The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 1, 1897, Page 17

REDWOOD cAmME MILL VALLEY She is the most dainty of all {he summer girls, this maid of Tamalpais. Qut of the dim woods’ twilight into the glare of sun- shine she flashes like a ray of light, with asilken shimmer. Her presence sets the meadows all aglow and the echo of her laughter rings throughout the forest like the sweetest of fairy music, It rises and falls among the vernal arches as if even the .leafy greenness were loth to have it die away. Following her can easily be imagined a train of cupids, singing and dancing and strewing all the world with flowers. And to her al! the world is really strewn with flowers, for her life is made up of beauty and happiness, and she lives where the '-,[/"i”/" g golden sunshine of peace and love sheds a halo of joy around. The Tamalpais summer girl is not a girl who ““roughs it.”” - Not she. - Bloom- ers have no charms for her, nor has the damp and clinging bathing-suit. . To her mind these garments are not pretty, and prettiness is one of the natural qualities of the Tamalpais summer girl. If she could not be pretty—well, she would not exist at all. Nor does the Tamalpais summer girl fancy a camp diet of bacon and corn bread, substantial as these edibles-are. Oh, no. She must have delicately pre- pared dishes, daintily served, and cooling drinks from iridescent glasses in which ( bits of ice tinkle muslically. Then give her a delicate Haviland saucer heaped with frosty icecream and her joy is com- plete. “Where does she live; this glorious creature of the summer time? > She lives in the summer land, -the base of grand old Mount Tamalpais that has been most aptly called the guardian of the Golden Gate. In fact, this venerable old peak is what makes the summer land for the- summer girl. Rearing its rock-crowned summit high into the clouds, it opposes the mists! of Old Ocean and keeps them from reach- ing the resorts on the east, and at the same time it attracts the mists so that they rise above the resorts on the west. The result is a belt of the most charming outing places in all California, each a veritable paradise for the summer girl. And although this belt is many -miles long the summer girls who live on it are singularly - alike in- appearance and: the ways in which they spend their time. San Rafacl is pre-eminently the -resort of the whole belt. Bit besides this there are Ross Valley, Monte Vista, Larkspur, Eastiand, Mill Valley, Boiinas Ridge and Willow Camp. 5 At any of these places the. Tamalpais summer girl can be seen in all her loveli- - ness, adorned with all th.2 marvels of the milliners’ and dressmakers” art—delicate- gowns of silkk and lace and hats of flow- ers and feathers. But she glories in them, this summer girl. - It would seem as if they were the natural essentials to the way she spends her time—singing, dancing and being happy. Whether she lives in a tent, in a red- wood grove or one of the big hotels, the. Tamalpais. summer girl is always the same—always jolly and chic. Her days she* spends im driving, walking and swinging in . a -hammock, or perhaps passes a few pleasant hours with him that she loves best. By night she flits beneath ‘the soft glow of many-colored " lanterns, lolls-on broad piazzas or glides - through the mazes of the dance.