The sun., 1901-11-03
FASHIONS IN SCHOOLS.
InexplIeable Changes In Vogue the Rule
I'm New York.

The taste OF New Workers. changes in SO
many particulars that It Is not surprising
to hear that it is fickle also in the matter
OF schools. This refers chiefly to girls
schools
Il don't know why it IL. but the decline
in a schools prosperity comes just as regu-
larly as its days Of good fortune, said
former principal Of school for girls. The
most extended period Of high favor that
have ever known New York school to
enjoy lasted fifteen years.
THAT was an exception and could be ex-
plained only on the ground that IL acquired
such vogue among fashionable people
that il was carried along Most schools
are fortunate to enjoy ten good years.
The variatioDs in their fortunes are
explained in some cases by particular
incidents In one school that stood at the
top in this city the head teacher and owner
preferred to devote her energies to training
girls Of ability rather than the daughters
OF rich and important families.
For that reason she received at her school
girls who were capable and intelligent, hut
whose presence was Objectionable 10 some
OF the other pupils. Consequently the
latter left her. To her surprise the pupils
for whom she had made the sacrifice ais o
ceased to pstronze her when they found
that the fashionable clicrtele had left
In tho majority of instances there il
no definite cause for tho decline Of a school
Women with old established schools, hv
old | mean twenty years more or less. sud-
denly find their palr rpu- dropping away
for no reason in tho world The school
keeps IN with the times II - - efficient as
ever ard the class of The pupils remains
the same.
In anv commercial calling every cir
cumstauce of the school would suggest
that II might continue To prosper for vcars
But Just the reverse happens.
Some younger woman oDeus q school
and 20 her hOck the new pupils and her
school becomes the rage. She ha. probably
the support OF one or two womcn of fashion
or other Influence and the older teacher
with the established school s,rs pupils
gradually drifting away from hen not to
be recalled whatever she may do.
II she has been prudent aud saved her
money Sire may contemplate this result
with more compOsiIre Than n she has sa,,d
none and must rely Ou what she h ablc To
make from the sale - h.r school There
h not much ~ IT, made from that a, a rule
AZ an Illustration of the iu.KpiicabH
way IN which school may loose lts vogue
| Siil tell you q story A f"N DAYS ago /
In"t on th" sir,s n woman Who ~ one time
lad on" of he most fashionable srhouls
iu th" city. Nh' gave o. up altugsths hsI q
few wears ago and tiief" wac not enough
~ " lcft even 90 oneT for sale
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