The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-01
VARIOUS MANIFESTATIONS

| The Education OF the French GIrl-NOt so
Free as the AmerIcRn-Dress Reform In
EnGIand-Pockets for Women's Gowns.
Girls are girls the world over, according to
tho adage. and flowers are flowers, but French
girls and American girls have about as much
| in common as field clover and forced roses.
| Anything In the shape OF originality. assertive-
ness. or decision is discouraged promptly and
| effectually In the French maiden. Even great
| beauty Is considered almost undesirable. and
| French motherderives greater satisfaction in
hearing her daughters modesty praised than
| her physical charms discussed and admired.
! The giddy French mother wisely wears the
gorgeous gowns and Jewels on her own petite
person instead OF denying herself the actual
necessities OF the toilet after the fashion Of
American mothers, to allow the daughter to
| outrival the Queen of Sheba In beauty and
richness OF attire. and the consequence Is
| that the woman becomes an actual personality
| only when she obtains husband to pro-
tect her Failing In this. she becomes a
sister In Bome holy order. Hence arises
the saying that with one or two ex-
ceptons which serve to prove the rule.
every French woman OF good family devotes
herself to religion or to-a husband. The sys-
tenn OF education which is supposed to evolve
this peculiar specimen of girlhood differs mate
rally from the American college and coeduca-
tional institutions, and is calculated very nice
~ to retard physical, mental, and moral de-
yelopment lady, relating her experience In
one of these schools for demoiselies. writes OF the
four meals a day. composed chiefly OF sweet
meats. There WIS breakfast at OF bread
and butter an egg and some cheese. cake and
coHee win or without milk. according to the
propensity manifested toward corpulency At
lunch there was cold meat or fish; three
hours later second lunch t0Ouder light
lunchl OF tdrtineS Gur cOnftureS. being thin
slices OF bread and butter with preserves: and
dinner at OF soups sauces. entrees. and
variety OF delicious dessert Little meat was
allowed, AZ its tendency was to detract from
ones delicacy and potatoes woro tabooed lest
they produce obesity. Tho genera! beverage
was VINE mixed with water. Then the studies
"a taste Of French Il bit Of geography. n
homeopathic dose Of arithmetic. algebra
studied on tho Christian science principle ana
hint OF history. This over the more i'm
portant work Of the day begins First. an
hours lesson on how TO wall up and down the
stairs, T. rise from 2 eh9lE, 70 pour coffee, or
other hour devoted to the esoterics OF car
riage entering and leaving. 4 carriage would
girls one after tho other mounted It's steps
VII digniled grace on one side. and trpped
iIGhtiy down the steps on the other, after seat
Tor brief interval Inside. Each evening alter
dinner was devoted Co the giving OF sham
balls; where dlsconsolate. girls sat about
with conventional platitudes. The school was
outside the city, In the centre Of immense
lowed foot Of man never trod. for even the dairy
and the butcheTy were on the grounds. lest the
sight OF so much as milk yender's manly form
or the SOUND Of a butcher boys whistle should
disturb the fair ecluse, who was warned should
anything 20 dreadful as man appear, to retire
70 the innermost rece-ses OF her chamber One
i've Nashar girl transplanted 10 that safe re-
treat with hor wholesome Star-Span gled- Ban
Its orderly discipline. va
But the effect Of the discipline seems, indeed.
ulueslEaplS. according " tletheOrY OF NJ. Jules