The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-22
ADVICE TO THE SUMNER GIRL
Ella va heeler sWiicox Cautions Her
Younger Sister Against SEINE Things.


mer Girl" says:
In Summer time I seem to be
A part of sky and earth and sea.
1 feel the ardors of the noon,
I sorrow with the pallid moon;
The freedom of the glorious main
Is in my spirit and my brain,
And with the whispering forest leaves
My heart in secret laughs and grieves.
Like little buds that bloom and slow,
New hopes within my being grow
All Nature! in sweet Summer vine
l drink 10 you, dear kin of mine.
J 1t would be interesting to know just
what our grandmothers would Lave
thought of the term summer girl.
Those we'll meaning danes were quite
as susceptible to summer and its allure
ments and frivoliies as the maids of to-
day, but they were not as conscious of
the fact.
In Kat Jordan interesting book, The
Cirie in the Sand" Anne Ga1ricA says:
mo. 1 am not the new woman. am
the awakened woman
That is the whole difference bet 7esq
the women Of yesterday and today -Ihe
old summer girl and the new me.
A bright girl said to two of her COM
pantons recentlyS You two are always
digging yourselves up by the roots to see
how you grow"
This is the feminine tendency Of the
day.
Our grandmothers took themselves for
granted. as good, pious, modest, domestic
girls the year round.
That does not signify that they were.
Our women of today analyze themselves
to find out whether they possess danger
Gus, frivolous, mercenary or erotic ten
denotes.
That does not signify that they do
Human nature is in its essential 5har-
acteristics very much the same from one
generation TO another. but the average
woman Of today thinks more than she did
in departed ages. and on more independ-
ent lines.
and her ringlets. sitting on her piazza Of
a summer afternoon. did not deliberately
plan to be flirtatious and frivilous, but
she was.
Maud. with her golf sticks and her bicy-
Gle or in her sleeveless and decollete
Always has the summer induced senti-
ment. and always has the dog-nights
moon made lunatics Of sane mor,als. Il
it the silent sorrow Of the pale moon.
thinking ever OF its vanished joys. which
stirs us mortais SO?
Certainly the oalid summer moon con
veys her anguish to the heart which
watches her in solitude. to be alone in
the moonlights of summer Is to feel alone
in the universe.
The American girl IS not often sub /
jected 70 this experience. With the free /
dom which she Is allowed. or takes when !
rot allowed. she considers q man is Of
the moon, indispensable 70 her enjoy I
ulent Of the man IN the moon
I have seen rocks overlooking the sea !
dotted with men and maids O. summer
nights as thiekly as with barnacles. while 4
somewhere out of hearing and sight IN
nolestlag parents and chs0erons exist. 4
in true American confidence that al was
wen with their charges.
AZ IS usually well with the summer /
CIR. she knows hovv 10 take care q her
self. ard the American man knows thai /
her ideal is Esza whom she can trust
implicitly at aI times Yet re does not
alVSys live Up 20 this IDEAL nor does she
always realsze her cwn k1ow.sEgs q
self-protectfon-
She IS bar human and ne Is ssmstiroes
less. sad Z ran drunk wits tire beauty Of
: sumner day and summer gil il rot
y holly responsible or his words - a.
,lcns-
! would advise evry goEng woman who
goEs forth On Asr summer outing 10 take
tor hsr motto tive woTas--sr~asx garse
Il Is a pretty safe mSsto fer woF7sz 90
NY age a. 81 Ezses CO sss gear. bit