Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-24

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any chances. know don't take many
A very valuable article on "Summer
Girl Visitors" has just been printed by
boston paper, and as Bostonese ad-
vice IS always good, though sometimes a
niue Dit strained, Gull therefrom q few
extracts. They may serve to a good pur-
pose some damsel who is too poor to 20
10 the watering-places, and, therefore. in
sehos 10 accept an invitation to visit
| friends. In the first place, the beneficiary
or the invitation is urged TO ''be pictu
rescue, and to fit In with the landscape"
row weak. watery-eyed girl who wears
| spectacles and Is slew-footed can manage
TINS is more than / can see though they
| say that no landscape is complete with
| out COW, and IL cow can fill the bill
l suppose girl can. She must have sim
pie and dainty clothes, and look well in
golfing and bicycle suits. Here again
an impossibility is suggested. The girl
| who doesn't look nice in goling and BIZ
cycle suits is going to find trouble You
can't look nice In clothes just because
people tell you to- / have tried It, The
sweet visitor is urged not to say sharp
things, and to be strong and well, and to
play golf, walk, ride a bicycle and talk
all day long without being tired This
Is asking too much, 1 think ] wouldn't
a
girl. / would rather stay at home and
saw wood.
The summer girl, moreover, must have
good piazza manners, and know how TO
perch on piazza-railing without looking
IKE an athlete. Good, but suppose there
are splinters on the railingl She must
be able TO lounge in a corner without
seeming to invite Irritation, and ito get
In and out of a hammock like a bird
seeking or leaving its nest'-llke Shang-
hal pullet. for instance, / suppose And
then again, to quote the words Of the
sage who thus counsels the dear destroy
ers Of chewing-gum:
THE girl summer visitor should know
how to arrange flowers without making
fuss about having the right kind Of |
dishes for them; how to make salad dress |
ing and soda lemonade, the coffee or |
chowder at picnic, and how to trim an |
other girls hat out of nothing. She should |
be friendly with the servants, and not |
expect them to do her laundry or bur- |
nish her silver toilet articles and she |
should always take her own shoe-poish
with her. and paper Of pins"
1t wouldn't be well TO quote all the |
things that Boston people think the Wis
iting sufferer should do but l shall add /
a few more advisory tidbits Advice is
an article with which every one is liberal,
and which everybody else is too mag
unanimous TO accept. Therefore, when
give you the list of things you ought to
do. you can readily make up your minds
what you are not going 10 do. You must
make yourself agreeable to the host and
hostess and to all their children (no mat
ter II they have forty) and to friends
and relatives. The piazza should always
be full. While 1t is generally unWise to
intemperance. you must never
theless keep the piazza full. Get 1t drunk
of your sparkling wit, If you can't do
any better. You must draw beaux like
lies draw molasses, but don't be too gay
With your hostesses fellows. You must
90 driving with the other girls father,
start games and make things go gem
erally," without being boss yourself. You
must know when TO go off by yourself,
when not to talk, but to listen Ia very
difficult duty. and when TO appear as II
you didn't know that family fuses,
moods ETC., were going on.
In short, If you wish comfort and ease,
you had better stay at home.
THE IDLE REPORTER.