The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-25

pital duty in the army, joins soldier re-
lief associations. the Red Cross associa-
ton or any other organization that has
some relationship, however remote, to
the military Should she fail In her
efforts to actively participate in the aid
or relief of the soldiery she at least is
not precluded from display Of her
sympathies in her dress.
The summer girl, whether enjoying
the cool breezes and surf bathing at the
seaside resorts or rusticating amid wood
land retreats and mountain solitudes,
has been for number of years the sub
ject of much comment, not always of
the most favorable kind. Flirtations,
hoydenish abandon, many escapades and
disregard of conventionalities which
were supreme regulators Of her life at
other times, have been attributed to her,
perhaps not without good and sufficient
reasons. But though straitlaced ma
irons and staid, conservative gentlemen
might stare disapprovingly at her am
tics it must be confessed that the sum-
mer girl has been delightfully."- fresh and
inspiring.
Inclined to be bizarre and faddish in
summer resort get up in the past, she
will undoubtedly surprise people still
more this summer by the military char
acter of her bearing and costuming. If
not exactly armed cap-a-pie, she will
make as near an approach TO it as posi-
BILE and will conform as far as she can
to a soldiers uniform in her dress.
But in this display of her military
proclivities and her belligerent attitude
toward Spain the summer girl will
have innumerable imitators Women
throughout the country young and old,
are almost universally displaying the
national colors-red, white and blue.
Sometimes it may be by means of a
simple ribbon, bow or badge. At other
times it may be by the rather startling
combinations of a blue skirt, with a red
jacket and a white vest
The crossed guns from soldiers caps
are highly priced for decorative pur-
poses, as also the crossed swords Of the
cavalry and the canpons of the artil.
lery. Cap cords, gilt braid and epaulets
are still more highly priced, | presume,
because the possession of such articles
might lead to the inference that the fair
wearer had some officer friends in the
army.
: Girls with sweethearts or relatives
in the volunteer army have gathered
many mementos of military social func-
tions, such as buttons, pins, emblems
and badges. When they walk abroad
now, they make a brilliant display in
those spoils Of the past. And, further
more, many Of them make their dresses
harmonic with the adornmcnts.
The girl Of today is martial, if moth
ing more. Her navy blue jacket is of
military cut and down its front are
double row Of buttons detached from
soldiers coats. On her stand up collar
are embroidered the letters u. S., and
across her sleeve is the glittering braid
of a noncommissionedo officer. War med
ais are probably worn at the tlEoat, a
leather belt fastened with big army
buckle confines her waist, and scarf
pin Of crossed guns completes the ensem-
bic Of her military adomments
In fact, the military summer girl Of
1898 will dress, walk, eat and sleep in
the national colors Even i'm the mat
tiers Of bearing and manners she will be
changed. She will adopt a military
stride in walking and will attempt, if
possible, the regulation % inch step
With head erect looking neither 10 the
left OF the right. she will look, as doubt
less also she feels, modern Minerva,
fully armed for bloodless conquests at
the various summer resorts
When she meets her young lady
friends, she will not greet them with
the gushing effusiveness of other days
and instead of bestowing the welcoming
kiss will stand to attention and award
them frigid military salute.
The number of military phrases heard
nowadays is interesting, though apt Il
startle the nearer as a marked innova
ton. That they are almost invariably
inappropriate in the connection in which
they are used is a hsct that apparently
does not appeal to the consciousness o.
those that employ them. They ara mih
tary or are such by implication. and cha
alone is sufficient to recommend theil
use. ANNETTE CRAWFORD.