Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1881 — A Lesson to Graduates. [ARTICLE]

A Lesson to Graduates.

An Ohio paper says that a young lady who graduated in a calico dress a few years ago is now married to a railroad superintendent who has an income of $500,000 a year. This may be taken as a basis for the regulation of graduating dress hereafter. Had she worn alpaca she might have done even better, and caught the general manager of the road. On the other hand, had she bloomed forth in white swias, she might have captured the President of the concern, with his untold millions, while had she worn silk, with point lace and diamonds, she mighthave scooped in the conductor of a passenger train, and had onyx staircases and alabaster walls to her house, and cut the wives of the officers of the road as society altogether too thin for her style. This thing ought to be a lesson to girl graduates and a sharp warning to patronize their tailors liberally.—Brooklyn Eagle. “A solid mountain of fine red, brown and white sandstone” is said to have been discovered near Regan, on the Texas and Pacific Railroad.