Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-22

| mothers the wisest who do not permit their
| daughters to robe themselves in that much
| priced gown until they do SO for their bri-
| dial? Simplicity in dress is always sensible.
| Let US hope that the time will come when
| 1t will always be fashionable as well Then
| the question as to what daughter costs
| will no longer be one of moment to thosessof
moderate means.
| MRS. WANAMAKER'S ESTIMATE.
''Of course there is no limit to what
| daughter may COST observed Mrs. John
Wanamaker on hearing the question. ''but
let US consider what it would cost to bring
her up sensibly and provide everything re-
quired for her comfort. We will not sup
pose, in this case, that there is any special
| need of or attempt at economy, nor that on
the other hand there is to be any extrava-
gance or foolish display.
-Four good dresses for fall and winter
should be ample for girl of twelve years.
These may be procured at an average cost
| OF 81 each, making total of SIS. If in
stead OF the material being consigned to the
| tender mercies of some dressmaker, a sew
ing woman is employed in the house to
make them up by the day, this estimate
will include the cost of the making. The
services of very good seamstress-one
competent to cut and ft-may be secured
at from 81 to $l.5O per day. For spring and
summer, six dresses will suffice, and these
should not average in cost more than 81
be needed a best and an everyday hat for
winter, and ST should cover their cost, while
two others, for spring and summer. will
cost about an equal sum. The Sunday coat
or wrap for fall and winter should not cost
over Sl2, while one for every day may
be. bought for IS. A light jacket will be
required for spring and summer wear,
and will cost about 81. Two pairs of best
shoes will cost about 50 SO each, while three
pairs for ordinary wear will cost about So
each Active little girls of the age l have
named are apt to be hard on stockings, so
let US be liberal in that matter and allow
cur twelve-year-old ten pairs of a good
grade at so cents per pair, making a total of
s.. Eight dollars should be a sufficient al
lowance for underwear, and 50 should buy
all the gloves and mittens necessary. Our
little friend1will need u gosSamer to protect
her in rainy weather, and that will cost
Sl.50 To these items let US add say $50 for
incidentals, such as sasheS, ribbons, gum
shoes, collars and perhaps an extra dress
for some great occasion, and we have
grand total OF SlS4.5 80.
"Our little daughters amusement must
not be forgotten, SO let US add to the above
amount-for dolls, games, etc-enough to
bring our total up to $3.50, a sum that should
be sufficient for the annual maintenance of
little girl of from twelve to fifteen years
of age"
MRS. GEN. GRANTS OPINION.
Mrs. Gen. Grant thought that the esti-
mates already given should be sufficient for
the support of little daughter, though she
thought that most people of wealth annually
spent upon their girls great deal more
than the sum named, and instanced a case
of girl of fifteen who receives from her
father an allowance of $1,000 year for her
clothes and pocket money alone, while her
schooling, instructions in music and dane
ing, and all her other personal expenses are
also betrayed by him. She had been in re-
ceipt of the sum annually from the time she
was eight years old, and if she should
marry at the age of eighteen she would
have cost her parents. exclusive of the first
eight years of her life, about SIS, 900, which
estimate would allow $4,000 as the cost of
her education, presents given to her and
other extras. This would probably be az
under rather than an over-estimate; still,
the thought of cost need not deter people off,
moderate means from mourning the respon-
sibllity of daughters, for daughter could
and should be comfortably reared on even
less than $3.50 per year in cases where her i
fathers income did not justify the expen9E
ture of that amount. n
MRS. T. DEWITT TALMLGE ADVOCATES kI1E
PLICITY. |
simplicity in dress is always colnmenda- |
ble." said Mrs. I. Dewitt Talmage, s'and |
children and young persons should never |
be allowed to ape either the expensive ma
terials or elaborate styles suitable only for |
maturer years. From 500 to $3.50 per year
should be amply sufficient to buy simple |
and comfortable clothing for a girl from
childhood till she reaches her seventeenth |
or eighteenth year. Then, if she moves
much in fashionable society an increased |
will, of course, be necessary.
But even then do not think the cost of
dressing girl sensibly and suitably need
be nearly so great as it is often represented
to be. No matter how large the means of
her parents girl should never be encour-
aged in or permitted to attempt to outdress j
other girls. People of the greatest culturs'1
and refinement, no matter how high thArsf'
financial standing, are usually the most |
plainly and modestly dressed individuals in
every assembly, and this fact every mother
should seek to impress upon her daughters. ~
MRS. CORNELIUS yANDERBILT's ANSWER -
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt thought THAT
people of large wealth maintaining a prtwsf
nent position in fashionable society ex-
pended large sums annually on their daugh- |
.ers. If girl-eyen a very little one
goes into society, though it be only of a |
very juvenile order, there are many ex- |
Densive things which are indispensable to r.
PRESSING her properly, and for every occa-
sion she must have its appropriate attire. /
GEoFFREI WILLIsToN CgR1s0EHuNeY
-DOc.oss; Assssa9 sEEcnAx's PILLS
Collins s. Armstrong -aNNnsI
on street, have the la10lE14lE Of pianos
md ORGANS, S0DuE on eaSy terms and rea- |