St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24


they live
VINO have not seen old, gray-headed
men as eager to flirt as young men and
more so: They ought to know better,
| but they don't; it's their nature. They'll
do it every time they get chance. One
difference between the gray-headed man
and woman flirt is that the women do
not flirt as much; the only reason seems
to me is that they can't get any one to
firt with them. Men are not so apt to
tlirt with women of their own age as
The Young Women.
and so the aged wife has to be content
to look on and see her old, gray-headed
husband make fool of himself.
"Ther e is no fool like an old fool"
What is the pleasure of filtration? 1t
only causes trouble and unhappineSs
among man and wife.
What wife is there who delights in
seeing her husband smile and wink at
another, and what husban will let his
wife, if he can help it, f1irt? Not one
but what, when acquainted with the
others inclination to tiirt, will raise a
scene and lose all love and respect for
each other. Filtration, some say, is
harmless fun.
1t may be so, but what benefit do you
derive from it? i have often watched
a married woman flirting with man to
whom she was never introduced, and
knows not who he may be. She returns
his bow with smile and blush. She
may meet him for years on the street
and always have the smile for him.
Still. she does not stop to think that
this man may ruin her reputation
through this innocent little Irritation.
In his heart he detests this woman, and
uses her name commonly as Mrs. So
and So, who just passed. OH / know
her," and remarks that would be re-
peated over and over until that lady's
good name would be in the mouth of
every friend he may have, and the lady
be surprised some day to find out why
people talk about her. Why. she may
never have known this man only to bow
to; never spoke word to him. But he
don't carry that idea among his frie nds,
and when the husband hears his wife's
name spoken by those men who make
it point to talk about every woman
who is
Foolish Enough to Flfrt
with them, he begins to suspect, and,
as said before, suspicion leads to zeal
ousy. and so on until happiness is gone.
nocent fun and practiced by innocent
people. But it is the innocent ones,
who. as rule, get most severely pun
ished. There doh't seem to be any hap
piness for some married people. How
often we hear them say: What fool
| was when l got married; wish 1 never
had" and so on. They are the ones
who have married in haste, married for
wealth, position, and their opposite in
all things. Well, what can such people
do? Nothing but try TO do your
own duty, and If you cannot be
happy it is your fault; that is,
If both parties do as their conscience
prompts them to do. You can find
some happiness if you try and throw.
off all suspicion and things which are
the cause of unhappiness. Try to learn
each others ways. All people have
their faults. No one is perfect or ex-
empt from them. If you find you are
wrong, acknowledge it. DO not be
stubborn, and try to make right out of
wrong. You may convince yourself
that you are right, but no one else will
be convinced as easy.
Before you were married you would
readily acknowledge your faults to each
other, but now it's different thing,
you say.
You seem to forget you have any
faults after marriage. Why is it? Be-
SouoO ticIS 10 IL ROOu amount or
sheer ugliness. and you expect your
husband Tor wife) is going to be the
same after marriage as before When
you see what difference. you almost
think you have made a mistake and
married the wrong party. You ought
to be the same after as before marriage.
But circumstances alter cases some
times. and you might be the same if
each helped the other more.
Many, after short time married, set
tie right down and make old folks of
themselves, and so sour their DISPOSE
tons that marriage seems to them lust
what somebody told them it would be
simply horrid: and the young wife and
husband can't imagine what they ever
saw IN each other to induce them TO
marry. But they must now make the
best of it, they say. If they only had
common sense they might be happy.
and every husband and wife who saws
they can't, say what isn't true; for if
each Go things as near right as possible
and contide in each other, their hearts,
having no room for suspicion and ieal-
ousy, few would ever be heard to say,
w hat fool | was to get married!"