Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-15
Novel and Interesting Method
Adopted by Girl to Add to
Spending Money.
SCRAP BOOK FOR DEBUTANTEs
systematically Clips Every Notice and
Photograph Of Seasons Buds, Ar
ranges Them In Book and Sells
Them to the Subject Of
Clippings.

A girl with a home of her own, but
not too much money, adds to her
spending fund in a way that is novel
and interesting. She watches the so
cial columns of daily papers and mag
azines for the names of deputantes and
debutantes-to-be
Having picked out the names Of the
seasons buds, she Systematically clips
every notice in which their names are
mentioned. Photographs, accounts of
parties given for or given by the deb
utante and her friends, even public
functions that she attended. are col
lected.
At the end of the season these are
. sytisticaly arranged in a loose-leaved
book, and the homemade cover of
water color paper is artistically IL
Illuminated with the name of the bud
in question, the year of her coming
out, and the title, I've Debutante: Her
Booke."
The compiler then writes a polite
note to the subject of these clippings,
and taking 1t with the book to the
girls house, sends 1t upstairs for in
spection. She does not ask for an in
terview or make herself otherwise a
nuisance. In the note she states the
price of the collection, and says she
will call for the book in course of half
an hour
AS this Is not half time to read up
such unique press work, the sight Of
the debutante book is sort of caviare
preceding a purchase.
In most cases the girl finds a ready
sale; but when the debutante her
self is too poor or too penurious to
buy her own book it is carried further
to some doting aunt or grandmother,
who is delighted at the concentrated
notices of her idol.
Often the newspaper notoriety be-
gins several seasons before a girl is
out, with accounts of juvenile parties.
Sometimes with families of impor-
lance. every mention of a daughter
from babyhood is clipped and put in
an envelope marked with the girls
name and address.
Such collections are so interesting
that they are not hard to sell If we'll
collected and pleasingly arranged. II
might be possible to work on order
indeed, it is sometimes done-but the
surprise feature of the finished colIec-
ton is found to be the best lure
In smaller way the ingenious
maker of a debutante book has vari-
GUS collections for the bride The clip
pings date from the time the engage
ment is announced until after the first
formal entertaining for the bride is
over-usually at the end of the first
season after her marriage.
The cost of such a collection is not
great-merely the subscription to
daily and weekly papers that special
ize on society and to various period
icals that deal in portraits and per-
sonalities. AS one paper may afford
copy for number of different debu-
tantes, the cost is divided.
Reading of these papers must be
Careful and regular. II also is well
to visit frequently the reading room
of public library and look over mag
azines and papers for which the COM
piler does not subscribe. If an impor-
tant notice is found it is easy to pur-
chase the magazine, or If they are
not filed the librarian may be induced,
when proper time has passed, to give
you the notice you want from it.