The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-26
SCIENTIFIC FILTRATION.
Bah EXPOSES THE ARTFUL WAYS
OF WOMEN.

OH w OMEN,
! Herbert Spencer on Love-A Duel Be-
tween Man and Woman-InteIleot-
ual and Physical Types of Feminine
Flirts-Hotel Coquettes and Male
Sleves-rhe Dimpled and Reliant
Misunderstanding the Business Man
at Dinner-Inf1uence Exerted by
Innocence and White Rose Buds.
Playing Josephine and Napoleon-Is
Filtration Really Wicked.
tCopvrioht)
NEW YORK, March 25.-The Lenten sew
ing classes are most interesting. They are
absolutely classes in the noble art of fiirta-
ton. OF course a few men come in-one
calls them men who are willing to thread
needles and who represent to the clever girl
the proverbial dog; she tries her last wrinkle
in the science of Irritation on him. First l
called it an art, then l called it a science.
| The truth is have been reading Herbert
| Spencer, and he says love is an emotion of
the highest complexity. and, therefore, the
greatest strength. 1 annotated the book,
and wrote that Irritation was of the greatest
subtlety, and, therefore, the greatest
mystery. Filtration, in its ordinary sense.
is vulgar-in its finer is a perfect duel
between a man and a woman, with the
chances greatly in favor of the woman's
winning. When a man and woman cross
swords, man is very apt to put button
on his, that he may not hurt her; but a
woman never does this. She strikes, and
| she strikes to kill.
| THE FIIRT's FOXY WAYS
! Observation has convinced me that the
! feminine hirt may be classed as belonging
to the intellectual or the physical type. The
| first is more uncommon and much more to be
| feared; the second ID more general and her
| victims are among the thousands. But they
| recover, while the victim of the first type
10 never quite the same rs he was before the
battle. The great place to see the physical
tirt is at Delmonico's, or in the dining room
| of some large hotel. Drop in to have your
dinner and your eyes light on a woman who
| holds you spellbound; the curve of her neck
is perfection, the roundness of her waist is
| a delight and the softness of her looks fasci-
nate you. Shs gets up, walks across the
room and the perfectly feminine and almost
musical swaying Of her hips convinces you
that she is exquisitely formed. AS you gaze
| at her you are almost ashamed. II you
could you would blush; as it is
you feel guilty. You manage to be-
| OOlliO acquainted Will u6 TlOR5 on
her fingers. the girdle about her waist, the
bracelets on her wrist, the slippers on her
feet, all tanralize you by saying: Don't
you wish you were in my place" You go
away from her intoxicated. The next dav
you meet her again. She asks some simple
| service from you; you wish she you would
| ask you for your life.
That night you meet her at dance, she
wears rose-colored frock, and says to you
| that she chose it because she heard you say
you liked the color She sits out the ronnd
dances with you aud tells you, NOW she
| can't let another man put his arm around
her." and you are sure she is a goddess
| Then you give q dinner in her honor, and ,
concealed in huge bouquet of roses is a
| ruby ring you are horribly afraid she won't
| take 1t, but she picks it up and murmurs
how glad she is that you put in a ring that
was pretty and not real, for she can accept
it as joke, and you are charmed with her
| cleverness. Then you becomeaher slave;
you send her roses and sweets and Jewels
and you pay for dinners and theater
boxes, and anything that will give her
| pleasure.
| o, WHAT BOYS YOU MEN AREi
One morning you wake up and you
| realize the only side of you that this woman
has pleased is the physical one; that she is
| as greedy as parrot and about as sense
| less; that she Knows how charming are the
cur YES VI nbT anu sue KNOWS per-
fectly we'll how TO display them to you.
You swear little bit at yourself and then
you say "good-by.n But yon are not much
| hurt. That sort of a woman has made
scratches, not heart wounds, and for that
reason one ought 60 be thankful that her
number is many.
Then you meet the other woman
the intellectual flirt. You lunch one
day with an awful pretty woman,
and she has with her a pleasant
faced girl who is her dearest friend.
You enjoy eating the luncheon and
| looking at the pretty woman. In a vague
way you remember the other girl as a pleas
ant one; but, Of course, you know such lot
OF pleasant women. The next day the
pretty woman tells you that after you went
away her friend said: 81 can't tell why
that man attracts me. but am sure he is a
man who thinks." And you think you do.
Poor moth! You make up your mind that's
sensible girl and you want TO meet her
again. You do, and you find, curiously
enough, that she thoroughly understands
you; that she appreciates your great clever
! ness; understands your ambitions and com-
prehends just what you ought to be. In
| word she is absolutely sympathetic. She
Gas your history at the tips OF her fingers,
| aud she understands your weaknesses as a
doctor does the diseases Of his patients, and
she caters to each of them.
THE BRAINY CoQUETTE AT WORK.
After you have known her for awhile you
really begin TO think. She says something
| that makes you conclude that you are maxi
ing clover woman Of her, for it never
dawned upon you that she was that before
she met you. Then you find out that she is
woman Of whom you never tire, and sud
denly and horribly, It dawns upon you that
there are other men who think the same.
Then you long to be the only one. II she
concludes the game is worth the candle she
gives you that position, II not, you are
only one among the many. II she does
she will probably make you happy;
she will never bring any discredit upon
your name, but you will never be the only
one, for there will always be men around
! her. Men with whom she has a certain in
tellectual sympathy. IL she does not be-
come your wife she will take something out
| Of your life which is never replaced. The
| physical flirt Gao never do this, but the in
| tellectual one can. II you have offended
her she can make you feel your own little
ness until you wish you might disappear,
and even If she refuses your love with kind