The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-14

THE CONTRAST fellow who insists
AT HOME on telling his sweet
AND ABROAD. heart 999 times in
one evening that she
is pretty, some other evening will tell her
she is prettier. So she is, and the parallel
runs right along with human character,
developed into human acts. We are on
our guard at times and the real man and
the real woman are 'seen as through
glass, darkly," but at other times the
genuine article gets in the centre of the
stage and the lime light flashes his pecu
liarities and eccentricities into the public
eye so that it can't mistake them. and
once having caught on to some of these
it is always on the lookout for others.
Did you think of the difference IN the
outward seeming of the human biped on
dress parade and the
DRESS PARADE same individual as he
BEFORE AND really is. Sometimes
AFTER TAKING. it's a curious DR..
Jekyl Mr.. Hyde
state of affairs that is shown up. Here
is the young lady whom you call to see
in the evening. She is all smiles and
pretty dresses and charming bouquets and
soft glances and pretty speeches. Ten
minutes before you got there she was
nagging the life out of her mother be-
cause she couldn't find the pins. The
young fellow who threw his cigarette
away as touched the electric button at
the door. and entered the room neat,
natty and debonnair had few moments
before kicked over the bootblack because
the polish on his shoes did not glisten to
suit his fastidious taste. Simply examples,
and little ones, of the change when we
emerge from the shadow into the bright
light of the eyes that we want to see
us at our best
Types of our own idiosyncrasies con-
tinually parade themselves and all I'M
Willingly give them
OUR FOIBLES selves away and
SHOWN BY teach us our own fol-
OTHER ACTORS. bles and failings.
There is hardly
better place to study these than at the
fashionable summer resorts be these at
the seashore, among the mountains, or
at the springs. Away from home, away
from the neighbor with whom you touch
elbows day by day you all unknowingly
show up the real fellow or the real girl.
It's somewhat like the good old deacon
who at home never wandered into a bar
room or thought of going to the circus.
In the big city, if you kept tab on him
out of the tail OF your eye you would
find him way up front on the bald-head
row. and if he found that you were look
ing at him as he held the glass in his
hand he would murmur Just for the
stomach's sake, you know"
Here she comes now. isn't she
daisy" gurgIes Charley Addlepate, as
dream in gauzy white
HER VICTIMS sweeps by in the
AND SCALPS mazes of the dance, |
UNNUMBERED. and you see the typi- |
cal seaside BELLE /!
adorned in all her war paint for the
scalping of many braves before the sea-
son closed. Coquettishly she swings her |
dainty fan, its ivory matching the beauty |
of the glistening shoulders about which |
lace and flowers cling. Her sparkling
glances, electric with the witchery of the /
hour, thrills into love lorn ecstasy the
gallant who sits beside her, and into one
little pink ear he pours his tale of love, |
of fattery. of undying devotion just as
he has told it to the last girl who would
listen, and the gay coquette to his plead
ing tells him that she will be his and
mentally adds his scalp to the other nine
she has taken, without any thought that
he means it or that she means it. 1t
is just the season, and it is just the way
of the seaside summer girl who forgets
it all when she goes back home.
My, but how handsome he is cooes
Myrtledene Gusher as the male exquisite
of the seaside pa
THE EXQUISITE rades the veranda in
WHO ANGLES all the glory of his
FOR HEARTS. cream flannel yacht
ing suit, with cap to
match, and she don't know that the very
purpose of his advent on the scene was
just to create that impression He has
planned his campaign as heart smasher.
he has been student of the tailors'
model, and he wonders which one of the
dear girls whom he is certain is dead
gone" on him he will select as the happv
recipient of his dazzling charms. His
collar is correctly high, his necktie has
the latest twist, and his hair is balanced
just exactly in the middle. His trousers
are turned up, his snowy linen handkcr-
chief just shows from his top coat rocket
and his last fond glance at his charms
in the mirror has told him that he is of
exotics one of the rarest. He is a win
ner on dress, and the summer colony need
never know that the season over drops
back to fuzzy suit and does his stint
of labor at s. per.
Lying, or rather sitting, in wait for a
daily victim is the leader of the colony
of old ladies with
THE COLONY out whom no sum-
OF REGULAR mer resort can be
WHIST PLAYERS. conducted success
fully. Whist is her
favorite game, and she bags her victims
early in the morning. and holds them till
time for dinner or till desperation they
break away. The whist enthusiast among
the older set means a wreck for those
who get we'll within her web. You must
not talk, you must think, you must study
or there comes a sharp reprimand from
your mentor, who is learning you how to
correctly play the game, as she thinks it