The morning times., 1895-10-19
Training oI
An Heiress
MRS. ELLIOTT TAKES RICH
GIRLS FORAYEAR IN EUROPE.
Year With Titled Schoolgirls of
England Gives an Heiress a
High Position.

A paragraph in a newsy little sheet
in town where Mrs. Maude Howe Elliott
has been spending the summer reads:
| Mfrs. Elliott leaves here shortly to
| chaperon Miss Perkins tits winterin Europe.
Miss Perkins Is heiress to 81 900 ,O0O in
her own right upon attaining her majority
She VIII make her debut in society imme.
diately upon her return from abroad. Her
chaperon the well-known writer and
lecturer, daughter of Julia Ward Howe,
has the entree to the inner circles of all the
cities in Europe and can introduce her
charge to the people whom a great pros
pective heircss should know"
This paragraph tells several things to
the inductive mind. That the business
of travelling governess has grown to be
an important one, and has become that
of chaperon and instructress combined.
That it is a proud post. gladly accepted
by the finest ladies' or ltteratu and
society: and-not ieast-that another great
heiress is to be introduced into society to
dazzle the eyes and tempt the affections
Of suitors.
A DIFFICULT POST.
The business OF cbaperoning has be-
come such an art that those who take
it up call it the training of an beiress.'' ~
1t embraces proper chaperonage aruund the
world, the Introduction to court circles.
and every educational advantage. To
chaperonan heir ess a thorough knowledgeef
the etiquette of all countries is required,
and the thousand personal sraces and deli
cate refinement OF accent that are the marks
or fine breeding and worthy wealth. Little
wonder that society women OF fBotver
fortune are glad to accept such pusts, and
smaller wonder that none but those of extra
attainments can fill 1t.
In the training OF an heiress great rigidity
OF discipline Is needed Elizabeth Pbipps
Train, in that catchy book. 1.-The Autobio-
graphy of a Professional Beauty" says
that girls mother has not the hardness uf
heart to train beautiful beiress SUCCESS
fully. and that her beauty" received her
correct training only frum having weak,
insistent and foolish mother.
The question of dress, which is sup
posed to play large part in the life of
an heiress, is little mentioned by the
chapcron- The young woman is impressed
with the idea that muslins and woollcns
are all, absolutely all. she can wear until
after her debut. and after that she is only
a lay figure in the hands of her tailor.
She is strictly kept from putting ON NIB
bons or ornaments, and unless she is 4 vain
young woman, she soon learns this lesson
and is Quakcrish in her garb. as all for
eign girls are until that eyenifui time, the
debut.
PUT ON DREAD AND WATER.
The matter of food is a delicate one
with the chaperon. She is a woman her
self with grown-up liking for salads and
course dinners. With her, as constant
companion, is a young lady for whom she
is responsible in looks, digestion tastes
and appetite. If her charges complexion
is ciouded she knows She Will be secretly
IL not openly censured. And If the young
woman should develop an indigestion she
knows tiset her occupation as professional
chapcron to miiiionairesses is gone for
ever.
BY self-denial on her own part and by