The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-13
is FLIRTING AGAINST THE LAW?

one JOHN w. TURNER, of MINNEAPOLIS
has brought suit. so the papers say, against
Miss ETA TERwILLIGER to recover dam
ages in the sum of $1,000, for trif1ing with
his young and untried affections"-to
quote the language of Sergeant BUzzFUzz
In BARDELL vs.. PICKwICK. Mr.. TURNER
is engaged in the family grocery business.
and MISS TERw1LLIGER is q pretty milliner,
Mr.. TURNER does not claim that his sweet
heart promised to marry him, but she kept
company with him knowing his intentions
were in the matrimonial direction. and he
had told her he despised flirting. Yet not
withstanding all this, and his constant at
tentions, and supposedly his soda foun-
tain and ice cream saloon visits with
her, together with the supplies of CANDY
and boquets, she would not bestow her en-
tire wealth of favor on him alone. "She has
gone to flirting with other people, SAYS
he, land intend to punish her for it.n
MIR. TURNER will have precious little
sympathy, and if he can find jury in Min
neapolis that will give him cent, the out
side world will at once conclude that the
city is not one-third as large as st. Paul
He is ''insanely jealous He is too hog
gish TO be human. He would not know
how to treat wife if he had one.
Who knows what flirting really isl Now
If TURNER was in the habit of buying tick
cts to take his girl to the theatre, and the
girl notified her other beau whenever she
was to go, so that he could be there too, and
she aud the other beau kept up asuccession
Of glances whilst the man who bought the
seats was looking intently at the play-we
should call that at least mild description
of flirting. But he merely caught her look
ing around the audience, nodding here Ind
there to some acquaiutance-thet does not
come under this head. The girl was proba-
bly, making sure that people she knew
could see she had an escort to the play.
Men are such fools that half of them are
notaware girls generally don't care little
bit what Is going on on the stage.
Perhaps Turner, passing along the
street where the pretty milliner is, sees a
rival little ahead Of him. He slows up.
observes the rivals hat rise in the air as
his head inclines, and comes on the scene
just as his girls sweetest smile is col
1dpSlHS. VI no sWedrS S06 Is q
f1irt, and he walks on muttering and
breathing hard. But is the milllner flirt-
ing. A thousand times no,
What on earth does man in love with q
woman expect of hera Must she cease to
be agreeable to gentleman. Must she
wear mien of "how dare you'' when an
old flame smilingly pays her compliment
Another thing. Many men, feeling secure
in their success, are often trifie slow in
reaching perfect understanding as to the
outcome of their courSship. 1t is then the
privilege. if not the duty, of the party of
the other part to draw their attention to
the fact that they are not the only mascu-
line human beings on earth, and that the Y
must ''come to HECUBA," or in other words
come to the point. This is perhaps the
only legitimate and universally conceded
use of coQuetry. Our word for it that was
the game of the Minneapolis milliner, and
whilst 1t brought suit in the distric,
court OF Minnesota instead of client in the
court of CUPID. she lost husband and she
found BOBBY.