Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-28
THE SUMMER GIRL.
Her Very Sweet Gowns and
Cruel Ways.
How She COnquers Poor Man at
the Seaside.
Difference Between a Nice Dear and
an Expensive Dear.
The Summer Room-The New Purse and
Safety -Pocket-Jewe s-The Hair.
Tanned Chins, Rosy Nose,
Damp Bangs.
Special Correspondence to the HERALD.


SAN Francisco, June 27, 1891.
The girls summer gowns are prettier
and prettier. There is no rule to go by.
Yes, there is, too; there's one. Here it
is. Be natural, be pretty, be artistic.
And nice, obliging little rule it is, isn't
it? No making fright of yourself be-
cause small bonnets are the vogue, and
you have face that resembles nothing
in the known universe so much as a
large harvest moon.
No making yourself absurd with enor-
nous checks when you're go little that
you look like an escaped fairy.
Whatever is becoming and suitable is
the mode.
The latest thing for cruel summer
girl is to do this. She makes her best
young man give her his best walking
stick and she makes him take it to a
shop and get fler parasol set on that
stick.
When he does that she knows he's
conquered-and all the other girls know
it too-and then the young man begins
to get very cool good-after-noons.
Mean, isn't it? But then, summer
girls are mean sometimes.
It's the society of men at the watering
places, perhaps! It's trying to the
nerves to live whole week with two
college Jimmies and bachelor of sixty
to go aroung among twenty girls. And
then have Saturday night come and
bring only handful of timid fedge-
lings when you expected-well, you
know who?
The summer girl has her trials.
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Here's something pretty for summer
room. It's dear little white ever made
to look just like swan, and a basin
made to look just like big futed water
lily.
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Any girl who wants to make her nest
look cool and nice for summer must
hang it with green and white. The two
coolest colors in the world, and wonder
fully becoming.
If your new purse doesn't match your
ne W gown, you are way out of fashion.
And to be out of fashion is the unpar-
donable sin.
If you've clear, cool gingham, you
must have purse of gingham with
silver clasp. If your gown is gray, a
edges is quite au fait.
fon cnado nuroa 1o,nJ xr,4l A.
dullest kind OF dull gold is fit little
OF course you carry it.
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She who wears Jewels in the street is
lost. She who doesn't wear Jewels in
the house is lost.
Never was there such craze for fan
bangles and fancies as this summer.
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Some of the girls are ordering long,
pliable gold ribbons set with torquoise.
They twine that gold ribbon in their
hair. It's pretty, too, but my, how the
jewelers. bill mounts up! Quaint jew
eled nets, such as Juliet wore, are the
dearest things going. / mean the nice
kind of dear-not the expensive kind.
Shining blue black braids look won
derfully nice in golden mesh, and as
for blonde hair, it is enchanted when
it's prisoned in silver.
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Hair is dressed simply this year, very
simply. The hair dressers dom t like it,
but it's true, quite the same.
Let one of the seven sisters herself go
to hair dresser, and he would say :
Well, you need little, just little
assistance. Now puff here, or ring
let there; see, how you are improved?"
Alas, such is trade, and so are human
beings.
Wells are worn all the time, even in
the country. A veil is trusty friend,
that will not betray tanned chin and a
rosy nose. A veil will keep the hair
and hide a multitude of
sins, as rough skin, damp bangs,
and things like that. But--a draggled
veil worn by woman is worse than
shocking bad hat for a man. 1t ruins
the freshest toilet and kills the daintiest
hat. 1t makes saucy hat disreputable.
1t makes bit of quiet elegance dowdy.
Fresh wells, fresh wells, by all means.
NV
Speaking of head gear. The incest
kind of hat for travelling is fine felt
English walking hat. The kind that is
low crowned and soft and has long
dent in the middle. The kind that curls
up shrewdly on each side and hasn't
a .smitch OF trimming except band OF
ribbon that ends in an unobtrusive bow
on the side. That's the hat that never
looks seedy, no matter how the wind
blows, or how the dirt flies. Then it
carries veil beautifully, and that's
great virtue in a travelling hat.
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The dozens OF letters that / receive
every week asking for information about
tights, business and at home costumes,
and other advanced ideas on dress, will
never grow less. What hope for rest is
there for the busy woman when the in
terviewer has singled her out? The
worst way in the world to start a fash
ion is to preach about it. Women
never dressed so sensibly or
30 prettily as now. What is
The use in those long trades against