1895
The programme laid out for a debutante by her mother includes a box at the opera for the season, that the girl may be seen; invitations to the fashionable public balls preceded by fine dinners, to which are invited the eligible young men, thus laying them under obligations which, it is hoped, will be discharged by dancing with the daughter, writes Mrs. Burton Kingsland in The Ladies' Home Journal.
A month or two at Newport, a few weeks at Lenox in the autumn, Tuxedo at Christmas and a London season in the springtime — a showy career, to which wealth is the passport and a conspicuous marriage the aim. If the marriage be delayed, comment is rife, public attention having been so drawn to the girl, and feeling that it is due to society to do what is expected of her she sometimes marries for no better reason.
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