The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-26
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writes IAN American Lady in The
London Telegraph" Her season va
ries with the climate of her native
heath, but, as that goes through its
annual summer resort period. so does
the summer girl come forth from the
chrysalis of ordinary existence very
butterfly to whom life is a long sum-
mer day.
"She is known chiefly by her extrav-
agance. other girls there are who ex-
list through the summer season in all
the moderation suitable to other parts
| of the year. These are not of the
| strictly summer variety, however, for
In that class moderation in clothes.
manners or emotions Is a word forbid
den.
Year by year the summer man
seems TO the wondering. uninitlated on
locker to grow smaller. This Is only
by comparison, however, as the observ-
ant know. 1t is the summer girl who
grows larger-larger of hat and higher
of heel, louder and more cheerful of
voice. The American summer girl 10
athletic. She bathes-in. the sand.
She golfs-when the men are nice. She
climbs mountains-when her style is
especially suited to a mountain cos
tune.
In any event she has the really i'm
thoroughly mastered. She has golf
skirts and swimming toys by the
score. She has everything that is be-
coming in rowing clothes. She is pas
sionately fond of bathing-on the
beach. The surf she finds dishevelling.
a maiden dripping with brine is only
attractive in fiction. In real life her
hair-and the brine-get into her eyes.
which makes her weep from the smart
and from modification.
she finds It much more beguiling to
run Just little way into the water.
wetting a portion of her bathing skirt
only, and then to fly shrieking back to
her admirers on the sand. These with
the discernment of men. rate her beau
ty the more highly, since-even in the
water?-it has not come. off, Sand
ing which is her particular form OF
surf bathing. thus takes up the sum-
mer girls morning. If she be that per-
feet type. the seashore girl. for. though
the summer girl is universal in habi-
tat, she is found in the most perfect
varieties at the seaside.
From breakfast at until luncheon
at 2 the conscientious summer girl de-
votes her hours to sanding There
may be other maidens who consider
tennis and golf, riding and autoing. as
part of the mornings diversions, but
outside of the pale of the truly sum-
merry. They are under the ban of the
too, too strenuous.
Next to the beach, the hotel ve-
randa is the arena of the seashore girls
activities. After dinner there is
painful preponderance OF papas and
mamas and younger fry. 1t is when
the evening begins to grow late that
the summer girl has her hour. When
al ha ~ An4
Ing on the outskirts, anxious to put out
the one dim light which still makes
the veranda possible. and to close the
great front door; when the older re-
sorters have sought their rooms with
disappearing last look at the auda-
eious young persons who will not go
in; when Buttons is expected any mo-
ment with a note from mamma saying
that Dottie must dismiss her caller
and come in at once-then 1t is, among
all these perlls, that the summer girl
gets in her batch OF season engage
ments.
"One swallow will not make a sum-
mer. Neither will one engagement
make a summer girl. One she must
have; two are only ordinary; three or
four place her in the class OF the real
ly successful. Not that they mean
anything, these summer engagements
than not, means the end of the romance
with no hearts broken, and a perfect
tfriendliness on both sides. They are
things of moonlight and warm weather.
but the summer girl shows none the
less zest in bringing them about. She
is the devotee of the little god during
all the warm weather, and, whether
! beach or ballroom be the hunting
ground, the summer girl never loses
sight for an instant of her quarry
man.
FOR prophecies and conventionaii-
ties. the summer girl has no respect
whatever She has come from all
parts of the United States to the sum-
mer resort. to meet in the course of the
season thousands of persons sHhom she
will never know again. As to who
they are. and whether the accounts
they give of themselves are true or not
she knows nothing. She is not afraid
of new and untouched for acauaint-
nnces. although many a summer girl
has found herself in most embarrassing
situations through this free granting of
acquaintanceship.
Che takes II all. however as part OF
the riotous Joy of the summer. ANY
one in the hotel, any one in the resort
may be introduced to the Intrusion of
the most Objectionable. What risks
she runs in this way are more than
compensated for, from her point of
tual license which she enjoys. The
summer Is not only a season for maxi
ing engagements. it is to her prs-emi-