The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-18
Flirting Is Gymnastics For The Heart
Considers It Harmless Diversion Thoughts for FIrts,' Book Hardly Worth While-Nixola Greedy Smith Declares That Flirting Goes the Same Principle That "Its Cheaper to Move Than to Pay
 Rent
BY DOLLY DALRYMPLE

the Boston school marm is the Irritation perod' of life.
 Imagine a woman who has taught school 49 years venturing to timber up her heart and brain into lively firta- tion.
 We fiirt when we are young because we ARE young and-foolish, but the years bring us wisdom or ought to, and we try to train our several hearts along lines of stability.
 Flirting may be the gymnastics of the ular organ of the anatomy derives any special benefit from the exercise. A certain very advanced young woman has written a book entitled: Thoughts for Flirts."
 Highly diverting it MIGHT be, but it | ISN'T.
 l After puruslng it's hundred and more | pages it Is our humble opinion that flirt- ing might be ranked as "The Shoddy Art"
 One quaintly humorous phrase that the author of the "Flirt Book" sets forth is this:
 "The actual meaning of the word Flirt is to move at pace.'
 What does the Boston school teacher think of that? A teacher who for 49 years has disc- plined people might prove mild diver sion to the party of the second part but as to her own ultimate ending in the case-wel what about that?
 Nixola Greely-Smith declares brilliant ly that 1t has always appeared to her that the flrt applies to the realm of emo- ton, that familiar axiom of the unprin- cipled tenant-that it is cheaper to move than to pay rent" But 1t is not always a women who moves from one heart to another rather than pay rent There are also male foot pads, of the heart psychological vagrants emotional panhandlers, amatory dead beats. and everything else that the word 'firt' includes in it's meaning. Any woman who obtains the affections of a man under false pretenses is no less of a criminal than her more depraved sis ter who steals tangible things in life for the sheer joy 1t gives her to oot--and the Boston school teachers advice may be all very well in theory. provided flirting is merely what we understand it as put forth in vaudeville songs and cheap repartee.
 Have you ever caught your husband flirting?" asked one vaudeville artist of another at one of the summer play houses the other evening.
 "Sure,' replied his partner; that's the way 1 did catch him." And the house re-echoed with applause. If that's the way women get husbands, it's pretty cheap trickery, I must say, and it's to be hoped they get the kind of husbands they deserve.
 From a keen observers point of view should say that life holds few things that are really worth while-but True Love has made up for all the things that are not what they seem The man who has loved a woman in the right way has known all there is of lfe
 We may live and die to discover that there is no such place as heaven-but the woman who has had REAL home in this world & home where REAL love is the guiding star-will have had about as good as heaven could offer, any way
 Mercy save us! Of course, it's all a joke-how in the world did l ever give the question a serious turn? l wonder! Of course, let the Boston school teachers fiirt. They deserve 8 fling and may they win out every time!  the day were Miss Gregg, Miss Eula