A Good Example by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 25, 1873

A Good Example

By Editor

The girls in the first class of the High School in Portland, between thirty and forty in number, have agreed, with only two exceptions, to adopt for a school dress a plain, substantial and not expensive material. Overskirts, laces, and velvets are to be wholly discarded; and ribbons used only to a limited extent. No jewelry except a plain pin and one plain ring is to be worn. The girls agree to wear no other costume to school between this time and their graduation next June. Many pupils in the lower classes are following their example, and it is hoped that it may become quite general in the schools. Among the things discarded, slang talk may be mentioned, which they agree to drop entirely. All sensible parents must rejoice in this movement, which we hope may be adopted in many other schools. In Portland, as elsewhere, the passion for dress in the high school, in which are four hundred pupils, has been far too much a ruling passion, and teachers and committee have attempted to check it, but as the blame lies about as much with the parents as with the young ladies this has been no easy task. Should the experiment prove a permanent success here, we suspect the well-known principal of the school, Mr. A. P. Stone, formerly of Massachusetts, will have abundant inquiries, “how to do it,” from other places.