Arizona republican., 1892-08-20

S/N/ should like her." said l
 one evening at a recep- tion, and my hostess with Q smile re- piled; Miss Zee? Oh, of course she's charming, but
 The sentence was not finished, for some one entered to whom the hostess must speak and at the same time a friend claimed my attention. After the usual amenities had passed and we were slowly promenading the room returned to my quest little curious to find out what that "but" meant.
 "A pretty girl over there" said l carelessly, and my escort smiled just as my hostess had done.
 Miss Zee? Very pretty, very pretty indeed, but
 But whaty demanded so vivacious- ly as to mildly astonish my friend, who hastened to reply:
 "Oh, nothing scandalous, nothing dis agreeable, only she's, l suppose, the most accomplished firt in existence"
 "Oh, that's it!' responded l, and when my friend had to go away and dance ranged myself alongside of dear old dowager and said;
 "l should like to know Miss Zee. Are you acquainted with herr"
 "Yes-that is, know all her people and speak to her when she comes in my way, but, my dear, she's such horrid flirt that really l cannot approve of her"
 Pm not afraid of her" laughed l, "and here she comes."
 "Oh, of course" replied my dowager, little sourly, and beckoned with her fan to the girl, who had paused close beside us.
 Zee, this lady wishes to know you," said she coldly, and the next moment a pair of luminous gray eyes met mine, a sweet smile developed two lovely dim ples and voice of music said:
 1t is so kind of you to let me make your acquaintance, dear Mrs. Leslie. have wanted to for a whole year"
 Of course this was a very ordinary, in fact commonplace, sort of thing to say, but the look, the smile, the voice, and withal an air of simple candor prevailing the whole gave charm to the little ut terance which very elaborate compli- ments sometimes fail to convey. l at once liked Miss Zee, and determined to watch her little and see some of the terrific flirting which seemed to have gained the reputation of 'manslsyer" for such lovely creature.
 had not met her half dozen times before made up my mind that she was no more of a firt consciously than the ugliest and crossest girl in the world would be, but the trouble was that na. ture had endowed her with a perfectly resistless power of fascination. She did not especially care for me; in fact, we never met after that season, for she mar ried and went to Australia, where she drove the whole colony mad but the little compliment with which she &C., knowledged my desire for an introduc- tion was for the moment the genuine ex- pression of her feelings, and her wonder ful charm of manner added weight and force to the pretty phrase.
 Here, then, was the secret of Miss Zee's being called flirt, and here, as l believe, is the secret of a great many other women's gaining the same unen- viable reputation. Such girl or wom- an has quick sympathies, tender and pitiful feelings, great tact and an amia- ble desire to make everybody content and happy. Added to these there must be sufficient beauty to give expression to the face, and a sweet, flexible voice, for tha tpnaa of a vpica onl ,r1onoa of the eyes are quite as effective as any spoken words can be. A girl thus con stituted is pretty sure to be called fiirt, for each man who approaches her is at once convinced that she intends him to understand that she is especially inter- ested in him, and he is accordingly flat tered. Going on this basis he comes to imagine his own rights to this gentle sympathy and absorbed attention to his condolences, quite exclusive, and when he sees some other man receiving just tho same looks and smiles and tones he IS very much aggrieved and immediately stigmatizes his late goddess as fiirt
 This kind of woman call the inevit- able or irresponsible firt She really cannot help what she does any more than certain sorts of flowers can help exuding gummy sweet, which at once attracts and enchains the insects always lowering about them. She is so constituted physically that her eyes, her smile, her voice, her figure, her motion and her repose exercise powerful fas- cination upon the beholder, and if it is a.man they arouse in him that personal interest, that instinct of pursuit, that desire to attract notice to himself which almost every man feels toward almost every woman with any claim to youth or beauty or charm of any sort.
 But this power of physical fascination is only tho first part of the armory of the unconscious firt. The victim thus attracted by this primary power is se- cured, bound hand and foot, and some- times imprisoned for life by the mental, or rather by the sympathetic, charm now brought to bear on him. Never before did he find any one who so quickly and so thoroughly understood him; never did any one so sweetly enter into the perplexities of his business life or his college career or his professional anx- ieties; never did any woman show such intelligent yet feminine interest in the political questions that absorb him. and