The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-06-19
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pIt.usrS e been tso suits recently Of SIM
~ II occurrence and similar character,
e in London and one in Paris, the Incl
dents # which are entirely novel, from sn
Americ,p point of view, and instructive A.
showing how and By whom the popular
fashions Of dress are SET. The defendant in
the Paris suit was Mile. Cora Pearl, in The
London suit Miss Walters, better known as
"Skittles."-bo.h conspicuous characters.
Mis- /" Skittles." Who testified that she was
never called ''Miss," but "Mrs." or "Mad-
sme," had retained no les Parsonage for
defense than Sergt. Blllantine, who COM
planned that the opposing counsel had desig-
mated his client BY a name which vas very
unpleasant to her. The suit was, brought
for about ST. 40, claimed nv Creed & Co.,
ladies' tailors, for making and repairing
three or four garments. The defendant had
declined to pay the bill because 1t was exor-
bitant, bat offered to settle by paying 81 600,
which the ungallant ladies' tailors refused to
accept.
The defense made BY Miss "Skit,les' was
unique. She demanded first that her tailor
should bring . model OF herself into court
for the display of the dresses: but the plain
tifis counsel claimed that, while he had no
doubt that this would be very gratifying, es-
pecially to the younger members Of the bar,
it would be a very difficult, il not impos-i-
BILE, thing to do This was in the nature OF
a compliment. Miss ''Skittles then set up
that she had made the fortune of Mr.. Poole,
a ladies' tailor, who had been making gar.
men,s for many years. and that Mr.. Creed,
the tailor who brought suit, had been de-
lighted when she had gone to him and
when she had found out who she was. The
force of this point can only he appreciated
when it Is known that such women a. the
Sixties in London, and Cora Pearl in Pans
furnish the fashions for the haHt-moRde as
we'll "A the demi-moade. The tailors whom
they take under their patronage are made men
Miss Skiitles evidently thought this should
have been taken into account, and that MIR.
Greed ought to have charged her less in.
stead Of more She admitted that she had
paid 500 for single dress, but then there
was lace ON il. There il little doubt that Mr.
Greed wss ungrateful, but We can understand
that ladies' tailors should have an experience
calculated to sour against the world, and to
make misanthropes of men who would 9TH
erwise be kind. gentle and generous.
Miss Cora Pearl has been sued in Paris
for bill Of abom 500. This il the lady
who, at bacchanalian entertainment one
night. took hat from one of her admirers
and boasted that abe could transform it on
the spo, 10 a ladies' hat that would be tine
rope of all Paris within a month. a wager
vas made, Cora Pearl punched the hat in
the side, pulled plume from her hair, sd,
ius.ed it to the hat in hand, and next day
appeared in the Bois with the hat on her
head. The result was precisely what she
had predicted. Within week every mi! Ii
ner in Paris had hats Of this pattern in
her window; within two weeks no fashion.
able lady was complete without one; with
in a month the impromp'u had crossed the
British Channel and prevailed In London
the next steamer brought it to America as
the mode, and 40 it became the rage on two
continents. Mile. Cora Pearl has now set q
new fashion which has brought her into 8
lawsuit. Some time ago she hit upon the
brilliant idea of having cast made OF heI
hand, and disposed of terra-cotta fac simdte'
to her numerous admirers. Her first order
was for twenty-four, and then orders fol
lowed in rapid succession to supply the de,
mand. The idea was not altogether Origi
nal, for, when Lfzt, the great musician, wa
the furorc OF Paris, great many years ago
in his youth, it was common to find CAS-
of his right hand a. the cherished object o
his lady adorers. Mile. Cora Pearl seems Il
have attained an equal devotion, though
among the other sex, and in different
manner. She, also, had hand carved IL
marble, and a vase of elaborate pattern, il
which mould of her hand and another oil
her bosom were features. Ii was for the
cost of these articles that suit was brought
She claimed that the articles were ordered
by, and for the use Of, young curassler
who for the nonce, was playing the part o
protector" Bat the young cuirassier haC
sauandered all his money, and the mercin
tile manufacturer of hands and vases sue,
Mademoiselle herself and obtained Judgment
AZ she ia living in house valued at $40.
600, the gift of Prince Napoleon, ii i
thought there will be no difficulty IN col
lecting the money.
These be the women that furnish tn,
modes for the worlds fashionables, who III
vent novelties or popularize them, who brins
out ladies' tailors and maze their fortunes
and whose fol!ies and ex;ravagancea find ;
ready imitation all the world over. IL there
il no. a certain degradation in the though
on account Of the position the Cora Peal
and Sk:ttles in London and Paris, their imi
tators must experience feeling OF repug
nance when they learn that these women arr
no longer even young and pretty, but as old
ugly, and repulsive in their looks As in thei
characters There il a certain incUnCruit,