Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-02
BEAUTY IN A BOAT.

Sad the lot of the summer girl who some
time during the season does not get into a
rowboat More sad still the lot Of one who
does, and who fails to behave herself Don't
try to be cute and cunning in boat, my
dear. 1t is not the place for that act at all.
Be self-possessed, prompt and steady in a
boat. Never move unless you have orders
to. Don't Jump out and in with gurgling
and impulsive alacrity, or you may finish
your gurgle far, far below in a watery grave.
If you must ''trail your slender figures
through the silvery waters" don't lean way
over the edge OF the boat to do so. Don't
monkey with the toy rudder unless you are
told to, and don't undertake to attend to
steering unless you know something about
it, or unless you freely confess your ignor-
ance and attend to orders.
mind your business" is even q better
rule on boat than on shore and it's good
rule anywhere. At the same time any one
"forward" is supposed to have an eye to the
vessels safety. Don't be too proud to tell
Dick if he is running into another ooat or a
rock or a wreck. Dick may be looking ex-
clusiyely at you. You must make allow
ances and keep a sharp eye out for the craft
Yourself Overcrowding boat is fool
hardness, and having ajolly time in a row
boat is mad insanity. A quiet row at sun
set with your best boy is very nice. You
want fairly safe boat, Of course, because a
boat is great place for proposals, a
man is likely to fidget when he proposes
and boats haYe many times oft been upset
by fdgeting. But party in row boat
is more risk than anything else.
CLIMBING INTO A BOAT.
IF YOU are bold swimmer and dive from
a boat, don't try to climb in again over the
gunwale; only the safest of safe boats can
Stand that If you must climb in try CON-
ing up over one or the other end. In either
case YOU will probably split your bathing
suit, so would not try it at all-unless you
want to split your bathing suit But my
pen has wandered from mountain boating to
seashore bathing.
What else do we summer idlers do in
Franconia Notch? Well, we indulge in
ture Jungfrau, rugged and bare, and with a
valley view of miles and miles, yet requir-
ing only half mile of really hard climbing
to reach its summit. So the veriest weak
ling among us may get there and imagine it
an Alpine sort of feat. Cannon Mountain
is far more of an achievement, requiring
two miles Of Chamber and scramble to reach
its summit Considerable areas of it are
unexplored and actual bears are there.
But Mount Lafayette is our most ambi-
tious ascent, for it is the highest hereabouts,
save Mount Washington, and much finer
heap of rock than that more famous pile.
When you get atop of Lafayette yoV are
almost exactly mile higher than New
York City, and you have tired yourself with
a hard, zig-zag climb of almost four miles
from the public roadway. The figures will
strike an Alps veteran as insignificant, per
haps, but when you consider that a woman
will take step for about every foot of the
5,269, you will believe that she is weary
creature when she finally slumps down on
the apex.
a PROBLEM FOR SUMMER GIRLS
And the bellies who make the ascent, &C
companied by beaux, are puzzled how to be-
have Are they more interesting if they
profess powers of endurance than if they
own up that they are collapsed? 1t is a
summer problem for girl, anyway, how to
sustain herself in the contesting rivalry for
male admiration. Fate takes strange turn