The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-29

! woman, none of which was suitable
4 for school wear.
Costly they habit as thy purse will
allow" is an axiom which cannot be
followed by a boarding-school girl,
even the richest First of all her
wardrobe is required to represent sub
stantial qualities. then it must be in
conspicuous in cut and materials and
limited in quantity.
In the most fashionable boarding
school OF all, no more than five Co.'S
tunes are permitted to any girl at one
time. Disregarding this rule, new
corners often arrive with twice that
number. only to find that the surplus
is expeditiously packed away in
storeroom by the housekeeper.
The millionaire's daughter finds out,
too, that she can't spend money in fix
ing up her room. However much she
may dislike the furniture, that furni-
ture, she is told, is there to stay and
cannot be added to.
Neither can she have room to her
self. Two girls share the same quar-
ters, and every room is like every 9TH
er, fitted with two small white iron
beds, two dressing cases, some cane
seated CnalrS ana rockers.
No divans, piled high with downy
cushions; no cosy corners, no uphol-
stored easy chairs are included, al
though the most luxurious furniture
abounds in the drawing rooms and re-
ception rooms of the building. Any
pupil, if she so pleases may bring a
desk with her, but no other article of
furniture.
Spreads in the bedrooms are also
strictly prohibited. Nothing but fruit
may be carried to the rooms; there is
no chance whatever to smuggIe IN
delicacies in order to enjoy the delights
of midnight supper.
But the last stroke which conivnces
the daughter of millions, if she has
not yet been convinced, that neither
railroad nor mining stocks have any
influence with the proprietor Of a girls
boarding school comes with the knoWl-
edge that, although any student is al
lowed to have callers every night in the
week. no one of her men callers may
come oftener than once a month. In
the case of a near relative or flance-
for it occasionally happens that pu-
pill enters her senior with an engage
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err may come once in two weeks. In ey-
cry instance, though, visitors are
obliged to take their leave promptly at
Q o'clock.
Not even the petitions of indulgent
parents have power to change these
rules. Willy nilly, practical knowledge
of the laws of order, of self-restraint,
of how not to throw away money, and
of systematic work, is taught as con-
scientiously to the daughter of capt.
talist as to the girl who, upon leaving
school, expects to face the world as
bread winner
Here, in BRIEF is an outline of the
days work and recreation in a New
York fashionable boarding school:
The rising gong sounds at 6:45,
breakfast IS served at 7:30. The rooms
must be left, as one teacher puts it,
''in perfect disorder''-that is, the beds
must be opened, the coverings spread
to air, all articles of wearing apparel
put away where they belong.
After breakfast fifteen minutes is
given to outdoor exercise. School
work begins at 8 o'clock and is contin-
ued until Lis with the exception of
tent minute recess at II o'clock, during
which milk and crackers or hot choco-
late and sandwich are served alike
to teachers and pupils.
At 1870 comes the regular luncheon.
From to is study hour, from 3 to
is devoted to outdoor exercises. Then
follows another period of study before
the girls go to their rooms to dress for
dinner, which is served at $50.
Every evening is given over to recre-
alton, dancing in the drawing room,
dancing lessons or dramatic perform
ance in the gymnasium-for of course,
every first-class school has a gymna-
sium-a musicale, and so on. One hour
of one evening is always devoted to
sewing under the direction Of sewing
teacher.
But no matter what form of jollifica-
ton is on, warning gong clangs at
ten minute to 8. At o'clock every girl
goes to her room, and $3.50 must find
her in bed and the lights out,
On either Friday or Saturday night,
accompanied by chaperon, any pupil
may 60 to the theater, opera, lecture
or other entertainment outside of the
school, but the same girl cannot go on
both nights
Saturday from beginning to end is a
day of recreation, unless, indeed. aost
lessons are to be made up, and is de-
lvoted to exercise calls, making pur-
chases and that delight of every
schoolgirl, the Saturday matinee.-New
York Sun.