The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-03-30
STAHLBERGER
SANDWICHES
TOuN ARTHUR STAHT RERC

There are flirts and flirts. There is
the flirt which you give your glove.
vonr cane or YOUR handkerchief when
you wish to appear nochalant. There
is the "flirt and flutter' of Poe's Raw
en-. There is the flirt which is merely
a part of the mechanism of a chime
clock There is the flirt of a Ford
crank when the pesky engine back
fires Then there is the flirt by which
we mean a coquette, woman who
trifles with mems affections, a giddy
player at courtsmp.
Of this genus of flirt there are sew
eral snecies. One kind of flirt NAV
fIirt merely because she is hungry for
admiration-a widespread affliction;
her we can understand. Another kind
NAV flirt merely because she does not
quite know what she wants-an equal
| " widespread affliction; her we
Should forgive. Still another kind.
the gold-digger who digs from neces-
sitv. flirts because mankind will not
allow her any other way of making a
! LIVING; her we must pity.
But there is one kind of flirt who
has no acceptable reason for flirting.
; She PLAYS the cOquette only because
it amuses her and satisfies a kind of
unnatural spite. Very often she goes
far out of her way to capture some
new mans fancy, and having accom-
plished the capture she Knocks and de-
rides him and holds up, for the ridi-
cult of other persons, what she con-
siders his weakness and his credulity
Generally she has number of hang
. ers-on-these also mock. And the
lneighbors, if she lives in a small tow
or in a rural cOmmunity-they mock
And the silly thing never realizes
, nor do her friends and neighbors real
ize-that she is inflicting upon her
self an insult so deadly that if any
} one else were the author of it sh
: would desire his blood. This | shat
E try to prove.
i Love affairs must be considered
necessary nuisance, unless one is bene
{ VIOLENT enough not to consider them
l nuisance at all. For whatever els
they are, they are necessary. With
out them humanity could not surviv
a hundred years. Therefore there ca
be nothing ridiculous or improper
a normal mans becoming intereste
in normal woman. Certainly no
1t is the most utterly logical, and til
very most proper, thing that a ma
can do. If there is anyone who ca
deny that fact, l invite him to ste
right out and deny it and be da-
well, cussed then!
Hence, when flirt of the last SD
cies mentioned above proceeds to rio
cult man for having conceived
o sudden affection for her, she CO
O. fesses two extremely humiliati1
facts, to-wit: That she is abnorm
" and unfit to be the object of al
mans regard, and that her sense
e values is distorted and rotten. TIL
l. is self evident.
But consider what such a WON
would do to you if you dared to t.
her so!
There are two classes of men w
are pleased by a pretty face and
charming manner; they are the m;
ried and the unmarried. I belong
:. the latter class. Of this class the
y are two sub-classes which are ST
posed to be the exceptions that pre-
the rule-and if you stop to. give |
py matter thought, they certainly
ne they are priests and eunuchs. l
's- not belong to either of these s.
Ms classes.
Us 1t follows that l have been ma
~ times smitten. have been in Il
ne with blonde Swedish girls in Men
ne sootah, and l have been enamored
20 J dusky Spanish senoritas in the
~, IRENE Southwest. My battered he
III III has hitched its protesting wagon
AiO at least one movie start, and ono
found myself in the impossible p
ton of having become infatuated v
l. Edna st. Vincent Millay as a dil
a~d result of reading one of her poe
az And l started early, and l am prou
well, at any rate there is nothing
graceful about it.
My first love story had a tr;
ending, and happened when I eva
but tad'' l was one of those fri
ish children whose heads are full
Une dreams and who would actually I
VI ly truly rather study than play. S