Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-17

complications, unlike the complications in town,
promote at least the show of good feeling be-
tween women, and thae<is in itself recon-
mendation for the new plan OF life.
THE RESULTS OF A suMAER's CAMPAIGN.
Poor little dear! Her long lashes were
weighted with tears. She sat at her writing
desk, her pink note paper before her and q lot
OF dainty rings in her lap. They were all pretty
designs, and most Of them involved hearts in
various forms Of twistulation, and as each went
into a little cottoned box the gentle girl sobbed
aloud. Her cruel mamma has discovered all
ner summer engagements and is making her
Dreak them all of and send back the rings, just
as she had such an elegant collection, too! One
girl know brought back nine rings pearl
| anchor, SO pretty for the small finger and SO
appropriate for a summer affair, was suggestive
OF boats and all that. He said it meant that his
heart was anchored in her faith. A ruby heart
was just the outline of heart with an open
| space In the middle. He said when she be-
came his he would have diamond put in the
| center, but that it now represented his heart,
empty tall it could inclose her, his diamond. So
stupid OF him not to put the diamond in at
once! A crescent of tiny diamonds meant good
luck. The letter ''C' in emeralds stood for
Charlie. and, with Neds ring dhe
crescent), made such pretty pair. She
wore one on the small finger Of her
right and one on the small finger
| OF her left hand. One was a butterfly real
outstanding poised on the tiny wire that made
the ring. its wings busted with gem spi;nters
and red opal for its head. He called her
Psyche all summer and you know the statue Of
Psyche, with butterfly on her finger. An
arrow, long enough to reach from her second
JOINT. with tiny ruby on the barb. meant the
death wound she gave him. An enamel pansy,
Tor thought, had slender golden stem twining
around the hnger for the ring part, not making
a closed circle, but the end lying above the
hover. There was a star, just little gold star,
with five points and diamond in the center.
One point for each OF five of her charms. he had
said, and the diamond extra for her beauty.
Two hearts we're of pearl and of turquoise, but
the other. 1t is SO convenient to have q lot Of
rings like that; so nice to give away, you know,
to men. They can turn them into scarf pins.
THE CoLLEGE-BRED GIRL.
Why does the average girl want to GO to col
lege? l talked with one of them. She said she
thought society SO silly and hollow that she
did not believe in dancing, but that she wished
to improve her mind. Her idea was to spend
the years between twenty and twenty-four in
study and at college instead Of in the ball
room.
But, after all, why?" asked. "what will
you do afterward?"
At this she looked vague. She thought with
trained mind she could do anything.
What? Would you be doctor?"
"Oh, no."
"a lawver?"
"Oh. dear, no."
"Would you 20 into natural history investi-
cations aud try to discover new stars or new
fishes or new sciences?"
Dear me, mop
So 1t remains. Why does the average girl 20
to college! suspect she is little more clever
than her sisters. She knows that her summers
will be surrounded with halo She knows she
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college girl She knows she can widen her
Held of men. that her SCOPE of attractions will
be increased. Granted that she goes through it
all she will marry like anybody else. and that is
lust what she meant to do from the beginning
The girl who has not some such plan is a
foolish girl to go into the college scheme at all.
Remember, speak of the average girl. At the
end of her four years she will come out with an
education in her lap and trained mind in her
head, and neither will be of any good to her.
She has become rather out of the swim during
her seclusion, she las missed learning the most
important lesson of all-how to manage men
the lesson that only society or genuine work in
the work-a-day world teaches. She is very
likely to continue to sit with her education in
her lap and her trained mind in her head and
that viii be the end of her.
AN AVERAGE" BUNCH OF FLOWERS
You may give any girl you have met flowers
That Is, you may send an average bunch to her
house by messenger boy. This average bunch
by messenger boy may be a forerunner of an
evening call, it may accompany a note of
regrets, or of acceptance, il NAV go with a
reply 10 a note of any kind from the girl, it
may accompany an invitation for the girl and
her mamma; there are thousand excuses for
such bunch of flowers. 1t is merely a cour-
tesy. and does not pledge the man to future at
tentions. nor place an obligation upon the girl.
But the bunch must be an average bunch 1t
must be neither extraordinarily large nor COSTLY
bunch too large and too costly weighs upon
the girls conscience, and means that you are
going i'll to make as big an impression as she
will permit. On the other hand. only the fay-
ored friend or admirer may come with "a few
flowers in his hand" In other words, only
after you have spent jolly lot on a girl are you
entitled to give her little in expensive tokens of
affection and regard. Its hard world.