The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-08
TIE MODERN WOMAN.

Chidren'B lunC0eOn boxes nave become
90 transformed that it would require a mind
reader to know the real object for which
they are made. For. somehow, there has
grown up a feeling among children that
there is something disgraceful about carry
ing a paper parcel or an ordinary lunch
box. This has even extended to the grown
ups, and stenographers, t~ypewrters and
clerks who are seen hurryiug over the
bridge and ferries mornings carrying small
grips are not all going off on a journey.
They are only bringing their luncheon to
business with them, One Of the most
popular Of lunch ~receptacles for boys Is a
It Is the music roll. Others are in the shape
Of books, shawl strapped parcels and small
dictionaries. Even the old fashioned tin
dinner pail Of the day laborer has dis
appeared, and instead the goodwife slows
| the lunch away In a paper parcel to, be
stuffed into a coat pocket away from sight.
Artificial and ribbon flowers will now have
to take a back seat In favor Of a new style
that has made Its appearance IN the New
York shops. The new ones are made from
Japanese palm fibre, and ere so natural in
appearance that 1t is quite impossible to.
tell them from the real article. This Is par
ticularly the case with carnations and Amer
lean Beauty roses, for a further resemblance
to nature Is added by their being perfumed
like their natural prototypes: 50 far as
the expense goes, they cost but little more
than the natural flowers.
Slowly but surely the old time idea OF
boarding school discipline is passing away
and more liberal notions prevail regarding
the liberty Of pupils. Only the last week
there was called a conference Of principals
Of all the srnartest boarding schools in and
about New York for the very purpose of
considering the az visability of allowing
the girls more leeway, of putting them or
their honor more, instead of standing over
them with a club. metaphorically speak
ing, to zee that they obeyed the rules.
The real instigator of the new movement
was O principal who believes that consider
able latitude should be allowed her girls,
especially those in their senior year. The
latter can come to town shopping, or are
allowed to go to the theatre, providing
they go with relatives, and no further
chaperonage is considered necessary. Men
can call at the school on Friday and Satur-
day evenings and il they happen to cone
during the week can see their friends, al
though the midweek visits are not en-
Outraged. Dancing is allowed on the two
receiving evenings, ragtime playing and
the singing Of college songs enjoyed. Thus
far none OF the girls have abused their
privileges and the new plan has been voted
q success,
Il can always tell whether a woman is
accustomed to reading newspapers by the
way she holds one" remarked a business
man in the subway recently. She takes
it up in haphazard fashion, glances ir-
r~elevantly here and there in an absent
minded sort Of way, so that you feel quite
sure she isn't sensing a thing she reads. |
Then she opens the paper awkwardly and
invariably separates the portions Of the
sheet, a thing that makes a man crazy in
his own home, for he loses track OF the
departments and it is contrary to his ideas
OF ORDER
A remarkable instance OF how persons
become accustomed TO their surroundings
and how any unusual break interferes with
their comfort was recently related by Mrs.
Anna White, wardrobe woman for the
Barnum q Bailey circus for the last forty
five years.
After the performance il over on the
road l go right to my stateroom in the
sleeper and never dream Of minding the noise
of loading up the cars-in fact, never hearit
but lot there be some unusual sound, such,
for instance, as some one whispering under
window. and il wake me up Instantly.
There are usually three tracks, the
on the first, while the other two
Ire given over to properties, animals &c.
Naturally there is a great disturbance;
the mon are yelling and shouting, and the
racket OF moving is enough to awake the
dead, but ! simply 60 to sleep and never
hear it. But should there be the slightest
suggestion of a noise that is unusual to the
routine. even though. It were a
mouse scratching, and | am wide awake"
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One girl in the city, whose family dates
back TO the Mayfower and has lived for
years in New York, has made a small for
.une out of rare engravings, One day
-ummaging through the attic. whore were
stored the Accommodations Of aeveral gen.
she ran across d box Of old Eng
ish prints. mgr wings and the like. She
bounced upon them, realizing the value
Turing the present revival Of the craze
'or old time prints, and has sold them at
good prices. occasionally she will dress
hem up in modern frames, made after the
BID French designs, and in that event gets
times what they would be worth
without the frames.