Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-02
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| and leather bound, hassbeen quite trans
| planted by a type far more characteristic
! of the American girl. The girisof the hour
| specializes, and the publication of certain
| little leather bound volumes carrying in gilt
| the legend plays I Have Seen,s' Books 1
| Have Read and 'ssPlaees Visited was her
| Inspiration
AS a result Cf such an expression may be
| used) the girl of the hour DIARIES her fad.
| For instance. the bookish girl keeps diary
] Of what she reads each day. This includes
| new books and current magazines or news
paper articles which appeal particularly to
| her fancy. The criticism of the book may
| be accompanied by picture of the author
clipped from magazine or newspaper and
| followed by a few facts regarding his or
| her literary career and former publications.
| If the newspaper article is something she
wishes to save for reference she pastes it
| in her diary. The magazine article is not
only criticised, but the date of publication
and page in the magazine is jotted down.
The diary in time forms not only an eX-
| cellent reference book. but 1t trains her
| mind in the art of criticism. The dainty
| little books stamped Books Have Read"
are not large enough for such diary, but
| a good-sized blank book should be secured,
| and the girl may make her own binding of
| linen, embroidered or stamped in heavily
| embossed letters. Any bookbindfng estab-
| lishment will stamp such covering with
| the lettering desired.
The Matinee Goer.
! The matinee girl has the best chance of
all to make a striking diary. 1t is not to
| be thought that she sees a play every
night but she is bound to find in some pub
| LEGATION each day interesting clippings
which bear on the drama. In addition to
this. she gathers material about every play
she sees. She devotes one page in her
diary to each performance, preserving the
cast as it appears on the program, and
surrounding it with newspaper and maya
zine cuts of the actors. Below this she
writes her personal criticism of the play,
and adds, perhaps the newspaper criticism
which appeals most strongly to her.
young woman who has kept such
diary for the past year, at the opening OF
the present dramatic season, took much
pleasure in watching the gradual advance
of actors who last season gave promise of
doing better things.
The diary of the camera girl is the sim
plest of all She takes at least one picture
a day and it's caption tells the tale. 1t
may illustrate some scene in her home life
or carry some pleasant social memory, or
tell of walks afield or trips afioat.
The owner of new freighting steamer
on the great lakes recently entertained
party of friends on his boat for it's initial
trip, and photograph diary of the journey
was kept. A girl who has been keeping a
camera diary for several years has an
her set, and is the envy of every wo-
man in the circle. -,
The Athletic Girl.
The athletic girl can keep the snappiest
sort of diary, and if She happens to be-
long to a country club she will mix it's
various social events with athletic records.
She will enter in this book not only her
own records on the golf links or the tennis
court, but she will clip items of interest re-
garding women in various sports, with pho
tographs as they appear in print and inter-
eSting personal facts, which in time Will
develop into scrap book of great value.
The advantage of calling these diaries in
stead of scrap books IS manifest. One is
apt to accumulate clippings for a scrap
book and, 4, with the very best intentions,
But, if every night or the first thing after
breakfast in the morning an hour is devot-
ed to making up fresh page, the work
will be done Systematically.
The oldest little diary every kept was the
self-confessed possession of a boarding
school girl who was always doing the
| wrong thing at the wrong moment. She
headed her little book very pathetically.
Things 1 Must Not Do Again and she
said that nearly every night a clean page
bore fresh evidence of her heedlessness.
A member of the Sunshine Club has what
she calls her sunshine diary" Not only
does she count that day lost when she fails
to enter some kindly deed but she scores
the page with big black cross as a mute
but eloquent reproach.
The American girl seldom casts aside an
old custom without substituting something
better. and certain it is that the diary of
the hour, written toward around some
particular object, is infinitely more inter-
esting than the selfish vaporings, so egotis-
teal and empty, which girls of earlier gen.
erations wrote.