The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-08-07
WHAT A DAUGHTER COSTS.
Thousands Necessary to Launch Her Uaca
the Sea of AIatriEllonT.

moneyed aristOcracy, one of the great
est problems presented to rich parents
IS the marrying Of their daughters. To
the father it is as much concern as his
attairs IN stocks. and to the mother it is
a matter Of daily care. The daughter is
no sooner born tllaH her future becomes
subject for reflection. In d few weeks
1t is known whether she will be plain
or pretty. II she is plain that means
the expenditure Of a gOod-sized fortune
TO take her after years to the bridal
altar. If she is pretty the parents are
jUbilant, for her future can pretty wen
take care of itself.
wealthy New York parents make II a
point OF surrounding their daughters
with all the form and luxury that fall
to the lot Of a princess. They are not
willing when their daughter goes to
boarding school that she live in a neat.
plain room like the conventional quar-
ters assigned to young ladies in Olden
times in English boarding schools and
French pensions, but they must sur
round her with every display that the
modern institution win tolerate. Her
room is bOudOir Of Oriental luxury.
Entering 1t you sink to the aUl1les in
l'ersiun, Smyrna and every desert ptiOn
of Turkish rugs in colors Tyre could
not rival; the walls are hung with
beautiful tapestries with chaste Dianas
upon them; there is a divan with great
etder-dOwn pillows and made savagelv
luxurious by a tiger skin thrown care
lessly across 1t to give the giIded maiden
rest when she comes vearied from the
street or the classroom. There are
Turkish or Chinese slippers cool and
soft 70 her feet; Oriental wrappers of
the softest and costliest stuffs and Che
lovcliest Of coloVs;a dressing case studded
with everything dear to a girTs heart
not the lp1G~ ri
costing from fifty cents an ounce to enc
dollar drop. In her wardrobe are
her hand EN- broidered night dresses of
silk as soft as down and beLutifuIly de
signed; and her white irou bed. with
BRASS KNOB is made SO inviting with
its Marscillcs or quilted India silk
coveriid in summon, its elder-dovvn
spreads IN winter, the hanging cherub
above and the hangiu4ss, with their
beautiful hand-Daiutcd designs, that IL
might tempt st. Agnes herself to come
and lie there But what uCucy it all
costs!
When She reaches her eighteenth wear
she graduates from the ooardiu2-schooL
and Is, perhaps, sent to q finishing
school, where she becomes "a parIor
Uoarder surrounded with her usual lux
uIy, and gets finishing touches on de
pertinent. All this, it must be borae in
mind, Is a preparation Tor the matri-
nonIal market Then my young lady
goes home and the real expenses com
nence.
If She is a. very plain girl she must
have every accomplishment that money
can give her She must learn to draw
and to paint on silk and china, Tor Euro
pean princesses have lately made this
fashionable. \ select dancing master
IS engaged to give her private lessons,
Tor that Is supposed to make her more
graceful in her movements.
Every rich mans daughter in New
! AorI1 learns to ride, and If it is the in.
tentiOn to send her TO England She must
learn to ride cross country. so she Joins
a private hunt club, and follows the
hounds on the trail of the auise seed
Then she must have an expert French
teacher one day in the week for conver.
satlOn and a German teacher for the
same purpose another day. The lznowl-
ee-ge OF the music she acquired at the
boarcling-school is not considered s7ffi-
cient, so she is at once put under the
care OF pale, mild gentleman. with
herce hair and many diplomas who
brings Wagner into her life. to which
Is added the Offices of some melancholy
and extinct Italian nobfeman, who
teaches her the guitar 1t is also con
sidered an accomplishment to be able
TO fence, so to the fencing fnastee s,,a
attending at a gymnasium, where she
develops her muscles, OF course. if
she Is pretty all this is not necessary.
She makes many Other calls on her
fathers pocketbOol. She must for
nlally come out. She must now have
dresses made by Worth or Felix and nav
Us high<as Eve hundred dollars Tor the
making of one of these. If no family
Jswels- have descended TO her, she must
have diamonds, pearls and other pre-
cious- stones and her equipment must
compare with girls already out. When
bills for the ball are paid, then comes
the allowance for pin money, out of
which she has to assist several fashion
able charities. She appears at grand
opera at least one evening IN the week,
al theater another, and she can sit only
IN a hoz; -then. come flowers, bonbons
and the latest perfumes The manicure
GENES regularly to beautify her hands
ans nails, and the ebiropodist to tend
aeTsfeets Her maid she has always with