Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-30
THE SUMMER GIRL.
A Stady Of Her Traits and
Evolution.
Looked at From Various Points
of Views.
Rash Assertions as to What She Is
and Is Not.
Her Origin and Personnel-As an Econo-
mist or . Magnet-Several
Interesting Char
acteristics.
-slBY W. D. IT,

The summer girl Is original; sno IS
some after her own kind"-however that
must be mistake; she is evidently
after another genus.
Yer age is various, and extends from
that Of "a maiden fair to see" to the un-
certain teeth-of-commerce age. Ii you
wish the age of the individual of this
class, you may estimate her duration by
The intensity Of her blush and the doll
like innocency with which she says
<'papa. mamma" her age being an in
verse ratio; or. if you wish to spare her
blushes and innocence, by observation
and memory you can determine her
@yerage age.
n She is of no uncertain origin. She
can clearly show that she is of Maydower
ancestry, which Of course entities her to
= place under the tables with the Four
Hundred. Shed the effulgence of your
beams on us, o simile of Ward McAllis-
teri N
AS to her personnel, she may have the
demure pensiveness Of dove, or the
abandonment and loquacity of parrot.
She may have dewy, violet eyes, sum
kissed hair, q cherub face and budding,
kissable lips that awaken your dormant
baby instinct to get everything pretty
70 your mouth; or, q complexion of the
schools, q pair of Vassar eyes fortified
by gold rims, and the cultured articula-
tion of an athletic mouth. -
The identity of her costume is per-
picking; for she passes through every
manner OF florescence, from the sweet
violet to the golden-rod season, with the
harmonious natural mutation with which
Luna accomplishes her phases. Night
succeeds night; the moon is evolving
her quarters. Day succeeds day; the
summer girl is evolving the quarters of
the susceptible young man. She not
only penetrates his pocket. but that
almost equally sacred precinct, his heart.
She permeates his mass to the molecule,
his molecule to the atom; land she
Glides through his darker musings with
: mild and healing sympathy"-a kind
of tableau with low lights, and the or
chestra playing that wierd, sobbing noe
turne descriptive OF an hallucinating
6fteen dollars in an inside pocket.
As an economist, she would equalize
the circulation; as q social factor, she
affords the diversion of a Irritation, and
ii she imagines. o adolescence, that
you have any affair ION the frames."
ahe is pretty sure to confuse the needle
OF your affections 80 that you cannot
tell west from nor'west side." No use
70 irascibly box your compass; if you
can deliver tingling box on Cupid's
ear, you will be the sooner out of the
dilemma.
But you are in the swim of the mag
metic current, for she is a complete mag
net in herself. When she is negatively
positive, you are not certain that you
understand her; but when she is posi-
lively negative, the sagacity OF your
perception astonishes you. If you ques-
tion her potential, seat yourself at an
insensible distance from her; if upon
the damp beach, which is good con-
ductor, the arc may be measurably in
creased and yet you get the exhilaration
of an electric spark that can be dis
&inctly discerned in the field of observa-
ti0n by the less fortunate girls in that
neighborhood. She sends an electric
eearch-light fash from the mysterious
depths of azure eyes, which enters the
windows of your soul, and, traversing
nnfathomable abysses of space, finds its
affnitoue complement in a scarcely up
preciable lapse OF time. She communi-
Gates current with each playful tap OF
her tan. Perhaps you are al
ready surcharged with salt breeze
clam chowder and small talk. but she
knows how many volts you can stand,
and at the critical juncture contrives a
detonating touch Of her hand and off
you go in perfunctory nitrous-oxide
laugh.
You may have been skeptical upon
the theory OF ore-ordination, but when
you meet the summer girl you at once
recognize her as the one intended by
providence
To broil your steak
And fry your frftter,
And sweeten the life
So (up to date) bitter;
and reign queen over your projected
domestic establishment. You never stop
to think whether you have enough
money to subsidize her, but hasten your
falling in love in an alarminely geomet-
xical progression. ~ AN
Ehe summer girl is sure to
Keep her escutcheon bright. Mankind
rs her lawful prey, and in her predatory
ssr0und up" she is not go over fastidious
shat she is willing to stagnate as long as
there is stag in the bush that is possi-