The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-24
STUDY GIRLS
in SUMMER ] |[i
The Best Matches Are Made
in the Good Old Sum
fner Time.
so THINKS "A CHICAGO MAN 4 \
Summer Resort Is Not q Bad
Place to Learn Of
Women.
so THINKS A CHICAGO MAN A!

Place to Learn OF
Women.
"1ts all very well to Joke about SUM
mer limitations and sumner girl ~ re
marked the prosperous looking business
man, laying down his newspaper with VI
smile; "but all the same, the happiest mar
ringes / know of we're planned in the good
old summer time, or, to be \exact, during
a summer vacation and at b summer res res
sort. 2is
"Nfy advice to any young man looking
for d wife Is this: Seek her a I a summer
resort where there are plenty Of girls.
"A man can get to know a girl better In \
one week during n summer vacation than
during a whole winters acquaintance
|in Chicago. i mean, OF course, the aver
age 5Dusy tinan.tnot the idler. ~
How, for instance, is a business man.
whose courtship is confined to calling at
q girls homo OF an evening and ItaKlng
There should be a 4 worst? The fact is.
he cannot and does not see her oftens
enough with her family or In company
with her women friends to form any cor
rect estimate Of her char acter;
Uutil the pair a re en- ga ged. the. wooer,3
/ 1t may be, has seldom or never been ask
ed tD aii informal meal or en- tered pc nina
the drawing room scene OF family life.
One of Smy friends told me not long ego
as s ne e asa
4hiss daughter they had not exchanged.
hal f3n7 dog awor a s. Sss55
and daughter. y seems en-, never
,5they tried to keep out Of each other's
Sway-aj circumstance of which my friend
was ignorant until after the we q dd q NJ
points about that young woman dispo-
IS here is IA general belief that 4 girl
disposition before marriage. and TX believe
THAT is SO. II am just as sure, thou eh,
that many d man ma rries quite IN the
dark as to the II real a stion o. q MS
mer il resort in which to size up girls
Character provided ,d ed man does not z
ittThere d are men ~ hose fancy IS caught
by the turn OF AN an kle. q nell tina pair
Iognaness o. enhini J, e1s
and so long as they, are not ooking i ZOE
a wife that sort OF BLIND ness is not sertT-a
Gus !, |. i, 3 ~ & !, D. 3, -
When L 4 made up my mind, q houg i, y " q
settle down; 1T was different. took on
the binders At the same. time ! i ook also
a months va ca ton, and s. decideu 70
was just running over with nice girls and and
had the usual scarcity OF men.
got wi fe there But 81 am
ahead 6 my Etery; THE PIAZZA e
1.-THE morning after i q rived b saw n g
lsprettiest creature on the piazza. a blonde
girl done $up& inF he loyelies ck---yo "
and airy,, win " lois s !;
Ing ends Of ribbon In the back. She had
golden 4 hair, the rea thing. q roseleaf
complexion and reg lar5 + atures she g R e,
cture and no ~, : 'ald ~
myself Il, II am in slu ok. 5i S5 . SI&
a flash liad a vlsion OF her. TX
ing up the aisle of some biz church VI IN
awedding gown nG,llcea ina, Pc g
side her most gifls mas ar In
the direction OF the lake red common;
place; and that t he re W. ere $seYerai young
men hanging round In her vicinity. IS
VIZ Before i.s the ia ySwls out had AN in
seemed INSIDE track IN y R Ref
over caring W.h e her she ia pred me OF
lnot, for the wa not We
llng$hnnders. II {,
happened Mo tnln 81 n parsicu-
lagg.I$learned that the SUI prstng Tres mess
Tor the numerous airy Try Gowns (. T, the
Girl wore WAS due to 9TH q stern "a ct&lnhl
spent most q ne hsr ,@ess se
ling out. inch by inch, ~ ffes, streamers,i
and puffs. After one wearing the ir ,aann
was done al K 9 p q G e,
stove and atlrons had sS Deen HprousHl
SIhe girl herself never attempted J, q s
and tfei
f formation a added that the girl accepted.
lEall this attention as q matter @. course IS
and never seemed to foel allied upon to
1 nnked hana n9r ana
to .Har selfishness didn't stop there, eth
az 1 she ss was nevsrl ready e gap Or
e., Eeod not
OF t''li her wishes or il he divided his atten-
ions between her and anyl3otherss girl..
One put up with almost any thing from.
3 her beeaq saS s. iRsn esaaty' HIN.
evening. en- e.. she Is1ns n,
ths ief haan fa asked u
Sfirst. That day an old friend OF my
mothers had arrived. bringing along her.
gf haa y
for the first dance. Whew! how. the.
beauty resented It. y3 II Is y, D
Perhaps had been wearing V, bllnde rs !
fsis stsaiTadt e barad aGtSe
much 9an' Z Fun iin'dancing attendance on girl
cInthes and her complexion and wllo%al-y
WAYS had to make a special toilet before
che could climb into q boat or take q
walk; s. . E, !, !, III ID. ~ ! -. &,
| .ty. she was a brunette, with fine eyes,
| Amer teeth, and a well set up figure, but
not the sort OF girl In looks that men
tumble over ono ano Their to get near. 5S On
her Part she seemed remaa rka bly, indiffer-i
1.-THE next morning after the dance she,
p meraly a pleasant nod and was or for
the lake, q girl on either side OF her. She
wore, noticed the Ordinary shirt waist
a al boat and handle the oars as II she
SPerhaps because I knew who she was
I8took to studying that fglrl; a q the l9ng,
| struck mo most perhaps was the way she.