The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-02

Therefore, son. unless you would leave your scalp dangnng aI some e,n. girls belt, study the ways of the flirt and grow wise.
 Most men only take to cover at the approach of the woman who is so nIainlv labeled "vamp" that he who runs may read the warning sign in her languishing eyes and lack of clothes. Forewarned is forearmed. No other of her sex is so little dan gerous as she. and the man who falis for a professional huntress of men is as unsophiSticated bird as the fat goose that comes at the farmers call and lays his head upon the block.
 No. son, the flirt you must beware, if you do not desire to lose your per sonal liberty, is the girl who keeps her weapons concealed and who works from behind blind. She never stalks her prey in the open. She never digs her pit where all may see it. She never makes a pubic display of her lures. On the contrary, she practices her art so craftily that even her victim never knows how 1t all happened He only knows that upon a day, he found himself bound and hobbled, and eating out of her hand.
 So, son, when you start out on your summer vacation, look out first for the girl who seems to you a safe bet. For. generally speaking. the less dangerous a woman seems, the more dangerous she Is.
 Your instinct will warn you that a man plays around with pretty girl at his peril, but you feel that there is no risk in disporting yourself with maiden whose face would come nearer to stopping the clock than launching a thousand ships as that Helen persons did.
 Beware son. There is no beauty so fatally fascinating as the beauty of a homely woman. The living picture gets monotonous in time. because it is always there and always the same But the beauty that comes and goes has witchery in it. Let man once find out that he can call up some expression in a woman's face that transfigures it. and he is done for. He gets so enthralled pushing the button and turning on the light that before he knows it he has signed up for life contract on the job
 Besides, homely girls have other shots in the locker. A pretty woman trusts all to her looks. The plain woman knows that, inasmuch as fate dealt unkindly to the outside of he.
 head she must cultivate the inside of it. She develops her brains. She learns how to talk and to listen. She becomes what our Italian friends call "sympatica," and that Is far more alluring quality in a woman than beauty is.
 When you look around among the married women of your acquaintance you will observe that very few of them would have gotten even honor able mention in a good looks show. | Doubtless you have often wondered
 at that. The explanation is that their husbands labored under the delusion that only pretty girls were dangerous.
 and that homely girls were always safe. A word to the wise is a mouth
 full, son.
 Another dangerous flirt is the do- | mestic flirt. Wise, oh, daughter | of Solomon, is the maiden who knows enough to use pots and pans as her | implements of conjure, and to work | her spells with gas range. For
 1t is eternally true that the way to
 a mans heart is through his stomach, and no son of Adam can resist the | woman who makes him comfortable.
 An imported evening gown may de- | light a mans eye, but it gives him cold feet when he thinks of the price, But there Is that in a ruffled apron that makes him think of matrimony and home cooking and a love nest. Therefore. son, go slow, unless you are headed for the hearthstone when a girl begins plying you with iced drinks and angel food on a shaded gallery. A fellow needs Sto be lashed to the mast and have cotton in his ears when a siren in a muslin dress that looks simple begins to sing to him about how she loves to cook and dotes on. bungalows.
 Walk warly, son, around the good fellow girl Like the homely girl she is dangerous because she seems safe. She uses none of the well-known feminine tactics to secure the atten- tion of men. Her eyes are not rolling all over the place. Her shoes are not forever coming united so that a man Is bound to observe that she wears a No. 3 A. She don't chase a man down and hound him with telephone calls. eggs to the other ingredients. Beat the whole until it is smooth and light-about one minute. Finally add the melted crisco or lard pack into shallow, greased pan and bake in a hot oven for 25 minutes.