The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-04
Bah on THE SUMNER GIRL.
Information REGARDING This PiCtuT-
eSQue and SeaSOnable Maiden.


shirt Front, Sailor Hat and Filmy
Parasol-The Perfumed Cspe and
Midsummer Flirtations - Robust
Girls and Brawny Summertime
Youths-Are Women Impolite Now
adays P-Bab's Sincere Wishes for
the Working Woman.
Copyright. 1897
New York, june Summer has come,
and, like the Joyous maiden that she is,
has made a charming courtesy, And we
are all taking off our hats to her That is,
when ] say we al, I only mean the mascu-
line part Of us, for the feminine part is
SO built that il could not take off itshat to
anybody without sitting down before a
glass and removing n great quantity of
pins-pins that are stuck into the hair
pins that are apparently stuck straight
into the head and other pins that, while
they have some reason for existence, are
evidently stuck no place in particular, for
you can see the head on one side Of the
hat and the point at the other. ] think,
! don't know for sure, but do think that
these last pins are one of tho weapons of
defense used by the summer girl. She
can rest the head that has no point TO it
on the shoulder Of the young man she
likes ana she can almost kill the young
man she doesn't like by reposing the other
side Of her hat on him.
THE STUNNING SUMNER DAMsEL
saw one girl who was a thing Of
beauty; and whose hat was "A CLEAN of
roses, lace and fluff generally, which
looked as if it had been thrown on her
head by a pitchfork and yet with a very
becoming result and this girl assured me
that 1t took three-quarters of an hour to
put that hat on right, and that she used
seventeen large pins and four small ones.
Since hearing this I have never seen a
summer girl who looked overwhelmingly
picturesque that did not wonder how
1t took her to get the pose.
She is very marvellous to look at
this year, For several seasons she
has been natty in sailor hats, cloth skirts,
blouses and most bewitching belts, and
she gave me the impression of being a
girl who was very clean and who was 60
ing out to have a good time But she has
changed all that. She has a lowered silk
frOclt made daintily with ruflles of lace
and knots of ribbon, and then she has a
marvellous hat that is cooked at queer an
giles, and from under the broad hrim of
which her coquettsh eyes looked out.
She hasa filmy parasolsoand, most i'm
pOrtant of all, cape. Now, that last
doesn't sound as if it were much, and vet
in the career of the summer girl this little
cape, which may be of lace, may be of
ribbon, is always quite small, but very
tiirty looking, is an important factor.
She always gives it to tho man who is
lowering around her to take care of and,
after he has held it for q little while, he
is conscious of the fact that it is fragrant
with her favorite perfumes he gets to
having quito a liking for 1t and hugs it
up close to him, that wicked little cape
until its owner says stop stop you are
mussing my cape give it back to mel"
And when it is given up, he feels as If he
had parted with something that was very
near and dear to him, and he envies the
cape, or rather, he curses himself for being
so rough with it, aud letting it go out of
his hands. It is always getting lost-just
when he is waiting to hear whether the
girl loves him or not, she suddenly discOv-
ers that she has lost her cape and search
has to be made for it /; il is always getting
in tho way, for when she says her
neck is cold and he volunteers to put his
cOat-sleeve about it to keep it warm, the
little cape is suddenly remembered, and it
is put in the chilly place o, these are
wicked little capsl If girl don't want
to look in the eyes of anybody. any mas
culine body, she can play with the ribbon
of her cape; and if she don't want to
seem too eager about anything, she cooly
and calmly affects nervousness by tying
and untying bows in its ends Sometimes
when the evenings are cool she throws it
over her head, and then she looks like
some lady of the olden time, who has just
stepped out of her sedan chair. AS 4
weapon, cOquetry, / may add, that / con-
slider the little cape of more use than a
fan and far ahead of the glove. Its pos
sibilities arc greater, and it has a per-
sonality that is most attractive.
FETCHING FEMININE WAYS.
Suiting herself TO her frock, this sum
mer girl has not much energy, and to be
quito truthful she is much more danger
Gus. Tho heart of a man seldom gets out
of order for the girl who is chummy with
him, who can take an oar in the boat,
who can climb the mountain, who does
not care whether her hair is in curl or not,
and, provided she is enjoying herself,
doesn't mind whether her hat is becoming
or not No, this kind of a girl seldom
makes much havoc It's the girl that he
is afraid to touch for fear she will break
whose laCes and silks and flowers and
perfumes, high-heeled slippers and
flashing rings are all so unlike
himself, who influences him. When
he leaves her life seems to him a very
good thing if-and he fingers over the
tiff she could always be with him. Poor
fool He is not the first one whose heart
has ached for her. And her hearth Well,
her heart is tolerably well-regulated, and
the laces and frivles, and the frills and
flowers, though they are suggestive of
weakness, do not of necessity cover a
weak brain, or vacillating will This
summer girl generally knows what she
wants and gets it. But that does not
make any difference. She is picturesque
she is IN harmony with her surroundings,
and she is beautifully feminine, and dur
ing the long summer days that is all one
wants to know
O, yes; the other summer girl will be
there; for she is healthy and strong, and
she wants 20 have good time But when
it comes to contrasting women, she is
only foil for the other girl who comes
out beside the serge, the shirt, russet
shoes and the sailor hat just as Dresden
china cup looks against plain white one
The thick white one will answer very
well in the knocking round time 1t is 60
ing 20 have, out you never lift ii to your
lips that you don't think of the beauty of
the Dresden china, of its thinpesS, of the
lovely color and of its refinement. Queer,
isn't 1t, how we compare women to china}
l think ii ID because women have such a
Tad for china, and then, to so back of
that, il may be because there are as many
types OF women as there are of fine porco-
lain; and OF coarse, too, for that matter