GIRLS MAY HAVE $70 HATS FOR $7
A COURSE IN "ESTHETIC ECONOMY" DOES IT.
Course at Barnard to Enable Women to Dress Well on a Small Expenditure.
New York, Dec. 5.—Miss Evelyn Tobey is teaching Barnard and Columbia girls "esthetic economy." Miss Tobey explained today, it means nothing more nor less than teaching girls how to have $70 hats for $7. Also it teaches how to dress and look pretty. Miss Tobey believes that college girls and school teachers are lax in the matter of dress.
"Of course," the professor said; "there are some women who are endowed with a genius for looking pretty and up-to-date in the 'raggedest' frock and the oldest bonnet. But there are other women who are devoid of the sense of adornment. Woman's greatest faults, when she starts in to make her own frocks and hats, is her propensity for loading her hats up with feathers and flowers and furebelows out of all sense of proportion.
"The first thing to do when my inspection and criticism are invited is to see how much I can eliminate from a creation. Often one flower is more becoming than a wreath—one flower prettier than a cluster of waving plumes and so on. I start the girls in at the very beginning of a hat. In the first lesson I show how the wire foundation of the hat is clipped and woven into the frame. But, of course, some women haven't any intuition about their clothes and then one has to help them out. I think after the physical culture course the art of beautifying yourself is the next most important.
"I wish I could impress upon the girls who intend to go out into the world the necessity of appearing at their best. Of course, I don't believe in willow plumes before breakfast and chiffons and lace at 12 o'clock, but there is such a thing as looking too plain.
"I would like to see every girl dress herself for work with the same precision and care she would for a dance. I know lots of girls who can do it—but they are not college girls. The college girls and school teachers are most remiss in this respect, but the bonnet course at Columbia will, I trust, inculcate a proper respect for beauty, the most desirable of all feminine attributes.
"A girl can dress very well on a slender salary if she only knows the trick of refurbishing velvet and of cleaning flowers and satins. Here's a hat that's seven years old. I made it myself."
She placed a jaunty black fur turban on her black hair to illustrate her theory. She advised the girls who make their own hats against buying a lot of material at a time, but suggested that ornaments could be added from time to time.
AGAINST TRADE SCHOOLS.
A New York College President Disagrees With Roosevelt.
The Rev. Charles Alexander Richmond, president of Union College, Schenectady, in a recent address, took issue with Col. Theodore Roosevelt against the tendency to establish trade schools. Richmond said that the educators of the country are going mad over the subject of trade schools.
"They are acting for all the world as if they cared only for what shall be eaten, what shall be drunk and the wherewithal to be clothed. Colonel Roosevelt in one of his Western speeches said that every college student should be taught a trade. I suppose he had in mind the case of some boys where a good carpenter or a good
farmer had been spoken in the making of a poor preacher or a briefless barrister. But you might just as well demand that every farmer should be taught Greek."
Are Taking the Work of the Uni versity to the People.
K. U. SPEAKERS POPULAR.
University people seem to be popular as speakers from the number of them filling lecture dates this week over the state.
Miss Esther Clarke of the Extension department spoke Tuesday night at Smith Center before a gathering of women's clubs on "Why Am I a Kansan?" Friday evening, Miss Clarke delivered the same speech at Oak Grange before the Grange Institute. This is an old but prosperous farmers' institute, having been organized thirty years ago and now owning its own hall and a shelter for its horses.
Friday night the following lectures were delivered:
Prof. E.B. Cowrig addressed the Anti-Horse Thief Association at Tisdale, Kan., on "The Farmer's Future."
Professor Jackson spoke to the A. H. T. A. of Holsted, Ken
professor Jackson spoke to the A. H. T. A. of Halstead, Kan. Prof. W. C. Stevens lectured on "The Progress of Plant Breeding" at Hayesville, under the auspices of the A. H. T. A.,which has taken up the branch work of the Extension department of the University.
TO RAISE REQUIREMENT.
Colored Girls' Advance Standard for Their Club.
In order to improve the grade of work done by the colored girls at the University, the Pallacean Girls' League will raise the entrance requirements for admission into the club. Heretofore students beginning their second year were eligible for admission. Now they must have completed a certain number of hours with credit before they can become members.
The League is a literary organization composed of colored graduates and students at the University, and is over ten years old. It has graduate members teaching in the larger cities throughout the state, all of whom are proud of their connection with the club.
Each year a course of study is planned and carefully followed out. This year the work will consist of careful and critical reviews of the current magazines, considered from literary, social, and religious standpoints.
Ruby Thornton is president and Winifred Morton secretary.
NORMAL PAYS DEBT
Football Has Been Paying Proposition at Emporia.
At a meeting of the Athletic Association of the Kansas State normal the financial condition of recent years was reported. The association is out of debt and has over $300 in the treasury with which to start the basket ball season.
Five years ago the association was $600 in the "hole." This has been coming down slowly and was finished with the profits from the Thanksgiving game. The association voted to displace the athletic monogram with a single big "K" for all teams.
C. L. Brewer, the new director of athletics for Missouri University, has arrived in Columbia. As soon as business pertaining to the football season is completed Professor Brewer will take over the athletic management also. In compliance with the conference rules requiring faculty coaches,hwill become the Tiger football mentor in future seasons. He comes from a similar position at the Michigan Agricultural College.
Will Take Up Work at Once as Manager of Athletics.
BREWER AT COLUMBIA.
Statistics compiled by the officers of the Senior class at Princeton show that the average expenses of a college student at that place for four years of his course are $3,675, or about $919 a year. The minimum for four years expenditure reported is $800, and the maximum $10,000.
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The Pedagogical library, located in the office of the Dean of Education, is being greatly enlarged. It now contains about 600 different text books donated by all the large publishers of the United States. This number is expected to be increased by Christmas through daily shipments, to 1,000 volumes. It is about equally divided into old and new texts on all the subjects taught in the grades and high schools; the older books being valuable mainly or account of their age.
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Reno County Club Organized.
The Reno County club met Friday evening at the home of Dean Templin and elected the following officers: Louis Reeves, president; R. J. Soper, vice-president and Sam Fairebld, secretary and treasurer. A banquet will be held during the holidays for the high school seniors.
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K. U. Loop Street Car Time Table.
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts street, 5, 20, 35, 50 minutes past the hour, via. Tennessee street, for K. U. from 7:30 a.m. to 5:35 p.m., and 5 and 35 minutes past the hour, 6:05 to 10:35 p.m.
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts street, 10, 25, 40, 55 minutes past the hour via. Mississippi street, for K. U., from 7:30 a. m. to 5:25 p. m. and 55 and 25 minutes past the hour, 5:55 p. m. to 10:55 p. m.
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