The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-05-27
CHAPER0NS THIS SUMNER.
VIEW AND TRYING TASKS WHICH
THEY MIST PERFORM.


thar.rons should urranile a labor union and
strike for shorter hours and lighter work. The
modern mother who has daughters In society
Is a subject for t'lr@ Of sympathy; and the pro-.
rnSsional chaparon's lot would make stone
breaking look like holiday raStime. The lines OF
chapcrunage ARE bniug drawn even moro closely
III m IN the old days, and The difficulties of chap.
'runage have been increased AZ an appalling
rate The combination is making life hard
for a host % elderly and well meaning individ.
ngh'wh, htv'rlrn ID 4 right to rest.
In the Fast N" chaperon has always been
n more important figure than in any other part
Of The 90 ntry, but now her sway is maxi ng itself
felt more and more throughout the West. and
l. becoming mora ~insiStent oven on It's native
heath The fact il probably the result OF
n r%evul-ion " feeling. n Protest against the
rather startling unconv entionality of the new
glrI, and n such il a tribute TO the underlying
common sense % modern mothers. A Young
girl i still a young girl, even Though she rides
a Wheel and plays Golf and goes in for Stun
work and has n deep. rooted conviction that
she knows more about life than her mother even
dreamed From time immamorisl the young
nirl ha, been an uncertain quantity in matters
Of discretion, aud modern educational methods.
while extending the roblenls, do not seem to
have increased the discretion in due proportion.
\atiral'", some departures from convention
ars neruis.ihlc ,ou which uora No, known
gor,srp, rho hro,o,o had ,n,,o, 70 an r,h
that Even the bnst-intautioned chaperon,
If elderly felt hor resolution flag when con.
| fron'eG with n wheel. Girls would ride. and men
would de with thorn and tho rational cha or.
on drew her rhilosoIhv around her lae q
mantle, and waited with the best grace possihls
| fur her charge TO come back within ChavcrOnags
limits The passing ~ tho bicycle is lifting a
M vbty load rrom tho mind Of tho conscicn,io,,
chaperon. but she still has troubles of her
| own. Golf doesA't 20 hard with her II she IL
Of Tho smoo,h-runninu variety tim, Is &c n,ent
tosi on the club yeranda and drink ic"d ten but
! there are MARTYRS to duty who either play
m. game or IRAN over mo links v,th The girls.
putting "A damp'r upon all IN" d"lISht' OF roE
! Irritation. Up at Bar llarbor last summer one in
ccrrup,ibIe dragon .h,dc,ed Lcr charming
daughter 50 closely even on the links that know
ing cadd es gathered in a harvest Of surreptit,ous
cnIn. nv o,oborota schama. for circumvcn,inn
tn" old lady and "nGrossine her attention, The
story goes that n proposal was actually put with
the hau a, rho eighth hole While Rob the coddv,
we q a, .e.sn'n 'o'', Nu"e n'u, n .an"s.
Rescued the dragon from a big mix snake that no
had turned loose from the caddy bag pocket at
a critical moment The urI was ,oing on "a
! - --. - - ~. -. -
lenoX the neNt DAY ana the man was GOOD
looking detrimental.
lie was a mighty good sort " so Rob told
'"s',' ''' w " ~ ~
the tale afterward. and We was great friends.
and he says: Bob, I'm playing a handicap
says he. You've helped me out OF bunkers
before Now. u o'yn wh's''lnga HOT Iime'
you fix that old lady II you have to take a nib
lick sc.a to sa her oc.n I'd dr been ond "IisGsG nsH Sox viii, h. her 5ei 2
about snakes so inst loadad nm Geo uhIA
What a drive tha, snake made-Ioited her over
a creek and q stone wall lie wanted to give
Of the old lady. and he holds ont his hand and
saws: You're nil right Bobby"
easier oH 'h tjm wht tEan Uni the s"i WINTER 'n nsppernn mas s fe
keep a. late hours: and if she's a good sailor
and can stand driving and walking, she's ali
down in the summer and allows liberties that
winter would freeze. A summer chaperon
should he chosen much a. the summer girl
chose her !frock,,
oh, fi d tmn' know. " We're ' s"fn rs'l !" the Main.
o oSaiS., give T"c me something 'ha'T look well
May ia a sad time for the city chareron.
She il tired after the winter season. but the girl
Is fving around as indefatigahly as ever. On
almost any afternoon nowadays the incoming
local trains carry shirt-waist and walking-skirt
girls who are fanked by tired chaperons
and young men in golf suits. The dropping
Wild howors and dropping chaperons testify thai
the groups have been SY for a day In the coun-
try. Then. too, this ia The season Of college fes-
tvities, and countless unfortunate women are
elected to chaperon girls TO New Haven or
Princeton or will ans, or some other place
where men do connregate and sigh for the hest
girls. They don't Sigh for the chaperons:
but they have to make a virtue of Necessity.
IF INV one ~ the crowd has A real Young
married sister bring her along for chaperon.s
wrote a Yale Junior 10 his partner for the or ~
enade. IF not. engage a blind deaf mute.
and il she's raral, zed 80 much the better"
The trials of a chapcron who takes six M
seven girls TO n collage promenade are bayo nd
telling, oh. those teas In college roomsl and
those walks. and those drivee, and those dances,
and those verandas, and those banjo concerts,
and those iunketinss in the wee sma' hourl
Argus himself couldn't enectually fiji The chap
sleep or she'll have no sleep herself. One
New York woman who chaperoned eight board
ing school girls on a promenade trip this season
came home. at the end Of the five days. and
promptly had a case OF nervous prostitution.
The up-to-date method Of managing such an
watch and play ngurehead. while the other
sleens. and in that way, both NAV survive.
The boarding school chaperon ia perhaps
the hardest worked of her class. She IL strictly
rnsnunsble 10 the mowers upon whom hev
salary dcpands. and she usually has a large
crowd Of most irrcprcssible Young woman II
handle The tactful repression of n number OF
school girls requires DIPLOMACY Of a rare quality.
aud tho school chaperon who kcens the eirlss
liking and vet rulee with n firm hand is n master
s,ra,e0,-t The Youngest teacher in the school
ts nsuoU, in demand Tor chaperoninr purr oees
NTH, FOR ,Outhful friyolltv than tho old teach
d6rs and ,hen She hasn't -, attained sufficient
a,s aud exprr,ence 10 snuff a Young man ont
A. she would snlfI an ohstreporons candle.