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mummWmWMMwimmm*./•vv.v.v•VW/J?*y///.j%v_Z'xv;.Vi*ill®v.v.v.vX*,*(A iss Olivia AtitsMr 8 M ayAldlnWardTeach Debutantes Worldly WisdomMissNqralt;5 ALT ON STALLTo makedebutanteBoston up-to-date is the purpose of one of the most novel classes ever established by Boston society, which meets, every Tuesday afternoon, at the home of Mrs.William A. Gaston ofStatehourroad and there for onehears Mrs. May Alden Ward, thewell-known club woman, explain the great news issues of the day.verysay-areATTENTIVE AUDIENCEAt this gathering the elite of Boston I is represented. They crowd into the rooms, sit down wherever they happen to find a chair and listen attentively to what the lecturer ising. Among them, each week,Miss Olivia Ames, Miss Nora Salton-ptall, Amy Bradley, Grace Lockwood, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Lockwood of Bay Satte road; Helen Winsor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Er-nest Winsor; Lucy Aspinwall, Alice Wesselhoeft, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Wesselhoeft; Josephine Rantoul, Eleanor Cabot and Constance Gardner, who had such a brilliant coming out ball at the Copley-plaza, last Thursday evening. There are many other representatives of the most wealthy families of Boston present every Tuesday afternoon. Miss Ruth Gaston, a whose home the classes meet, will exertevery effort to make tbs classes a success.givento adebutante the ques-What does it mean to the to be “up-to-date? That Is tion that no doubt is asked by (lie young woman who has never been within the social circle. To be up-to-date means that when a voting debutante is .sitting out a dance, taking tea or at a gathering of older people she can talk intelligently and entertainingly on ail the questions of the day. When one stnrta to talk on politics she can at least tell whether the Governor of the State Is a Democrat or a Republican. When the question ol suffrage comes up she can give her views on that, and know just what States and countries have and have notgiven women the vote. She not only 1,sacquainted with the political situationbut knows something of all the other subjects of the day.At the first meeting, which was last Tuesday, the class listened long talk on the Balkan war. Causes for the war were given and the progress made by each army. in fBcteven the situation at the moment was fluently discussed.If tills class continues to he as prosperous as the first meeting proved to he, the debutantes of this season willoutshine in brilliancy those of vPWYork or even Washington.Mrs, Gaston's Viewsdebutantes to issues of thew ho iihh beenthe class, to have the“We want our young lie up-to-date in all tin day, said Mrs. Gaston, instrumental in forming “Every week I hope young hurls of this season at my home, it is always to ho informal In everyway. There is a great deal of benefit to lie obtained from having the young debutantes attend such a class, because the instruction not only gives them Information about important news issues without reading the papers, hut it ulsushows them how to read the papers Intelligent iy Of course, there; are thesensationalisms of the day, but, needless to say, wo will not dwell on those.
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Boston Sunday Post
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Sun, Nov 24, 1912
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