Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-16
A GARDEN OF GIRLS.
THE ACTON LADY DESCRIBES TIE
LAsE ROSE OF SUMNER.
The Young Woman OF the Coming
Winter VIII Have Repose OF MAD
ner-Many Types Of budding femi-
ninity.

(CorrespOndence OF the Dlspalcn)
ALTON. VA, October H.-Let me tell
you! There's dire evil hanging over
our devoted heads. Otherwise, some sen
sationaI penny-a-liner is away Off" or
is piling up agony-and reputationT1or
the New York Guasher. 1 have read TINS
dire foreboding, and it runs somewhat IKE
this:
The young woman of the coming winter
intends TO have the "repose which stamps
the caste Of vere-de-vere" for her dis
tinctive characteristic.
How this astute writer finds out so far
inadvance what the winter woman as
to be puzzles one to know
II we are to judge by the fashion
plates my lady is frippery, furbelowed
frivolous. and 1ounced to a degree IN
dicating everything else but a reposetui
calm.
THERE, ARE GIRLS AND GIRLS.
However, as has been stated more than
once in these writings, there are girls
and girls lust as there are buds and
roses-and the same is true of women.
| Anent Of the rose l have often thought
| Il smile.
Here is the red, red rose" for the maid
| with olive checks and eyes like Mime
haha's the dainty, white rose for sweet.
| pale Margaret; the pink buds for the girl
| whose hair is dashed with golden-rod,
| and the deeper yellow for fair Lucille
! "as soft and sallow as autumn.
| With what rose to class the coming
| winter woman j do not know, because
even the hot-hOuse roses must have heat
| they cannot bloom in a frigidity of zero
In all the rosebud garden of girls
| there is a corresponding variation of char
acter, disposition, and mannerism.
THE SENTIMENTAL GIRL
Did YOU ever see the sentimental girl
OF course; for sad, but true, her name
is Legion-besides being Gabrielle, Ger
trude, Marguerite, ETC.
/ rise up in unholy wrath every tins
I think of the sentimental girl. In m!
mind she is not in the slightest way as
ISOLATED with love. To love. in all III
conjugations, l take it to mean some
thing sweet and stcadfast in every phas
Of a woman's existence, from girlhoo'
to the other side Of eternity.
And the sentimental girl is, of al
things. ephemeral by nature. She j
full of short-liyed rhapsodies of dea
Tom or Edwin, with her mental attain
ments bounded by Laura Jean Libbe.
and the author of "Dora Thorn"
The strange and incomprehensibl
things she says and does in the name o
| love would put to shame, for mystifyiI
tendencies, the genealogy of Jupiter
family. This kind of girl is also roman
tic; she grows pensive in twilight, and
positiyely idiotic over a full moon Sh
| is musical also TO the extent Of some
bodys tapping at the garden gate" an
''In sleep your dear eyes haunt me still.
A VERY THORNY ROSE.
In shorter even at 5 feet inches-o
all the girls-good, bad or Indifferent
the sentimental girl is the very thornies
rose among them. Nothing redeems he
but the fate of poor Maud Muller.
But she is going; there is not so many
of her. even as a midsummer girl at tn,
SWEETEST summer resorts. Perhaps in he,
gradual but sure ascent to some higher
ideal, there is a menace. She had, with
all her foolishness, many charms. Shall
. we hate her. then, for being too perfect
THE BETWEEN" TYPE.
II is the between type that has beer
wholly radiant in her evolution. She wa
so restful: all this radiant summer s,
like the half lights OF the rose she typi
fies. Wearer OF ribbons which were al
ways fresh; attred in that divine attri
| butte OF comradesnlp, snlrt-Walst,
. was. oh. so smart and spotless! Wit
her sailor hat tipped at the precise righ
angle and her very boots saffron poem
OF delight-who did not love her?
, Even TO my cold and esthetic heart sh
was a synonyme for all that was swee
and lovely in Summertime.
Z How shall we give her up?-this gin
I that was neither sentimental nor conven
tional who was informal. unaffected
prodigiously healthful. and entirely natu
raj.
4 The winter rose girl of were de we're
y will smile YEARLY where once she wa
wont TO laugh loudly. She will raise he
eyebrows ianguidly, and bow with sue
chilling hauteur that her best friends wi
weep in silence, and where heretofoi
she has kissed enthusiastically she wi
extend tho finger tips of her No. XII
"Mamma," OF course, IS soi-disant; pc
r hans In the widest outburst OF affection
Is she may occasionally bend and leave
n light caress in the region OF mother
~ back hair.
;, GOOD FELLOWSHIP GONE.
~ Good fellowship and cameraderie Al
things Of the past. She has determine