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

futter, and the answering blush came before
your shy words. / know all that sounds a little
out of date, but into that frame Of
mind you must get yourself before even
to the desired blush Girls have too long been
languid and bored by compliments. Behold
the result: The men have become languid and
bored by paving them. Playing violin would
not be fun il the strings be dumb. Men have
stopped making love in the good old way be-
cause girls have forgotten how to be made love
to In the good old way. A girl should be like a
perfectly tuned harp that answers with sweet
music to the faintest touch. man should see
her eyehds droop, should be able to- note the
pink color mount over her brow. should see her
slender fingers tremble, &c. Men have given
up trying to make love to ailor-made girls who
look them straight in the eye, with a knocking
smile around their mouth. Don't blame the
men, girls; you are at fault.
WHAT THE SUMNER COST PAPA.
Now papa comes home from Bar Harbor and
his daughter is not married of yet. OF course
he loves his child, but do you know what it
costs man to put his daughter, to speak
plainly, on the market? Papa has been plain
man all these years. He could afford to be-
Mamma did not care for society, Charlie was at
college and the daughter was Young But now
it is time she should be married. 1t will not
do to let her sit quietly at home and wait for
the right man. because the right man, or any
other man, would not come. AS a beginning
papa hires a cottage at Bar Harbor. 1t is easier
to get into the summer swim than the winter
| swim. How much do you suppose that costs
| him? saw an advertisement last May: SCOT
| tage at Bar Harbor. $4,000 the season. Caterer
will supply meals (for FOUR at 800 a week."
| You may judge from that. Three months is
| the usual season. Mamma. papa, Charlie and
| the daughter can eat for 800 week, or for the
season, 1900. Eating and house have cost
| Daughter n dypba or
her campaign-S 900 more? Well. no, but we
| NAV get through for mammals extra dresses on
$1,000. That Is. il mamma does not mean to
| be bit more gay than is necessary to launch
daughter. Four thousand dollars will set
daughter up in clothes. There we are with
| $4,000 for the summer, and have not men,
toned carriage of any sort or servants or en-
PERTAINING No wonder sons are considered
| bigger prizes than daughters. You see. just
single season costs man moderate fortune
tgo off the first season. Poor girls.
No wonder they look haggard and worn after
four OF them. BY the way, more than one
wealthy groom. caught by the glitter of girls
season, has had to ''come up" for the cost of it
after his marriage. But what of that? II he
got the right girl, she was bargain even so.
THE PROPER TIME FOR GOOD RESOLUTIONS.
Popular fiction tries to make US believe that
the time for good resolutions is about the LIST
of January, but it isn't. This is the time of
year for good resolutions. Now it il that the
summer girl resolves not to firt any this win
ter; not to break off her last engagement
till next summer; not to spend SO much on
clothes; to take up Ibsen or Browning or some
| body, SO that she can hold her own with the
| girls next year who carry their clubs through
the summer; to learn the banjo or the guitar or
| the mouth organ. so that she can hold her own
with the musical girl who this summer had so
| much the best of her; to learn to ride on the
| bicycle; 1t is such an elegant excuse for ro-
mantle accidents and getting-lost times; to
| manicure her nails regularly, she can do
fancy work next summer and show her eve
| lashes; to go to the gymnasium; to study
| botany, so she can make hit with the professor
| and 60 off on his walks with him; to begin
right of to get dresses ready for next summer
and have them all white-dotted muslin, with
| white silk skirt ruf1es; to make all her winter
conquests promise to come up to her summer
place. go she can have men to show off every
two weeks; to learn lot Of quotations and to
get rosebud dress to say them in; to have her
summer parasol cleaned for next year. and
to be good. This is the time, too, when Clubs
| evolve from the chastened summer girls brain,
| and she goes In for courses Of reading and cook
cry. The fancy work girl has her basket full of
new patterns, and che has club with the two
Chicago girls she met this summer and the Min
| neapolis girl and they going to exchange
patterns all the winter. When she gets on a
chestra club with the girl she met this summer
| who lives right next door to her in the city,
| The girls brothers are all so musical! Another
thing the chastened summer girl is not going to
| do. She 10 not going to use powder at all this
| winter. She will let the tan come off and then
| che will just keep her skin natural. She will be
| just the same sweet girl next year. whether she
does or doesn't do all these things this winter.
THE HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY.
1t used to be the fashion to have a house in
town and go somewhere for the summer, but
we are getting toward the English idea Of the
homo being out Of town and the trip being into
town for the season. wise idea II is Taxes
are less In the country, living is simpler, chill
dren grow up better and leisure promotes
serenity Of feeling and manner that the American
lacks. BY this plan half the year is spent in
| the country, or more, and fat does for
November, December and January In the city.
| Matchmaking is an easier matter, too. in the
| country than in the city. WHY do so many
novelists lay their stories In England? Because
Of the possibilities offered in the English
country house. For the same money four
times the entertaining can be done in q country
home that can be managed in the city establish
ment. 1t Is certainly more delicate to ask
young Smart or young Deeppocket to one's
| house for a week or 80 In the summer than to
pick up AMI follow him to Bar Harbor or
wherever he may 60. That is what L. done
| now.
MATRIMONIAL ADVANTAGES.
Besides. when young Smart and Deeppocket
realized their social delights depended upon
their Invitations to country homes, they would
not be quite SO high and mighty in the winter
season As 1t Is now it il the girl who is abjectly
dependent on invitations. The country home
idea is already gaining ground. Many of the
magnificent houses at Bar Harbor, for instance,
are not mere summer caprices; the owners call
| themselves residents of Bar Harbor and live
there half the year, staying till November, and
returning from their season in town as early as
April The new kind Of living meets the men g
approval, too. They are sick OF dancing and
german responsibilities by the time midwinter
Is over 1t is easy enough to take your pick Of
the men you want and trot them of out Of town
when you are ready to go, and two weeks in q
country house where man simply cannot help
! making love are worth, matrimonially consid-
cred, a whole season Of promiscuous attentions
| in town.
GIRLS CAN CONDUCT THEIR CAMPAIGNS
without wearing themselves out and losing
their compilations and figures in the terrible
| fight against other girls that goes ON In the
long season in town. They spend less for their
| clothes. too. At their country homes they can
dress just TO please the men they have there.
/ In town they must outvie all the other women
Courtesy between women II promoted, too
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