A Flea for Flirts.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1683, 10 July 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)

A Flea for Flirts.

In a certain sense all attractive females are flirts. Remembering that flirtation is playing at.being in love, I shall assert, without fear of contradiction, that every woman whose attractions .will permit her to ohoose her husband, and who is not compelled to snap at the first chance, like a-hungry dog at a bone, begins to' play at this game from her earliest years. In what other manner, pray, is a young female to acquire any knowledge of the men who are' seeking to engage her affections ? She understands perfectly well that marriage is the end and aim of feminine existence, thaly eighty -■ two per cent, of her sisters become wives and mothers, and that of'the eighteen'per cent who remain single almost all are unhappy in their. lpfr "^y~~q^n before a girl begins j >„■s_._;*.%". =~..,,! gentlemen, her, :? t__. _ • »,„ -_, ■■- -, ~'7»rr';; +urned in this. | ?*of • the j ; ■ ' ■ i. -- '• '■.<1 abu, h n.'l* : :.'.- ' :• .>..,.'. _ \-M •■■>,.;■ ir^.t, ),(,!•{. !-;:; .;. k , ,t,; ? »,# *• ■ ■-; '.>;'.>•<: 3. }>>'".■■;"«; ■■ v^B.jv. ,_j:V ,-j•';.j ■ fc>?*•_?."• ■.v.: ■ ';■ j. ■'. ■ ,«.*. ).£■.;«. ; Y.:,v. v,;.^: Yah fe:4^r ;«>*.'*- •■ '.-•'"•!■ *' '• '"•''-'■ - ■• ': ". '"i : ■,/:—- •■ :<. rvi:-.\-J*.i\ "'