Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-10-11

Then she is like other girlsa
Not at all.
What is she like?
She Is like a dream of fluffy whiteness
sweeping through the sunlight; an rides
cent bubble blown by Cupid from dew
drops cupped in roses; a pink checked
fairy tripping down the silver path of
summer; a blue eyed vision of feeoy
cloud upon an azure sky; a tangled tress
of golden hair entwined about beating
heart; poem underneath a parasol.
Anything more?
Much more.
Are all summer girls blue eyed and gold
en- haireds
Ihey are Of all kinds.
Are they all visions and fairies and bub-
bles?
Yes
And peemss .ss...,..
Yes =
And dreams? = -s.s nS@.ss
Yes ~
Do they ever come truef
Dreams go by contraries.
In winter as well as in summer?
Well, no. They come around our way
slightly in winter.
Why?
~ s ulHefeQF III winter,
Whare does the GUNNER girl have her
habitationS
By the mountains and by the sea, by
hill and dale, and wherever the summer
glow is tempered by the cooling breeze
Anywhere else?
Where man is, there the summer girl is
also.
Where the summer girl is, is man there
also?
The summer girl says he isn't always
Why does man permit any OF this indie
scribable loneliness to escape him?
The supply exceeds the demand.
How is that possible?
Man is not infinite in his capacity.
- Does the summer girl know this?
She doesn let herself think about it,
Does she think l}eu are pleutyS
she treats them as II she aai did
And still without them she is i, good
deal like bit of color when the light goes
out?
A little that way.
Are all summer girls alikeP
Largely; during the summer.
Are they all pretty?
Their gowns arg.
What is their chief Characterization
White fluff and pink and blue ribbons.
mean the girls?
Oh! They flirt!
What's that?
Telling a man the moon is green cheese
and making him believe it.
Don't engagements of marriage so,ae-
times result?
ENGAGEMENTS without the marriage
please:
Why not marriage?
The first frost kills that part of it.
Why?
The summer girl is out for fun.
And the man?
He gets over it.
Doesn't the summer girl over marryy
Whenever sho gets the chance
Isn't there q chance in these summer
engagements
Not much.
Why not?
The men are not as silly as they talk.
Oh, the men have eQmething to do with
IL then2
Don't they ever want to marry sum
mer girl?
Certainly.
And do they ever marry herr
Yes.
WhenS
When she gets over the summer girl
habit.
Are the newspapers an authority on the
subject?
They ought to be. They discovered her,
Where9
In a rosebud; in a lily pad; in cradle
of moonshine; in a spoonful of June.
How did the newspapers ever get into
such places as those9 e..
Just as they do into any other place.
Are the newspapers reliable?
AS reliable as the summer girl is.
Doesn't that imply doubt
No doubt.
Why Is the girl not the same in the sum-
mer as she is in the winter?
Summer is warm
What has that to do with it,
Heat expands
pra-that means she is wider in her
acopes
Exactly.
Takes in everything in sight?
Yes.
And goes it blind for the balancep
Precisely.
Do the men like that sort of thinga
YheY can stand it, They are not totally
without expansion themselves.
Something of case of similia similibus
curantur?
That's about the size of it.
To come right down to the hard laess,
isn't there lot of twaadle about the SUM
mer girls
Skip that one, please.
She knows the difference between
hammock and house rent, doesn't she2
! guess yes.
And tennis racket and rolling Pima
Rather.
And poetry and protatqes2
Somewhat.
And moonshine and matrimony?
Easy.
She knows good thing when she sees
10 it, too, doesn't she?
Ask the summer girl.-New York Sun.
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