The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-08-05
BEWITCHING SUMMER GIRLS.
Masculine Counterpart Dwindles in
Comparison.


egraph the summer man" seems to
the wondering uniritiated onlooker
to grow smaller. This is only by
comparison. however. as the obser-
want know. 1t IS the summer girl
who grows arger-larger of hat
and higher of heel. louder and more
cheerful OF voice. The American
summer girl is athletic. She bathes
in the sand. She golfs-when the
men are nice She climbs noun
tains-when her style is especially
suited to a mountain costume. In
any event. she has the really i1npor-
tant features of athletic enjoyment
thoroughly mastered. She has golf
skirts and Swimming togs" by the
score. She has everything that is
~becoming in rowing clothes. She is
passionately fond of bathing-on the
beach. The surf she finds dishevel
ing. A maiden dripping with brine
is only attractive in fiction. In real
life her hair-and the brine-get into
her eyes. which make her weep, from
the smart and from modification.
She finds il much more beguiling to
run just little way into the water,
we:ting a portion of her bathing skirt
only, and then to fly shrieking back
to her admirers on the sand. These,
with the disconcernment of men, rate
her beauty the more highly, since
even in the water?-it has not "come
off," "Sanding," which is her par
ticular form of surf-bathing, thus
takes up the summer girls morning,
if she be that perfect type the sea-
shore girl; for though the summer
girl is universal in habitat, she is
found in the most perfect varieties
at the seaside.
From breakfast at 9 until lunch
con at the conscientious summer
girl devotes her hours to sanding
There may be other maidens who
consider tennis and golf, riding and
autoing as a part of the mornings
diversions, but these at the seaside
are considered outside of the pale
of the truly summery They are
under the ban of the too, too strenu-
Gus.
For proprieties and conventional
ties the summer girl has no respect
whatever. She has come from all
parts of the United States to the
summer resort, to 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 Of themselves are
true or not she knows nothing. She
is not afraid of new and unvouched
for acquaintance, although many
summer girl has found herself III
most embarrassing situations
through this free granting OF &C
ouaintanceship. She takes it all. how
ever. as part OF the riotouS JOY OF
the summer. Any one in the hotel.
anv one in the resort. may be in
troduced to the intrusion OF the most
Objectionable. What risks she runs
in this way are more than compen-
sated for. from her point OF view,
bv the absolute freedom, the actual
license, which she enjoys. The Sum-
mer is not only a season for making
ENGAGEMENTS: it is to her pre-eml-
,entlv a season for making friends.
If the engagements are not apt to
last over the autumn parting, she is
able to weed out the vast list OF
friendships some few to carry back
to town with her. Her intermediary
before this altar of new friendships
is a parsonage who is, oddly enough
survival of old Bath. The mas
ter of ceremonies" and erstwh1le
dancing-master employed by the no.
tel is at the command Of the sum-
mer girl who wishes to enlarge her
circle OF acquaintances. Himself
without credentials. he is yer the only
guardian OF her interests III &C
ouaintanceships with perfect strang-