St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-31

The Decline and Fall of the Summer
Girl now manifests itself in the sober
sober sternnesS which dulls her
every act and caper. In the
spring time she unfolds her decolle @
restraint and bursts forth In her gay
career, the blossom of our country life.
Trampling under her dainty feet the
eouventlonalities of the social formali
lies which surround and encase her
during the gIittering festivities of the
winter, she launches out upon plain
of natural and abandoned listlessness.
She meets and greetS, in studied naiv
cite, all things from prince to pauper.
Ice cream is packed in hourly Install
ments. She bathes in thes SUMS glare
and before the glare of the masculine
multitude. She gamboIs for her health,
while her brother CANDLES away his
wealth. The racquet she Yields with
a Vigor that makes the white ball toss
and whirl like the birds that flock
around her. She glOWS in midsummer
like Van Dykes peach-cheeked ideals,
and in the Wane of the season she is the
very acme of physical perfection and
loneliness, and a study perpetuating the
woman of Sir Joshua Reynolds. SO
coy, yet so bold, is she grown to be that
naught but chivalry dare touch her
lawn and laceS. Her journal exposes
a list of names which embraces the
alpha and omega of masculine eminence
and obscurity. 1t has been her eXpec-
tation to daily feast upon the weakness
of her herd of dudes. and now that the
seasons turning gray and its hair is
falling out and the somber shades of
twilight press her engagements into
the hotel parlor. she gradually
grows to thinking in:.tenses past,
present and future. Like altar upon a
tripod, she would eclipse the summer
and all its romance, now, to re-enter the
stately realm of the Four Hundred. The
theory upon which the maid of groves
exercises her wanton license and utter
hOt-Weather abandon, is that which Gus
tom and genius have established for her
as a being to be shot off once year in the
open air, by the sea shore and at al
fresco fashion arrivals, and then to be
withdrawn in the fall and charged with
social form and article so Wearying to
temperate souls and so caste-bound as to
be only endured through the intoxica-
ton of the seasons whirl. And, oh,
the ennui that sours every pleasure
when a Surfeit has gagged us. 1t is
then again the summer girl longs for US.
and It's then that she advocates dress
reform, and again the hobs are wei
coined on the sands, while the nabobS
recover from a winters dissipation.
With this week the resorts will expert
ence the fall fight of the wit and grace
which have crowded the outing of the
city folk with the pleasantest memories,
HOlus has played vigorously with femi-
OrtrlC
consumption. In cogItating upon the
eve of her departure from rural scene
and habit, the summer girl is perpleXed.
She wonders what she will do with
those weI-enough individuals who have
cultivated her capacity for wild pleas
ureS and bon bOnS by filling her crop
with their salaries s $50 per. 'HOw
Jolly at the lake, these. But dear me,
these be not the sort to warm my hand
O. nights in the cotilliOn at Mrs. 267 of
our 400. Poor fellows; but the DEGREES
must be observed, so no gates are aJar
for them here. and these airy dandies
and fascinating fellows must be cut
from my bows. to be waited back upon
the goat hills of Arlington, from whence
they'll arise another summer.
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During the two weeks of chilly
weather which came with the month of
August, there was partial depletion of
the guest rolls at the lakeside hotels.
Several hundred people who are wont
to linger by the lakeside until the last
leaf is ready to fall took umbrage at the
unmannerly behavior of the elements
and came to town. These are now re-
GREETING their Impotence, and in many
instances there has been second de-
parture for the summer resorts. at
which there is no more enjoyable
period than the Indian summer. There
is every probability that there will be
gaiety at the lakes for several weeks
yet. The chill breeZes have vanished
as suddenly as they came, and the word
of the weather prophet goes abroad to
the effect that there are weeks and
weeks of summer weather yet to come.
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Those who have returned to the city
for good, however, are not weeping over
any mistake they may have committed
in thus early fOrsaking suburban cot
tages; they are Just rushing the social
season a little, that is all. There has
been a good deal more STIR during the
past week at home, than has been the
case for months. Two OF three music
ales, dozen or so of weddings, ball
a really swell affair too and any num-
Der of O'Clock teas, and lawn parties.
Things are Simmering down to their
usual swing by degrees, and if the in
formation given by one of the most
prominent society movers is correct the
Wiuter of 80 is going to be the lIveliest
in the history of the city.