Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-09
WARE the SUMNER oiRLs, soYs
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer

D0U are about. TO start forth on your
summer vacation, son, with
j money in your pocket, and peace
In your eoui, 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 or
your life in wondering how 1t hap
pened. So sudden, like that!
For no one has warned you against
the perfls you: are about to face, or
handed you a friendly tip to the ef-
feet that summer is the open season
for husband hunting when all girls
20 cunning for their pre3. Nor hiss
anyone told you that the summer does
strange things to a 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 Ibsen
and Shaw and suffrage in December
you win make love TO in July.
Nobody knows why these things are
60. They merely are, and that's all
there Is to It. II there we're no more
summers there would be precious few
weddings. There IL some occult con-
nection between the state OF mans
affections and the thermometer, which
Is amply proven by the fact that the
farther south you 60 the rarer De-
come old bachelors, until when you
reach the tropic latitudes you find
natrimony continuous epidemic.
But, be that as II 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 In 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 proverb. To know where danger
lies gives q man. at least, Q chance
20 defend himself against It. Let Us,
then. consider some of the types OF
summer girls against whom q young
man should be on his guard unless he
a anxious to quickztep to the altar
70 the tune Of that Lohengrin thing.
First, and most obvious, is the gen
uine, old-fashioned blown-in-the-b bottle
summer girl in white muslin and
with dropping hat wreathed
with flowers. she's summer annual
that has been blooming ever since
the Garden Of Eden, hut every sue
cessive generation Of men, from Adam
down. have fallen Tor her. because she
looks exactly like every man thinks
the ideal woman ought to look.
To all outward appearances she Is
gentle, shy, fluttering innocent, and
when she glances demurely up In Q
mans face from under that Hopping
hat brim, HIS heart turns over Ike
dying fish and he's done for. X
you'd get all the men you know who
are married to flabby, wishg-washy,
dun, SHY wives on the witness stand
and make them tell how and when
and where they proposed to the ladies'
70 whom they are tied for Me, you
would find that ninetenths of them
popped the question to white mus
lin dress on q starry night IN June.
Ware the muslin dress, son, as you
value your freedom. Reflectr that
things are not always what they seem
and that any girl who hasn't got
three chins and correctly hair looks
like an angel N white. Also reflect
that laundry comes high and the simp-
Ter dress Il the more It costs. There
fore, when the maiden in white seeks
to decoy you into stroIls in the moon,
light along the beach, say to her nay.
Keep her under the big electric light
IN 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 undone. CT takes q woman
with No. foot TO de shoe string
A q knot that tornado couldn't
budgel. II she goes for walk she
Eprains her ankle and has to lean
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