Preparing for a Ball

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 153, 5 June 1886, Page 3

Preparing for a Ball

According ■to a New York statement the young ladies of that city go into traiuing for a 1 all just as if it were a great athletic struggle they were about to enter upon. This is tbe course prescribed : — Those who modii tate a ball must, say three or four j weeks before it comes off, go to bed ! nightly at about nine or ten o'clock, and sleep until seven. Then they must be given a bowl of beef tea before rising, and after they aro dressed must take a walk, a ride, or drive in the open air ; coarse oatmeal must form their chief, dish for breakfast, and after that meal they can go , out, but must lunch at exactly the same hour every day, and wear a veil to protect their complexions from contaot with the cold air. A low-neck dress is to be worn for a while every j evening, to accustom the arms and neck to it, because a person wearing \ a decollette bodice for the first time in a ballroom is apt to catch her death of cold, and then her arms generally get so pink, instead of white. After a dinner of bouillon, bread-and-but-ter, and roast-beef, the maids must spend, two hours or s© polishing arms and neck with glycerine aud rosewater, and another hour brushing the hair. This course will render the softest girl hardy and powerful.