The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-07-31
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New York, and the establishment of a |
rnoneyed aristocracy, one of the great
Get problems presented to rich parents
Is the marrying of their daughters, To
che father it Is as much concern as his
affairs IN stocks, and to the mother il is
q matter of daily care. The daughter Is
40 sooner born than her future becomes
4 subject for reflection. In few weeks
It Is known whether she will be plain
Or pretty. If she is plain that means
the expenditure of a good-sized fortune
20 take her after years to the bridal
altar. If she is pretty the parents are
iubilant, for her future can pretty well
lake care Of itself.
Wealthy New York parents make tt q
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 OIden
times in English boarding schools and
French pensions, but they must sur
Eound her with every display that the
modern institution will tolerate. Her
room is ooudOir OF Oriental luxury.
Entering IL you sink to the aukles in
Persian, Smyrna and every description
of Turkish rugs In colors Tyre could
not rival; the walls are hung with
upon them; there is q divan with great
eider-dovvn pillows and made savagely
luxurious by a tiger skin thrown care
1essly across it to give the gilded maiden
rest when she comes wearied from the
street or the classroom. There are
Turkish or Chinese slippers cool and
soft to her feet; Oriental wrappers OF
the softest and cOstliest stuffs and the
1oveliest of colors;a dressing case studded
with every thing dear to a girls heart,
not the least of which are perfumes
costing from fifty cents an ounce to one
dollar drop. In her wardrobe are
her hand-em broidered night dresses OF
silk as soft as down and beautifully de-
signed; and her white iron bed, with
brass knobs, is made so inviting with
its Marseilles or quilted India silk
coverlid In summer, its elder-down
spreads in winter, the hanging cheFub
shove and the hangings, with their
beautiful hRnd-painted designs, that it
:. might tempt St. Agnes herself to come
and lie there. But what money it ali
costs!
When she reaches her eighteenth year
she graduates from the bOarding-s school,
and is, perhaps, sent to a finishing
school, where she becomes q parlor
boarder surrounded with her usual lux
ury, and gets finishing touches on de-
pOxtment All this, it must be borne in
mOnial market. Then my young lady
ezpes home and the real expenses com
mepce.
II 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, for Euro
pean princesses have lately made this
fashionable. A select dancing master
is engaged 20 give her private lessons,
for that is supposed to make her more
graceful in her movements.
Every rich mans daughter il New
York 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
3 private hunt club, and follows the
hounds on the trail of the anise seed.
Then she must have an expert French
teacher one day in the week for conver.
satiOn and German teacher for the
same purpose another day. The l<nowl-
edge of the music she acquired at the
bOarding-SchOOl is not considered sufi-
caent, so she is at once put under the
care OF a pale, mild gentleman, with
fierce hair and many diplomas, who
brings Wagner into her life; to which
is added the Offices of some melancholy
and extinct Italian nObleman, who
teaches her the guitar. 1t is also con
sidered an accomplishment to be able
to fence, so to the fencing master she
goes, and she varies this exercise by
attending at 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 pocketboolx. She must for
mally come out. She must now have
dresses made by Worth or Felix and pay
as high as Eve hundred dollars for the
making of one of these. If no family
jewels 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,
at theater another, and she can sit only
N a box then come flowers, bOnbOns
and the latest perfumes The manicure
comes regularly to beautify her hands
sznd nails, and the chiropodist 70 tend
her feet Her nsid shG has always with