Max O'Rell's new hook on the " Woman of England " is full of bright things, which the English papers arc eagerly copying. Nothing could be better than his description of English courting, the frankness of which public endearment puzzles the American and other foreigners. "Itis a very strange sight," he writes, "in a country where reserve, prudery, and decency are driven to desperation to see the couple of lovers walking at nightfall, holding each other's hands, waißts, or necks, and in some little-fre-quented roads forming veritable processions. The couples walk along slowly, looking languishingly at one another, and without speaking a word." Max's witty definition of flirting is "Attentions without intentions."
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Evening Star, Issue 6762, 29 November 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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110Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Star, Issue 6762, 29 November 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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