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This page satirizes the "Summer Girls' Union," a humorous fictional organization regulating young women vacationing at summer hotels. The mock "Rules and Regulations" parody how these women—often called "summer girls"—pursued romantic flirtations and leisure during summer resort season, a popular activity for unmarried women of the Edwardian era. The satire targets several behaviors: competitive flirting with guests, pursuing married men, casual engagements to marry (rule 6 allows seven engagements per week), and even kidnapping concerns. The detailed bylaws mock both the women's frivolous social maneuvering and the era's rigid courtship conventions requiring formal introductions and parental oversight. "The Fountain of Youth" story (illustrated) offers complementary humor about urban visitors' naiveté regarding country life—a man expecting Thanksgiving pies from a planted pumpkin seed. The overall message: summer resort culture encouraged unserious romantic behavior that required elaborate social policing.

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1. This man pat in the rich, rich soil A little pumpkin seed, With thought, no doubt, of golden pies To fill Thanksgiving’s need. Rules and Regulations Summer Girls’ Union No. 6. ANY member of Summer Girls’ Union * Number Six who appears at break- fast at a summer hotel for the purpose of getting the best of any other member of this union will be deprived of her card. 2. Under no circumstances may any member of this union begin work before ten a. m., and any member reported to the governing council as making eyes at newly arrived guests before that hour will be deprived of all her privileges for the period of one week. 3. Members of this union desiring to flirt with married men must first secure an introduction to her victim in the ordi- nary conventional way, and give full no- tice of her intention to the committee on flirtations, either by postal card or wire. 4, It is not necessary for summer girls to be introduced to unmarried men before beginning an acquaintance, but care must be taken that these acquaintances are jus- THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH. tifiable by the ordinary conventions of life, and must arise from some accident either to the party of the first part or to the summer girl herself. 5. A summer girl belonging to this un- ion who deliberately lures a fiancé away from another member of this union will be deprived of her rights of membership for the balance of the season and cannot be reinstated except by a unanimous vote 2, Bravely the seed it sprouted forth, ‘And grew both day and night, Clambering swiftly up the trunk, ‘Nor showed a sign of blight. in her favor by a full meeting of the chapter. 6. Members of the union in good stand- ing are required to report all their engage- ments, whenever and wherever made, at once to the executive council; but are warned that, under the operation of the statute of limitations passed at the last meeting of the general convention, not more than seven engagements to marry may be entered upon during the space of one calendar week. 7. Members of the union are required upon all occasions to cut out summer girls who are not members, and in cage of in- ability to do so because of the superior attractions of the non-union worker, to report the fact at once to the committee on supply, in order that assistance may be sent at once from headquarters. 8. The executive committee hereby ex- presses its profound disapproval of kid- napping, and gives warning that any member of the union who is found en- gaged in an affair of even superficial seri- ousness with a youth under seventeen will be brought before the committee on dis- cipline under charges. 9. Owing to the large increase in the cost of living, the finance committee, act- ing under the powers conferred upon it by the last general convention, has raised the dues of members from ten per cent. to twenty per cent. of the value of all gifts (Concluded on @ succeeding pave.) 3, And when its golden fruit hung high ‘Where sun and shadow dapple, ‘The cityite who passed exclaimed, “Ob, whopper of an apple !"" comicbooks.com