Social Hoods.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 391, 5 November 1903, Page 7

Social Hoods.

SCHOOL FOE BRIDES. H d?- E has faeen established in jMflg Philadelphia in connection with the People's Church one of the most remarkable schools In the country. The members drawn from the pauihioners. and the classes are composed of brides and prospective brides, Old married couples are admitted on certain evenings, but it is only with the newly married or those about to enter matrimony that the work of the school baa to do. Cooking and dress making, house cleaning and home furnishing are the branches taught, and the evenings of every Tuesday and Saturday find a ecore or more of maids and very young matrons trooping to the schoolrooms at No. 2017 Qirmantown-avenue, ail beat on learning how to become model housekeepers. The initiation of a new member of this interesting school is an amusing ceremony. It is a rule that no member must be coaxed to reveal the name of the man for whose sake she has joinad the school, but there is always a stir and some lively guessing when a aew member appears. The newcomer must promise to learn 'his* favourite dishes aad to work at them dihgeEtly until she has each perfected. Occasionally the girls have an open night, and then the big brothers, ' cousins,' fatheis and friends are invited to come and pass judgment upon the dishes set forth.

In the dressmaking class the young ladies cut, baste, sew and turn out dainty creations at a rapid rate, and they are not allowed to derofce their entire time to thir wardrobe.

WOMAN MEASURED. ' There may ba a woman who will ex exactly respond to them, but I have never seen one.' * 'lt is a well-known fact that for an ideally perfect figure artiets generally find it necessary to use a number of mode's. The fact should be more or less oonsoling to us all.' Height, 5 feet 5 inches. Aries extended Bhould exactly measure height from tip of third fingers. Her foot should be jast ono-sevenfch of her height. Hor hand Bhould in leßgth measure onetenth of her height. She should weigh 1381b. Her waist should measure 27 inches. Her buat under the arms should meaeure 34 inches., I s . Her arms at the shoulders should measure 13 inches. Her wrist should measure 6 inches. Her ankle Bhould measure 8 inches. The calf of her leg should measure 14£ inches. Hor thigh should measure 25 inches. The length from the elbow to the middle finger should be the same as from the elbow to the middle of the chest. Prom the top of the head to the chin should be the length of the foot. The height of the head should be just four times the length of the nose. The hsight of the perfect woman should be juss eight times the length of her head, ten times the length of her face, nine times the length of her hand and six to seven times the length of her foot. From temple to temple the measurements should equal the length of the faca. The arms should be three times the length of the head, and the legs four times the length of the head. The shoulders should be two heads wide. The stretch of thumb and .first finger should exactly half-circle the throat. The thumb and second finger should just meet around the wrist. A measure of the closed hand or first should give the length of the foot. The stretch of thumb and second finger should just measure her face.