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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 8, 1906.
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SEASIDE resorts arc now bristling'
with Summer gaieties, and all that is
smartest in yachting, bathing and
promenade frock is being exploited at
popular watering places. Never before
has there been a season when so much
attention was paid to beach and boat
costumes, and never before, has the sea
side girl been so appropriately and trimly
groomed. 6f all types of Summer girl
she stands this year pre-eminently the
most bewitching. In fact, what with in
creased vivacity and ruddy good health
induced by bracing sea breezes, the one
word which applies to her is irresistible.
In the first place long experience has
at last taught her how to keep herself
In spick and span order in spite of wilt
ing mists and dampening sprays from
high rolling waves, and her dresses are
chosen with a view to these very things.
Then the value of color schemes in ocean
bound landscapes lias impressed Itself on
miladi of fashion, and the artistic blend
ing and matching of delicate Summer
tints in morning and afternoon get-up is
'a very noticeable feature of the really
modish costumes.
Exceptionally striking are the season's
bathing suits. There is no longer any
excuse for wotnen to appear unattractive
when going to and from their salt bath
in the breakers, and let us hope that not
many Summers hence we wilt see all
clumsy and badly fitting flannel and
Woolen affairs relegated to the rag bag
a sorry memory of the past.
The bathing suit cut in one piece on
princess lines Is quite the most satisfac
tory of any of the new models, and
promises to become, for all except very
stout women, the favorite and approved
style. It slips on so easily. Then, too,
there i not constant danger of its failing
to meet at the waistline when the skirt
is heavy with salt water.
Kor a practical and inexpensive suit.
mohair is of course the most serviceable
material, and all sorts of black and white
checks and stripes, with bright colored
trimmings, offer a relief to the more
commonly seen blues and blacks. Light
soutache braids also give a dressy finish
to these simply made costumes, and appli
cations of silk in contrasting colors or
showing polka dots, is more generally
seen than ever before.
As yet the modishly made bathing suit
is to be had chiefly In taffeta, but the
charming effects seen in silk give hope
of better things in the more ordinary
variety. A description of two costumes
that have been in evidence lately at a
very exclusive beach gives the most con
clusive idea of how stunning and un
usual the newest bathing dresses are.
One slender debutante, whose hair shows
the fainest tinge of red, takes her morn
ing swim in a suit of taffeta displaying
one of the new huge plaids, with a foun
dation of vivid green. A handkerchief
cap of the same silk lined with rubber
protects all but the fringe edges of her
curly locks, and canvas bathing shoes
which strap well above the ankles, and
are bound with pieces of silk to match
the dress, cover her pretty feet.
Another costume worn by an older wom
an of noticeably beautiful figure is in black
satin laid in box plaits from shoulder to
knee. The under sides of the plaits are
of white 6atin, so that the fainest line
of white shows between the wide stripes
of black, and as she walks black and
white stripes of equal width fan out
around the bottom.
For the woman who takes sand rather
than sea baths in her bathing suit the
plaid taffeta costumes are matched by a
parasol in the same silk and pattern.
When the fair poseur presents herself
for her morning's siesta on the beach she
Is a study In harmonious color from the
tip of her sunshade to the toe of her silk
stockinged foot.
A careful view of the trim bather makes
it very patent that it is only the very thin
woman who now dons her bathing suit
without having a pair of corsets under
neath. These are seldom worn tight, and
they may be only a pair of last year's dis
carded ones or a pair of very cheap new
ones, but they serve to give her figure a
snug, shapely outline, which she would
riot have without them.
As for promenade frocks for morning
and afternoon wear on the beach, linen
seems to be the prime favorite. To be
sure It does muss easily, but, made as It
is this year a mass of trimmings and
furbelows wrinkles and limpness do not
seem to matter in the general effect which
a costume presents.
Colored linens are particularly in vogue,
with always a touch of embroidery some
where about them, and the colored linen
suit, with sheerest lingerie blouse, has no
rival In the field of morning promenade
dresses. The coatees of these suits are
particularly natty, and English tailoiv
have evolved realty charming effects with
striped and dotted pipings and facings. A
narrow line of dark black and white, or
dark blue and white madras is employed
by them to outline collar, revera and
cuffs, the result being very chic and un
usual. Adjustable velvet collars and cuffs
In dark colors are also a feature in trim
mings. Plain pink, blue or yellow crash linens
showing white embroideries in satin stitch
give a distinctive smartness, and if a
woman Is about to start on her vacation
she will be able to pick one of these up
at bargain sales before she goes, far be
low the original price.
One pretty linen shirtwaist suit for
beach wear was set off by faded blue and
pink embroideries, both on sktrt and
blouse, while the large linen buttons
which trimmed it were also embroidered
to match.
The corselet skirt and the princess dress,
both in linen and In white serge or flan
nel, reveal either insets of Hamburg trim
ming or, in the case of the heavier ma
terials, floss silk embroideries. Thin
waists with elbow sleeves invariably ac
company these, and the lingerie hatnot
the loose, drooping' kind, but stiff sailors,
flower trimmed adds the last note of
dainty summeriness to t he white ensem
ble, from shoes to parasol, which dis
tinguishes the beach girl of 1906 from all
other sisters of previous years.
KATHARINE ANDERSON.
Feminine Graces That Charm Mere Man
The Girl Who Wins Out at the Summer Resort Is the One Who Takes Care Not to Shatter a Man's Ideals.
THIS is the season of the Summer
girl, that fascinating siren whoso
irresistible charms adxiirlng man has
Immortalized in song and ;tory. And, 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 resort
there are some girls who are always in
demand among the men folk, while others
apparently no less fortunate in the mat
ter of looks and dress might as well be
in Kamschatka, for all the atteutlon they
command?
Of course, these latter will vehemently
assure you. If you are hardy enough to
condole with them on their wallflower con
dition, that they really care nothing what
ever for the attention of men; that, as a
matter of fact, they do not consider them
worth having certainly not worth wor
rying over. Men are fickle creatures any
how, and as they never Know their own
minds two minutes together, it seems
hardly worth while to try to please them.
All of which may he perfectly true, but
does not In the smallest degree conceal
from the observant onlookers the fact that
the girl who can boast no masculine ad
mirers generally wears a spiritless, world
weary, 1-wonder-why-uobody-loves-me ex
pression, which, did she but know it, is in
itself a potent reason for her lack of male
satellites.
For, though men are sympathetic crea
tures, on the whole their sympathies are
never awakened by the person with the
grievance. The pathetic loneliness of the
frail little woman whose sombre gar
ments proclaim her widowed, instantly
stirs thrills of pity in the manly bosom
and pity, it is said, is close akin to love!
But when the owner of said bosom sees
a girl who ought to b; having a good
time with the rest, mooning moodily
around by herself, he cynically wonders.
In brutal man fashion, what can be wrong
with her health or her temper.
Unless he happens to be extraordinarily
curious, or she extraordinarily beautiful,
he does not take tiie trouble to investi
gate more particularly. If she had been
worth while, he thinks llloglcaliy. some
other man would have already discovered
her.
And there you are, with the very es
sence of truth before you. What man has
admired, men will admire: and while a
man likes to know that only he may en
ter 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, al
ways fresh and sparkling.
Men do not go to Summer resorts to
keep tabs on the feminine barometer, and
they are apt to give a wide berth to the
girl of variable moods. Headaches, too,
are a serious disqualification in the can
didacy for masculine favor, and the girl
who looks forward to a good time will do
wisely to get her liver into proper work
ing order before beginning her Summer
campaign. Otherwise she is foredoomed
to disappointment, for biliousness and
enjoyment do not go in company. Every
body knows the type of girl who can
not play tennis when tho sun is warm,
who gets seasick if she goes boating, who
tires herself out in the first half-mile if
she goes for a walk, and who never can
be depended upon to do anything or go
anywhere at a given time because some
one of her various ailments is pretty cer
tain to manifest itself just in time to put
a damper on the whole plan.
Of course, people are sorry for her, in a
way; but she is too palpably a nuisance
to command overmuch consideration. The
pleasure-seeking world ie too huslly occu
pied with getting the worth of its money
to have much thought to spare for imagi
native semi-invalids.
Thus it happens that the pleasant times
fall to th girl who is ready for any emer
gency, and who, invited to go here or
there, comes downstairs in something less
than five minutes, looking so dainty and
sweet in her simple Summer frock that
the man who is waiting for her unsophis
ticated mortal that he is wonders vague
ly whether she is a girl or a goddess.
Prohably he could not describe her at
tire it his life depended on it. But he
knows that it fits her shapely figure to
perfection, that it is up-tq-date, becom
ing, and in exquisite taste.
That is enough for the average man: for
It is one of his. idiosyncrasies to avoid the
girl who is dowdy or ill-dressed.
It is not in any sense an ignoble thing
to set out for a Summer resort armed
cap-a-pie for a battle for success. There
are but three classes of visitors at these
places, the conquerors, the conquered and
the lookers-on. And granting that one
has no desire to belong to the latter class.
It rests with one's self whether she Is
numbered among the first or the second.
The girl who aims to succeed must know
herself with tolerable thoroughness. She
must know how to make the most of the
personal graces with which the gods and
education have dowered her, because these
are righting weapons. Still, she need not
imagine that because she is not particu
larly good looking or particularly clever,
she is predestined to failure.
It is recorded of a certain illiterate man
who had risen suddenly to wealth that
he earned for himself the reputation of
deep wisdom by simply malntaiping a dis
creet silence. Similarly the Summer girl
may appear to possess the qualities she
actually lacks.
Beauty, for instance, is largely a matter
of feeling and belief. "Make loveliness a
condition of your mind," say the mental
scientists, "and it will speedily be mir
rored in your face." And for the rest, a
pretty trick of the eyes, a coquettish tilt
of the chin, a becoming arrangement of
the hair, and the Illusion is complete.
As for cleverness, the less of it that
appears on the surface the better for
the girl s popularity, for the admittedly
clever woman Is lnvarably feared by
her own sex and detested by the other.
Many girls confronted by a formidable
rival make the grievous mistake of
trying to outshine her in her own field.
The effort is almost always a dismal
failure, and even when it is successful
the. triumph is an unworthy one.
The better plan Is to make a new
field for yourself, and shine in It un
disturbed by invidious comparisons.
One way to accomplish this successfully
is to find out your pet weakness, and
make that your strongest point. There
is not a girl living but has a weak
ness, and, though she may be unaware
of it herself, it is familiar enough to
her acquaintances, who probably poke
fun at it behind her back.
It may be an odd trait of character,
a physical peculiarity, or simply a de
fect In education. But whatever it
is, the resourceful girl can turn it to
account. Instead of trying to conceal
It which is a perfectly futile proceed
ings she will openly make use of it as
a weapon of defense, and thus deprive
her enemies of the pwer to wield it
against her.
To cite a case in point. It is not so
very long since that the richest catch
of the season was captured for good
and all by an insignificant little crea
ture who was so painfully shy and sen
sitive that nobody had even thought of
her as a matrimonial possibility.
"I hardly ever go anywhere," she
murmured regretfully when the man
whom everybody was feteing good
naturedly suggested her joining an au
tomobile party. "You see. all the other
girls are splendid company, and they
are not afraid of anything; and I I'm
not at all a good talker, and nobody
cares to be bothered witlt me." and she
gazed pathetically up into his face, her
big blue eyes suffused in tears.
"You poor little girl!" he exclaimed,
warmly, doubtless with an unspoken
anathema for the "other girls." "Why,
you're worth a million of the others!
All you need is somebody to take care
of you." And the vanquished "other
girls" and the shocked dowagers are
still dejectedly debating whether the
little minx was really as artless as she
looked, or whether the whole thing was
a deep-laid plot for their ultimate undoing
The little graces that go to make up
the charming, attractive girl are almost
without number. A friendly, ingenuous
manner, alike free from effusiveness,
gush and stilted self-consciousness, is
pne of them.
Another is the distinctly rare accom
plishment of reading aloud. This re
quires a musical speaking voice which,
can be acquired by careful cultivation
and a keen, alert intelligence, capable
of grasping the thought of the writer
and giving it sympathetic interpreta
tion. It may not perhaps be displayed
very often, but the man of tine sensi
bilities who is not susceptible to its In
fluence is an anomaly yet to bo en
countered. An even more important acquirement
is tiie art of conversation, which means
in modern society the ability to main
tain a running fire of entertaining small
talk. It means something more than
this, however, for the popular girl is
she who can listen as well as (matter.
Nothing wins a man's- friendship more
surely than listening with whole-hearted,
self-effacing interest while he says
what he has to say, no matter how com
monplace it may be.
The really tactful girl goes even fur
ther than this, for she cultivates the
knack of making a man appear at his
best whenever he talks to her; and un
less he is unusually unappreciative it
does not take him long to find out that
her very presence Is an inspiration.
Finally, it is a good thing to remem
ber that whatever a man's personal
character may be, he has a few cher
ished ideals of womankind enshrined
somewhere within that battered strong
hold which he calls his heart, and woe
to the kirl who shatters them. In his
unwritten code of ethics every woman
should love children, flowers and all
things beautiful, and he looks askance
on the woman who does not.
He may have little reverence himself
for sublime things, but he regards with
involuntary disgust the girl who pro
fesses agnosticism, or speaks cynically
of love, or who declares she has no
faith in humanity. Also he has a lurk
ing distrust for the girl who gossips,
who boasts of her masculine conquests,
and. above all, who speaks slightingly
of her own sex.
However modern a man may be as to
intellect, he is at heart a firm believer
in the good, old-fashioned virtues, even
though he possess them not, and he
has a profound conviction that woman
should be as good as they are beau
tiful. Moreover, he believes that somewhere
In this wide world the girl is waiting
who is destined to be the "one girl
In the world for him," and that some
day inevitably Fate will drift him to
her side. Perhaps it Is this belief that
takes him to the haunts of the Summer
girl: and, for the rest, given a girl who
Is sweet and lovable and womanly, plus
the usual complement of moonlight
strolls and piazza confidences, and Cu
pid's task is comparatively easy.
Mrs. Bellamy Storer, whose husband re
cently retired from his position as Ambassa
dor to Auertria. Is the originator of tiie
famous Jtookwood potuaxy
Old Fashioned Ways to Put Up Cherries
Several Receipts Used by Our Grandmothers That Are Not In Modern Cookbooks.
CHERRIES rank high among our
fruits. They should be picked and
served with their leaves, and when placed
In a cut glass dish no prettier decoration
for the table can be found.
Cherries when preserved and brandied
are useful for water ice and other combi
nations. In times gone by our ancestors
used to keep them by cutting the stalks
from perfectly sound fruit, then putting
them into clean bottles. When the bot
tles were filled they were tightly corked,
then sealed with rosin and burled In the
ground, with the corks downward.
There are none of those good house
wives left to tell us how the cherries
turned out when "resurrected." but as the
recipe comes from a famous collection
long out of print it Is no doubt trust
worthy. Here are a few cherry recipes of olden
ways that will be found delightful:
Cherry Bounce.
To make this take 15 pounds of cherries,
add one gallon of good French brandy
sometimes Monongahela whisky is used,
but brandy is best.
Let them stand for three or four min
utes, then pour off the liquor and add to
the cherries two quarts of water, which
should remain on them three weeks; pour
off tho water and add it to the liquor, to
all of which add four pounds of sugar
made into a syrup.
Preserved Cherries.
Select large scarlet cherries, pick off the
stems, wash them and either take out the
stones, which is safer, or preserve them
whole. Weigh 'the fruit and allow a pound
of sugar to each pound of fruit.
Prepare a syrup; put in the cherries,
but be careful noi to boil them too much
or they will shrivel; put them into Jars
and pour the syrup over them when it
is warm; cover the fruit with pieces of
paper dipped in brandy, and tie or paste
them so as to exclude the air. This is
the old-fashioned method; nowadays we
usually put them in airtight jars.
To Make Syrup for Preserves.
To every pound of sugar add one gill
of water and let It stand until it is dis
solved. For every 12 pounds of sugar al
low half an ounce of Russia isinglass.
Dissolve the isinglass by pouring over It
a little boiling water; put It in with the
sugar; when cold place the whole over the
fire and as soon as it begins to boll skim
It until no more scum will rise.
The syrup is then ready for any kind of
fruit which is to be preserved.
Gelatin has now taken the place of Isin
glass. Stewed Cherries.
To a pound of cherries put half a
pound of sugar. Stew them until they
are tender but not broken. They do not
require any water to dissolve the sugar,
as the Juice from the fruit Is quite suf
ficient. It is best to remove the stones
before they are stewed. A convenient and
inexpensive machine comes for this pur
pose. The above recipe Is excellent for tarts or
pics, as well as for luncheon.
Cherry Jam.
Select ripe, sour and sweet cherries, an
equal quantity of each; stem and stone
them carefully; to one quart of the pulp
and Juice add one pound of brown sugar:
mix these well together and put into the
kettle; set it In a warm place to heat
slowly and simmer for one hour and a
half, then put It into Jars; cover with can
and cork tightly. Airtight Jars are best.
Brandied Cherries.
Let the cherries be ripe, freshly gath
ered and fine; cut off half the length of
the stalks, and drop them gently into
bottles with wide necks; leave in each
space for four ounces of white sugar- fill
them up entirely with good brandy 'and
cork tightly. The fruit will not shrivel If
thus prepared.
A few cherry or apricot kernels are a
great improvement.
Many people still adhere to the old
fashioned method of cementing jars and
bottles.
To make this cement:
One-third of yellow beeswax and two
thirds of finely pounded rosin; put them
together in a saucepan and set it near
the fire to melt slowly; when melted re
move from the fire and stir in finely pow
dered red brick dust until it becomes the
consistency of sealing wax. then dip the
corked jars or bottles In twice.
This is the way old-fashioned people
made their preserves airtight. Now sticks
of rosin can be bought. When melted
they answer the purpose Just as well
and are less troublesome.
Frozen Cherries.
In making, frozen cherries it is neces
sary to first make a syrup (directions for
this have already been given). Add a
small cutting of lemon or orange peel:
these, of course, must be removed before
freezing; all the syrup to one quart of
stoned cherries (avoid the sweet varie
ties). The3e must be previously mashed.
Pour in a small wine glassful of Jamaica
rum. The mixture must be allowed to
become perfectly cold before freezing.
The amount of syrup for the above is
pint of sugar and the same of water.
Frosted Currants.
Pick fine, even bunches and dip them
one at a time Into a mixture of frothed
white of egg and a very little cold water;
drain them until nearly dry and dip
them Into pulverized sugar: repeat the
dip in sugar once or twice and lay them
upon white paper to dry.
They will make a beautiful garnish for
Jellies or charlottes and look well heaped
In a fancy dish by themselves or with
other fruit. Plums and grapes are very
nice frosted in the same manner. Cur
rants mixed with a sufficient quantity of
raspberries, put in a glass bowl and
eaten with powdered sugar and plain
cream, make a very nice dish.
A Beverage From Cherries.
To one pint of cherry Juice put one
pound of sugar. Boil it 10 minutes and
skim: when cool bottle it and cork
tightly.
Back to 'Iiindy's.
(Milwaukee Sentinel.)
I want to go back to 'Lindy's back to the.
old farm place.
Where the friends I knew were true as
blue and poverty no disgrace;
I want to forget the sighing, the rush and
the rattelty-bang.
The whistle's toot, the rumbling cart, and
the car bell's noisy clang.
I'd like to go back a-rovlng in the drowsy
afternoons,
And drown the sounds of the grimy town
in an ocean of clover blooms.
I want to go back to 'Lindy's back to
the "Stubtoe Land,"
Where It didn't take much of learning to
make folks understand;
Where the grasp of a hand was rugged,
but the clasp was firm and true.
I want to steal off at twilight, as I did
when the sun sank low.
And dream the dreams that were mine to
dream in the hazy afterglow.
I want to go back to 'Lindy's back thro'
the stretch of years.
I want to go back to the boyhood track
beyond the doubts and fears;
It seems but a step back yonder to the
fields and the rose leaf rain
A step in miles, but ah! the years they're
x linked in an endless chain!
What little of spoil I've garnered, what
little the world has doled,
I would barter It all. thrice over, to live
in its sweet enfold,
I want to go back to 'Lindy's where the
white road winds away
O'er 'valley and hill and dale and rill to
the rim of distant gray;
I want to get out In the open, where a
fellow has elbow room
Where he's never afraid to cross the
street for fear he will meet bis doom.
Back to the fragrant orchard and the cool
of the grateful sod
For that was as near, I reckon, as ever
I've been to God, ,
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