Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1911-09-06
The Disturbing
Element

pongee. as she put aside her green silk
parasol and proceeded TO hunt down
half dozen hatpins lost in the maze
OF tiny green buds on the gray hat.
I'm through camping,"
Her audience sat up and gasped I'm
wonder The girl in the gray pongee
mas the champion camper of the neigh.
borhood.
I've camped for the last time."
she said, emphatically. after allowing
proper time to elapse. for the sake
OF impressiveness. Its grown worse
and worse every year. but this year Il
was positively unbearable
When we first started camping"
explained the girl In the gray pongee.
we made an ironclad rule that We
would lead the simple life. We would
live In our gym clothes. eat our meals
In go-as-you-please fashion and pass
the evenings In whatever garb pleased
us most; in fact. be perfectly natural
for the whole two blessed weeks.
1t was such a relief to know that
you could luxuriate for those two
weeks In boomers and blouses. or in
wet bathing suits. without having to
worry lest somebody accidentally see
you. used TO count on II all winter.
when | went around strapped into
dresses that would have burst II
had had another eighth OF an inch of
circumference!
Then last year some of the pir,s
informed us that a crowd OF young
men were going to camp near us. and
wed have to entertain them once I'm a
while. Some OF us baked. not SO
much at the entertaining once in
while as at the fact that there were
going TO be men In the neighborhood.
IL meant that we'd have to think about
our looks and that spoiled the camp
Ing!
We'll. we had to endure the inaic.
ton. The men were there and when
they weren't invited they came any.
way and sang silly songs under our
windows.
The girls they knew thought II was
so romantic. The rest of us. however.
were simply Disguised and we told
the girls so. too. But do you suppose
1t did any good? They just smiled
sweetly and went and covered their
races with cold cream and powder be.
fore going sailing. for fear they'd get
The rest OF us made up our minds
that wed not be-shall say bullied?
into dressing up every evening. even
IL those who had callers did devote
their mornings to ironing and washing
10 make themselves lovely We deter
mined to go on dressing as we had
dressed before and merely to shun the
men
But do you suppose we could?
Mercy! We'd go for a stroll down by
the bay and there we'd meet one OF
our girls all in white with man,
We'd dart behind trees until they'd
passed and then we'd go back along
the path thinking that we'd get into
dark corner of the porch and have n
good time talking But the darkest
corners were always filled with
couples and OF course we couldn't sit
In the light in our boomers! II was
simply case OF dress up or go TO bed.
80 we finally chose the former, for Il
was too hot TO swelter In bed. and the
men came awfulIy early!
This year. when we went out, the
girls all promised faithfully that they
wouldn't invite a single man We were
going to have a real old fashioned
camp. and. oh! how was looking for
ward to IT.
We'll, the very first evening who |
should happen to pass by I'm an auto
mobile but Jack Stronei One Of the |
girls called out TO him-and I Just |
know she had been expecting him. We |
il had to run In and dress I'm skirts. |
while he sat IN his car and waited for |
US
"He took some OF us for a ride, and |
before he left he Rsked II he couldn't |
bring out the whole party OF fellows |
who were doing summer engineering |
near by! We had to say yes. after he'd |
given us ride
That ended all the fun. There were
enough young men to go around. and |
hen some. and they came morning.
noon and night We had TO wash and |
ron long after we ought TO have beer
asleep, so that we might be neat anc
fresh all day long. for fear some uf
hem would come out 10 call. Il was
simply awful!
II vowed that I was never going