New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-25

minutes and IN spite Of the low prices the luncheon
room pays The luncheon provided is as hyg1enic
as possible but much against its will. the manage
pie These were sterniy excluded from the menu
at first; but it was found that after the hygienic
school luncheon the pupils dashed out TO adjacent
bakeries to dispose OF pie and coffee In most IN
that school pie was the lesser of two evils.
Miss Gwendolyn Stewart q graduate Of Pratt
Institute who has been giving lessons in England
American Housekeeping. does not seem 10 have
impressed the housewives Of that country with the
supreme desirabiIity OF American methods One
of Miss Stewards lectures was on Housekeeping
without Servants" apd when she told her audi
condition did, without early tea and afternoon tea
desired no further instruction on the subject
Better be dead, II would seem. in English eyes,
tea in the afternoon
French mondaine recently revealed the secret
OF vivacity." 1t turned out to be very old
She manages TO secure days rest in
seven.
There was time" said the dowager. when the
parents Of superf1uous girls consoIed themselves
with the thought that they occasoned less expense
than boys and less anxiety. But. along with her
other rebeilions. the modern girl refuses 10 be
brought up on the cheap plan Her education costs
as much as often more than that OF son. ana
IL she ernbarks in the social swim on attaining the
growr-up state IL costs more to dress her during
preceding
In business. She does not capture rich husoano
In her first season with a tarletan gown made by
her own fair fingers. as her grandmother did ana
dowsrless brides do not TO be 50 much in de-
nand as In the good old days II she does not 90
in for social gayeues out PREFERS 10 t4Ae -io
seriously she causes even more trouble ano nesrIy
as much expense. for girls cannot De started ~
lie without capital any more than boys, and the
limited number of cal1ngs open 20 women n@A rs
the task even more Sifncul. IN +b ,e - operated
II decrease the value placed upon girls by the aver
age parent. They cost more now than they used
to and there has been corresponding increase
in their Importance
A Partisan professor Of the Terpsichorean art has
discovered that the new danse du gateau Is one
of great antiquity In proof whereof ne refers 10 an
ancient statuette IN the Louvre IN an exact cake
walk attitude
In a volume OF social essays by the late Sir
walter Besant which has Just been published
there Is a paper on 1.-THE Endowment OF the Daush-
ter" Sir walter writes with deep sympathy. as he
SO often does in his novels. for the woman who
has 20 gain own living. and for the great army
~ those who are continually struggling 70 keep
81, ana soul together and who are beaten aside
ard trarpled down by those Who are more com
pecenlb t Sir Waiter says to secure an annuity
mater how small. for every eaushter born 70 Ler
srd the essay attempts 10 show that this 9 pos
spL l ever when incomes are very limited.
The doctrine OF Mrs. T yernette Morse. director
Of the Art Craft Institute OF Chicago that the
rerfect gown is not the that is made TO 1T the
figure, but that which squares with the principles
OF art reads well but what would II mean in prac-
tice? Inevitably siimsy. drasgy petticoars oodiees
that wouldn't fl. waist line. princess trocks on
aoD-pounders and all the other atrocities o. 50.
ca ed art5s1e b- ,ssss ron Pans rot from
ancient Greece and style IS what she Is after not
ciples is a deusiou and a snare Art is no safer In
the hands of the average woman than tSeoiosy-