Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-27

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by the same token, there are some
thousands of would-be summer girls
on this broad continent who would
dearly like TO know just what those
same irresistible charms consist OF.
Why is it that at every summer re-
sort there are some girls VINO are
always In demand among the men
folk, while others, apparently no less
fortunate in the matter of looks ana
dress, might as we'll be In Kanschatka,
for all the attention they command!
OF course, these latter will vehem-
emily assure you. if o are hardy
enough to condole with them on their
wall lower condition, that they really
care nothing whatever for the atten-
ton Of men; that, as q matter or fact,
they do not consider them worth nav
ing-certainly not worth worrying over:
Men are tickle creatures anyhow anu
as they never know their own minds
two minutes together, it seems hardly
worth while to try TO please theHl.
All of which may be perfectly true,
but does not in the smallest degree
conceal from the observant onlookerS
the fact that the girl who can Doast
no masculine admirers generalIy
wears a spiritless, world-weary, l.
Observation-Disclosures express
sion. which. did She but know it, is in
itself a potent reason for her lack OF
male satellites.
For, though men are sympathetic
creatures, on the whole their sympa-
thies are never awakened by the per-
son with the grievance. The palhetlc
loneliness of the frail little woman
whose somber garments proclaim her
widowed instantly stirs thrills OF pity
In the manly bosom--and pity, II Is
said, is close kin TO love!
But when the owner of said bosom
sees a girl who ought to be having a
good time with the rest, incoming
moodil around by herself, he cynic-
ally wonders, in brutal man fashion,
what can be wrong with her health or
her temper.
Unless he happens to be ~extraordi-
Tarily curious. or she extraordinarily
beautiful, he does not take the trouble
to investigate more particularly. III
she had been worth while, he thinks
il~iogically some other man would
have already discovered her.
And there you are, with the very
essence of truth before you. What
man has admired, men Will admire;
and while n man likes to know that
only ne may enter a certain nook In
paradise, he does not care to be the
only one who wants to.
The summer girl who is queen Of her
domain is the girl who is wholesome.
healthy, and whose complexion is
clear, whose eyes are bright, and whose
spirits are of the blithe and bubblinG
variety, always fresh and sparkling.
Men do not go to summer resorts TO
Keep tab on the feminine barometer,
and they are ant 10 give a wide berth
to the girl of variable moods. Head
aches, too, are q serious disuualifica-
ton in the candidacy for masculine ia
vor, and the girl who looks forward to
q good time will do wisely to get her
liver into proper working order before
taa0inrinpr nor c11VNtpnnrs no ~ rNai Ion 9th
erwise she is foredoomed to disappoint-
ment, for biliousness and enjoyment do
not go in company. Everybody knows
the type Of girl who CANNOT play tennis
when the III is warm who gets sea-
sick If she goes boating, who tires
herself out in the first hall mile If
she goes for q walk, and who can never
be depended upon to do anything or go
anywhere at a given time because some
n Of her various ailments is pretty
certain to manifest itself just in time
20 put a damper On the whole plan.
OF course, people are sorry for her,
u a way, but she is too palpably a
nuisance to over much con-
sideration. The pleasure seeking world
Is too buSily occupied with getting the
worth of its money to have much
thought to spare for imaginative semi
inYalids.
Thus it happens that the pleasant
III l1ll " lIie girl WHO Is TSduy eOT
any emergency, and who, invited to go
here or there, comes downstairs in
something less than five minutes, look
Ing so dainty and sweet in her simple
summer frock that the man who is
waiting for Observation-Disclosures mortal
that he ~is-wonders vaguely whether
she is a girl or a goddess.
Probably he could not describe her
attire II his life depended on 1t. But
he knows that it fits her shapely figure
20 perfection, that 1t Is up to date, be-
coming, and in exquisite taste.
That Is enough for the average man;
Ior II Is one OF his idosyncrasies to
avoid the girl who is dowdy; or ILL
dressed.
1t Is not In any sense an ignoSle hin
TO set out for a summer resort armed
cap-a-pie for a battle for success. In
Ihct, social economics demand it. Their
are but three classes OF visitors at these
places, the conquerors. the conquered
VI the lookers-o':. And granting that
one has no desire to belong to the lat
ter class, 1t I ests with ones self wheth-
er she is numbered among the first or
the second. The girl who aims to sue
coed must know herself with toierable
t~horoughness. She must know how to
nlaae the most of the personal graces
with which the gods and education
have lowered her, because these are
H5h|LiS dpOiS Stll, Snc need not
imagine that because She is not particu-
larry good looking or particularly clcv-
er. she IS pre-destined to failurS.
IL is recorded of a certain illitnrate
man VINO 4 risen suddenly to wealth
that he earned for himself the reputa-
ton OF deep wisdom by simply main
tanning q discreet silence. Similarly
the summer girl may appear TO possess
the qualities she actually lacks.
Reaufy for instance "a laroaly , -
Ter of feeling ana belief. Make lowell
ness a condition or your mind" say the
mental scientists. land II will speedily
be Eairrcrc1 in you face" And for the
rest, a pretty tricks OF the eyes, a
coquettish tilt OF the chin, q becoming
arrangement Of the hair. and the illu-
sion Is complete.
As for cleycrness, TIE lnss OF it .hot
appears on the surface the better for
tic girls popularity, Tor the admittedly
clever wornstn is invariably feared by
her own sex and detested by the other.
Many girls confronted by n formidable
rival make the grievous mistake OF try
'rS To outshine 10y in her own field.
The effort is Amos; always a dismal
failure. and even when 1t is successful
thc triumph is an unworthy one.
The better plan i3 TO make q pow
fsii Tor your.elf. and shiiie in Il, undis-
turbed by invidious comparisons. One
way TO accomplish this successfully is to
Ind out your pet weakness and make
that yCdr strongest point. There is not
a girl living but has n and