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THE LADY-KILLER. A Fresh Estimate of that Fascinating Person, the Male Flirt.

Iv London '• Society " a sprightly writer thus pinches the ears of the lady-killer : The male Hiib is an individual nob confined to our own days, nor } r et e^en to our own century. Fiom time immemorial this tenible yet fascinating peison has scoured bocicty, just as the pirates and buccaneers of old are said to have scoured the seas, with their powerful and irresistible charm. Theic is a weird attraction about him, a fearful joy at his approach, a horrible and unnatuial delighb at the bare mention of his name. Like the vampire of Herman fairy lore, lie subjugates the senses and curdles the blood at one and the same time ; he is delightful and yet) alarming-, enticing and yet appalling, all au once. The male flirt is the terror of mothers and the detestation of the whole race of elderly aunts and chaperoncs of all kinds. We have all in turn been warned, against him ; all cautioned to steel our hearts to his advances, and to barricade the poitals of our souls against his serpent-like depredations. Yet so contradictious and so foolish is the nature of woman that there is not one of us. young or old, who has not at some time or other of our lives fallen a willing victim to this seductively dangerous individual. The male flirt is made so neither by practice nor yet by education — he is born so ; just as genius, or cooking or mathematics is born with a man, so is flirting in its higher branches implanted within him by nature. He is not often a handsome man, although he is invariably a pleasant one, and he is not, as a rule, popular among his fellow men. Fathers and brothers eyehim with suspicion as something which they do not wholly comprehend, while husbands turn cold shoulders upon his blandishments, or at best treat him with freezing politeness. Men, in short, look upon him askance, and one and all unite in running him down — but, perhaps, that is only because they are jealous of him.

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Te Aroha News, 26 November 1887, Page 2

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THE LADY-KILLER. A Fresh Estimate of that Fascinating Person, the Male Flirt. Te Aroha News, 26 November 1887, Page 2

THE LADY-KILLER. A Fresh Estimate of that Fascinating Person, the Male Flirt. Te Aroha News, 26 November 1887, Page 2

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