The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-23

II oiA SCiy WSAi AOI io'S " DCs uithu,
but it needn't be dumb as WE'LL AL
clever Irritation requires speech to
mask its barrenness, for the success
full Irritation should aim at rothing-
ness"
Thus writes an eminent authority
on the subject. why shouldn't we
fiirt better than we do?" she continues,
why should we be either too obvious
or not obvious enough? It's just as
foolish to meet man half way as it
is to give him the cold shoulder in
stead of looking at him coquettishly
over half-turned one."
One young man, who had recently
been over to Paris for a short visit
and considered himself an expert, was
quite frankly pro-French. He declared
that American and English girls gig
gled or gushed, quacked at the wrong
moment, and for some one to really
firt gracefully give him Cherisette."
hear that a German professor has
just made the interesting discovery
that it was through the hated Saxon
that the Teuton maiden ever came to
firt. '.F1irt" is an English word, there
fore flirting must be an English habit,
and one not to be tolerated hencefor-
ward by Gretchen of the thick plaits.
An interesting Irritation requires a
certain amount of brain power, of
which the average girl is not capable
The average girl, by the way, gen
orally entirely mismanages her little
filtration, and instead of the ephemeral
and fairy-like conclusion which these
gossamer affairs should have, they fire.
quently become something too sub
stantial to be altogether pleasant, an(
bring more trouble than amusemen
in their train. M
| All this is due to lack of brain pow
er ,and particularly perspective on IL,
part of the girl. She doesn't SCI
ahead she doesn't handle matters wit
the light and delicate touch essentia
to an affair as fragile and of as shor
duration as Irritation.
The American girl abroad must cul
tail her Irritation propensities, for tn
European mind-masculine. of cours
, does not understand the why's an
wherefores. and certainly not the sui
tleties of the American feminine fir
, Once upon time 1 knew a yer
! charming American girl who went t
Italy. 1t was carnival time in Rome
and everything was perfectly wonder
full. At the hotel opposite, hant
some and dashing young Italian office
would appear at the window and throy
roses and bonbons over to her. Thi
sound an unconventional proceeding
but in Rome you must do as the Re
mans do, particularly at carnival time
The American girl thought the Ital
ian officer, handsome fellow, as, in
deed, he was. And SO she used t
/. peep at him from behind her curtain
and smile, and sometimes come out o.
the balcony. Then the gay Lothari
across the way would throw more flow
ers, and then kisses, blown in the air
fashion, and secret of which only tn
French and Italian know.
Finally he got to serenading hi
American lady-love below her balloon
in the moonlight. He sang divinely
and it was as romantic as a atorybool
so the little American girl though
, She was only staying week in Rome
, and then went on with her parents t
Venice.
, To her intense surprise, the Italia
, Lothario turned up in Venice and fo
} lowed her around everywhere. Di
she take a gondola he followed rapid
) in another, forcing the gondolier t
bring it alongside and making inipa