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FLIRTING.
A FATUOUS AMUSEMENT. John Blunt, who contributes a daily. comment in the Daily Mail, writes on this subject as follows:-
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ALL-ELECTRIC HOME.
PROFESSOR'S" IDEAS OF HOW TO RUN A HOUSE.
Professor Parker-Smith, of the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, has equipped his home with electricity tur al par-
He uses nether cual nor gas. "It is a new house, which we have oc- cupied for 19 weeks," he says, "I de signed the electrical part of it in accor- dance with my idea of how a houst
Flirting has received the patronage of Harley-street specialist. Speaking re-poses.. cently at Hove, Dr. J. A. Hadfield, the epecialist in question, ohserved. "I am one of those who firmly support flirting It enables the bay and before marriage it partner in life girl to choose a
This must be very cheering news to a few million
people in the country, who, though they like flirting, have been brought up to believe that such a liking shows a lack of seriousness; but the truth word is one is, of course, that the of those typically sague English words which means anything recording to your fancy.
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should be used. thought it time a pro- engineering showed lessor of electrical the courage of his convictions.
There are in the professor's house
a dining-room, a drawing-room, library, a di five bedrooms, kitchen and a nursey. The kitchen has a electric cooker and an electrio washer. There is no scrub bing in connection with the washing. drying closet has an electric exhaust fan, Birt which draws in the air and heats it as it is a shallow, heartless person who enis drawn in, and drying is completed in joys playing upon the feelings of some an hour. body else, or, indeed, upon the feelings
Provision is also made in the house of a series of somebody elses, but whose
for altering the air when necessary, and Own emotions remain quite untouched. Flirtation is regarded as an idle and D-by the use of the electric Attings all dirt real form of love-making, and the firt can be extracted from the air. i held up to contempt.
The ordinary interprétation of
DOW
to
THE IDEAL MAYE, But
comes Dr. Hadicid
a deeper. instine, Buggest that there is tive purpose behind the rather fatuou
The routine of the ordinary flirtation. Hirt of either sex is apparently search ing for the ideal husband or wife and 'can ouly make sure of choosing aright, by flirting first of all.
possess
ally this may he sound,
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FILTERED AIR
A cupboard contains an electrically- heated warming plate which can be used for warming plates and keeping food hot The electric cooker is of the table type and does away with any stooping.
For heating and ventilation, external chimney breasts are used. These extraet the polluted air from the rooms, fresh air being drawn in through inlets in th
recesses, where electrie fres
Gre are
In addition there are electric plugs fitted at convenient points in the skirting boards, by means of which electric fires," or any other electric apparatus-such us lights. elegners., etc. can be Stted as These plugs are occasion demands.
buz it seems to me that Hirta- tion. in the common meaning of the to word. is the very last thing likely lead to a sound judgment about whom to marry. For the atmo you ought sphere of firtation is
inter one: Acted in every room of the house. parties are pretending to possess
WHAT IT COSTS. ings about each other, which they don't
Professor Parker-Smith installed a 90- The whole thing is a kind of sham-often harmless enough sham,gsdon task in his bathroom. The elec but a sham all the same-and-ore work tric power for heating this water suppose that that was the worst kind of switched on at 11 p.m. and switched off milien der ergendering siterity of eine at i am. by clock meter, which records tion or for enabling the tan yourg the number of units used. The bot people to receive a an insight into oze water thus obtained, he says, is ample A special for the services of the house. another's minds.
it often happens. naturally, that low rate to consumers of energy for heat. while one is dirting, the other is suriing Water during these hours is allowed ous, but when a serious person Beds by the electricity authorities.
"There has been no hitch in these that he or she is simply being made a fool of, there is apt to be a reaction arrangements," he adds. "The thing is „The capital bitterness and content which ought working with every success. to show the most cented Birt that, costs come out higher. but the running while irtation may be a very pleasant costs are fairly moderats, In fact, the way of passing the tine, it may also be average for the 18 weeks I have used out at ips. 7. per a very dangerous way, if not for your: electricity works self then for somebody else.
week for all purposes, and the 13 weeks. run from July to November.
THE IRLESION SCULES,
But my chcnjection to flirting, as understood, is that it hopelessly under- The mines the sense of responsibility. trie Airt never feels possible for his or her actions. The suffering he or she may cause is part of their ecjoyment and it never occurs to then that each one of us is accountable, for the results we bring about
are
of
It is all very wellor Dr. Hadheld to say that he approves of firting before marriage, but how many convinced firts eure the habit by parriage? I imagine very few. Flirting for Birt sake. which is not by any a rare form of ameement, show's A Frivolity of Lemperament and an egorie te, desire for pleasure that nothing is likely to alter.
ing's
means
It is indeed a bad habit with some people, and bad habits usually acquire 2 stronger hold over une as one grows older. Perpetual flirting denotes a kind of inebleness of cutlook which soon be comes evident and bores" people to tears. the least trusted flirts are Recognised of persons, and it often happens that the very people who are prepared, for a time to play up to their flirtations, do so just because they despise them and would not dream of marrying them. The worst enemy of the Hirt is the firt.
RICH MAN'S ROMANCE.
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The roma of Leonard Rhinelander, member of one of the oldest and went- thiest, families in New York, and hair to a fortune estimated at £20,000.000, ended on November 27th, with a suiv to anuul his marriage to Alice Beatrice.
п Jones. beautiful young womaa. in married six weeks previously. Mr. Phine Jander, accuses his wite of having fraudu lently, represented herself to be white, and to have denied that she had any blood. The announcement of Mr. shock Rhinelander's marriage came a
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Mr. Reed recently gash to a badly him up she is declared to bare said. knows he loves her. "Ell ever give News representative some, examples of
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