River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
THE SUMMER GIRLS POSE.
tunes She Displays Her Ath-
letic Development.

Inc cnleIoSL Oh the mOCeTu GIN
| poses is the athletic pose. Nine girls
out of ten if they followed their natural
instinct would rather sit at home on
a cool piazza and embroider a handker-
! chief or read novel than go trudging
off in the broiling sun, racket or golt
stick in one hand and an unwilling man
dragging at her heels But there are
opportunities in the lonely loneliness OF
the golf links or the tennis court, in
the wearing Of trig serge skirt and
scarlet sweater, in rolled-up shirt
sleeves and wind-blown hair, that to her
are like SO much stock in trade. And so,
at dawn, she begins a series Of poses,
says the Chicago Inter Ocean, which
only end with the telling of the mid
night bell and the closing of the sum
mer season at the fashionable hotel
At ten o'clock comes the pose on the
beach The summer girl does not really
battle. She f1utters about the water in
$25 worth of French corset, silk bloom
ers and open work stockings. She
poses as siren, and goes jovially
| through the thousand and one alluring
tricks of the ballet girl, fully conscious
that when the man in question feels a
peculiar pang he will look at her and
! look at the sea and fancy it is love, in
stead of realizing that he only wants
luncheon. And if he proposes-which
he sometimes does--she fondly takes
| him at his word, and never once allows
for the fact that he is hungry. But the
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you while you are giddily and none too
modestly arrayed for your ocean plunge
is not really proposing.
A year, month, or even an hour later
he may regret what he has done and
said. The girl who dresses thus to ap-
peal to the senses of men need feel none
too complimented by the attention they
pay her and none too sure OF the love
they offer her In other words, bath
ing suit proposal ~hould be tucked in
your mental belt, like a scalp-and for
gotten. 1t cannot in any way result
seriously; for a man is not accountable
when he is under the charm of a physical
beauty, and to hold him to account is
to take unfair advantage of him.
the after luncheon piazza proposal are
Glike-a nice, charming comfortable,
coQuettish pastime-nOthing more.
You would think that after a strenuous
morning on the links and in the water
the summer girl would be satisfied to
take mild vacation and to give man
chance to find ou, how he might miss
her; you would fancy she might retire
to her room and recuperate for the even
ing siege. But not % the modern Di-
anal She could not do this without
g dozen haunting visions of her favorite
enemy sitting in a shaded corner of the
piazza with "the mar And SO. regard
less of fatigue, regardless of conven-
tionality, regardless of everything, she
puts on her next pose" which may be
kimono or any lcoee and attractive
robe, let's down her still wet hair, and,
book or far in hand. pumps herself pic
uresquely in the hammock or on the
piazza stoop, as watchful for any swain
who happens to appear as a sentry at
the post of duty.
Along comes the after luncheon pro-
posal, whlstling merrily as he comes.
1t is so easy to make and to receive
this piazza proposal, because you never
take it seriously, and the man knows
you never will take it seriously, and
since no complications can possibly
arise, you can get the full enjoyment
Of the filtration. For proposal made
on the hotel porch, after good lunch
con, to girl in a pink kimono, who
is tanning her hail and eating choco
late caramels, is, at the most, a pleas,
ant bit of filtration, and at the best
a good joke. A mans emotions are
not stirred by a hot afternoon sun, a
glass of lemonade, and the proximity
If the hotel gossip. He just feels lazy
and pleasant, and fancies that there is
no way of passing the time more
agreeably than by telling the nearest
pretty girl that he loves her.