Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-16
BAR H0BBLE SKIRTS
Cannot Be Worn at High
/ School Graduation Exercises.
EDICT WILL BE ISSUED
Board of Education Favors Only
Simple Gowns.
ARBOR DAY EXERCISES APRIL z
Many Thousand Catalpa Trees Will
Be Planted-Five College Schol-
arships offered.
ARBOR DAY EXERCISES APRIL z

| All high school girls of the classes of
/ 1872 who have been looking forward to
hohble effects in graduation gowns would
perhaps do we'll to lay aside these
thoughts for good, because the board of
education is getting ready to issue a
mandate against anything but the plain
and simple gown.
BY the time the board meets again
| in about two weeks-it is expected that
full-fledged report on simplicity OF
graduation gowns will be ready for pub
LEGATION. 1t was explained yesterday at
the board meeting that a committee of
woman teachers of the high schools is
studying the problem of how to graduate
young woman in a simple gown 1t was
whispered that hobbies and ''jupe Gu
lottes" would be distinctly against the
| rules.
| For more than a year now the board of
education has been protesting against any
| graduation gown that is of a type that
might be called classy.
| The board does not propose to do any
| thing mandatory about the style of hair
| dressing. The Pompeiian knot. the boulc-
| ward curls and the broad bandeau of rib
| bon will be the one field Of feminine en-
| deavor left untouched by the boards
edict.
CuTIeW Law 1IOUASAu.
| The board had a slight puzzle before it
when it came to deciding just where
proposition to indorse the curfew law be-
| longs A committee Of the Curfew Club
asked the board by letter to favor the
curfew idea. The board did not know
| whether the proposition belonged TO the
| committee on elementary schools. to the
ways and means committee or to the
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the next meeting the board will find it
either Endorsed Or rejected.
! The board gave permission to DR..
| Rebecca Stoneroad, director of physical
culture. and in charge Of school play
| grounds, to start q collection in the
schools for funds to maintain the
| school Fairgrounds during the summer.
| Friday, April Z. was set aside as arbor
day. for the planting of many thousand
catalpa trees. the gift Of the firm Of
child will receive Seeding tree for
| home planting. and two hundred larger
| trees will be planted on school prem
| ises. Miss Susan B. Sipe of the Nor
NAL School will be in charge of the
| day.
| George II. Denny. president of Wash
ington and Lee University, offered five
| scholarships, open to boys of Eastern,
Western, Central and Business High
| Schools and Mckinley Manual Train
| ing School. These were accepted. Mrs.
Ellen Spencer Mussey. as president of
the Washington College of Law. re-
| newed her scholarship, which the board
accepted with thanks.
| Helen p. Childs, secretary of the Au-
dubon Society, asked permission for that
society to have lecture given by Henry
Oldys on "Wld Birds in Washington in
one of the schools. The request was re-
| ferred to a committee. NJ Street High
School was given permission to hold
debate with Howard University, the pro-
ceeds for the benefit of a school or
ganization The board granted permits
sion to the Business High School to
hold an annual entertainment for the
benefit of the athletic organisation of
the school