The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

The Intelligencer:

Office: Nos. 25 and 27 Fourteenth Street

West Virginia certificates are quoted

Second class; Central Ohio 23 and 25, preferred 7 and 8. Baltimore & Ohio stock at

preferred ditto 37 and 40.

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As important branch of study is to be

introduced in the advanced grades of the

girls schools in Indianapolis, viz: Dress-

making. A woman to the Indianapolis

manor born has invented a system of dress-

cutting and fitting, has explained the

beauties of it to the school commissioners

and actually won them to her way of

thinking that dress-making

is

a

secular education. The commissioners

shamefully

neglected

branch

of

have purchased a

number of the

woman's text books and prescribed for

each girl student twelve lessons of one

hour each in dress fitting and cutting.

This action has given rise to brisk discus-

sion pro and con in the Indianapolis news-

papers. The burden of opinion is likely

to be that while the art of dress fitting

and making is next to owning and wear-

ing the most important thing in the female

world, there is a proper field for its ac-

quirement and exercise, and that field is

either in the secular nor Sabbath school.