Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-25


W = younger women are
fiuttering about wait
ing for the men to finish the cigars the
children are organizing those romping
games which they will soon put into effect
to the agony Of all the adults in the hotel
The clerk has just gone in to supper. hay-
I Ing been obliged to wait until every one of
the guests has had a chance to complain of
something to him; the office is deserted,
and three school girls are porting over the
| hotel register and thinking how much fun
| II would be to write fictitious names in it,
Late sitters pass out OF. the dining room
| to the porch with toothpicks in their
mouths. When they reach the doorway
they always pause. look down the steps,
| then to the right and left remain unde-
cided for a moment and then go for a seat
Why they should always make this pause
| 1t Is difficult to see. But. 1t appears to be
an invariable custom for the guests at
summer hotels to block up the doorway for
| a few minutes after supper before they
| make up their minds to embark upon the
| surface Of the hotel veranda.
| Close Intimacy.
1t is now time to return to the two girls
who are walking up and down. Their arms
are twined about each others waists. They
| ale laughing together talking together
! Soiiieti1IeS Singing tosetner. After a while
the evening life of the hotel begins, and
| toward them comes a youth. They pause
| in their walk, but they cling all the more
closely together. The youth has something
| to say.
Just saw old Amber coming up the
road to the post Office
| Both girls laugh. ODD Amber is the
| fat postmaster who serves as a perpetual
| joke for the summer residents
"Old Ambler's got wife" adds the
youth. ,I.s
Both girls laugh again. Each one says
| something. but they speak at the same
time the joint remark is undlstinguishable
"Old Ambler's wife got after him when
| he got near the post Office continues the
young fellow. and gave him a terrible
scolding. Called him an old loafer and
| said he was 10 good as a postmaster, be-
cause he never brought any letters home.
| Guess / wouldn't like to have wife like
| old Ambler's." f.
Il guess 1 wouldn't like to have a hus-
| band like old Amber, either" says one of
the girls. which remark the, other girl cor
| roborates 1T '''
The group moves along the piazza, and
presently another youth Joins them. But
they enter the parlor like the Siamese
| twins. and they spend the whole evening
side by side.
starts in the Morning.
In the morning one of them calls at the
bed room door of the other, and they go
down to breakfast together. These girls
| are friends. They have known one an
other for the space of three whole weeks,
but they became friends from the very be-
ginning. They have pursued their friend
ship with extraordinary ardor and they are
| now inseparable. If they go home before
| they have quarreled. one will visit the other
| next winter. and it then becomes a Ques-
ton whether they will grow up and al
| ways continue to love one another. Rut
| of one thing you may be sure. and that is
| that when they grow older they will not
love one another as dearly as they do now.
Who ever saw two middle-aged women who
| were so devoted to each other as two young
| girls are? And who ever saw two old wo-
| men who were what one might justly call
| bosom friends? They become more critical.
| perhaps more selfish, and they do not make
| their friendships complete as they We're
| in their youthful days.
| 'Who is your best rriend?'
This question being put to school , girl.
she replied at once: "Oh, Emma Darling
ton. l just love herr
| She had just come from -Hmma's house.
On the next day she and Emma were going
| down town in the morning together. They
had planned to go to Europe together as
soon as they were finished with school.
| They were both going to make their debut
into society at the same ball. They were
| going to help one another always in every
thing. To say that they confide in one an
other is putting it mildly. They tell each
other everything-not only about them-
to one is equivalent to talking to the other,
for everything you say Is exchanged for
everything some one else has said to the
other girl.
when This Friendship Begins.
This species of friendship begins just as a
| girl enters her teens and continues for an
indefinite period. Sometimes it lasts life
time although this is unusual Sometimes
| IL lasts a week. when there Is a tremendous
| row. and the two girls never speak again,
| but they go off and get other friends. be
fore she leaves school girl may IN this
! way have had at least dozen bosom
| friends with all of whom she has quareled
Leaving school she may make more friends
and may be little slower in loving them,
| hut a great deal slower in quareling with
Them When these girl friendships last it
Is usually because neither OF the girls gets
married. The two girls develop into spin.
sters thence walk calmly into the class OF
women known as those who are no longer
young" and finally. WITH mueh struggiing
against it, come to 'realizS that they are old
| maids AS they have nothing to distract
| them they retain their friepdship, and per-
haps in the end there is Sympathy of dis.
| appointment between them: This kind or
friendship is most successful when II Is
| maintained at distance by letter wrltlhg
| Every woman likes to write letters, and 1t
| is great pleasure to her to tell everything
she XII ows to her dear friefd in this way
| and to receive her dear friends letters two
| or three times a week
Marriage Breaks Into Friendships.
Marriage. on the other hand, is very apt
| to break into friendships. A woman gets
absorbed in the husband ard children, and
her devotion to her best friend Is lost
There is no quarrel, but the girl who Is not
married realizes that she must get along
| with less Of her dear friends society and
| sympathy than she had before. This is the
| case especially where the marriage involves
| the care of a household. If 1t means life
in boarding house and without children,
then the wife must have cCmpanionsnlp all
day when the husband is away, and her
| friendship may continue. This Is unfortu-
| rate. 1t Is better for wife to have q
| house and lose her friend than II is for her
| to live in q boarding house and have moth
| ing to do all day, even though she thereby
keeps her girl friends.
| Now, 1t is not exactly the same way with
men. They do not necessarily give up their
| friend ships when they get married, for the