The age-herald., 1897-09-26

1 Republican Womsil's cub and the soei-
 ety for Political Study.
 Lord Archibald Campbell has a hand some daughter. EIspeth, who is also a
 niece Of Princess Louise. This bonnie
 Scotch Iagsie has developed great l faney recently fer the bagpipe and has learned to play this discordant in- strument with vigor and grace. She has declined to devote any time or energy | to the piano, harp or guitar, but is an 1 enthusiast about this ancient Scotch i'm l strument which brings terror with it's
 inharmonious notes to every ear that is
 not attuned to the brogue of Burns Elspeth Campbell, who is nothing if not 1 original, has introduced bagpipes into fashionable London society and does not hesitate to parade the streets of her | native town with bagpipe band, play l ing one of the largest and screechiest of l the fearful instruments. With the re- l vival of exaggerated Scotch plaids in the l dress of fashionable women, it is to be l hoped no one will catch the bagpipe in- | lection. A combination would tax the patience of the public, and the physical endurance of the most athletic physical l cultured woman to be found.
 Fortunately the day of the intentional | flTt-tfe wonTaIG who attracts, then wounds for personal vanity's sake-is i rapidly passing away. The feminine activities of the present time have given
 women so much to think about that they
 are ashamed to be guilty of the in fntessimal sin of flirting with an honest, trtls man. Stiu there remain a com paratively few silly women who think | that the road to becleship is over the | quivering hearts of loyal men, and such
 an one must have been the inspiration l fer the following from a bright wo- | man:
 l The born fiirt is not dangerous. She l may appear so, but in reality her little l coquettish, fascinating ways are not the | cultivated wiles of a siren, but are as
 natural to her as is breathing. In all l probability when her eyes first opened
 upon this world she smiled at the doc l tor, and through her babyhood and
 childhood up to the time she was con- l sdered a woman that guileless smile 1 wrought havoc with every man who came within the circle of it's sunny in- 1 fiuence.
 She doesn't think she is flirting. She
 is merely enjoying herself. Men have l
 homage, and that she intends to have | up to the day of her death. The born 1 f1irt need not be beautiful, she need not 1 be even pretty; but if she possesses that 1 personal magnetism that counts for more than symmetry of contour, men l will adore and she will let them to the l end of time.
 All women dubbed f1irts are certain l to come in for a considerable amount of | unknd criticism from those who do not l understand them. The unconscious fiirt | will, however, after awhile disarm her | worst enemy, for if time is taken to | study the little lady the strange phe- l nomenon will be discovered that she l f1irts just as much with women as with | members of the opposite sex. Her pretty 1 ways are irresistible to men and women | alike and so she goes on smiling and magnetizing all who come within her | power, and those who came to censure l remain to praise
 i But oh! what a different character is | the deliberate f1irt; the woman who CO., | quets with intent to kiln, who lets firta- l tion run into romance, and then with l one strong blow destroys mans hopes | just for the sake of seeing the card
 house she has built up scatter into it's | component parts before her very eyes | She is the type of woman who separates 1 husbands and wives, who sows discord
 in hitherto happy families, who enjoys
 making sweethearts unhappy and | younger women envious. She is | schemer who plans her campaign delib-
 erately, not little skirmisher who uses
 her weapons on all alike.
 The flirt by design is a dangerous per
 son. She loves to wound. She delights
 in the cries of those who have been | pierced by the darts from her havoc | dealing eyes. Her victims are fewer
 than those that come to the net of the
 born f1irt, but their suffering is real, | their pain bitter The natural flirt will l go on flirting with her own husband
 after they have been married twenty | years, but the other one if chance or design brings her a man whose name
 she is asked to bear, no longer wastes | her time on him, but looks around for
 some one else's husband to practice her l wiles upon.''
 l The postponement of Alabama Day under existing circumstances was the l wisest possible proceeding. Outside of the yellow fever situation, and the nat | uTdl didTIl IelC Dy perSOHS HI Sdfu to | the danger of contact in large crowds, l the latter part of September is the most | inconvenient and disagreeable season of the year for a pleasure trip. The | summer wardrobes of the most fortu- | nate and extravagant women have been depleted by that time, and the sultri- | ness of the early autumn has prevented | any one from seriously considering a winter outfit In October the breath Of l winter is in the invigorating air, women | have purchased, at any rate, portion | of their costumes for the cmoing season, l and, as all know, there is certain satis- 1 faction in the knowledge of being prop l erly attired, that few other things in
 life impart. By the 22d of October, Ala bafha men and Alabama women will | be ready and anxious to make their state l tc tol. adxr tata tlsar,