Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-09

The worries ht0heSt Fato WOMAN
Writer
NS0U are about TO start forth on your
summer vacation, son, with
j money in your pocket, and peace
In your goul, and nothing n your
mind heavier than your new spirit.
All thoughts Of matrimony, and d.
sease, and death, and other catas-
trophies that are liable to overtake
mankind! sooner or later, are afar
from you; yet anon shall you return
engaged and spend the balance OF
your life in wondering how 1t hap
pened. So sudden, like that!
For no one has warned you against
the perils you are about to face, or
handed you q friendly tip to the ef-
tfect that summer Is the open season
for husband hunting when all girls
70 cunning for their PREF. Nor has
anyone told you that the summer does
strange things to q woman's looks 80
that the maiden who was merely nice
looking in the winter Is a tearing
beauty In the summer, and she with
whom you, would have discussed lbsen
and Shaw and suffrage In December
you will make love TO in July.
Nobody knows why these things are
90. They merely are, and that's all
there IL TO Il. II there we're no more
summers there would be precious few
weddings. There ~ some occult con-
nection between the state Of mans
affections and the thermometer, which
q amply proven by the fact that the
farther south you 90 the rarer be
come old bachelors, until when you
reach the tropic ATTITUDES you find
matrimony q continuous epidemic.
But, be that as IT may, what we are
concerned with now is not the fate
Of those who marry early and often,
but Of those who desire to defer the
blissful day until such time as they
have had raise I'm salary and con-
template the high cost OF loving
without having cold chills chase each
other up and down in their spines.
Forwarned Is forearmed," says the
old proyerb. To know where danger
lies gives man, at least, q chance
20 defend himself against It Let us,
then. consider some OF the types OF
summer girls against whom young
man should be on his guard unless ne
Il anxious TO quickFtep 70 the altar
70 the tune Of that Lohengrin thing.
First, and most obvious, is the gem
oine. old.fashioned Observation-Disclosures
SUMMER girl in white muslin and
Win q dropping hat = Wreathed
with flowers. She's summer annual
that has been blooming ever since
the Garden Of Eden, but every sue
cessive generation of men, from Adam
down, have fallen for her, because she
looks exactly like every man thinks
the ideal woman ought to look.
10 al outward appearances she is
4 gentle. shy. futtering innocent, and
when she glances demurely up IN q
mans face from under that Hopping
hat brim. hts heart turns over like
Z dying fish and he's done fer. II
you'd get all the men You know who
are married TO flabby, wishyswashy.
dull, silly wives On the witness stand
and make them tell how and when
and where they proposed to the ladies
to whom they ARE tied for Hfe. you
would find that nine-tenths of them
popped the question to white mus
lin dress on . starry night in June.
fWare the muslin dress. son, las you
value your freedom. Reflect that
things are not always what they seem
and that any girl who hasn't got
three cIins and corrotty hair looks
like an angel IN white. Also reflect
that laundry comes high and the simp-
Ter q dress ii the more II costs. There
fore, when the maiden In white seeks
to decoy You into str0lls In the moon.
light along the beach. say to her nay.
Keep her under the bic electric light
ii the crowded yeranda, lest you be.
come the victim OF her millinery.
Twin sister TO the white muslin girl
Is the helpless clinging girl, who is
always having things happen to her
that require masculine assistance. She
has little feet and she can never learn
to tie her shoe laces so they don't
come und0ne. Ut takes q woman
with a No. s foot to tie shoe string
ii Q knot that q tornado couldn't
hudgel. II she goes for walk she
eprains her ankle and has to lean