Evening star., 1899-07-29

expense 1 am under, having proved too
that incompatibility of temper and a di-
with ones husband year through / have
found in Washington summer more to
know and enjoy than Ighave ever discov-
cred abroad. -
Travelling is a FOOLS paradise" says
Emerson; the soul Is no traveller and the
wise man stays at home with his SOUL"
OF course, it IS an open question whether
woman, even wise one, has soul but
something like that gets, uppermost in me
these days at home.
Il loafe and invite my soul;
1 lean and loafe at my ease, observing a
spear of summer grass m
Yielding yourself to the warmth, letting
it consume the starch in your collarless
neck band opened at the throat; losing the
fear of freckles and the notion that to
perspfre is vulgar; stretched on the ground,
with a tree for tent, under the July sun;
thinking of nothing at all: needing the
gossip of wind and the leaves the trilling
feeling all through the glow of the sun,
the press of the breast of the earth where
you rest and scenting the sweets of the
SOIL there develops in you such sense
of life-life entire, actual wholly realized
and all possessed-that the painful virtues
of endurance, the grim genius of toll, the
elusive light of hope and the secret of
charity are compaSsed by the soul in the
mere act of being Talk about going away
for change and a rest. Just try change
of heart and the rest of a clear conscience
III "dSnIflS ION.
The Cool Breeze Miracle,
You know, 1 think that everything exist
ing has it's purpose, and that expressed in
the order prescribed by nature, and when
you disturb this order you lose the chord
of certain eternal harmonies If YOU will
take a Washington summer not because
you must, but because # is in the sequence
of the seasons, and you love your portion
in life, you have no idea how much it will
give you of what you may seek in vain
going from home-even the exhilaratio of
d cooling breeze. Cool air is commonplace
at the seashore and in the mountains if
indeed, you be cool with all the fancy
work, flirting and fussng over the children
that has to be done at a summer resort
But here, just when the suns fierce play
with You seems threatening to exhaust
your energy. out from the providence of
the divine economy which is manifest still
IN Washington summers there comes a
strong, fresh wind that fairy intoxicates
you with the delight of being cool This
ordinary thing, which people at Narragan-
sett or Bar Harbor never actually know
fills us with its refreshment, and at the
same time eXhiarates us with the expert
ence of a new Sensation-almoSt mystery.
We caress it, make merry over it, go with
it across the street to our neighbors talk
about it, rejoice in it a father in his first
born During the most trying heat we have
constant faith in the miracle of a cool
breeze and in state of pleased expectancy
it is always finding us, confirming our
trust and perfecting our JOY in Washington
summer weather.
What Northerners Don't Know.
Personally am convinced not only of the
wisdom of Washington people remaining
at home through the summer, but l think
people from Observation-Disclosures especially
ought to come here for July and August,
at least until they have learned how to
make the most of summer. Northern peo-
pie don't know how to have their houses
comfortable in summer. They don't know
how to carry umbrellas, wear white linen
and go slow. They don't know how to
make mint juleps, and they don't know, in
all the refinement of her glory, the sum
ner girl.
The Real Summer Girl.
OF course, girls do live summers up north
and men there make the absurd deduction
that therefore these are summer girls But
magnolias and jessamine are no more pc
cular to the south than is the true sum
mer girl that adorns life and embeIlishes
love in Washington. She is that most per-
feet thing in Wonan-a mystery. She verify
'cometh up flower" and art can
depict nor science determine Whereby and
how she comes
In winter she is inclined to be "tacky,'
and | freely admit l find her rather tire
some then. But with the Splendor OF June
roses she advances into her Kingdom. From
q somewhat colorless and rather inane lit
tie body, whose clothes are never quite
what New York woman would consider
fit she shines forth, beauty of form re-
vealed in open-necked, short-sleeved. film
sy hGttery dresses, her face exquisitely
tinted a shell, her whole self from the
crown of her deliciOuslv disordered head to
the toe of her rdfculously small, high
hec!ed slipper, dainty and sweet as a bit
of Dresden china. only so much sweeteF for
being warm and very human. She fiirtS,
she dances, she talkS-She talks even more
than she either fiTts or dances: and she
eats. She doesn't mind your knowing that
she loves to eat, and for that reason is the
most all-around nice girl for moonlight
drives and suppers that ever yet was made.
Her throne is the front porch. She sits on
the top step, arraycd in bewildering frou-
troIi of lace and lawn, which she has
bought on a bargain counter for next to
nothing and made herself and while she
talks and laughs and altogether charms,
her subjects swarm the lower steps, each
cOnspiring in his heart to treat her to ice
cream before the evening is over and head
off the other chaps in driving her out next
night. The Washington summer girl is no
hOthouse plant of New York methods of
culture. She is simple, honest and not eX-
penSive. She likes ice cream better than
pate de foie gras, and Soda water better
than champagne, and she is Just as happy
with you trolley car as on the box seat
of a fGur-in-hand. You can trust her not
only with your husbands pocketbool, but
with your husband. Take her all in ALL
she in herself alone Is reason enough why
Washington should be famous rs a sum
mer resort. Such, at any rate, is the opin-
ion of an aunt Of hers by adoption, called
PAULINE PRY.
WELL-GUARDED MATCHES.