The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-05
THE COLLEGE GIRLS TRUNK,
How She Should Fill it This FalI-Her
 Needs.

How She Should Fill 1t This Fall-Her
 Needs.
 For the girl who is about to enter col .lege, September means more than a summons back to town. The girls family centers themselves In a single interest-the girls trunk-but the girl must make the planning her very own, or lose one of the keenest of sub-fresr- man delights. The deliberating, the choosing, even themistakes and altera- tions, the memoranda of the thousand things one must not forget, and, finally, the carefully completed roomful of things only waiting to be laid in the trunk, all these make one of the mem ories afterward so jealously recalled. If the girl knows her college. through the experience of a sister. or through a little visit, she will find the selection of her clothes as simple as the solution of a freshman "mathf problem, which is already outlined. Acquaintance with | the college functions that Is the key to the perfectly equipped trunk, Quite as much difference exists in the social AutAilAOuc Ol lOllCSC elo AAl NAiS ACALlAS-
 ments for scholarship.
 Three directions there are in which any sub-freshman, no matter what her prospective college, VIII be sure to re- gard her outfit; whot she shall wear every day in the recitation room and about the campus: what she shall wear for dinner and the after-evening, on occasions usual and unusual; and what she shall devise to make her comforta- ble and attractive as well for the even- ing of study in her. own room or the late chocolate drinking with her neigh bors. Especially at college is 1t fact that a few clothes. specially planned land attentively designed, contribute
 more than desultory assortment to a girls pleasing appearance.
 1t is best, then, to take the light sum n1er afternoon dresses confident that 1 they will be useful the greater part of the time. White is the color to be pri- lmarily desired. Almost every girls col liege celebrates several occasions when white in dress is imposed. Vassar has many charming traditions for white among them the celebration of every seniors birthday by her mates at table, gowned in white under the glow of col
 ored candles, and the senior class Is conspicuous in dining-room and chapel
 with its wearers all in white. The eff
 feet in every case Is recognized as fine
 and striking, and the number of white functions increases every year.
 The white gown of cloth in the pure
 dead tone, will be as useful and as charming as any in the entire wardrobe
 for lecture and concert wear and recep- ton within the campus. When the
 weather is cold and white is neverthe- Hess a necessity 1t will have an addition al value. With separate waists white Icloth skirt fulled or accordion plaited
 permits the effect of evening color which a black skirt often destroys and is a genuine economy. The gown of flight cloth and the invaluable dark Ecloth gown carry their own praise eve rywhere If one can afford to have them both
 There will in the nature of things be a dance or two and some such gown will no doubt find place in the trunk, but the freshman Is often debarred from dances, and in any case she will express a conservative fine taste and win recog- milton frcm the authoritative upper lclass girls if she will quite avaid the low neck, except, of course, the slight lrounded neck always so girlish and at ! tractive. The freshman of '08 has an es- i pecially effective substitute in the quaint little popular gown devised in 1S36.
 For daily wear in the class room and about the campus the girl will require a cloth walking skirt with shirtwaists; after the white summer waist there will be the heavier waists of washable fan nel or madras, or the shirtwaist suit of wool: and 1t is well to prefer wool or cotton to silk in class room wear. If the walking skirt has jacket thls will make a convenient suit for ordinary use. It may be supplemented by a finer cloth suit, adaptable for the silk waist, to be worn for the visit to town, the occasional theater or tho faculty call; necessity and ingenuity can com bine these two into one if there is an extra skirt for rough weather and a thick, hooded golf cape. The golf cape - lis the best loved possession of the col lege girl. She throws itaover her shoul- ders when she goes across to recitations catches it up to wrap around the thin llawn dress as she journeys across the campus in the evening to some friendly spread; 1t is her hat, umbrella, rain ] coat and opera wrap, and long after. ward, when the college experiences merge into a memory of ''rare old gold en days" it is her choicest record of that college time. ...
 Beside the dress of every day and of evening, the girl will love to interest herself in the negligee of the study hour and the olive party. She will be most comfortable if 1t is not elaborate. Two robes are q convenience, one which shall be: first. of all warm and snug and