Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-20
Types Of Her at the Seashore, the
Mountains and in the City.
WHAT MEN THINK OF HER.
The Butterflies OF Fashion Who Only Look
for Pleasure and Those Who Stay in Town
and work-Ths sommsr Mana Fewwortls
of Caution.

nationaI Dlctlonary TO learn what O dude really
is. 1t never was certain what fad was until
recently, end now half the world is using the
term "a summer girl in one.sense and the
other half is using it in another sense. 1t is
this fact that prompted a writer for THE STAR
to make an investigation with a view to ascer-
tanning what sort of person . summer girl may
be.
Il an, going away" said young man who
certainly ought to know something about girls,
ito spend the month of August at Narragansett
among the glorious bevy Of summer girls that
congregate there"
Very well, then, this is q summer girls She
is creature that wears the finest and most
fashionable clothing. She is presumably rich
and a swell in the city during the winter. She
only frequents genuine summer resorts. She
never goes into quiet country retreats. Life
must be with her q succession of gay amuse-
ments.
DOES SHE FLIRr?
Does she firt? Well. we'll, perhaps she does,
whenever she gets a chance-if not with de-
sirable men whom che knows all about then
with any others that may happen along. At
certain places these girls do congregate in
summer. In winter they scatter to their diff
ferent homes. some in New York, some in Phil
adelphla, some In Richmond, some in Balti-
more and some, you may be sure, in Washing
ton This Is the type of summer girl that sits
upon the sands at the seashore, surrounded
by troop Of men, that takes
little stroll in sequestered paths with
one most favored. or this is the girl who drives
jaunty blackboard in the mountains and
takes out two young men at time, if her horse
can drag them. This is the summer girl that
gets engaged in summer two three, four-even
half dozen times, and the engagements, like
summer flowers, run to seed, wither, droop and
foI hos Rnt
haps, she may be of a soberer disposition or of
maturer years and then one engagement suf-
fees and it is followed by wedding and then
she can be summer girl no more.
THE SUMMER GIRL SOUTH.
There is certain summer resort in the
south where a good many Neutrality-suspicious. go
which has been the fashion now for half CEN
fury. 1t is the place where summer girls of the
type now under consideration flock especially
and where they enliven the whole country
round with their gay plumage. This is an
ideal resort for many people. During the
height of the season there is a german every
morning: there are champagne parties ON the
lawns In the afternoon; there is ball
every evening, While they are at it
the Jun hourishes fast and flu
rious. But this doesn't last long. Only a
few weeks OF it, and then the place is quiet and
steady. but the girls who go only for the period
when 1t is hyeliest have to go somewhere else
afterward to get rest; for while the air is par
ticularly healthy, the late hours and excite
ment are apt to play havoc with young girls
health. 1t is very much to be feared that the
summer girl that is the'life and gayety of these
fashionable resorts is not doing precisely what
is best for her. She has danced and firted all
winter In the city, and change of life would
do her no harm in the summer
Fascinating? Well of course she is. How
could she be otherwise? If furs and close
fitting tailormade gowns are difficult to resist
what can be said of broad brimmed straw hats
and the costly light summer dresses?
ANOTHER TYPE OF SUMMER GIRL.
But, after ALL is this fair being the real sum-
mer girl? Is she the one that the term really
applies to? Let us see what the other type is
like. The scene where this summer girl acts
her part is not laid in the mountains or by the
| seashore. She is not the pet of rich papa
| and an ambitious mamma. She is not the OBJ
ject of daily alteration to manly youths in
knickerbockers and gorgeous tennis raiment.
She may be beautiful and delicate as the lilies
of the field, but she may both toll and spin
and yet few of the rich summer girls
of the summer resorts are arrayed SO en-
| ticingly this one, the city summer girl.
She doesn't go away: she can't afford it, She
doesn't drive buckboards or wear costly light
summer dresses. An excursion or a picnic an
occasional buggy ride or an occasional boat
ride'-saye the mark who was it that first in
VtHteu THOSE uOrrlDle eApreSSlOnS!-theSe are
almost the only excitements that this summer
girl has. The summer resort summer girls
don't know the city summer girl, but some of
the men do!
BOON TO THE MEN IN TOWN.
oh, what boon she is! Everybody is out of
! town. The expression becomes familiar enough
| to Us all later on in the summer, but yet not
everybody is gone, for, heaven be praised, the
city summer girl never goes away. 1t matters
| not whether you happen to know her or not.
She Is a pleasure to you in either case, for in
becoming costume, she is pleasant to look at,
| even if the privilege of talking to her belongs
| to more fortunate men.
The rich mans daughter, worr out with her
hard pursuit OF pleasure. must go away in
| search of health. Sometimes she finds il. bui
more often the search for health is merely
| another mode of expressing search for more
| pleasure with different surroundings. But
| although the city summer girl never leaves her
home, she preserves the roses in her cheeks
| and a healthy, energetic step. All honor, then
| to the city summer girl, the real summer girl
| the one to whom the term should really be ap.
piled.
| ONE KIND OF SUMNER MAN.
| Is there such thing as a summer man? Oh
| course there is. The foreign count at the sea
shore, with his accent and his big mustache and
his fine dark eyes, the noble foreign gentleman
| whom the daughters Of the rich papas and
| the ambitious niammas delight to firt with
| nay, whom they sometimes become engaged tc
| and even occasionally marry-the clever nd
venturous impostor and cheat who imposel
| first upon credulous hotel keepers and late,
| upon snobbish women-why, he is essentially
| a summer man. The season is so short
the intamicy Of hotel life is so general
that he has a better chance to practic,
| his wicked ways than he can ever get in thu
city in winter. In the city there are men t.
| watch him, to find out about him and to expose
him, but at the summer resorts there are never
| enough men to go round, and those that are
| there stay for short time only and do no
| concern themselves with other mems an
| tccedents. Thus it often bappen
| that the real character of the summer mar
| is found ont after the mischief has been &C
complished-after the flirting has been done Of
after the engagement and marriage have become
horrible face. Sometimes the police discover
the false count and carry him away and the
hotel keeper has his slender wardrobe a re
minder of his noble guests indebtedness, bu
| 1t is really surprising how often the scoundre
| escapes detection when it is remembered how
| much experience summer resorts have hae
with this species OF summer man.
THE POOR YOUNG CLERK.
But he is not the only kind of summer man
There is, for instance, that poor young clerk
who saves up all his money for months before
hand and spends it all on a two weeks vaca
an expensive hotel, for two short weeks he i
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