Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-24
PEGGY POTTS LETTERS.

all tanned up? / am in perfect state
of doubt about the matter l used 10
think it SO fashionable to BIO so brown
and leathery like. and then you Know
some people say how nice and heaithy
and sensible girl looks oil Drowned
up by the sun and then someone else
will say something about that Lovely
girl with beautiful white skin who
takes such care of IL and does not let
herself look like o cigar store sign.
don't see any use getting all scorched
I'M lust to let people know that you
have been away for the summer, ana
yet | do hate to look peaked and whlte
when all the other girls have that nice
bronzed look. Now what shall i do!
You ought to know, you are forever
writing mo what those French women
do and seem to think they are oil right
You know that | scorch and freckle
very easily at any rate, and if do not
want to get tanned this year must
just make up my mind to wear one OF
those stylish but roasting brown or
blue chiffon veils and pretend | am
comfortable: or / will start right in
now and 90 about in a careless kind OF
an air that makes the other girls just
perfectly furious because they can T do
it. for their hair gets out of curl when
they take their hats off. And you
know, dear, mine just frizzles up the
hotter and damper the day is. SO,
Portia, dear, do let me know right
away from Paris, is it, or is it not
stylish, to get tanned this year?
| went out to see the golf tournament
yesterday. Lucy Larkin said she had
been invited by four men TO play, but
she Thought il looked SO foolish and
frivolous to chase little white ball all
over n field that she refused. Lucy is
getting so Superior and SO severe, and
tries to impress us that it is foolish to
do anything that is stylish; but Just
between you and men | do not think
she was invited. We went out early
and tho trolley was just packed. |
had to sit next to that stylish looking
Clara Kenneth, who is always so stuck
up Just because all her clothes are i'm
ported. She has a terrible figure and
she squints and talks through her
nose; but when she got to Elsmere she
sat on the club piazza and had four or
five of the best golfers talking to her
and offering her candy one minute and
ginger pop the next, Just as If she
were a beauty. 1t is all because she
has that rich aunt, who is so fond OF
her and whom everybody knows is
going to die soon. Well, the girls
who played looked fine, but they didn'
mind having their sleeves rolled up,
and some had their collars and their
hats off, and they walked around the
field looking. as the darkey says, TRY
ing to hit little quinine pill with a
club. 2"
Dress? Yes. some we're dressed well
and others looked frumpy. One girl
had red coat on with plaid skirt
old shoes on and draggled skirts, and
they strutted about the grounds in a
shamefaced kind Of way; but those
who wore trig-looking boots and silk
| stockings and neatly finished skirts
| Just stepped over the stream and the
rough places and the big punches of
grass with careless like air that made
the men nudge each other. Well, |
don't blame them, there is nothing
prettier than trim looking ankle and
a well-iitting boot.
| Coming in | saw two girls in front
of me, and such time as they had
paying their fare. They had to stand
up. the cars were so crowded. They
had on those nice new tight skirts that
are so dangerous to sit down in. Now.
what | am going to tell you, my
dear, is how foolish they looked trying
to find their pocketbooks l think
women are so silly about pocketbooks.
They either carry big jewel looking
purse in their hand and tempt the first
pickpocket along the street, or they
have their pocketEook some place in
their clothes that it takes two hours to
find it. Now the girl who was paying
for the faro had her parasol in ono
hand, two books and her golf sticks IN
tho other. She suddenly remembered
that she only had two hands and both
were occupied. She looked around for
q table, but not seeing any she poked
the parasol under one arm and books
under the other. She knocked an old
gentleman hat off with the butt end
of her parasol and nearly blinded the
conductor when she turned around to
attend to the old gentleman. She
tished her hand in tho upper part of
her bodice, down around the blouse
part, for she knew tho pockethook was
in there some place: she poked and
poked around rs if she was giving her
self massage treatment. OF course the
simplest idea would to be take off the
blouse and let the pocketbuok drop
out. but suppose she had some
modest scruples about doing this in
the car. AT last, purely by chance,
she discovered the purse. Tho sudden
discovery so startled her that she
dropped her parasol and golf sticks
and then started to open her purse
She knew where the spring was but
she did not seem TO find it and the
purse wouldn't open. At last 1T did
open, lust because it was sick of being
mauled at. and in the inner corner,
with four or five samples and some
postage stamps, piece of chewing
gum, and u gold locket she found her
money.
Then | got home and | found your
lovely letter and could not wait until
morning to answer it, Now do write
right away and let me know about tho
sunhurn, and tell me if the Partisan
women are going to wear those tight
skirts next fall. They are getting Just
too common here. Our cook has one
that looks like stocking with a
iiounce around it. Lucy Larkin and |
are going to start to study human
nature next week, and will write and
tel. you all about it. Good bye. Your
ioVing Peggy.
A Marked Differences -"They saw the
Prince of Wales strangely resembles
Henry VIII" "Well, he may. but he
doesn't seem to have tho knack If
getting Queens out of the way that
Henry had. Brooklyn Life.
! II,Ntt, Il.