The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-07
WEAT a DAUGHTER COSTS.
Thousands Necessary to Launch Her
Upon the Sea of Matrimony.


Thousands Necessary to Launch Her
Upon the Sea of Matrimony.
From, the Nep York Recorder.
Since the accum ulation of large fortunes
In this country, and notably in New York,
and the establishment of moneyed aris-
tocracy, one Of the greatest problems pre-
sented to rich parents is the marrying of
their daughters. To the father it is as much
concern as his affairs in stocks, and to the
mother it is matter of daily care. The
daughter is no sooner born than her future
bee ONES subject for reflection In few
weeks 1t Is known whether she will be PLAIN
or pretty. If she is plain that means the
expenditure of good-sized fortune to take
her after years to the bridal altar. II she
is pretty the parents are jubilant. for her
future can pretty well take of itself.
Wealthy New York parents make it a
point OF surrounding their daughters with
all the form and luxury that fall to the lot
OK princess. They are not willing, when
their daughter goes to boarding school, that
she hive Ia neat, plain room like the con-
ventional quarters designed 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 will tolerate. Her room
is boudoir Of Oriental luxury. catering
it you sink to the ankles in Persian,
smyrna and every description OF
Turkish rugs in coiors Tyre could not rival;
the walls are hung with beautiful
tapestries with chaste Dianas upon them;
there is divan with great eider-down pill
lows and made savagely luxurious by a
tiger skin thrown carelessly 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 AID oostliest stuffs and the
loveliest Of colors; dressing case studded
with eve ything dear to a girls heart,
not the least of which are perfumes
costing from so cents an ounce to 81
a drop. In her wardrobe are her hand
embroidered night-dresses of silk as soft as
down and Beautifully designed; and her
white iron bed, with brass knobs is made so
inviting with its Merseilles or quilted India
silk coverlid in summer, its eider-down
spreads in winter. the hanging cherub
above and the hangings, with their beauti-
full hand-painted designs, that 1t might
tempt st. Agnes herself to come and lie
there. But what money it all costs
When she reaches her 18th year she
graduates from the boarding school, and is,
perhaps, sent to finishing school. where
she becomes a parlor boarder surrounded
with her usual luxury, and gets finishing
touches on department.. All this, liz must
be borne in mind, is preparation for the
market. Then my young lady
goes home, and the real expenses COM
mence.
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 European princesses
have lately made this fashionable. A select
dancing master is engaged to give her
private lessons, for that is supposed TO make
her more graceful in her movements.
Every rich mans daughter in New York
learns to ride, and If it is the intention to
send her to England she must learn to ride
cross country, so she joins private hunt
club, and follows the hounds on the trial of
The anise seed. Then she must have an ex
pert French teacher one day ia the week
.or conversation and German teacher
or the same purpose another
The acquired at the boarding school is
iot considereds &sufflcient, 80 she is at
,nce put under the care of a pale, mild gem
leman. with fierce hair and many diplomas,
Who brings Wagner into her life; to which |
s added the Offices OF some melancholy and |
'xtinct Italian nobleman, who teaches her |
he guitar 1t is also considered an accom-
to be able to fence, so to the fenc-
ng master she goes and she varies this ex-
rcise by attending at a gymnasium, where |
he developes her muscles. OF course, if |
he is pretty all this is not necessary.
She makes many other calls on Der |
ather's pocketbook. Sac must formally |
one out. She must have dresses made by |
Worth or Felix and pay as high as $500 for |
he making of one Of these. If no family !
ewels have descended to her, she must have |
diamonds, pearls and other precious stones |
md her equipment must compare with girls /
ready out. When bills for the
'all are paid. then comes the allow |
nee for pin money, out Of which |
he has to assist several fashionable |
harities. She appears at grand opera at |
east one evening in the week, at theater |
mother, and she can sit only in box; then |
ONE flowers, bonbons and the latest per-
umes. The manicure comes regularly to |
eautifY her hands and nails, and the chir-
podist TO tend her feet Her maid she has
lways with her; companion if she has no
isters, and frequently paid chaperon at
be telephone waiting TO be called.
Although 1t may seem strange, it is true,
hat the richer New Yorker is, the more |
Tealth does he look for in the man who is to
harry his daughter. He and his wife make /
point to keep the daughter as far as
ossible from making the acquaintance of |
Dung men who are not rich They will not /
ermit her TO visit houses where she is likely /
o make such acquaintance, and they con-
family impress upon her that an adrnirer |
Without money Is altogether below her sta
ion and not to be dreamed of. Unless she
romantic she comes to look upon young |
len as articles of merchandise and falls en- /
rely into line with her parents.
Cool and Thin