The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-07-05


victims. Then the groom can kiss his
bride and whisper some silly sentence that
will never after sound quite 50 sweet as
it does then. The mother can weep a lit
tie as she. hugs them, and there can be
a general kissing bee all around
After that COMES the cutting of the
wedding cake and the showers of rice and
drive hurriedly away.
English Girls Colleges.
A defect in the college life of American
girls that must be noted, says writer
in the English National Observer, is this
1.-The arrangements are too much after
the fashion of a boarding school, and dc
not allow sufficient scope for the devel-
opment of individual character. The
girls are expected to retire to bed at a
fixed hour and to take Il definite amount
of exercise each day; and-a more seri-
Gus defectIthey Dc not each have a
board out, which is the case in most OF
the mixed universities and some of the
women's colleges. they share the life OF
the family they. join: but where, as al
Fassar, halls of residence are provided
two or three bedrooms to one study are
the usual rule. At Oxford or Cambridge
every woman student has at least one
room to herself, arranged with much in
genuity as a bedroom study; here she
works, meditates or idles as she likes
receives her friends. and. mistress of hel
time, enjoys the independence and soil
tude which are too often entirely absent
from the everyday life of the average
middle-class girl. Under these influences
she quickly develops sobriety and self
command, which are the best corrective
of giddiness or Of what past generation
entitled comprehensively 'vapors:' while
the social life of the college, with it.
fees to check any tendency that may
exist to turn the student into a hermit
American Women.
The Marquis de Castellane's article, Eff
teen Days in the United States" occu
pies twenty-four pages of the Revue
de Paris" Here is an extract:
"This concentration of the American
brain on two ideas-the wish to be FIRE,
and the seeking of a fortune by work
has not failed to impress upon the race
being of exceptional beauty, the race i:
vigorous. One feels that it is young
The men walk briskly and boldly without
nonchalance. They are supple, fond OF
opcn-air sports, horseback riding, swim
ming and yachting.
''The women are neither painted MOI
covered with rice powder, nor are they
anaemic. Ali. or almost all, of then
have superb complexions: they are tall
and very few appear in ill-health. Blu,
in vain one seeks upon their faces the ex
preston of their sensations or sentiments
Certainly, and perhaps happily for them
they have not been initiated into the
refinement of sensibility. into artistic en-
thusiasms. Their souls, too. have only
tufo thoir ~
the two ideas that have animated Their
fathers and which will animate their hus
bands-the passion of independence an(
the passion of work. The characteristics
of American beauty are pride and curiosi
ty. as those of the French beauty arc
grace and submission
Bridal Favors on Horses.
When group of carriages-private
turnouts or unpretending cabs-are this
month drawn up before church doOl
whence an awning extends. every coach
man on every box will be sure to wea,
handsome boutonniere in his button
hole. This is provided by the person who
has arrived in the carriage: for word has
gone forth to the effect that whoever now
rides to a wedding must show an apprO
pirate badge of the festive occasion
Only the brides fOotman and coachman
wear white favors; and these, for the
headstalls of the horses. the brides and
for the buttonholes of the coachman's
and foOtman's coats, are white flowers
or white satin. The Jehus of the guests
can wear any other color. and roses are
regarded as in excellent form. One small
pink or red rose is in eminently good
taste if it has Il graceful backing OF
greenery. A couple of carnations is con,
sidered quite correct and cornhOwers
share the honOrs with daffOdils and for.
get-me-nOts. En- PEASANT, it is well to re-
mark that wedding-cake boxes are now
very splendid souvenirs. given when all
ones acquaintance are invited to the
church ceremony, but only a limited mum.
Der of friends and relatives to the recep-
ton. Big silver fleur-de-lis, washed in
gold. with the entwined initials of the
contracting parties enameled on the tops,
were used ut one very splendid nuptial
function. Less costly. but more effective
are round porcelain bonbonnere boxes
with the heads of the bride and groom
photographed on the lids. The porcelain
boxes. round, square. OblOng and three
cornered. are very much used when orna-
mented with appropriate painted pat
terms. Not so dear as either of these de-
vices are little square baskets woven of
perfumed whitewood or of gilded and sill
vcred withes. These are tied with satin
ribbons and have little silvered gOuge-
spoons slipped under the satin straps
Society Fads" in Demorcst's Magazine.