Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1892-03-25
THE SOCIETY GIRL DURING LENT.
How the Gay Young Thing Manages to
occupy Herself without Dancing.

How the Gay Young Thing Manages to
occupy Herself without Dancing.
The amount of rest and refreshnent
the average girl gets this Lent IL minus
quantity She works harder than she
has done all the winter. and that. all
scOfiCr, to the contrary, is harder than
any servant in her parents house. The
Lentcn girl Is of two orders-the deeply
religious ana the fashionably devotional.
The first one carries in her pocketbook
tiny lavender card with purple crosses
and stars all over il, and bearing list
of services in her favorite church. On
no day are there less than two; she sings
at one of them. and stays after the other
10 practice Gregorian chants for the next
day. She attends Dorcas society every
Saturday and takes home six garments
10 make in the course of the week, and
she makes them herself, too. faithfully
and laboriously
She spends an hour in devotional read
ing and two porting over history or bi-
ography every day. She attends a
Shakespeare class twice n week and
goes as often TO hear some well read
woman elucidate state and national
politics 10 party of girls. No one stays
To lunch after these mornings that
would be frivolous, and besides there is
lust time To run into the dressmaker's
10 have fitting before afternoon serv-
ice. The dressmaker provides a cup of
tea and a biscuit and after eating this
very substantial meal the girl walks to
church and puts her car fare in the poor
box Then she visits worthy widow
away over on the East side, carries her
relief and promises Of work and comes
home to spend an hour in hysterical cry
ing over the misery she saw.
She only receives her men friends one
gravely aud sedately, clad in dove col
o-ed gown turned in a mite at the
throat. with tulle folded around 1t. She
does not accept candy or flowers. and
always gets up an hour before break
fast, dragging her reluctant younger
brothers and sisters out of bed so that
she may help them in their lessons, which
she does after an entirely different
method from that employed by their
goveriless, and consequently bewilders
the poor little mortals more than she
helps them. She goes regularly to the
Turkish bath and the manicure, the
Delsarte class and the riding school.
She teaches in mission sewing class
and "a charity kindergarten. Then there
are rehearsals for private theatricals
and for the weddings al which she is to be
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and shoes she will wear are to he made
Of peculiar style and color, which ne
CcsSitates one or two trips way over To
"A little manufactures on the west side,
where she gets her sympathy aroused
over an abandoned baby, and spends "A
week and all her dress money getting II
into home.
OF course she has to 20 to lectures and
"a matinee now and then or she would
die. The fishionably devotional girl
does nearly all these things, only she
walks on Fifth avenue III II black gown
and severe hat, carrying prayer book
aud wearing bunch of yiolcts. She
/ goes ont OF town after service Friday
and stays over Saturday with married
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j. held with the aid of slcighing parties
aud banjus till the last train SATURDAY
night Brother Tom meets her at the
/ station and tells her that his friend
Harry aud her friend Lon are cooking
oysters in a chatting dish at Louis house.
But she l. al early service on Sunday.
After three weeks of this she goes
south and has u lovely time, for Lent lie
uot kept when one Is away from home
and besides il would be an extravaganza
not to wear all her evening gowns once
/ or twice more before letting them 90
But with all the friyUlity and girlish
hypocrisy of il there Is IA lot of good
earnest work done by the society girl in
Lent, She helps others and herself IL
better things, and everything counts
even If it Is only showing Cousin Fred
. how womauly and sweet she looks ii
/ the little gray gown with her hands full
of plain sewing York Press.