El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-26

we do the golf fatalities there is nc
doubt that before marriage, filtration
is a most llealthful and edifying pas
time, and mere it is recognized as a
Legitimate sport, it promotes the
chances of matrimonial felicity, and OF
people making a wis - selection than
they could under OSper circumstances.
1t affords man an opportunity to
get acquainted with a girl before he
commits himself. How is the man who
never sees girl except in the bosom
of her family. and who never hears her
talk anything except the mere plati-
tudes of re day, to know what sort
Of q woman she is, what intelligence
she possesses, whether she is the sort
Of q fasCinator that could keep her
husband entertained to his dying day
or a bore who would send him forth
in WEEK to mis- club for entertain
ment?
The man who dances attendance on
a girl in what VIE call a flirta ton, and
who makes near-love to her, gets a
very shrewd idea of her character. He
can fathom her vanity and ge- the
measure of her weakness and her
strength; he can tell by the dizziness
or clumsiness of her thrust and parry
how she would meet most of the ext
gencies of life; he can Judge by what
she'll stand for and what she won't the
very fibre of her nature.
/ know an extremely hard-headed,
rich old nan who says that he never
goes into any big business deal with a
man until he has first played poker
with him. BY the way the other man
plunges or hedges: by the recklessness
or caution with which he plays; by the
foolish risk he takes, or the chances
he let's slip by him; by the very tenn
per he displays when he wins or loses,
this old banker sizes him up.
BY the same token there are few bet
ter ways Of getting a line on woman
than little filtration with /ner-2lay-
ing the love game with Per. If she
plays fairly and squarelyj she is all
right, If she cheats, she is dishonest
and not to be trusted. If she doesn't
know how to play at all, she is a
chump, a dead heavy, unimaginative,
unromantic creature that will set as
solidly on your heart as soggy buck
wheat cakes for breakfast do on your
stomach. Avoid her.
Woman's InaIienabIe Right
If men have the privilege of flirta-
ton before marriage. it is woman's in
alienable right Under a system of
idiotic convention that does not allow
woman to openly WOO her mate, fir
tation is the only path that leads to
the altar.
Woman's power in matrimony is only
the vetoe power, and in order to have
some collection to select from, and not
to have to take any man that asks
her, she is Obliged to lure as many men
into her parlor as she can. She has
got to act as if she was charmed, en-
tranced, hypnotized by every man who
comes along, in hopes that the right
man will come after awhile.
Filtration also gives a woman the
chance to test her own emotions, and
find out If what she is experiencing
is real love or simply delight at hav-
ing taken a new captive to her bow
and spear Often and often a woman
finds that the man who first thrilled
her, pals upon her; that the man
whom she thought at first her ideal
fails to wear we'll; that the footsteps
that once gave her palpitations super
induce after awhile WEAKNESS and
boredom.
After Marriage, Dangerous.
Her whole happiness in life depends
upon finding out this in time and on
the safe side Of the altar, and this val
liable knowledge she can only secure
by INDUCING in a little discreet fir
tation.
riage is a dangerous and a grievous
thing, but before marriage it is just
the skirmish before the battle in which
a man and a woman try out not only
each others sentiments, but their own
and Ii should be encouraged rather
than discouraged.