The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-18
THIS MORNINGS GOSSIP

Special Correspondence from Summer
 Piazzas.
 The young girl. that is the girl of six teen or seventeen, is quite in evidence at the fashionable summer places where she dances, gives dinner parties and receives as much attention as the young woman who has been out several win ters This type. the seventeen type, is the most adorable creature of the summer. She is first of all very pretty and fresh looking and she dresses in all sorts of fluffy clothes She wears white and daint- fly lowered things, and her sashes and the ribbons for her hair are wonderful things by the time she gets them tied into those big bows that stand out per foctly straight at the back of her head. She does her hair in the prevailing mode for young girls who do not affect eoif- feurs years too old for them. She parts. 1t in the center. a sleek looking part. and the brushes 1t back from the temples into a kind of roll. rather tight, and catches 1t into her hack hair where it all Is wound into q coil on the back of her neck. Then the crowning touch Is the wide bow. black for morning wear, bows in the shades to match the sashes and the smaller bows worn at the elbow in the evening. The pempadour way of doing the hair is in vogue for those who prefer it, not the ultra pompadour but sufficiently high to be becoming The hack hair Is even then pinned low on the neck and the bows are worn high giving a gather smart appearance. All the dresses are trimmed a great deal, and the plain shirtwast suits for morning wear are richly embroidered with simple designs on the sleeves and the wide collars. Some of the smartest shirtwaist suits are of heavy white material and they are made with blouses and sailor collars. embroid- cred in white anchors. These are worn by girls of fourteen fifteen. Girls of this age wear their skirts just above their shoe tops and plain silk hose, always black, and patent leather shoes with big bows are the correct thing for both morning and evening wear. Older girls wear white shoes with most of their light toilettes, while for walking short and plain skirts and shoes in the russet shades are worn.
 The girl who has been allowed to frolic all the summer by an indulgent mother, is lamenting the approaching departing for home. where she is to be gotten in her readiness for her last year at school. She has had the gayest time of any one, been admired by the older men, had her 11irtations with boys of her own age, danced to her hearts content and had a perfectly delightful summer. She is just al the age to believe all the pretty things tlat are said to her and at the age when older men especially find her most Interesting and when she feels hattered by their attentions She Is more inde- pendent of the conventionalites than she will ever be again cares nothing for Madame Grundy's opinion. and is alto gether at a most enviable age if she only knew it. American girls have their ideas well defined about the proprietes. It is born and bred in the bone in most girls and the girl who is guilty of indscretlons at seventeen is apt to look at things in rather loose manner at twenty But the ideal type, the fresh looking. happy hearted girl of seventeen, whose mother Is the right sort that follows her daugh- Ter around in the promscuous company with which she is thrown at summer