The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-01

Before the trial was opened, the dress
maker sent to her ''client" letter, which was
quite worthy of the very best letter-writers
extant, and which contained as much worldly
wisdom as Talleyrand's maxims and 'Lo-
THAR" combined. In the first place, Mrs.
Flynt traces her customers refusal to pay the
bill to general decline in her moral nature.
Once the said customer was unassuming and
kind. OF late it appears that she had dis
played a fatal passion for getting into So
ciety," and so, step by step, she fell, until
she was capable of committing the revolving
crime of objecting to pay her dress-makers
bill. ''How can you" proceeds Mrs. Flynt,
with an irony which is not inconsistent with
her name, "gaze upon your own reflection in
the mirror, and derive the slightest satisfac-
ton from your adornments, knowing that
they are not paid for?" Here Mrs. Flynts
knowledge of human nature seems slightly
imperfect. A good many people can gaze
upon their ''adornments" without being dis
turbed by the thought that they are not paid
for. In some cases it even lends an addi-
tional zest to the qualification which new
clothes are capable of lmparting. ''Such a
change from the Madam of former days."
says the satirical dress maker, "cannot be.
There is some terrible illusion" Let us hope
that at least the dress-maker did not lend
her arts to create the illusion.
But observe the tact of this accomplished
woman. She plays off one of her defaulting
customers fashionable friends against her.
She commends to her notice the behavior of
''Mrs. T." This faultless lady actually paid
for her dresses beforehand. "Her bill was
nearly four thousand dollars from Jan. 1 to
April 1, and will far exceed that this season.
And this is Boston economyl 1t has always
been supposed that the ladies of Boston never
ordered new dress above once in a twelve
MONTH and prided themselves in not being
like those dreadful New York young wo-
men" who always wear the latest fashions.
Mrs Flynt has given great shock to this
superstition She declares that not only does
''Mrs. Z. pay her thousands of dollars each
season, but is perfectly satisfied" ALSO She
merely goes on to threaten the Revere
House patron that the newspapers will
all be let loose upon her. Zone of the
best reporters is a particular friend of
ours. The papers will be glad to publish
such novel and interesting trial. and it will
be copied far and near. Our lawyer =
will get the thing done up in good style, be
assured" We have not been able to accom-
modate Mrs. Flynt by publishing the full
account of her novel trial, but so far as our
abstract of her story goes it tells very much
in her favor. A customer complained that
she had been grossly overcharged, and Mrs.
Flynt threatens to expose her in the news
papers, and then institutes an action against
her. That is the only way to serve people
who will not pay their bills. AS for the class
referred to in the heading of these lines, they
will readily detect the moral of Mrs. Flynt's
narrative, although it may not be the one she
intended to convey. If Boston lady cannot
be dressed" fol. less than thousands of dol
lars a season, what must it cost to embellish
one of the unregenerate? This is a little
calculation which engaged young men can
work out by the ''rule of proportion at their
leisure.