The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

MILLINERs AND DRESS MAKERS-A LOT
OF TALK THEREON-TILTOS AND BEECH
ER-SUNNER CHARITIES-THF FLOUR
MISSION BUSINESS.
NEW YORK, Aug. u. 1874.
Paris makes the fashions Of the world
and New York varies them n triHe To
suit the difference in climate and the
peculiarities of the people, and distrib-
uteS them through the United States
and CaEadas The lady of Washington
Vile. in the State of Iowa. gets herself n
really fashionable dress at a very mode
rate price. but she does not know or
appreciate how much more the same
dress cost her sister U'y Eve in New
York. when the fashion was first brought
out.
The fashionable millinerS and dress
makers of this city make enormous sums
Of money. The simplest bonnet on
their stands. without ornaments. is
marked not less that S90. and then the
expense begins. The Little French flower
Ia put on at -, and the milliner who
asks it never bushes a blush, and il that
flower SwellS TO a wreath or ANYTHING of
that sort, the Sj Swells 10 S2j. Then
the plume and the lace must be- added.
and you find that the cheapest bonnet
that any woman of pretension wears
costs not q cent less than $50. Let US
go a little into detail in this matter of
EXTRAvAGANT PRICES.
saw little white hat the other dav
at a milliner's store. in the full summer
style, of course, with a ticket on it
marked $3.50, Think of that And
think, too, that this trifie, for it was as
frail a. spun glass, could not possibly be
worn a dozen timesl That price was
doubtless paid for it, it was doubtless
worn and admired dozen times, and is
doubtless now in some duSt-pan.
What oh wives, of hard-working far
mers and mechanics, do you think of
such prices as 5000 for a not overly ex-
travagant ball dresS-of $500 for an eve
ming dress. and then not considered ex-
travaSant AT alll For be it known, on
special occasions it is nothing uncommon
10 pay three or four times $500 for "a
dress. to say nothing of the lace and
jewelry necessary to set it ont. A rich
dress of that kind must have all the ae-
compartments to make it the proper
thing.
1t is curious thing in dress that the
principal
DESIGNERS OF LADIES DRESSES ARE MEN
Everybody knows that Worth, the
Partisan man-milliner, has designed and
superintended the making of the best
dresses that France has seen for many
years. All the great houses in the trade
in New York keep masculine artists to
adOrn feminine beauty. As women
dress to attract the admiration of men,
they have an idea, (and they are correct
doubtless in this, as in everything else,)
that man can better judge of what men
like than they themselves. The princi-
pal bJnnet-trimmer is IL man six feet in
height. and he handles needle and thim-
bic with Il grace and dexterity that is
simply wonderful.
The miIliners and dreSs-makers of New
York are the recipients of as many Sc
crets as the physicians, though they are
of another character Mrs. Blank de-
sireS to OutShine some other Mrs. in her
set, and Madame, the modiste, is com
plaiSant in the matter of credit-in fact
she urges all the rich goods possible upon
the poor rich woman. But the bill is
finally presented, and hOrrorl what a
bill il is, Item after item is scanned,
1t is long way up into the thousands.
Now. Mrs. Blank has no earthly way of
paving this bill She dare not ask her
husband for the money, for he, poor fel-
low. j. struggling for life, and besides.
she has told him little iibs about the
matter, in representing that she has been
paying for all these nice things, as she
got them, out of the liberal allowance
r L.. Il
plaisant Madame suddenly becomes as
rigid as an iron poker, and as cold as n
stone She must have her money. Mrs.
Blanki i'll her terror, does queer things.
Sometimes she pawns her diamonds,
sometimes she steals coupons from her
husbands bonds, and .Ometimes, ala
she sells her virtue to some wealthy lib
ertine in whose pay Madame is, that the
dread secret may be kept till economy
enables her 10 pay. The passion for
dress has ruined more women than all
the other causes combined.
THE BEECHER BUSINESS.
/ have been praying for seven days
that might never be compelled to write
the name Of Beecher or that of TiltOn
again, for the subject smells TO Heaven.
The accumulation of nastiness that is
filling uD about their names is terrible.
Your readers all know the facts so far as
the telegraph gives them. | can only
assist them as to the drift of opinion
here Il Is against Beecher and is daily
growing more intense and pronounced.
New developments are coming TO light
daily. The fact i. it is believed, that
Mr. Beecher has lived life III total va
rance with his professions; that his
amOurs have been fearful in number and
quite as fearful i'll character Instances
are coming To light every day, and
whether true or false they are believed.
Reports are circulated concerning lady,
who Tor years, was his shorthand aman-
ucnsis, and it is stated moreover, that
the officers of Plymouth Church knew
of his infatuatiOn for her, and attempted
by force to save him from pursuing the
intrigue
OF course no one can say with any ac-
curacy. as TO whether there is any truth
in all this, but there Is a growing belief
that it is true. And now Bowen, of the
IndepeHdeIlt, is being dragged in, and
who will come next 10 one knows. 1t
Is to be hoped, in the interest Of com
mon deccncy. that some definite con
cIu-iOn may De arrived at, and that an
end may be put 10 this horrible scandal.
We have had enough of it.