The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-04
A MYSTERY IN FROCKS.
IS "FHE SUMMER GIRL" A THING OF
FOLLY, AFTER ALL?

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Men Like Her-Some Of Her Good
Traits-Sns May Appear Frivolous,
| But Her Work Lies Underneath.
Superficial and Yet Womanly-she
| Is a Story in Herself-The Mission OF
the Butterfy-The Summer Girl as
Wife.
(Cobpright.)
! NEW YORK, Sept. 81 am Just where I
am set TO asking one question, and that il,
! When the bleak winter comes, where does
the summer girl goa Does she CONT among
such mysteries as the lost hair pins or the
vanished shoe buttons? There is something
about her that is excessively fetching; a
! something which the winter girl, in all her
richness OF furs and elegance OF gowns does
not seem to attain. She ia a creature of friil
and frizzle; her gown, whether it be light
pink, or blue, or clear white, somehow sug-
gests the fleeing beauty Of the clouds, and
her hat, with its wreath Of roses or its great
mass OF lilies, seems a fitting finish to
creature of whom it can be said only that
she is the summer girl OF her popularity
there is no doubt. She has a curious way
of winning mems hearts; playing with them
as If they were sweets, and then forgetting
them. And the menl
WHY THE MEN LIKE HER.
Well, l think re Of the reasons that the
men ike her ls that she is so essentially
Womanly. She is dainty and feminine; If
she comprehends Greek, it doesn't show in
the divine fitness Of her frock; If she is W ell
up in English literature, il doesn't express
itself In the pretty gesture, the low voice
and the delightful laugh; if she has doubts
about religion, there are none in the smart
air of her little shoes and the glimpse of
silk stocking that you get. She is fright
ened to death by a thunder storm,
leans close against a man to keep
from being struck by the lightning.
and yet the other day IN the water, when she
was swimming around and looking like a
sea nymph, saw her suddenly leave her
crowd OF admirers, swim quickly out, drag
small boy in, lie him flaB on his back on
the sand, make one of the men rush for
something TO make the purple lips red
again, and when it was all over and the
small boy had been safely brought to life,
declined any thanks, but tumbled into the
water again to play with the rest OF the
mermaids, and to seem nothing but a thing
of folly. She is a delightful mystery to ma
she doesn't suggest opera-bouffe people, but
she does make me think of women like
Marie Antoinette who, after playing like a
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the steps to her death
SHE IS A THING OF FoLLY9
am not great believer in analysis, but
the summer girl is worth it. The day after
that girl saved the small boy from being
drowned she had five proposals of mar
riage, and yet up to that time she had been
credited with having an utter lack Of sense,
accompanied by a great deal Of beauty The
summer girls clothes are Terminate. She is
whispering soft nothings to party Of men,
ana every time she moves every frill every
ribbon, every curl OF her hair announces in
the gentlest way, 81 am a woman, protect
me, D." and one Of the beautiful things TO see
is how willingly mankind responds to this
appeal. They may be free traders at heart,
but this.is case that calls for protection,
With the end of September the summer
girl disappears. Sometimes you have had
your little romance, sometimes she had
had hers, sometimes the season has ended SO
happily that the summer girl Is yours for
all the year around, and you have an op-
portunity to see her in her varying moods.
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BRoCKs.
summer girl who comes from the land
where magnolias bloom is always Rowned
| in white AID wears a great leghorn hat on
which, besides big loops of white ribbon,
arc three or four white liIacs. From morn
ing till night she enjoys herself-she never
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and she is doing that best thing Of all, for
girl, havi & a real good time. Every
wee$ box goes home with two or three
solled muslin dresses in 1t, and every week
one comes TO her with a fresh supply, for
you See she is summer girl, who, although
she doesn't announce 1t, understands political
economy as applied to frooks, and she knows
perfectly well that her gowns can be done
up at home better aud cheaper that at this
big watering place. Not having much
money, her mother wisely determined that
she should wear white, morning, nooa and
night. Sac Is one of a party Of girls
chaperoned by a woman who is so gentle
in breeding and manner that The moneyed
artstocracy seek her wherever she may be.
DELICIoUsLY REBUKING A CUR
heard her refuse to Introduce a fast
married man to this one of her charges
but eventually he got some one else to do it,
For while the girl talked on Ia her own
pretty, girlish way, and then, unable to re.
slst 1t, the man who had been presented to
her started in to tell rather peculiar story.
Inc rest Of the men sat perfectly quiet;
there wasn't a smile, and the little summer
girl said: "Mr. Montmoren y, if you ever
speak to me again l will ask your wife to
prevent it; and insist upon you leaving
me and my friends at once" Curiously
enough the girl didn't know what the man
meant but she knew il was something wrong
and she did the very right thing when she
spoke as she did. Somebody may say, "Why
didn't the men speak upp But, to tell the
truth, the men were 30 aghast at the impu-
dence OF the cur; so much impressed with
the idea that TO recognize anything wrong
would Do doing wrong, that they didn't
know what else to do except to keep quiet
SHE FRANKLY TOLD HIM.
This special summer girl told me about
her coming. Said she: II am being reQu-
lar butterfly now; but before came was
an out-and-out grub. had a violet pit and
sent boxes of violets to a florist in New
York. helped mother do up loads of fruit.
that she sold to q big dealer, and then had
all my frocks TO make. Mother thinks that
each Of US ought to be given chauce 10 see
something of the world, and this is mine:
but l am going home when the day comes
glad 10 have had good time; OIL bur so
much gladder to get back, because-now,
remember, l am telling you secret
there's somebody down there l am very
fond Of and we expect to be married this
winter,
'But," gasped, Thought young Million
Dollars-n
Eyes" she said, The is very nice, isn's he9
He was very kind TO me, and do like TO sit
on his coach, and to play tennis with him;
but when 1 thought he was getting to care
FOr ma q Htkla mir I inst took him into 49,,