The morning news., 1889-05-05
THE DOING } OF WOMEN FOLK.

NEW York, MAY 4-"From PRESENT In
dicadons school will keep during l. MT only
some of tbs fine lays" sad the head of
fashi nable private scho j.
AID ildsed a young miss OF the upper
classes" has sea lt opportu lity, as it often
happens, at other sea TO attend to her
lessons. The family do IS n 1t return from
the country house efore November. The
there must be a winter visit 70 Lakewood
o the Ponce de Leon. In May the Newport
cottage is ope led.
The society duties of the fashionable
sch)ol gil are tecoming as exacti &, In
many ilsta 1ceS, "a thus5 OF her notner.
There is a dist ict school girl let" which
copies the manners and customs OF its elders
The miss of Il or Is has this win er b9gu
to have her afternoons at which gaily
dressed chatterers Of her 0 vn aga are IN at
te iCiance from o'clock. SIe must pay
visis of ceremony, make calls and drink tea
at the eceptions of her girl friends. She
gives break ia sts and lunchss, and is reputed
as the ba desJ of all beings to suit with
dainty menu S 70 is an inveterate natl
nee attendant, and she as her morning
with tue photographer, jew Ter nd dress
m ,ker She b her mem )randum tablets,
which are filled With engagements, calling
for her presence anywhere but in the Scnool-
room
Tle amount of jewelry to be seen on
sc6ool girl is not hin iort of amazing. |
am within g bonn Is of strict truth in the
assertion th $40 or $500 i not uncom-
mon uount TIC yer the cost of very
you girls displ y. A teac ler-a nan-
sat do@ So ne days since to 1rrsc5 a sweet
things comp sitiJn. Irres g IDLY Lis eyes
we're attracted from the paper to
the girl. ''She was wearing" he
said in his description, "a most
the largest diamond earri gs that l
had ever seen. Sue had diamond pin.
There were three di mold ri G, on her
fingers, one ring of rubies and dia .ond',
and one Of diamonds and demsralds--the worst
of all lnartistic combnati ms. There were
bracelets on her ar ms and a jeweled watch
at her le S e was dressed / ric and
elaborate gown. S 10 h d no time to waste
on so slight a matter as p lnctuati)n.
Another telcher-a woman-says of her
pupils;
Il have taken pains sometimes to count
the different dress, in which my girls
would appear in the schoolroom in the
course of o school year. The mum Jer has
been as large as thirty or forty in some in
stances, being ! average of Dire s week
or more for tue period turing which they
were under instru tion. Every dress was
elaborate and costly"
YouP' asked teacher who was ma ing
out last week the spring c5mme Icement
program ne.
Twelve, think, re9liei tie pupil.
''ls there any o q of them w1ich is sim
ples"
''well, not really simple; but there is one
which is rather simple, | believe"
"Will you omise me to wear tnat one
on graduation dayP
"A no jewelry"
yes"
Even the most extravagant girls are
sometimes very docile before the influence
of a sensible teacher.
The ignorance of the fashionable
pupil in the fasniol olable school of her own
personal belongings is almost Incredible
the principal of one of these es ablislments
tells me that she makes vast Hectic of
SILK umbrellas, handkerchieis, napki 5, etc,
as often as once in three we Ks. No Owaer
can be found for any of the art Gle The
girls are tally unable to pick out their
own proper y. They are dressed By cir
maids and supplied with all necessary toilet
appurtenances before leaving uome. If
anything is missing the maid may come t.
look it W, but tle girl hea self cannot recog-
nize the article.
These little darlings of fortune have very
lit conception of the value of mon y. In
a well-known ,chool some weeks slnce
ella of rich girls we're set the las of writ
ing bus !ess letter to dry go IDS firm
asking that prices on certa n lines of goods
be submitted with specified limits, pre-
paratory to sending an orde :; IL appe ired
that the girls had no more notion of the
SIM proper TO give for, say pair uf stock
ings, tnan if st ckinGs were not for sale
nea er than the planet Mars.
Their ig lora zee IS quite as Grass on other
practical subjects. TIe teac lers of the
cooking classei assert that rich girls often
do not number the word, ''skim ner,n "eg =
beater,n "Joa ,ting-fork,n etc, in tneir vo-
cabulalies. They have to be introduced to
tn utensils de moro. 0le teacher tells a
story # a girl who was asked how large
she supp sed gill be.
"Aoout so hig | suppose, Miss =" came
the answer, indicating a ELEVATION sutti-
cient for three or four 6 ilon can. An
other girl was sere ely C fide 1t that pints
and quarts were unkn 0Tn in the home
kite Ell.
IL is quite the general testimony of ply
sicians that tight lacing is mucl more com
mon ju at present am ing you girls than
amolg women gr)wn, and # course is
more mi ri us. In the fashionable school
the girl is dres ed very Sc sibv until le is
13. Then begins her mothers effort 10 form
her igure." The teachers give ias'a ices
without number of C lses in which the waist
measure of growing girl is reduced fro
three 70 four inches y ithin year. School
girls protest tnat their clothes are per
fsctly comfortable" but If oae OF the
faints 1t ,ometi neS ba lpe1s that three
teachers tug at her co SGT clasps 10 give her
air wit outs being abe to unfa'ten them.
Tive girl lies wit iout asst sta ce u It'll she re-
covers sutfic tly to stand up aId strain TO
free uerSelf from her ovn pris IN. A dress
maker whose clientele is s large that sae
took twenty orders Oh tho day of the biz
zlrd year ago reports that the llrge ma
jo,ity Of her y & customers want their
dresses "as ught as you can possibly make
them" whic /, being atepreteI, means
that an assls ant on each side forcibly com
presses the waist With her hands while the
litter brings the fronts together.
Some teachers mai tail hat candy is
doing girls quite as much harm as cigar
cites do boys. Ole teacher Gains to know
a CANDY eater rs soon as she touches her
hard by the labbiness of her palm. Fash
iJuable girls ~uo ara no late { night do
not cara for breakfast in the morning and
eat nothing but can ly until lunco or din
ner time Even tue teachers IL a COM
plishments ara complaining that thev can't
get music or dancing into their pupils heads
becanss there's not enough dIca IN there
ahead Of the accomplishments TO keep house
for tue Il.
Fortunately the fashionable school girls,
thou sh their number is large, Absolutely
form a very small proportion of society.
IL is not usually the wealthiest psople
either wac vulga ly over-dre IS little girls
The Va 1derbiib c lildrel ara no ic Aabl '