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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill While they were at lunch a square envelope of a delicate pink color was placed on Artie's table. It was addressed in very blue ink to Mr. Arthur Blanchard, Esq. Furthermore, the stamp was placed upside down on the upper left-hand corner of the envelope. According to the code of the stamp flirtation this means either, Write soon or I am longing to see you. When the recipient is certain as to the feelings of the one who has written, he or she may take this unusual position of the stamp to mean even more than is written in the code. There may be some ignorant persons who do not know that when a lady passes MAMIE a handkerchief across her face this is a signal to the gentleman friend, standing in front of the cigar store, that she must speak with him soon. Again, when a gentleman carries his umbrella grasped by the middle with the handle pointing backward he is making a declaration of love to all women whom he encounters. He may be utterly unconscious of the fact, but any one who understands the leading signals of the umbrella flirtation will know what is meant when a gentleman deliberately holds his umbrella in that position. Furthermore, if he carried his umbrella handle forward and inclined at forty-five degrees it would mean We must part. A study of that interesting yellow volume wherein are set down all the secrets of flirtation by means of fan, handkerchief, glove, umbrella, walking- stick, postage stamp, book, etc., etc., will show that a deep significance attaches to the most ordinary procedures. Even the hoisting of an umbrella or the mopping of a damp brow may be construed as an expression of hatred, or the very reverse. If a young man is too bashful or too diplomatic to make a frank declaration of love all he has to do i...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217440622 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217440622 |
| Weight | 0.35 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 98 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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