'ryiugher bonn ct under her chin
| She ties young mans heart within"
| Just as Temorselessly as though she
meant To marry him.
Possibly however, ii is a waste of feel
ing to think OF the other side Boil
parties probably enjoy the little pretenct
of sentiment all the more from the very
impossibility OF its bringing them TO the
altar At all events, the thing is likel!
to last A woman should never be to OLE
to try to please. and all women love to b
loved II is more than likely that tn
sole surtivdr,- Macaallay's New zealande
on London bridge, will not only he