Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-03
GOOD ADVICE FOR
GIRL GRADUATES.
BESIDES Planning Her Gown She
Should Rehenrse Many Times Hcr
Bows and Gestures.

The day is fast approaching when the
girl graduate Of 1900 will say farewell
to her school days, robed in fairest
white, before hosts of admiring rela-
tiyes and friends.
1t is needless to say that she yearns
to make a good appearance on this i'm
portant occasion. Her graduation day,
some n has said, is second only to
her wedding day, and she looks for
ward to it with high expectations.
The girl graduate is always charm
ing, like some white hower-she has
youth and a dainty gown to assist her,
put sometimes she is far from graceful.
1t Is apt to be her first public APP
pearance, and this reason alone causes
her to feel and act awkwardly. Then,
to make a bad matter worse, the grad
yates are almost invariably made to
sit on the platform, racing an audi
ence which they feel sure is observing
and criticising every movement.
There may be several reasons for
nervousness besides the natural trepi-
dation which accompanies the gradua-
ton day ceremonies.
If the young aspirant realizes too
late that her dress falls short of the
standard set by custom the time to
which she looked 4orward with such
happiness will be filled with misery.
II in the whirl of excitement at
tending closer examinations she has
allowed herself to become unfamiliar
with her part in the exercises it is
probable and fl Ting that she will make
a iasco Of the Whole affair.
The hears
If she has not rehearsed sufficiently
the bows and gestures which she is to
make, unless she is gifted with unus-
ual self-possession they will be made
awkwardly.
To be correct in the matter of dress
she will wear white, of any light ma
terial she chooses, and made as simply
or deliberately as her fancy dictates.
One of the latest models for gradua-
ton gowns was shown your CORE
spondent a day or two ago. This frock
is OF point d'esprit, over white organ
die, trimmed with yards and yards of
white baby ribbon, with sash and COL
lar Of white double-faced satin ribbon.
The yoke is made of alternate strips of
lace insertion and the baby ribbon and
shoulder ruffles and foot ruffles are also
run with the baby ribbon. 1t is an alto
gether charming and girlish gown. and
will serve as an excellent model upon
which to plan one more simple or elab-
crate.
The girl with the plainest dress need not
feel that she will be the subject of I'M
of any comment at all regarding her
clothes it will be favorable, for the simply
arrayed graduate is always noted by the
audience with satisfaction.
The Greeting.
Each graduate should make ii a point
to be familiar with her own little part in
the programme, so that she may have no
vain regrets when it is all over and need
not feet that she has mortified the pride
of teachers and parents by a clumsy rem
dering. BY all means she must NOW "by
heart" her essay. but she may carry the
manuscript in case memory fails.
When she greets the audience before
beginning her essay, let it indeed be a
greeting, and not a s~lovenly nod or a
frantic stage effort at a bow. Let her
recollect that her friends are before her,
she has something to say to them which
she hopes to make as interesting as pos
sible, and her salutation should show all
this. 1t is more han a nod, yet less than
a courtesy.
In rendering her essay the graduate
must remember that the more freedom of
motion she displays within certain limita-
lions the more interesting 1t will be for
the audience. She may expound most
learnedly, but she will not hold the audi
ence If she sticks closely TO the words of
her text, and moves neither to the right
nor to the left.
The fortunate valedictorian should pre-
pare her valedictory so that it may be
rendered without notes or manuscript. 1t
is always a class address, and she must
not make the mistake of delivering 1t for
the benefit of the audience alone. She
should turn partly, so that with a sweep
of either hand the audience and class may
profit by the discourse. There is nothing
strained in the valedictory, it is the most
natural thing in the world, and all it re-
quires is to be naturally rendered.
The Cxarina.
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