New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-21
THAT SUMMER GIRL.
As She Is Viezced By English Eyes
Sand Baths Her Specially.

She is busy giving last touch to her accoutre-
ments. and laying in extra ammunition for the
summer campaign. The hotter it is the better she
likes it. \ soaring mercury gives her all the
cuse she needs for being It is like bugle call 70
arms. When plain mortaIs who have work are
falling in their tracks with sunstrOke the summer
girls spirits mount. 1t is her kind of weather.
Like the lilies OF the field. she tolls not neither
does she spin. The summer girl and maple syrup
are two of Americas highly priced Indigenous
and uOn-cOpya5le products The effete mOnarchies
OF Europe and Asia may initiate American drinks.
American machines, even American sidehass and
chiffon wells and straightfrOnt corsets. Thus far
they have never dared TO counterfeit the American
summer girl.
Other nations follow her movements with wonder
Sometimes they like her. sometimes they don't
They observe her and then they go home and Write
her up. As Tor instance:
I'm the summer resorts of America but pru-
cipauy in those along the Atlantic Coast. from
Maine Maryland the American summer girl
aourishes I'm her proper season. a peculiar efiores
ceuce unknown to less favored Clmes. writes An
American Lady IN The London Telegraph"
Her season varies with the climate Of her native
heath. but as that goes through its annual sum
mer RESORT period. does the summer girl come
forth from the -brysaIis Of ordinary existence "a
Very butterfly % whom life is q long summer day.
she is known chiefly by her extravaganza. other
girls there VINO exist through the summer sea
I'm AN tho moderation suitable other parts of
the year. These not of the strictly
variety. however FOR In that class moderation In
clothes. manners or emotions is a word forbidden.
Year ty year The summer man seems 20 the
wondering uniuiuoted oulooker TO grow smaller.
Tins is only by comparison however as the OBJ
servant know. 10 is the summer girl vino grows
la~ro~-arrer OF hat and higher ~ heel louder and
more cheerful OF voice. The American summer girl
IS athletic. She bathes-in the sand. She COLTS
when the men are nice She climbs mountains
WHOM her style is especially suited 20 a mountain
costume.
I'm any event she has the really important
features of athletic enjoyment thoroughly mas
tered. She has golf skirts and swimming togs' o.
the score. She has every thing that is becoming in
clothes. She is passiouately fond OF bathing
lon the hcac.. The surf she finds dsheveIug. \
maiden dripping with brine Is only attractive IN
Seton ln real life her har-aud the brine-eet into
her eyes. which makes her Weep from the smart
and from modification.
she finds il much more besuiliuE to run just a
little way into the water. vettiug q portion Of her
bathing skirt only. and then TO fly shrieking back
20 her admirers ON the sand These with The dis
oornmeut OF men. rate her beauty the more highly
sincC-eyeu .U the water2-it mas not come Off
Sanding, which is her particular form OF srlrt
bathing thus takes up the summer girls morning
n she Doe that perfect type. the seashore girl. for
is found Iu the perfect varieties at the seaside
conscientious summer girl Ievotcs her hours To-
Of the mornings diversions. hut those an the soa-
SUNNI, They are under the ban of the TOO TOO
Next To .r4 beach the hotel verauda is the arena
OF inc S"ashore girl activities After dinner there
ana voursaI fry n IL When a,ts ana aSnH3S
grow late that the summer girl has her hour. When
The hotel porter may he beard dutterinE ON the
outskirts. anxious TO pat out the one dim light
Wnrh sun makes The yeranda possible and 10
har" sought their rooms with a disauproviug last
go in. when Buttons IS expected any n,nn,.n with
a note from mamma saying that Dottie must dis
among an ,hesc perils that the summer girl gets
ia her batch of season engagements
one swallow viii not make "a summer Neither
VIII one engagement make summer girl one SIN.
must have. ,wo are only ordinary. three or four
place her ia Jhe class of the really successful Nor
lhat they mean ANYTHING. these summer engage
ments. The end Of the summer. more often than
not; means tho end NJ tho romance, with hearts
They are things Of moonlight and W., MN 90 S'Ges
put the summer girl shows the less zest I'm
little god during all the warm weather ana
5he summer Eir never loses sight for instant OF
her quarry-maR.
For propreties and conveutionalnies. the sum
mer girl has respect whatever She mas come
from all parts of the United States To tine sum
mer resort 10 meet in the course OF the season
thousands of persons whom she will never know
AGAIN. As TO who they are. and whether the ac-
counts they give or themselves are true or not
she Knows nothing She Is not afraid new and
summer girl has found herself in most enbI, a
sing situations through this free granting of ac-
she takes IL ALL however. as part of the riotouq
Joy of the summer. ANY one in the hotel any one
Al
OF the most Objectionable What risks she runs in
this way are more than compensated for from he~
point OF view, by the absolute freedom. the actual
license which she enjoys The summer is nor only
season for making engagements. it is to her pre-
eninently season for making friends. II the en-
gagements are not apt to last the autumn
parting. she is able weed out from the vast lis,
or friendships some few 10 carry back TO town
with her
Her intermediary before this altar or new friend
ships is a parsonage who is. oddly enough a sur
vival Of old Bath The master of ceremonies an
erstwhile dancing master. employed by the hotel
is AT the command of tho summer girl who wishes
to enlarge her circle of acquaintauces. Himself
without credentials. he is the only guardian OF
her interests in mountaineering with perfect
strangers. For the parent save OF the most ex-
elusive classes. not interfere with the
summer girls inclinatiOns.
The American summer girl is queen OF a glorf-
realm whose air is paipitant CT orchestral mel
odies and whose rivers run ice cream soda. With
the beach band the hotel orchestra the orchestras
OF the hotels across the way and around the cor
all playing the same popular melody at once
but not in accord. she needs only specially large
glass or ice soda before her, and couple Of
men ocCupyiug contiguous rocking chairs 10 make
her happy. Then the American summer girl sits
In her own special rocking chair. of the one hun
bred and hfty rocking chairs which occupy the
hotel veranda. and gaZes at all the other rocking
chairs on all the other hotel verandas and rocks
and rocks and rocks. and wishes 1t always
summer"