Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1899 — STRICT BOARDING SCHOOL. [ARTICLE]

STRICT BOARDING SCHOOL.

Tkree Callers m Tear at Twenty Mln■tea a Call far Girl Students. The young- ladies ot the normal school in Winona were lately thrown into a flurry of excitement, says the St. Paul (Minn.) Dispatch. ' They were called into one of the recitation-rooms and put through a rigid examination about the number of callers each had and a description of each caller. They were told that it was highly improper to receive a caller from out of the city, and that many of the young men of the city were not proper persons with whom to associate. It was also considered highly improper to receive a call which was of more than 20 minutes’ duration. In all over a dozen questions were required to be answered, all of which were in regard to the subject of gentlemen callers. A number of rules were given to the young ladies, which they were told they must obey. Among them was one forbidding the same young men to call upon them more than three times a year, and then the call must be purely formal and not exceed 15 or 20 minutes. The young ladies were also requested to furnish a list of their callers and their characters, and as to the general subjects of conversation when calling or riding, and if the landlady where they boarded approved of the young men. Some of the young ladies are indignant, and say they will not submit to such rules, while others believe they are all right, and propose to follow them.