The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-08

IN itself it was nothing great. Wasn't
that SOP
Yes, indeed" replied the young
been 50 much much annoyed u yd' " with THY my nehe
There have never been great moral or
mental problems; it has always been some
small thing, some little lack of refine
"Ah, that is it," broke in the other
woman. Refinement! There you have
which l guage the women with whom I
desire to be to some degree intimately
acquainted. True refinement is more
| than superficial.
ARTISTS say that the true test of femi-
nine beauty is refinement, l believe that
is the true test Of women's lives.
You may know brilliant women in this
line and that, charming women in one
line or another, but be sure that the
woman whom you take for friend is
thoroughly refined, and while we never
| una per1ectlon IN any way, such a
woman will not be disappointment as
a friend. New York Times.
The Cost of Sending a Girl to College.
! \ consideration which will cause seri-
GUS thought is the cost of the undertak.
point has great weight. The cost must
not however. be gagged by what boy
spends in college; the comparison is as
unfair in this particular as in other rela-
tive expenses. Each college prospectus
states exactly the legitimate fees; to this
must be added a sum sufficient for the
purchase of hooks, and for the require
ments of social life as represented in the
clubs and students organizations; be-
yond this the matter of expense resolves
itself into parental liberality in pocket
money. So far as dress is concerned no
one need borrow trouble. The woman
| college inculcates a spirit of democracy;
character and brains count for more than
sumptuous raiment; the one girl may
wear purple and fine linen, and the next
one linsey-woolscy, and yet both will
stand on the same footing so far as ex-
ternals are concerned. Last of all, in
weighing the arguments in favor of col
| lege, those features in which books play
no part will be perhaps the last grains
needed to turn the scale. And what are
these features? The advantages of wide
association; the lifelong friendships
which have here their beginning; the
healthful friction of minds against minds:
| the lessons of self-control and self-reli-
ance; the finding ones proper level, and
then the joys of field day and float day,
tennis, golf, wheeling and feminine atll-
letics generally.
! The conclusion once reached that a
girl is to so to college, two things fol-
low in order-choice of college, and the
manner of preparation for entrance. In
the matter of choice of college there is
very little advice to be given. The wOll-
ans college has not yet reached the
charm Of tradition; a girl hardly yet
chooses; particular institution because
it was her mothers alma mater, and ath-
letics arc not sufficiently developed to ex-
| erclse positive influence Unless there is
| decided prediction for co-education,
such as Cornell and Ann Arbor offer
Fassar: Wellesley, and Smith present
equal facilities; Bryn-Mawr is patterned
more after the university idea; Barnard
and Radcliffe appear perhaps as appen-
dascs tc mems colleges, and though their
advantages are excellent, they lack as vet
the full charm Of student life. Besides
these colleges there are numerous smaller
institutions offering good courses oc study
| Leading 20 degree.
Preparation for college should be be-
gun at an early age, and can be most
satisfactorily accomplished at good Sec
ondary school. This does not mean that
such training can be obtained nowhere
else; the high schools in many states do
excellent work in this respect. But the
school lies in the fact that the whole
course of study is planned with one OBJ
ject in view, and that the pupil breathes
the college atmosphere from the very out
set: A further advantage, and one
which, to its credit, the secondary school
uses sparingly, is the privilege of sending
its pupils to college on certificate. To
animation is not an unmixed blessing
| any more than the examination itself is
| an unmitigated evil; but the privilege
just mentioned has helped many a nerv-
Gus. self-distrustful girl, who once in
side the college doors has never again
needed even so slight prop as that i'm
plcd IN ''entrance on certifcate.'
One. final point-college is not exclu-
sively for those born with the tradition
al gold spoon; the candidate who needs
a helping hand will find it outstretched in
many directions There are students
J aid associations which lend money to
struggling sisters, there are college schol-
arships and alumnae scholarships, and
besides, many generous good friends
whom the college president alone knows
Then there are opportunities to help ones
self by tutoring, mending, assisting in the
library or laboratory. So one need not
be cast down because circumstances are
unequal; the college doors open with
| equal hospitality to all, and bid welcome
| to the happiest four years of life a girl
can spend Harper's Bazaar.
The Restlessuess of the Modern Girl.
Have you ever observed how restless
| the up-to-date woman is? She does not
seem to have the resources. at her COM
mand for personal entertainment that the
old-fashioned girl was blessed with to
a degree that enhanced her own comfort
! as we'll as that of her family. In these
days unless girl is obliged to make
living for herself or is interested in char
| liable or club work she apparently finds
time hanging on her hands, and like
many another under the same conditions,
proceeds to get into mischief.
The task of assisting mother in giving
| out her orders or planning work for the
day is out of the question in the modern
household where housekeeper runs the
est Adjustment, and if the girl were to an
pear in the kitchen, imbued with the i6ca
that she would like to try her hand at
making cake or bread there would be in
there and she would very soon be given to
understand that cooking school was the
place for nOvices.
TO strum little on the guitar or the
piano or to dawdle over fancy work as
her sisters of twenty years ago were
wont to do seems tame, and so, after she
has managed to put in the morning curl
ing her hair or manicuring her nails, she
r1shes in sheer desperation to the tele-.
phone, calls up another equally bored and
listless one of her own or the opposite
sex with the result that nearly every day
! SuC IL u Uc seen lnuHCuluS at a reStau-
rant instead of being where she belongs
in her own home.
sincerely believe that this lack Of oc-
cupation, this luxury of having gowns
and hats made for her and every want
looked after by paid servants is the cause
Of half the cases Of feminine intemper
ance that are growing daily in number.
With regular routine of simple
wholesome duties there would be neither
the time or the inclination to indulge in
pleasures that are but the veneer of vice
Parents should see to it that their daugh-
ers' minds and bodies are kept in health
FIJI activity unless they are prepared to
face some great grief or disgrace, the
certain outcome Of the dawdling of the
modern girl.-Philadelphia Times.
Faulty Faultfludere.
Has it ever occurred to you that we
criticise most severely the faults in 9TH
ers we possess ourselves? A merciless
criticism is at times INDUCED in by the
| neonle whose Own lives are marked nv