THE CHAPERON.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2645, 11 September 1906, Page 2

THE CHAPERON.

The- "Ladies' Pictorial" announces the retu-n or revival of the chaperon, The chaperon, be it said, was originally a hood or cap worn by Knights of the Garter when in full dress. Mill of course the present refe~ence is not to an article of dress, but to what Becky Sharp calls "the sheep dog." the married or elderly lady who used to take charge of girls in full dress. The hint is given, as a tva.son for her ret am, that the habits and manners of gi"ls have not improved since they elected to go out on their own without anyone to look after them.* But this may be questioned. In any case the chaperon has never "eally been far away, even though she may not have been very much in evidence of late. Her place has "been taken by many other observers, anxious to find fault with, if not to advise and correct, the wayward among us. Ind.ed. no girl to-day can afford to act careless of her reputation for good lx>haviour. If she enjoys greater apparent freedom than her grandmother enjoyed* the most, up-to-date girl is made to feel greater responsibility: in the use of her liberty, so that she should live sans peur et sans reproche. And on the whole, this may be said to have been good for her, though the chaperons of former days might have thought differently.