The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-03
NEW SUMNER GIRL
REPORTED COMING
Mannlshness of the Athletic Female
to Be Subdued by a Resumption
of FriIs and RuffIes.
Special to The Globe.

TUXEDO, Aug. 1.-The Summer
Glrl' our darling of OH how brief a.
tlIne, who passed away almost entirely.
70 give place to a sturdier successor
the Athletic Girl, is said to be coming
back to us again to resume the nIaca
OF her Amazonian rival.
All this 1T is alleged IS due to the
present rage for chiffons and frills
nigh heeled shoes ana picture hats.
furbelows and ruff1es, with which the
most recent woman is bedizehing her
self.
There is considerable difference Of
opinion on this subject, however and
writer's in the society papers are bav-
ing pitched battle over the possibiIi-
ties of the case.
The latest theory is that we are to
nave a combination Fluffy and Ath-
letlc Girl, capable of making a rapid
metamorphosis between golf hours
ana dinner time and of4playingz two
roles, each in their way equally fas-
cinating and attractive to her admir-
erS.
There have long been rumors that
something was necessary to curb the
growing mannishness of the Athletic
Girl. Particularly are the golf links
said to have been responsible for the
hardening Of the modern woman, who
mas learned num1er Of unangelic
habits from the vicissitudes of the
soul-engrossing game.
one of these is the solitary habit,
SAID to have developed during solitary
moments at the tee, after the mashie
had done peculiarly silly piece Of
work.
Women who were, in fact, on the
verge or canonization, have fallen so
into the habit of using swear words
when none but their faithful caddie
was around that they have finally so
Tar forgotten themselves as to say
damn at pink tea and have lost their
halos irredeemably :
1t is said that few women can fol-
low golf and walk the straight and
narrow path without profanity
Court tennis, which is now coming
to be such vogue here, is said to be
less wearing on the character and we
may expect to see the return to fulfil
ness in the way of apparel marked by
more strict adherence to morals and
preference for court. tennis The
new style of court tennis Represented
by such courtly players as Mr.. Bro
quedis is said to be a particularly
favorable game for bringing out the
gentler qualities of the fair players.
1t is evident, however, that even if
the modern Miss does consent to go
back to her furbelows for few hours
daily it will be impossible to bring her
back to the state of 1uffiness and
business in which she revelled a de-
cade or two ago.
The girl who has learned to take
pride in her Drawn and muscle is not
going to drop back into dolldoln at the
suggestion of a Felix or a Worth She
has felt the glorious inspiration of a
system built up of healthy corpuscles
and has no desire to return to the
anaemic conditions which made life a
weary, back-aching burden to her in
the old days before athletics came to
be good form for girls as well as boys.
There is no doubt that the mannish
girl destroys the romantic feeling in
man which he should feel for the sex.
She may make a jolly companion and
be a good fellow all right enough, but
his feeling for err win never trans
cend the sisterly regard ca the camara-
darie of the golf links.
Possibly, however If she will adopt
the two sided rcIe which is now dawn
ing on her she may meet the difficulty
half way. After a morning in shooting
boots. trousers and short skirts she
may appear in the evening in her laces
and chiffons all the more charming
in a ball room setting and all the
greater contrast to the unseXed being
who plowed her way through the tall
grass in the morning, looking for her
woodcock or ships or whatever the
game she was after might be.
-Bertram Lebhar.