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Show THE Slliill GIRL Eh is Gorgeous as a Esinbow, but Deceptive Decep-tive ai a Draam The Old Avoid Hr Tha Young Adors Her. THE PLEASANT SUMMER SEASON. Women and Flowers Begin to Gladden the Pltaiiiiitest Season of All the Year. 'Sho s enmtngwlth t'.ie ttowers that will bloom for us once more, Sue's coining with the breezes that will Mow alonir the shore, The sun will uiss her rlnnluts and will tlngo h. rchu'-ks with brown, Wbllo in; who loves nor madly grapples fate and t ills In town, And Cupid, with tha arrows that he's given our to twirl. Will uuiird nnew tUe footsteps ot the sprightly bummer (,'trl. "When tho robin redbreast hops around while yet 'tis early dan. And tennis players dot tho green of grassy hYld and 1 iwn. We'll see her d .-eased In percale with a walk-lngsikk walk-lngsikk lu hand. And In her brother s necktie will Btio stroll alon the sand, And where the crowd Is thickest In the summer sum-mer hotel w hirl, Will bloom ou'-e more th bsauty of the charm-lUK charm-lUK summer Klrl. "With flossy collar shining In the light of summer days, Wllh vest, and sash, and blazer we will learn anew her ways, Vouug cupld w 11 tnstiui t us how to pierce tliis thin di-gUise Of mas till.ie attire that bides the maiden heart we pi i.e. And when once more we Cairn boras the summer's sum-mer's pi li.iess pearl. We'll hall the smiling features of the Jolly summer girl." . r - Million of the laminir Girl. Women and flowers with all their smiles and graces, begin to gladden the pleasant and advancing season. The summer girl is already in evidence and soon will assert her changeful, chameleon chame-leon like glory. The very prominent part that women, aud especially that type of the sex who stands with uncertain uncer-tain feet where womanhood and girlhood girl-hood meet, has assumed in the life of the great cities and the festivities and out-of-door activities of the summer season at the various resorts, is probably prob-ably the most striking illustration that can ba had of the advanced position taken by the onca weaker and retiring half of humanity in the modern civilization civil-ization of the day. It is not so long since even among English speaking people it was tha men who, as a rule, went oil on trips while the women remained at home. It was the masculine who, as in the feathered tribi. wnrn thfl finerv. whilrt the women in raiment and in all thiugs, occupied a subordinate position. Now all is changed, says a writer in the Omaha Bee. it is the" women of the family, the mothers and daughters, who take the initiative in going away, and are most considered, and who, no matter what sacrifices have been made the rest of the year, are decked forth for the summer in the best that the recources of paterfamilias pater-familias can afford. He, on tho other hand, in a majority of cases stays at home, and while Mrs. X. and the Misses X. are luxuriating at a summer hotel, free from the cares of housekeeping and the enervating and exhausting influences in-fluences of the grimy city, be keeps at his desk or sticks to stocks as a lly sticks to molasses, content to make short visits to Washington Lake on fishing fish-ing expeditions or maybe to Spirit Lake for the Sunday, where the family summer sum-mer nest is built. It is a most generic term, that of the summer girl, and is not at all confined to the belle of fashion or the daughter of wealth. It includes the great majority major-ity of girls in every condition of life. There are girls who drudge behind counters ten months of the year and young women who bend and sew nearly ail the brightness and energy out of them solely that they may be able to dress according to their desire and pose for a few weeks as genuine summer girls. We have seen them on the piazza of the Hotel Orleans or arrayed in the nattiest of bathing suits disporting themselves in the waters of the Atlantic. High up in the White mountains they have made their presence felt, while the Garden of the (iods has seined happier hap-pier with their coming. They are a multitudious animal, aud like the but-terllies but-terllies haunt the place where light and gaycty is uppermost. 'They are purely a product of the summer days, and iu marvelous custunies Hit over the face of the globe making a vanity fair of life. They are intellectual girls as well as tennis girls and tlirt.itig girls and equestrian eques-trian girls among the bright spirits who will each in their particular sphere illuminate and add interest to the coming com-ing season. 'They are the real rulers of the year and their advent is hailed with delight. With spring and the approaching outing out-ing season the summer girl lakes the central place, obliterating the ballroom girl, the Browning girl, the amateur theatrical girl and all. She is the type of the rejuvenated youthfuiness of the world; the embodiment embodi-ment of that vigorous damsel Miss Columbia, Co-lumbia, to whom the nations will soon extend their compliments at Chicago. The eager enthusiasm of the glad season sea-son is seen every where, but especially at such interesting places as the railroad rail-road station, where the summer girl nnd the summer young man take the train for their scenes of pleasure. The men walk with a springy step; their hats are worn with a jaunty air even when they rest upon silvering locks The women with their flower laden hats and bonnets; their clinging, sweeping skirts; their natty jackets, with fancy bordered vests and Venetian sleeves, elaborately wrought and embossed! sometimes with jet. carrying flowers in their hands, unless they are holding over their heads dower bedecked parasols, gay as any boquet all look as if thev had qome into the streets at the beck of the sun, and they pass and repass the doors and windows of the shops, pausing paus-ing and chatting in couples and groups before the fascinating displays in the I great windows, all iooking as if en fete, all so gay and, under their veils, all seeming so young, . |