The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-10-21
DAY OF THE AMATEUR
HAS PASSED AWAY
Girl Must Know How 10
Comb Her Hair and Select
Her Clothes

What is an accomplished girl?
a plain and unyarnished answer
would be that It is something that
everybody wants their daughters to
s,e, ail0 nobody seems to know def
nitely jusa what it is The term "an
accomplished young lady. used to
he sort Of blanket compliment that
was thrown over every girl who
could daab a little az painting. tor
nre the Maiden's Prayer out Of
an mionending piano that was an
right 81 you'd let ii alone or who
could libel nature by making wax
flowers the like Of whieh lever was
on sea nor land
Nowadays we have grown more
discriminating. and one Of the hui
name movements Of the day is The
suppression Of the amateur When
we speak OF 3 girl as being an ac.
complished musician or artist. We
mean that she is semiprofessional
aud by degrees the habit of wasting
good money or trying TO teach girls
things that they can never learn is
falling into disrepnte, and we are
devoting more time 10 instructing
them in the pleasing graces of life
they can learn In other words, we
are tanning oer accomplishments and
domestiostins Them SO that an ac-
complished young lady is not as
fearsome an object as she used to be
One Accomplished Girl
SUI. what is am. accomplished
young lady. az the beginning OF the
twentieth centuy9 Opinions diner
Nine is that she IS a sort of Admir-
able CrichtoR in petucoats She is
woman who can do everything
that a woman needs to do well
An accomplished girl Is one who
knows how TO make the most of her
self She knows how 10 comb her
nair, select her clothes and put them
on after she gets them She may be
pretty or she may be ugly. but she's
never as ugly as she was made, be.
T'ise she knows now 10 enhance
evviy particle of beauty that she has.
and carries herself forty per cent
above par instead of nifty per coat
Bndef.
She is a good needlewoman and
can make her own things If she is
poor, @t Il she IS rich she can In
strucf he, dressmaker how to give
little touches OF individuality 10 her
costume. She knows how To keen
herself from looking soiled and be.
draggled and what the French cail
chinonnee, and wherever she is. she
seems to have just tie right clothes
on and 70 be he most attractive
figure IN tbe landscape.
An accomplished girl knows how
10 read. She doesn't recite. unless
she has special dispensation from
heaven, bpf-and it's q rarer accom-.
plishment than you would believe
nnless you have investigated the
matter-she can read the headlines
~ the morning paper aloud SO that
you can understand them or even
read a whole article aloud without
hetting on edge the teeth OF every
listener.
Knows How 70 Write Letters.
Am accomplished girl knows how
40 write a letter Most girls don't
They can cover up forty-nine pages
'tNh'HN say NAHN WlN Single HNlllaFf
hhing that conveys any meaning ID
an Intelligent mind They never ans
wer a question although Won mas
have written 10 them specifically fol
hnformation ON certain point All
that they do As 90 cover up good pa
per with a Wild waste Of incoherenl
eN2lamations, mixed metaphors anc
tndiscreet condolences
An accomplished girl also know.
how % write an accomplished note
of thanks and tender letter o|
sympaihY or cOagratulatiou. Nothinf
hs more amazing than the stolid 81
hence that u'r friends maintain Il
Ahey happen 10 De away from a.
when some grief or JOY happens q
ns, and the explanation they one
Tor their rudeness Is that they nevei
know what to say iu letters of con
n0le1ce or cangIatulation. IL / hal
y gin TO educate, sho should %
aaught 10 write notes ii she never
aearned another thing on earth To-
the chances are that II she was
good note writer nobody would eve
notice her other deaciencies and !
they did they would forgive her fo
them.
An accomplished elll knows hos
90 Talk. She Is "a conversation