Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-22
SCHOOLS Or Department RE
ViVED.
They are Now Teaching Young Society

There are two doors in the room and as
the long procession of girls marches ou9
of ono each girl gracefully wheels around
and drops q deep courtesy to the duehi.i
who stands in tho centre of the apart
mont. her watchful and critical eyes re
garding her pupils s adfasty. IN, n Il u 'ha
second r7istress. and as they Pass the
head" make reverence as profound ="
before. r,,
ing school ard the pupils who are being
tutored in the foregoing manner VIII next
year make their first reverence 70 thelF
king and queen at court on their inttoI nc,
Weel-s at school. and the ''embroidel'ies
of manner and of movement are nelnS
carefully insisted upon by their mistress: S.
In the modern girl the modern mis- ieSs
of department finds malleable SUN.
Trained in the gymnasium from her
earliest days her limbs are supple ana her
movements under command. but there IS
in some instances thought too much
force about the girl Of seventeen
She must learn not only to courtes% 2,ir
that sef-conscious air that results IN
such awkward and angular movements -,
she must accomplish the act of shaklnS
hands not Will, the zeal of the Schoolgirl,
who il ant to squeeze the hands of those
she likes so closely that their owners
scream aloud with pain. nor with the lyln-
p"atic Doncralance OF the utterly Indil
ferent, but with just the proper amount
Of fervor and frankness that makes the
custom so acceptable and charming.
Al tits knowledge the mistress OF de-
pertinent irnparts, as well as the slce IS
sues Of sitting and standing gracefully.
listening and standing gracefully. lis
tening TO conversation inteliigently ana
without betraying Impotence. doing moth
ing without fidgetting in a tiresone man
ner. and SO forth.
For many years the teaching of daport-
ment has been allowed to decline; it is
revived now as an outcome of the. we'll
known prediction cvinccd in nigh 50
ciety for the gentle girl, as opposed to the
hOyden of athletic aspect, who was the
TYNE most apparent at the beginning OF
this century.
a very famous mistress of department
teaches her girls the game Of ball She
has been busy teaching this exercise for
years and years as well as the use of In
dian clubs and very pretty fan exercise
and II ie noticeable that among her pupils
are included the most elegant and justly
admired members of society today.
The game of ball was practised by the
Greeks in faroft classical days. and then
Anart, too, from the very obvious fact
that is is beautiful to watch and Of a
very great ia scination to the player. t is
productive of symmetry of figure and ele-
gance of carriage. bestowing in particular
grace 70 the throat and shoulders and
are trained by the ceaseless watchfulness
required while throwing the ball from
hand to hand round the back, under the
| arms and in various other gyratons.
Fan drill will appeal more forcibly. to
| enoiselles whose last school term has
arrived. The movements partake Of the
| nature of these required to make the
| court courtesy, lnadipg UP to them by a
series Of poses, each one an epitome OF
| elegance and very charact 2,setic pf the