Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1889 — Teaching How to Mount a Carriage. [ARTICLE]

Teaching How to Mount a Carriage.

A London fashion journal says that there Is in New York a fashionable boarding school where young women are taught to enter and get out of a carriage. “A vehicle with the proper pedifi arrangements for this sort, of exercise, which determines a lady’s breeding and claim to social position, la kept in the back yard of the educational establish ment, and the carriage classes are put through the most arduous training.” The information is also eiven that ’ an<>t er accomplishment peculiar to this giltedeed academy is learning to eat asparagus, Pranges, grapes and other juicy and unmanageable viands in a style tha shall represent the perfection of table manam." : -