The herald., 1893-08-28
WOMAN'S WORLD.
IpLERs AND nAWDLERs WHO WASTE
/ A suMMER'6 OPPORTUNITIES.

women Cendenn the Dsneing-why shs
Jeined the Salvation Army-Amateul
Dressmaking Fad In Lendon-A Clever
Hairdressor-AIiss Hin CosnPlains.
It is hard to imagine anything more
idle or insuffersbly stupid than the sum
mer life of the average woman boarder
One days programme from June until
October varies little frem another. After
breakfast all gather on the piazza TO dis.
play their fresh, crisp morning cambrics,
when they discuss the chances of a hot
day, q oool day, o rainy or sunny one.
The nervous and timid ones describe the
agony they endured during last nights
thunderstorm. and tasinvalids expatiate
on their sufferings. Finally each settles
down to her novel or piece of fancy work.
Conversation goes on in jerky, discon-
certed way, which is neither entertain
ing nor highly instructive. There may
be one solitary man among ten women,
n generous proportion, according to all
FsVozes this sumuer.
! Each ono Is afraid Of saying or doing
Anything unconventional, and the more
h18h toned the resort the more each one
kt4Hes herself. What a dreadful thing
ft would be to make an undesirable ac-
Huaintance! Who is Mrs. Sanger, and
iwhat is her husbands business2 Did you
hear on what street Mrs. Phillips lived?
land so on. The same overwhelmingly ex-
lclusive manners are put'on as In the CO.
tertes during the winter, and all this
sham in face Of the grandest scenery,
beside the ocean, the forests or the
mountains. What a mockery seem all
the vain little airs Of the younger women
and the patronizing schemes of the older
onesl
/ With few exceptions the majority of
these city bred creatures would be just
as near to natures heart back IN their
lCdty drawing rooms. To be sure they
know how to rave over a pretty doll OF
b beautiful sunset; they can utter neat
phrases about the moonlight shining
Shrough the "rnurmuring pines and hem
looks" but they are insensible to country
charms In any deep sense. They do not
feel the words they speak, for here are
the same rivalries, the same varieties.
the same slavery to fashions. The unso-
phistioated girl, who thinks more of the
ROW than the boating dress or of the ten
mis- than the suit she has on, is rare
bird. With the exception of the great
icenters, Bar Harbor and Newport, where
dissipation is made business, such mo-
notony redgns that it is q wonder how
any one can endure it.
Quiet reigns, interrupted only by the
arrival OF the mail OF the passing styl-
ish blackboard. If the quiet brought
peace and tranquility, then the object of
the summers outing would be well ac-
complished, but it does not, for most of
them are restless, uneasy and vainly
striving to have good time. Complete
rest they do not desire, for they are not
tired-as a rule they have done nothing
to make them tired. Occasionally there
is the artist who sketches in earnest, or
the student who believes change Of oc-
cupation is the only rest needed. Even
in group busy with the needle not one
is probably doing anything sensible.
Most likely one is crocheting tidy, just
as ifthe tidy had not been discarded long
ago as nuisance. Another is embroid-
ering pansies twice, as big as the natural
ones on table scarf, and the third is
working a flower design on shoebag
In pink and green that will fade out
coAorless the first time washed.
''Whata queer woman that Mrs. Clapp
isl She says she makes most of her chill
dren's underolothing through the sum-
mer," as il it were almost a desecration
Of the long summer days to accomplish
in them any real work. Brooklyn Eagle.