Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1893-09-14

in a hammock, clothed il
4 cool colors, swinging pretty feet and dis
/ pensing sweet smiles, this assertion seem:
a libel, but one who observes her da,
after day discovers the truth.
First and foremost in the category oi
her faults comes selishness.
1t is difficult to be unselfsh on a colo
winter day, with blazing fire in the
CRATE and warm garments protecting the
body. But the severest test for an Inself
ish nature is blazing August sun, with
no breeze on land or sea, and only one
hammock at command.
I have seen the summer girl retain this
hammock whole afternoon, lazily fan
ming herself as she swayed to and frc
and sublimely conscious that half doz.
en- people besides herself might have found
the position equally enjoyable Thought
lessness of others is a noticeable fault OF
the summer girl.
CHANGED not long ago to see a bevy OF
six young ladies who had formed a sort
Of pleasure club at q summer resort. and
who managed to extract great deal Of
amusement out of their manless envi.
ronments. 1ni
Into their midst came u very sweet
and pretty girl, one who was well known
and respected in her city home.
She sat at the same table three times a
day with the six other young ladies and
slept under the same roof They spoke
with her pleasantly when they met, but
it did not occur to them to try to make
the days pleasant for her by inviting
her to join them.
They We're not in the least jealous OF
disagreeable girls. They were simply
thoughtless. a a
The idea of bothering themselves about
this girl did not suggest itself to them.
They saw her sitting about rather for
lornly, but they were too occupied with
their own plans to think of her.
Finally a mother Of one Of the young
ladies took compassion upon the new
conner and called the attention Of the
bevy to her situation.
They took her into their midst and
made her one Of them and at once. But
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thought to do this before the mother
suggested it.
Perhaps tho most glaring faults Of the
summer girl are brought out by the op-
posite sex.
The girls who plan like general be-
fore campaign to avoid introducing
their young men friends to other girls
are as numerous as dandelions in May,
and the girl who does introduce her
beaux freely and generously is as rare
at a summer resort as white blackbird.
It is an odd and absurd idea, too, this
of hoping to hold the attention Of one or
more men by such artifces.
have observed it to be almost invari-
ably the most admired and successful
girl with men who does introduce them
freely and fearlessly to her lady ac-
quaintances.
The girl who has any understanding
of men knows better than to try to keep
them interested by force.
The girl who makes sport of the other
girls beaux is frequently found at the
summer resort.
Ii Maud is proud and happy over the
fact that Will has been down from town
to visit her, the caustic girl pokes fun at
Willis mustache and hair and accent and
manner of walking. She likes to make
Maud feel that under no stress Of cir
cumstances could she content herself
with the attentions of man like Will
Give her the chance, however, and
you would find her ready to sacrifice her
time to man far less interesting than
Will. gF
The ''prinking' girl who makes every
body wait for her is another type always
found at summer resorts. If walk, a
drive, a picnic or party is on the tapis,
the pretty prinker is always in arrears.
Men, women. boats and even trains must
wait for her while she pins up stray
hair, changes her stockings and rubs the
powder rag over her nose again. And
the queerest thing about it all is the
pretty prinker looks exactly the same
when she emerges from her room as
when she entered it. Nobody can sec
that she has done anything to herself,
yet all are conscious of irritation of
mind and spirit by having had to wait
for her.
1t does not matter whether she has
had five minutes or five weeks notice
the prinzer always has to be waited for.
She does not realize it. Of course, but
it is thoughtless disregard of the feel
ings and interests Of others which actu-
ates her. Once make. her understand
that she is sacrificing other peoples time
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she would reform, for the pretty prinker
is usually yery good hearted girl and
her fault only bad habit.
The lazy summer girl is a most pro
voking creature, especially when she is
pretty and attractive.
She would be adorable in a bathing
suit, but she never swips--it is too
much effort. She is urged to join the
tennis party, but she never plays tennis
lit is too fatiguiny ,s.gy..
She declines to dance, as it is such a
bore and leaves one so moist and as for
walking the dust renders lnat out OF Ine
question. She does nothing all day longso
continually thatit exhausts one to seeher
about. She reads and Tolls and yawns
till night comes, and to vary the pro-
gramme next day she yawns, lolls and
reads. Yet she is never able to talk Of
what she reads. Most of her sconversa-
ton consists in wishing she were great
author, actor or artist. The lazy girl is
always wishing and never doing She
is themost aggravating Of all her species,
Her sins Of omission outweigh all the
committed faults Of all the summer
girls. Among the many faults, one finds,
too, many virtues in the summer girl
and shining acts of unse1fshness.
Only today saw one Of the prettiest
Of the astonishingly pretty girls with
which ]. am surrounded hard at work
making a gown for young lady who
happened to find herself short in her
wardrobe, and the mercury stood at "a
in-the shade while she worked away to
adorn a rival beauty.
And this same rival beauty saw steal
away from group Of admiring youths
one day recently to help Lady perform