16 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
JUDY O’GRADY’S PAGE | 
Fashion and Household Suggestions 
Choosing the Graduation Outfit. 
LESS the man (or was it a wo- 
man?) who started the modera- 
tion movement in grammar and high 
school graduations! Extravagance 
and display, that were in every way 
opposed to the circumstances of the 
graduates and to the ideals of sim- 
plicity and modesty with which they 
were supposed to be starting out in 
the road of life, were growing more 
and more noticeable and, if I may add 
this, offensive, to soundly thinking 
people. Graduation became a season 
of worry for mothers and their anxi- 
ous daughters that the latter should 
not be outshone by their classmates. 
The poorer girls in the public schools 
strove to have their frocks and “fix- 
ings” equally as fine as those of their 
wealthier sisters and in the competi- 
tion for the prettiest silk dress, the 
daintiest slippers, the finest lingerie, 
or the most expensive evening coat, 
scholastic attainments counted for 
little or nothing. This, at a time 
when the young girl’s mind should be 
directed toward the less material 
things of life, could not possibly work 
toward anything other than a dim- 
ming of her bright sense of fitness 
and a slumping of her enthusiastic 
ideals. 
And yet, someone will say, perhaps 
the high school graduation will be the 
only commencement the girl will ever 
have. She may be intending to take 
up a business career or, perhaps, she 
will be needed at home. Why then, 
should she not have at least a taste of 
the exciting joys of commencement 
frocks and fineries? Yes, we answer, 
let her graduation outfit this June be 
as pretty, as dainty, and as becoming 
as is possible for her purse, plus her 
ingenuity to get, keeping in mind al- 
ways that the greatest charm of a 
young girl is her simplicity and that, 
lacking that, her commencement 
things will fail of their end and aim. 
Happy is the girl who 1s clever with 
her needle for it is she who can fash- 
ion for herself the exquisitely simple 
garments that every girl desires and 
so few possess. 
It is not only the girl whose ex- 
penditures for graduation must be 
very limited who can well study out 
her individual needs for this interest- 
ing event; the girl whose purse will 
warrant a little more indulgence must 
also do a little planning to insure a 
sensible and successful commence- 
ment gown. Most girls in moderately 
situated families know almost to a 
cent how much they can be allowed 
for graduation clothes and the girl 
who recognizes herself in this type 
will be wise to talk the matter over 
early in the game with her mother, or 
adviser, and start proceedings at once. 
Making Her Own Gown. 
HE clever girl, who has taken sew- 
ing in the public schools, ought io 
be able to do the greater part of the 
sewing for her own graduation, and 
if she begins early enough, need not 
rush and overwork at the last moment 
to have an attractive outfit. When 
she has been told just what her al- 
lowance will be for these articles, she 
may then go on with making the most 
of it. Perhaps she will want to em- 
broider her own lingerie at a saving 
of about two-thirds; perhaps, she will 
even decide to make her own frock 
with the assistance of an older wom- 
an. The problems for the girl with 
plenty of money to do with are a little 
different. She must, perhaps, stifle 
her own longing for a particularly en- 
ticing frock that will be just a little 
bit too “grand” for comparison with 
those of her class-mates in order that 
no feeling of envy of her clothes may 
be aroused. She must take care, too, 
that her gown is in good taste, bear- 
ing in mind that sophistication and 
evident costliness in a graduation 
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dress are quite out of keeping with 
the meaning of the occasion. The 
frock that is modest and girlish is the » 
one that will lend charm and grace to 
the wearer. 
A very few years ago a small, but 
determined, group of people who had 
seen this. problem of graduation 
clothes worked out with pangs and 
heart burns every year, started the 
movement for simple dressing with 
such excellent results that in some 
places dollar dresses for graduation 
became the popular thing, and in 
more, cotton dresses were * insisted 
upon by thé faculty. Occasionally, 
too, a class would decide to have ail 
its girls wear dresses just alike. These 
sentiments were steps in the right di- 
rection and the young people of the 
country are to be congratulated upon 
the common sense and consideration 
they showed in adopting them so 
promptly. . As to whether graduation 
frocks in any one class should be 
alike, I hesitate to say. Personally, 
I believe that for grammar school 
graduations white skirts with white 
“middies” are good, but for high 
school graduations 1 think little, 
white, tub frocks are a more womait- 
ly as well as more attractive for the 
older girls. As to whether or not a 
price limit Should be set on the frocks, 
I most emphatically say, yes. This 
decision should come from the girls 
themselves, though, and the limit 
should be decided upon by them and 
the details worked out by them. They 
are sure to be interested in the idea 
and honest in carrying it out. 
Next week Judy will have some in- 
formation for her readers on the 
prices of graduation outfits, some 
more and some less expensive. 
Salads and Salad Dressings. 
HE proof of the salad is in the 
dressing, as the philosopher might 
have said and didn’t. This being so, 
let us see what the essentials of a goo 
dressing are and how they must be 
put together for the best results. 
There is a prejudice with many 
against the use of oil dressings, but 
this prejudice would be largely re- 
moved if the persons using it would 
make sure that the oil is absolutely 
pure and sweet. It need not be olive 
oil, although there is no question but 
that the flavor of olive oil is superior 
to that of other oils. ‘There are other 
vegetable oils such as cotton-seed oil, 
that are nutritious and, if sold under 
April 28,1916, 
