The age-herald., 1898-08-21

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 tions from hospitable townspeople and
 often form parties to the nearest large | town to hear a concert, attend a mati-
 nee or see an exhibition of pictures, and l also, especially for Sunday services, | when the girls are marshaled to church. So far as the purse Of the family will | allow the frock should aim at excellence 1 and serviceableneSs of material. There | should be pretty hat and gloves to l match The hat may be selected by the mother later, when winter fashions are out.
 No matter how small or obscure the school, every girl will need an evening dress. It is impossible to suggest any
 thing that will serve in every case. White mulls or lawns made over silk or pink or pale blue chintz are pretty and inexpensive. Some soft white wooden fabric with ribbon and lace garnishings is the most desirable although pretty light silks are much used. All such frocks should be made high in the neck and with either elbow or long sleeves. If the sleeves are short pair of gloves
 should meet them. Low cut dresses are in very bad taste for schoolgirls. A
 pretty fan goes with this costume, of course, as well as evening shoes or slip pers.
 Every well regulated school now has its gymnasium, and a gymnasium dress
 is another essential of this outfit This
 may be made of dark blue, green brown or red flannel very much like bathing
 dresses. There. are a blouse, knicker- lockers and a skirt which reaches to the knees.
 For study hours and Saturday morn- ;,,crc l,i iol, | students room there should be a tea | gown or some sort of negligee gown | While the material may be of the sim
 plest it should be bright ard pretty. A thin wrapper and a bath robe of fan
 nelette, with dressing sack, are alW s.ys l useful.
 The wrapper may be worn on very warm mornings, when the extreme of | neglgee is desired, and the bath robe is l serviceable in going to and from the dormitory bathroom, especially after the | late bath, when there is danger of cold from drafts.
 Six night robes of white muslin or lawn or cambric are absolutely neces- sary Many young women experienced in the uncertainties of boarding school temperature take a warm one of fan l nelette. With the bath robe and the
 night robes should go a pair of bath slippers, which may be made by the
 fair students own hands. Six changes of underwear are a min imum in both cotton and woolen. It is wise to send both with the student. al though the woolen may be sent later. Mothers who have tried know how dfffi-
 cult it is to do shopping for an absent | member of the family. At least two pairs of equestrian tights are service able in place of woolen underskirts, or two heavy flannel skirts should be add ed to the outfit As to hosiery, four pairs of ordinary and two of best stock ings are required for either summer or winter.
 Of underskirts two black sateen for everyday wear and silk one for best wear is fair supply. White skirts are out of the question to girls with mod crate incomes. Black mohair, with ruff f1es of silk or with a mohair ruffie. her. ringbone stitched, may be substituted for the silk.
 Shoes, gloves and handkerchiefs are said to indicate the lady. There should be one pair of thick leather or chamois gloves for every day pair to match the best dress and an evening pair. As
 
 ter outdoor sports a pair of nice wooden mittens never come amiss.
 Not less than a dozen and a half handkerchiefs are convenient On each, as on every piece of linen, should be marked the owners name. A failure to remember this will result in fines levied by the matron and the possible loss of the clothing, as in a school where sey- eral hundreds of girls are served it will be difficult to identify individual pieces. z A very stout pair of English walking shoes should be bought for street wear. A lighter pair of morocco or straight goat will answer for school, while for best usually kid is preferred. pair of plain slippers for house wear and a pair of evening slippers. with perhaps a pair of tan shoes for woodland rambles, will be ample. Every school insists that each young woman come we'll provided with overshoes, and if she Is a lover of tennis she will take tennis shoes.
 Right here it is as we'll to mention the mackintosh and umbrella, which no thoughtful mother would forget.
 The list may be greatly abbreviated by those who are obliged to practice economy, and every family may find rea- son to vary it little, but for a young woman, the daughter of fairly well to, do parents, it gives the average college outfit. ELLA MATTT1IESSEN.
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