I OS sears mm take yefeatloa to ta immmh . Tf , . f . ? . , '-'ZlW.yf'-- V W ' JU y ' ' V y . .
t go to the mountain' or th nuIIi or lb country, .J... fiff'' ' '" " M 'it " ' ' j
J to but. forsooth, what would aummer be without the v " : N - it II mt" ' '
"I 1 womoat -f'- , ; - ' Wit .. ' l 3
v I ; Wht without J Jolly fllrtatloni. th lg1t ot ; - ' if l ' ' li lt 3.
B ', . j I '7' bivie of whlU-dressed. girls In leafy woods, and th , V" . F Jl If . till
yF i i'' ohftrmltij tnuiio of Jaucbtor on placid lakca oa itar ' - j v. : II If . " S"-- 5v" ( B -a nwa-at .- . - . . - .--
''(,' ' -V' . I ?1!ir,S,li yofjif "wamta'a tlmo-tholr pUiP-. . f v tVj " h . ' ' il iV-' K 1 I ' If' 4
' V y . Mea so to roaorta for awt.kj womu delljht to . . JVVVUI-. ml IV. ' r .71 ' ' " 1 ' 11 ymi naiaai 1
' h. tor th. aummer. Man Mr and bala to thlnlc of t - - V ;,r'vvl U" 'i ' T .--- fig :: . . v'? rJv.:'
L' ' y I A thair offloaa and ladrora aad ordar-but tha womaa, I I .V " nL 'UA; T Vt"';. .U. - V
, - iT luA--" Waa thaml aarar tlra o; pur. Thaa, .too, on muat I t H ,- V 5 - - - V h '-w,T--. -
' 'N ramambar that tb'playUao of th womaa oU - I f . i . t , - nJM
j ' i-i y i . i back to thalr offloaat I I 1 V - - ' n lYw4 " L J - r - W
testis &MAr&&Xt2& 6mm.r -mUou'JjU I J - I, , - "T I ' " Jf
' - mafldouB. amount of money, ana moat of It, parnapa i v ' ..I , - i.a t
1vn - . . - w ' two-thlrdl. la apant by womfcn. Oo to Atlantlo city, rT b ll I
ww a a w av mar waaa wa w a. w a r a. s. 1 larri in as larunuLBHa ui tt vwvin hwm r aw t r -Haw? 'wwaaaaJi-iawBWBW
theS
timmer
Sticha Sttenuouslihie?
ri Or midsummer fun heats down on
if he parehinr turf,' Not 6 leaf of a tree
stirs i not a breath of vnni fans the
flushed faces of a score or. more young women
standing about the links.
Yonder a graceful, athletic maiden wields
a stick; swings it xvith the terrific force of an
Amazon and jumps back .with a cry as the
ball goes speeding across the grass, Casting
back the stray strands of hair from her fore
head, she wipes the perspiration from her face
and finally, panting, laughing, sweltering from
the heat, sinks limply on a bench. Others fol
low, going through the same strenuous exer
cise, and retiring, fagged by the he,at.
Beyond yonder dell of green another
bevy of girls, in white duck, with linen or
straw hats as broad as miniature umbrellas,
jump and run and cavort with bats in their
hands. On a dry, burning court of clay they
engage in a game of tennis, despite, the sun,
despite the languor of the melting at mc sphere.
- . Heigho the summer girU Energetic,
athletic, brimful of life and craving excite-,
ment, in the summer she has her playtime. No
longer the dainty, sylph-like creature, who
spends the summer in a hammock reading
'Airs. Humphry Ward or Tennyson; nor yet
the languid maiden wlto lounges under trees,
munching candy or sipping iced tea. One
finds the summer girl of today plunging gaily
into the surf at the seaside, or vigorously row
ing a boat on an Adirondack or Maine lake;
she is to of seen in the tennis, court, the golf
links; riding,-fishing, hunting, dancing-Jut
not sitting listlessly under the trees.
She scorns rest. She laurhs at ham-
m ocksexe'ept in the evening; when, of
rid, air
Holiday
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course, mere is anomer mere; and instead of fitting coata for men. xnese, acfrai w.
quietly reading frothy novels, the prefers the patehes. will fall in folds ahont J
vim and vigw of exeicise in the oten if tou being cut after tha etyla of a Wa tailor-
inch an innovation in thia country. l w prcjpna
lTIf the first sign" of aummer en mar sea A Wrer. it will be the summer moda par
w
them flocking to th reaorta; to the aeaaide
Btn. th forests and
th lake regions.
. To th woods flock th laughing. vivaoSou dryads,
and to tho Waters th lovely naiads. : V,
It Is summer time, ' Th woods ring with their
merry, mellow, musical laughter; it is summer and
th turf curl to th mualo of their gladaom about.
, It Is summer tlm and woman's playtime. Ho, ho, and
what a marry tlmi i-
Thay come from ; shops and store and factories,
from silk mills and linen mills; from behind counters
snd from offices by the thousand. They com from
boarding schools and colleges students and teachers
by the thousands; they com from city homes and
mansion In teeming number, and they enjoy. In their
playtime, perlode of from one week to tha entire
- summer.: " ': .':.'i--V'".:.-'
These happy playtime people may spend from $5 to
$E00 or mor a week each. Just as she can afford.
Working fflrla aav thxoughout th winter for thla
merry season,, when they can shake off the shackles of
th typewriter or the good counter, and the city girl
1-cf independent means hall with delight freedom from
social, thrall and th glorious game of tennis and
goir ay d . the Aalisrht r canoeing or camping, .
Of oouraa man tajt vatatlona la th aammar. . That ,
go to th mountain' or th aeaaid or fh country,
too, tut. t oraooth, what would aummar b without th
woman T ; '-if-vp,
; What without tha Jolly fllrtatloaa, th tight
baviea of whlta-draaaed firla In laafy wooda. and th
oharmin taualo of laufbtar on placid lakaa oa atar
tuddad avanlngaf ' :
Bummar tlm la yolnaT woman' tlm thalr play,
tima. Maa so to raaorta for a waaks woman dall;ht to
Wy for th aummer. Maa tire and beln to think of
thalr offloaa and ladg-era and order but th woman,
blaaa them! never tlr of; play. Then, .too. on muat
remember that tb 'playUn of th womea ot a. .
pretty little penny, and, What If th maa dlda't (
back to their office 7
Summer TacaUona'Ja . th aTeat ooat a tr
mendoue, amount of money, and moat of It, perhapa
two-third, la apant by women. Oo to Atlantlo City,'
Sarator. Bar Harbor, tha 'dell of WJeconsln, and ob
serve th pereentar of woman. And when on re
member! that .th vacation trafflo of th Pennsylvania
and New Tork -Central Itallroada alone runa lnta
rat million; that la on tt, New Hampehlr. wa
tloniata apnd la enf aaaoa.l,000,00; that, with th
a-raat hotela, aooomffiodatla; 000 g-ueata a day during
the eight week of . July and" Auguat, . with poaalbly
iree-rourtha women and chlldren,.paylog M to tlo a
day wall, on can get some Idea of what H oat th
' man-at-home! v - .
la Atlaatlo City and othw Wg reaort th groat,
hotel number their aummar gueata by very many,
tbouaanda, a larg majority woma, la th Adlroa
dacka on ftnda aoeommodatlona for aomethlng Ilk
10,000 peraonaj la th CaUkUla, 000; at Jk Georgia
8000, and In th Whit mountain mor tbaa U.00O,
and moat of th patron ar woman.
Even In the Maine wooda and th Canadian foreata,
favorite reaorta for men who can afford t spend a
month or mor. on find th fair aummer player mueh
In evidence. And do you e her la hammoek with
th Dolly Dialogue" In her handat Not at all.
She la playing. Eba la on the golf link. Bh 1 la
a canoe. Sb play baaeball, perhapa. Bhe ride. She
dancea. Sh la always playing la som' way.
NO TIME FOR REST
Doe ah reatt Raat, indaed! Men may raVUt
the aummer girl, bubbling with merriment. ftr
vesclng with vitality, exuberant with bapplna, al
way a play-ply ; breathleaaly, tlrlaly, ladefU
'gably. a ' ''
Aaauredly, summar tlm Is ho longr raat tlm.
During Ihe spring moatht th toplo.of onvraatloa
of office gtrli. echoOlglrla. teacher, rosebuds Just In
the social Wlm, of glrla of all aorta, young and old
If glrla evf do grow old-ta wht thay shall do la th
Summer. .-'' "i't-iCi" ' " .
Ther ar th reaorta; ther are, camp In th
wooda; there ar ala wcuralona abroad. Each year
ther ar erulaea to the Orleot. Alaaka, Sweden. Nor
way and the Mediterranean. Hundred of thouaande
go on these conducted parties for um of 1100 r
mor or lea. Bohool teacher form a great peroentag
'of these travelera, ale young women who gt lav
of absence from their offlcea for a couple of month,
and mn oi board tha ahlp W Is not on of r
pos. Thar ar amuaement. games, daac. Th sum-
TROM London, next to Pari the oantey ' ol
H ' Uion, come .a?w news.. It it to tha
X effect that the Britieheri wU adopt tho
West End taflow. it is taid, rn akinT tifeJV.
? American tailors, at present, do not anticipata
. - lleno - f0 men in London, Then, who can
,4a1r Vm fnn ftrft lt reaches this country! 3Tor
America jrenerally treads hard on. theN heels ol
London's fashions." ' :
rltlj'men ever 'generally wear eorstst Is It
probable that tne moo to oe atarrea in judb
' don will find favort - . ' ,
"Never," declared several American tailor.
"No man would wear a corset unless be be a freak.
They have done lt in France, but French dandyism will
never find favor In America. You can't tell what they'll .
do in London, however." ' .
. Men'e fashions generally this aummer In London
will undergo striking changes. Coats, trousers and
hats will present Innovations.
Coata. according to reports, will be mad to fit ex
tremely tight about tha waist, and will be out ao they
will flare out aklrtwiaa about the hips. The wearer,
: who will be compelled to us a corset to get the de
sired effect, will walk with th head leaning forward,
presenting an ; appearance decidedly rakish. . v
, . Men's corsets, however, will not be ao accentuated
In abape as women's; in fact, th whalebone br stays
will merely give the curve above th hips.' They will
probably be laced and hooked Just like the women eor- :
sets. So it will be tha duty of ovary man's valet to ss
that ha is properly laced, i v ; . j i
Men in this country, no doubt, find such euggea--t
Uons decidedly nqvei Imagine yourself, while on your '
$fcL AfeNlfeAR (ORSEI5? feNIW 5flS $0
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.THE .ORECOrj SUIJDAY JQURNA1V PORTLAND' SUNDAY
mar girl going abroad dance aoross th ocean, and
abroad climbs mountain peaka or apenda bar daya ex
ploring oltlea or faactnatlog rulna
Suppose ah goes to tha mountalna there ar games
by day and dances by night; one long, breathless, end
lose pace of am u laments. Ther ar coaching parti,
riding parUee, fishing partle and hunting partlea. Th
young girl canoe and swims.
A great part of tha.army f women vacationist
I mad up of working women. Many of these spend
their vacations on farma. Summer boarding is on of
th chief Industries of New Hampshire. Jo that etate
not many yeara ago ISO farms war purchased and
converted Into aummer boarding places. A few years
ago the commissioner of labor' of th etate gathered
atatlatlce ooncernlng the aummer sojourners. H found
that th capital Inveated la summer property alon
amounted to tlQ,M8t,
Th number of guosts at farmhouaes, boarding
houses and hotels numbered about 164,000, mor than
halt, and poaalbly three-fourths, of th number being
women. Mor than 10,000 paopl oeoupled oottaa-
during th summer, Mor than 1J.0OO persons were
employed for the entertainment of the vacationists;
the wagea paid exoeeded $589,000.
Th to'tal amount of money received from th aum
mer denlaena amounted to $4,147,135. Railroad fares
oolleeted In th atate amounted to $800,000 and atearaer
fares to more than $80,000. Th stag ooacbe collected
mor than $03,000. Thla la on atate.
About It per cent, of th vacationists, according to
Commissioner Carroll, atayed only en week. The ma
jority iwere teachers, store glrla, 'stenographers and
tin tr-a-c '.,- i n. ratii know
jawwiMMlMM,aaaaaMaawawawa"eaaaaBm .
;way to your club In th morning, to b mat by your
: ftlend. who will accost you thus. r
"Ha, hal good-morning, Chollyf Bah Jove, your,
Corset seems laoed rawther tight this morning." -
r And when you arrive at the club, possibly, in a new
costume, to bear your friends exclaims
."Gosh, aid maa, but you do look stunning, yon
HORDING. .JUNg . 11908
typewrltera, women librarian
toiler from th cities.
and other femlaln
On Lake pewaukee. In Wlaooasln, ther Is a nnlqu
camp. Forty or fifty old atreet oar have been con
verted Into lodging plaoea, and ar alway la demand
All through th Wat thousand of farm beoom th
temporary home of aummer boarder In fact, ther
la hardly a part of th country, hardly a lake f any
sis, hardly any available aeaooast, that Is not mads
th playground of th summer girl.
In on month at th oloae of the vacation season
about $00,000 pieces of baggage are handled at th
Grand Central Station, in New Tork city; trunk ar
pld up sufficient to cover aerea, and could you look
In sixty out of every 109 you would see laces, fol-de-rols,
powder puffs and outing suits.
CATER TO THE WOMEN
"The summer girl has simply discovered summer,"
declared a writer several years ago, "and she is mak
ing vacation ona of the Great laduatrlee with capi
tals." Take the seaside and mountain resorts and- the
amusementa offered; there are teanla eourts, golf
links, coaching parties, dance halls. They advertise
u,"i uaniing, nsning ana Bunting. There ar
minstrel shows an
d various entertainments. With
ict almost everv resort nav r.
keen business instinct almost everv resort own a.r.
ranges his attractlona and amusement to make them
Of interest to women.
Go to the seashore. Buoyant, fearless, ehio and
dainty In a silken bathing suit end cap, th girl fear
lessly plunges into the ocean, and. Ilk Neptune'
nymphs, disports hilariously In th rioting waves. In
the evening peep into the roller-skating rink. Ah I
with rollicking abandon she rolls oa akate as blithely
as on the ocean waves. Look on the pier. There aha
dances, cool in nimy lawns whll man peraplre.
Or Jump to the mountalna Where do you And hart
Tou wander Into the woods, tremulous with th
of leaves and the twitter of blrdaT SuddenW thr i. 2
ringing cry. You peer between th leivtaV and ILrJt
wg8h SangTtag feVrSh? V"'
MtnV
What a earlrlna. w
old man." " " " aweii, all right.
Now, the London dude who will vt.
coetume will discard the i Panama. T.i ?2Pt m aw
hat with a narrow brinf .i? Lnd f"' . ,tr,r
crown. Others will wear a-raea TvrndL"K.ly letl
ot roVi?rag?ern&1oTooVtl,lca-
and ties and hose must match In hue.
."K "J", n dress. Sultln. dMh.
m. ow cunar is saso announced. Thla la in.4 v
a spring which will keep it stiff and i ereSt Ina
vent wlltlag by perapiration: The favorVt. t&tglll
will be a shoe made of white ramie. Gllatenlne tiI
of erepe de chine will And favor. Felt hats of h?ow?T
worn.0' th "to'toml
a is all according to the fashion reports.
I"K."Uuwr:"t"
and German army officers also use whalebone In thai
coau. which fit tight, giving them a decidedly ml
itary appearance.
Of recent year, however, eoreeta hav not been
worn by men generally. Twenty-five or thlrtv veara
ago they were extensively worn by men on the contl-
Officers of the famous Gustavus Adolphus were, ac
cording to Dr. Doran, "the tightest laced exquisites of
a suffering humanity." Tha Prince de Llgne, that fa
mous beau and warrior, alwaya wor stays. Of him Dr
Johnson eald: "When he rose ha was invested in bodice
made of atlff canvae." - - .
With, interest people will watch the eoraet vogue In
London at least, If It does achieve vogue. : ".
"But In this country," declared one of - th best
known tailors In a big city, "never will th corset bo
worn by men. Londoners, at times, get a erase, and a
new fad for a short time becomes quite popular. The
French may be likely to take up the corset fad. I
doubt If it will attain any degree of popularity In
-England. No American business man, however, would '
think of Wearing a corset" :.- t. -:,-
"Wear corsets?" another tailor commented "Tee.
when men wear Jnsertlon-decorated shirtwaists) Th
Croposed .London style certainly Is freakish. It may go.
hdoubtedjy the declaration that corsets will be worn
- by men has attracted Interest, and the sartorial trade
will watch London eagerly. 1 doubt whether san
man will wear corsets, But on can paver tell!"
- - - t . - .
Out oa th rolling wave yon wfli find her a th
deck et yachts, tackle in hand or at the wheel; ox
again, and he daadng wall u orchestra, discourses
th "Merry Widow' Walts" as th excursion' steamer,
gUd over th watr. - 1 j
From the cltle each day yon will see her on tha !
many line of trolley car, goins f or a daya outing ln
th country. She look cool in whit duck and lugs
great lunch baskets with every evldenc of Joyful an-'
tictpatjon. On Saturdays, in country and city, you will
see her going to th weekly play to parks and nearby
rasorta as Joyoua a th nature that appeal to her.
luatf Lackaday, the aummer girl does not rest!
For summer is her playtime; a playtime whether ther
b unshtn or rain, whether th weather b cloudy)
or fair, when ah retgns supramo. queen of th board,
walk, revels. Titania of the forests or mistress of th
seas. And ah always ha a Jolly, good time.
Some Curious Facts
THH chairman of an English insurance oompany in-,
stancad claim which might arise that ware little
xpected. Among them he mentioned claim from
a domestic servant who swallowed jher false ' teeth
while eating. manageres who poisoned her hands
from constantly handling copper coins, a housekeeper
who, alttlng down on a darning needle, was surprise
t see 'it work out Of her ankle, an underkeeper shot
by poacher, and accidents arising from walking Id
alaep. falling out of th window, and th separation- t
a eat from the tender mercies of a dog. '. & j j
Th sar of Russia employ $0,000 servant, and W
stable contain S00O horses for hi personal use. ' I
It is a peculiar fact that African never aneosw
neither do their descendants, if they are pure blooded,
although domiciled in other part of th world. ;
Th first hotl la Europe fop women only, and man
agd and staffed by women, has Just been opened as a
in Zurich by the Salvation Army, i r ;'
W oaly man with young children la
oiatrict or Ln county, Oregon. John Larkln formed,
school committee, of which he was elected ehalrmax
ana nis wif clerk, Mr. Larkln w Installed
teaoher by tha chairman, and th flv little Larkln
now g. to cchool to their own mother, who la re
munerated by the state. , , , ,
Th Austra,llan commonwealth. Customs Departmen
has had to oudgsl It brains In order to decide whether
turtl la flsh. An act at th Commonwealth Parliament
provide that a bounty la payable on preserved fUh
An enterprising speculator in northern Australia ha
been producing preserved turtl oa an extensive caU
and h claimed tha bounty under the act. But, afte
much consultation of dletarlans, the department ha
decided that th turtl 1 not a fish, but a "reptile."
Som of th great Atlaatlo liners employ 150 fire
men.
Th butchers of Berlin hav a curious wsy of fc
forming their customer of th days oa which fre?
sausages are mad by placing a chair, covered wl
a large clean apron, at the aide of the shop door.
A ring set with two brilliants, and valued at ab
$75. was found la a herring by Mme. Heully at
Frenafc vlllag of Sercoeur. She was eating the f.
and bit something hard, which proved to be the ring.
To read of an Inhabited subterranean city seen
strange, yet a place of thla character actually exists i
Oalicia. Austrian Poland, and with a populaUon. too, c
over 1000 men, women and children. It Is called th
City of the Salt Mines, and has a town hall and :
church. The latter has several statues, all of whk
ar carved from rock salt.
Automatio savings banks on th principle of th
pennyia-tbe-elot machines hav been installed in a
the Berlin schools. Tho children receive numberc
counters in return for the coins dropped in- When tn
have collected ten of thse counters they take the
to th schoolmaster, who present them with saving
bank books. In which the amounts are entered. '
Jh owner of a block of flats in Paris has hit upr
an Idea which i popular with his tenants. On t
Lr of every' pa,tment is" a number: and
on, i
lottery, and the occupant of the flat bearing tha v.
uiug numuer pays no rani. -
A womaa of Boston has been celebrating 1
"golden anniversary" aa a cook. During forty ye t
' out of th fifty she has been employed at one rrr
rant, for which she has baked no fewer than IK4
fiies. A local statistician has estimated that these i.
f laid out in a row, would cover seventy rutin,
confesses, also, to the manufacture of fitf.OOO pudj;
i.ead ,OO0,000 doughnuts.
Boiling eggs without the use of water Is the lat
. novelty exploited' at one of London's leading hut
and aa the feat la accomplished directly before
. customer the new way of cooking gennrally Ur&
-attention and comment 'The waiter plca a bx-i
apparatus on the table and turns on a little electri
and places the desired number of egss in the )it
la a minute and a half, or half the time eoneum. a ,
the hot-water process, the eggs are cooked to a tin
- Pennsylvania, which maks more than half the ,
used ia the United States, produce ls than 2 i -r r
of the Iron ore mined. Ohio, which eymea iit
Pennsylvania aa an iron-maker, ml no loss tn.i
per cent of the total In hotn ease the ore t in,,
s t o th fuel Only in Alabama r th ore iI (
Uji? someeoun tries the mandrake plant 1 tho'i ,
noasass a soul this because frequently tha t, j
plant bears a rude resenjblanca to a hun.nu 1 ..
people assert that the plant emits a shrink it i .
1 from th soiL .,
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