Year: 1868

and her object is to make herself, not
worth the seeking, but seekable. That is
to say, she does not care so much to pos
sess That which men most love, as to pos
sess that which will provoke most men
into funcying they love her. 1t is amusc-
m.nt she wishes; and she does not care to
have the pastime grow too serious. Then
there is the chance of exposure, scandal,
and other unpleasantness. She prefers to
make life agreeable to herself by reaping
the gentle batteries men best0w on the
women who most attract them.


The possession of beautiful eyes is only
valuable to woman if other people re.
cognize their beauty: and the great art Of
Irritation is the securing of this advantage
by the skillful bringing out Of the airt's
best points. The Airt's strongest weapon
is undoubtedly her eyes. The eyes can
utter so much without compromising their
owner. They never blunder; they never
shock unexpected prejudices; they never
say anything rude, or hasty, or injudi-
cious. However great woman's clever
ness may be, there is always chance of
her misrepresenting herself in a letter;
however accomplished ta!ker she is, she
is always apt, especially in the subtleties
Of Irritation, to commit herself. But the
eyes are never chargeable with inconstan.
cy. They may be grossly inconsistent,
they may make love to man one moment
and laugh in his face the next; but the
victim of their Inconsistency dare not COM
plain. He cannot prove his case against
so intangible an enemy. 1t is this which
ma es the hirt's eyes so powerful and so
dangerous. Her manner is always strong
weapon. Natural graces of form and
features she knows how to cultivate to the
best advantage as we'll as other women;
but in the acquired grace Of her manner
she has one of the principal instruments
of her pet amusement. Other women may
have as fine q neck, as pretty wrists, as
delicate hands; but the artistic frt knows
how to make those speak the occult lam
guage in which she converses with her
admirers. And it is to be noted that the
woman who definitely chooses Irritation
for her chief pastime, and who devotes
herself to it with all the energy Of which
she is capable, has generally plenty OF
admirers and few lovers. The natural
hirt, who firts because her Sympathetic
and foolish little heart deli ghts to bask in
the sunshine Of sham love-making. is far
more likely to win the alteration of real
lover than the woman who treats Irritation
as science. The former may herself fall
in love, if only out of a weak sympathy
with strona passion; the latter, loving a
free life full of amusement, will not allow
herself to be guilty of any such indiscre-
ton, and takes care to stae the premoni.
tory tendency to it. A woman who is not
swayed by any selfconseious theory, and
who makes love to everybody merely be.
cause making love comes naturally to her,
is quitely likely to be led, also naturally,
into making love to some one in particu-
lar. Then comes the crisis Of marriage,
the cares of children and domestic duties
and the ceaseless battles with recusan


servants, to drive the quicksilver Of Airta'
ton out of her blood and transform hel
into an affectionate, motherly, and piers


ant little woman. The artistic firt is
seldom captured and tanned in this way


Sometimes she becomes the victim of {


grand passion, end gives her former ad


mirers their revenge by committing som'


prodigious act of folly; but more frequent
ly she amuses herself with sham love


making until real love. making is no longer
possible to her, and she subsidies into the
comfortable quiet of elderly single life.-


N. Y. Sunday Times.