The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-30
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Wefsa'S Highest paiA wsna1 Wp1tsr.
F9irtinG.--f.

F7irting.--f.
The mayor of Pennsylvania town
has ciampsd the lid down tight and
fast on flirting in his bailiwick, and
has ordered the police to arrest every
young man caught casting languisning
chances at a young woman. and every
girl discovered making goo-goo eyes at
Il have no objection to lovemak-
ins,n says this stern fnoralitt, when II
Is done IN the front parlor on plush
sofa, butt when 1t comes to flirting
| in the glare Of the street ana store
! lamps, that is different, and am go
| Ing to stamp it out"
Oh, Ia, la, ID, what nonsense! VINO
/ IL a mere mayor to pit himself against
the God of Love? When were young
| hearts ever annenable to law and or
der? What do time and place matter
when the man and the maid ana the
ny The Pennsylvania mayor may black
! en- the sun, dry up the sea, or move
mountains, but he will never stop
/ filtration as long as there is love and
youth, and the mating instinct LETT IN
| the human breast.
| And why the ban on filtration? 1t
! is the romance and the tender little
comedy of life. and those are the poor
| err who miss it. The girl who can see
a handsome, well set up young fellow
| of her eyes is a narrow prunes and
prisms, imaginationless creature who
| may have a safe journey thru life, but
it will be one without thrills.
The man who never feelL his heart
go pit-a-pat at the swish of a passing
, skirt, or turns his head to look at a
| pretty girl to whom he has not been
formally introduced. Is dull cloud
on whose bleak horizon the star OF
adventure will never rise.
There are those practical individ-
uAls who hold that all love making
matrimony in view. and that a younG
man should not whisper sweet moth
ings into girls ear unless he IS ready
to pop the question. nor should girl
listen unless she has made UP her
mind to say yes"
what nonsense. Must one never
nibble at a bon bon unless one pur-
poses to make ones whole meal upon
chocolate creams? The very thing
you would not think of choosing as q
steady diet is often the one tidbit thai
you most enjoy as an occasional rel
ish.
Happy are the men and women WAC
do not marry their first love, but who
have a store OF pleasant memories OF
harmless little flirtations, of pocket
edition romances in which they played
the role OF hero and heroine. to glad
den the dfab years when they have
passed out Of the Romeo and Julie
class, and nobody gives them the high
sign any more. or follows them dowr
lovers lane.
When no one turns to look at US ir
the street. when our Rheumatism
warns us away from park benches OF
, moonlight nights. when we are jus
another man or woman in the world
, instead Of being the possible He OF
She, 1t 10 a comfort to know that we
: too. once dwelt in Already, as the flir
taffenless never have.
1t IL granted that filtration is play
. ine at love. and that playing with low,
IL like playing with fire. The playe
{ sometimes gets burned. True. Blu
what sport that has any 1est to it lack
{ the element Of danger. II Cupid ha,
: to take into account the risk he run
! of breaking q heart now and then h
1 weuid have to shut up shop and q
out OF business.
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