The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-18

He is the young man who is often
est reported engaged" the one whose
attentions are pronounced this season
to Miss A.. last year he was just as
attentive to Miss B.; next fall he will
no doubt be paying assiduous court to
Miss G.
The man fiirt lives a life of contin-
uous happiness to himself, but it is
doubtful If he makes others happy. He
carries in his patch such wake of
discomfort that it is to be doubted IL
his mission be one of peace; it is even
doubted If he should be tolerated in
society.
The man f1irt is never by any means
included in the dinner list of a soci-
ETY. leader, yet somehow he arrives
Just the same" as the small boy
would say, and, though no mother
would seek him as a dancing compan-
ion for her daughter. he is generally
to be seen escorting young and love-
ly girl on dancing occasions
Looking at him with casual glance,
the man flirt is to be known by these
signs:
He gets acquainted very quickly.
He becomes an "admirer" instantly.
He seeks confidential conversation
upon short acquaintance.
He is very confidential for his own
part, anu Is prone 10 ldlh III low lOUGS
and even to whisper.
He makes eyes" and throws Ian
gushing glances upon the one with
whom he is conversing.
He seeks to draw his companion
aside and frequently choose the con-
serVatory as a place of meeting.
He is not generally generous, the
man fiirt but depends upon the cheap
nesses of flirting for his stronghold.
He talks great deal about love, this
man who fiirts, but never does he say
81 love you"
He is generally good-looking.
He is attractively dressed.
His manners are irreproachable
In time he gets to be an old beau,
but when you know him, just when he
is the most dangerous, he is young,
and the word fascinating" is the one
that applies to him the most fittingly.
The girl in society who is captivated
by the man f1irt is the girl who is i'll
advised at home. Her home training
should teach her that just so far
should a man go and no farther; just
so confidential should he become, just
so personal should be his remarks, just
such a degree of friendship should be
expected of him. Beyond any one of
these the socity girl should be made
to understand that he is flirting with
her.
The girl in society does, as a rule,
understand these matters, nor does she
always need to be instructed in them
in order to know them. Her girlish in
tuition stands her in good stead. Her
innate refinement warns her against
him; her feeling that he is trying to
make her say and act as she would
not do and feel when not under the
charm of his destinations grows upon
her and she is afraid of him.
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harm, but he is very bad form. To
have been one of his victims stamps
girl as lacking in the pretty girlish
intuitiveness which should be hers.
I we'll remember once meeting such
a man in London one season in the
drawing-room of the Countess of War
wick, then Lady Brooke. The gentle
man in question was fresh from the
South African gold fields and so was in
small way one of the lions of the
season and right well did he preserve
his prestige of lionhood.
l saw him presented one day to a
Miss X, one of the loveliest girls of
the London season. His bow over her
hand was divine and for the next half
hour he monopolized her society. All
the evening he was about her, carry
ing her fan, bringing her an ice, pay
ing her those countless little atten-
tons that are so pleasing to women.
At 10 1 saw him escort her chaperon
and herself to her carriage.
The next morning I met Miss x. at
a musicale, the lion in attendance and
that afternoon they were at tea, she
with her chaperon, he lowering near
and Selling each chance to speak to
her. That night they met at a small
and early and danced together as Of
ten as her card would permit.
Fortunately Miss X. was a sensible
girl and saw the folly of the man fiirt
before her name began to be coupled
with his, for right we'll she knew he
was not earnestly in love- and when I
saw her three weeks later she had
forgotten him, while he was paying
just as devout court to another young
woman, this one, alas, showing by her
bushes, her preference for his society,
and by many little manenrs that she
had fallen in love with him. He was
toying with her heart. only to move
away at sight of the next pretty face.
In the etiqutte of society the man
firt should be treated as a buffoon.
The young girls should know that he
is not in earnest, the married women
should realize that he is laughing at
them. In time the man fiirt falls in
love himself and then, poor fellew, he
is to be pitied, for very often he is in
earnest, but it serves him right. 1t is
the penalty of his life of flirting.
1t is possible. 1t seems, in England,
to wear beautiful jewels without fear
of robbery when the ornaments are not
in use. Smart West End jewelers. make
a practice of loaning magnificent tiaras
and other articles of jewelry for spe-
cial occasions. These things are loan
ed as a courtesy to specially good Gus
toners, while other people less we'll
known must make a. deposit of the
value of the Jewels before taking them.
The London Express. in an interview
with different jewellers makes this
statement, and further goes on to say,
on the authority of a famous Bond
street jeweler, that at the recent big
ball of the Duchess of Devonshire there
was hardly a piece of Jewelry worth
considering left in any of the best
West End shops, so much of their
stock was out on loan.