Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-19
THE SUMMER GIRL.
The Alton Lady's Kindly Comments
on This Attractive Institution.

ALTON, VA, June 1S.--(Special) THE
singularly hot weather of the past week
has FASTENED the preparation for depart
ure to the seashore, the mountains, the
farm-houses, where summer boarders are
taken, and the lands beyond the sea.
The home attractions won't be slight
ed. Travel along our railroad lines has
been heavy, and the signs are that the
various resorts, stylish and otherwise,
from the place OF gorgeous hotels to the
secluded valley where the humble cot
tage grows aud bugs and berries make
everybody happy will be literally pa
troniZed.
The exodus TO them really does not be-
gin till after the June commandments,
and the young girl graduates changes
cap and gown for the diaphanous raj
ment OF the summer debutant. All over
this broad land of ours for her we wait.
HOLDS THE BALANCE OF POWER.
II matters little where you gO-along
the mountain path, or where old ocean
roars-this young girl holds the balance
of power. She may be fresh from acade-
mic walls, or she may be already crown
ed with the prestige Of other summer
seasons and dubbed by witty penny-a-
liners the summer girl; she is factor In
American institutions, and is sure TO be
found in all her glory, queen OF all mat
she surveys, and more important TO the
landlord Of the successful hotel than the
hest hand he can muster. or his most ac-
complished French chef. All uncon-
sciously, she is a business card. DAINTY,
fair, with dewy lips and eyes, arrayed IN
white robes, and laden with MOVERS she
gathers her court around her ana mis-
the hosiery with her admirers; ana 10
not wonder that mine host laughs gee
| fully to himself as he notes her arrival
and the departure of her numerous trunks
to the regions above.
HEROINE OF SUMMERS BOOK.
She is only one OF many, Of course, but
| she is heroine Of the summers book IN
| this golden season of life. She is more
| than that, because if you will study her
well YOU will see that she differs from
her predecessors. With the girl of ten
years since. she has little family IKE
nese and with the fair young thing Of
| FORMER wears there is no similarity at all.
The tyne is changing, l believe, always
toward progression. II Is an ascent to
HIGHER plane-and yet, and yet-how snail
| I say It?
II is the death Of sentiment
no vou mind-as a Scotchman would
sav-the charming Amelias of old?
Lace and loneliness; furbelows ana
frjyolitv. innocence in her eyes; candy
and a love-letter in her pocket; iever-
ish atmosphere of adulation around her,
from, which she condensed her stolen
moments with the best beloved; tender
nuapt devoted. q condition that was per :
hans very conducive TO matrimony' put
shnt ont the high lights Of reason ana
common sense.
There is more liberty now ana a NAV.
ter-of- fact. informed companionshlp that
is far better. -, 1000 % .
The young summer woman OF lSso Is a
mower for the better, prodigiously heaitn-
f,J IN all her sentiments, and thoroughly
Iui 80 With the worlds advance. TO
her we bow. .,,o ora chill
dren, of Georgia, are ares, spending =, 'ns SUI"
o. lanes II. Robinson will conduct
i ser,es Of meetings at the Baptist church
of Glasgow, Va.