The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-08
COMMENCEMENT DAY.

WHAT KIND OF CLOTHES SHALL WE GIRLS
WEAR ON GRADUATION DAY9n
Editor Cairo Bulletin-Dear Sir:
| propose in this letter, to put to the test
that amiable temper Cor want Of it) that
hear you possess; and, also, to test the
gallantry that nature has endowed you
with, be it much or little.
The near approach of our own "annual
commencement day waketh, it seems, a
good and sufficient reason why should
venture to set one woman's opinions up
against one mans, even if that man do ill
with all due honor and efficiency, the edito-
rial chair. am quite certain that could
not find a suficiency of courage for this
unheard Of piece of presumption were
the opinions, in question, upon another sub
Ject than that of dress. Do you happen to
recollect certain item or paragraph
or whatever you newspaper men call
such things, that you wrote several
days since in which you ad-
vocated, Or belive, more nearly advised
our girls-or all girls, to dress in their
richest dresses on graduating day. Well,
in this think you made a very grievous
mistake inasmuch as such advice from such a
source is apt to have pernicious effect ON
our girls If you had ever passed through
the ordeal Of trying with all your heart
and soul, to dress your daughters as well as
their classmates were dressed, that they
might not feel abashed or humbled when
they appeared on tho rostrum to receive
their diplomas, you would, think, enter
tam very different opinions on the gradua-
ting-dress question from those you ex-
pressed. Ifyou could see, as I have, the
heart-aches and sorely wounded feelings the
rivalry in dress, on such an occasion, has
caused, you would, am certain, advocate
and advise honestly and sincerely and with
all your strength of tongue and pen, the
greatest moderation in dress; and YOU
would do we'll when you did so. There need
be no dowdies-no common looking or
or badly.dressed girls; nor yet, and much
less, need there be or should there be, girls
with so little regard for appearances as to
make walking-dress- making and millinery
establishments Of themselves. on that day;
and with so little regard for their school
mates as to forget to pay decent consid-
Grafton to their feelings, should Gas Is al
ways the case) some one or more of them
be in circumstances that admit only the
simplest toilets.
Our girls are, nearly all of them, the
daughters OF people in moderate circum-
stances. Nicely made, well.ftting light
calico dresses would be quite appropriate
to wear-suiting their fresh youth; and
quite the thing for poor girls in summer
weather, to wear on such an occasion. If
were their preceptor certainly would sd-
wise some such simple and common sense
toilet; and am sure the parents of our
girls would feel relieved and grateful for
The suggestion.
am really afraid that your item has
made itself felt, ere this, and that ii I ever
could have made myself heard, the earsKI
would reach are now closed to all would
say. Can you not, my dear sir, reconsider
your expressed ideas on the matter, and use
your best efforts to induce our graduating
class to simplify their toilets for that par
'icular occasionl There; that's all. Can
you forgive a woman who dares to differ
With you, Mr.. Editor1
Yours Truly, A MOTHER.
lREMARKs.-lu the paragraph to which
Mother" refers we referred merely to the
general estimate Of the 'girs in Calico"
without commencing the sentiment or de-
,loring it..