400 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
All masters and others who board and room their disciples 
are earnestly admonished to see that the young students are 
dressed properly and becomingly without the above mentioned 
carelessness and frivolity of display. 
All persons who are not masters or of noble birth are forbid¬ 
den to wear garments of silk, satin or plush, whether they be 
jackets, vests, gowns, hoods, caps or scarfs; but less expensive 
materials are allowed for jacket and short coats. Offenders 
of this regulation will be fined three Gulden for the first offense 
and a third infringement of this law shall be punished with a 
year’s suspension from the University. 
The Ordinance now proceeds to deal with the dress of the 
wives and daughters of men connected with the institution. 
What has already been said to the doctors and licentiates in re¬ 
gard to their duties in these matters applies with equal force to 
the women. By simple, economical, modest and becoming 
dress they can honor themselves and adorn their station, while 
giving at the same time a worthy example to those less exalted 
or distinguished. But as the feminine heart is so prone to err 
in these particulars, and womankind so given to self-adornment, 
it is wise and necessary to prescribe a maximum limit for what 
will be considered “modest and becoming” in the eyes of the 
august authorities. Take the matter of caps and scarfs, no ar¬ 
ticle of dress can be made more perniciously captivating than 
these. Gorgeous decorations have been more and more lavished 
upon them by the use of embroideries in silks, gold and silver, 
and the employment of pearls and precious stones. The au¬ 
thorities will have no more of this, but as a concession to femi¬ 
nine vanity a sparing use of gilt or tinsel will be permitted. 
Neither shall dame or damsel disport herself in the future 
with embroidered or plush bands of unseemly breadth or rich¬ 
ness upon her cloak or gown. The grave men in authority de¬ 
clare that the borders of such garments ought to be in their opin¬ 
ion no broader than the woman’s hand. However in case the 
poor lady has chosen a stuff that in the wearing brings her to 
mortification through shrinking to an improper shortness, she 
