St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-07

ton. In few weeks it is known
whether she will be plain or pretty. If
she is plain that means the expenditure
of a gOod-SlZed fortune to take her alter
years to the bridal altar. If she is pret-
ty the parents are jubilant, for her flu
ture can pretty well take care 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 of a princess. They are not will
ing when their daughter goes to board
ing school that she live in neat, plain
room like the conventional quarters as
signed to young ladies in olden times i'll
English boarding schools aid French
pensions, but they must surround her
with every display that the modern in
stituti0n will tolerate. Her room
is a boudoir OF Oriental luxury.
Entering it you sink to the
ankles in Persian, Smyrna and every
description of Turkish rugs in colors
Tyre could not rival; the walls are hung
with beautiful tapestries with chaSte
DlanaS upon them; there is a dIvan
with great eider-down pillows and
made savagely luxurious by tiger skin
thrown carelesSly across it to give the
gilded maiden rest when she comes
wearied from the street or the class
room. There are Turkish or Chinese
slippers cool and soft to her feet; Orien-
tai wrappers of the softest and
costliest stuffs and the lowell
studded with everything dear
to a girls heart, not the least of which
are perfumes costing from 80 cents an
ounce to 81 drop. In her wardrobe are
her hand-embroidered 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 cherub above and
the hangings. with their beautiful hand
painted designs, that it might tempt st.
Agnes herself to come and lie there.
But what money it all costs!
When she reaches her eighteenth year
the graduates from the boarding school
and is, perhaps, sent to a finishing
school, where she becomes parlor
boarder, surrounded with her usual
luxury. and gets finishing touches on
department. All this. it must be borne
in mind, is a preparation for the matri-
mOnial market. Then my young lady
goes home and the real expenses COM
mence.
Ii she is 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 En-
ropean 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 in
tention to send her to England she must
learn to ride cross country, so she ioins
a private hunt club, and follows the
hounds on the trail of the anise seed.
then she must have an expert French
teacher one day III the week for CONVEX
sation and German teacher for the
same purpose another day. The knowl-
edge of the music she acquired at the
boarding school is not considered sniff
clent, so she is at once put under the
care of pale, mild gentleman. with
fierce hair and many diplomas,
who brings Wagner into her
| life; to which is added the Of
fees of some melancholy and
extinct Italian nobleman, who teaches
her the guitar. 1t is also considered an
accomplishment to be able to fence. so
to the fencing master she goes. and She
varies this exercise by attending at a
gymDasim, where she develops her
muscles. Of course, if she is pretty all
this is not necessary.
She makes many other calls on her
fathers pocketbook. She must for
mally come out. She must now have
dresses made by Worth or Felix and
pay as high as $500 for the making of
one of these. If no family Jewels have
descended to her, she must have dia-
| monds, pearls and other precious 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 fash
ionable charities. She appears at grand
opera at least one evening in the week,
at theater another. and she can sit only
in box; then come flowers, bonbons
and the latest perfumes. The manicure
comes regularly to beautify her hands
and nails, and the chiropodIst to tend
her feet. Her maid she has always
with her; companion, if she has nc
sisters, and frequently paid chaperon
at the telephone waiting to be called.
Although it may seem strange. it is
! true, that the richer a New Yorker is
] the more wealth does he look for in the
man who is to marry his daughter. He
and his wife make it point to keep the
| daughter as far as possible from making
the acquaintance of young men whC
are not rich. They will not permit her tC
visit houses where she is likely to make
such acquaintances, ,and they constantly
| impress upon her that an admirer with
out money is altogether below her sta
ton and not to be dreamt of. Unles:
she is romantic she comes to look upor
| young men as articles of merchandise
and falls entirely into line with her par
| entS.