Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-10-17

4 STORY OF A BALL DRESS.

Fifty dollars, Nettie not one cent
more" Mrs. Locke said, decidedly.
Fifty dollars !" Nettie echoed, dis
contentedly. ooh, dear! how far will
fifty dollars go? Dress, shoes, flowers,
rloyes-that last packet Aunt Nell sent
me is exhausted, that is. all the evening
tints, and I'll have to buy pair. Let
me count up gloves, three dollars and
ahalf shoes, | can buy pair for five
dollars-cheap, but they'll have to do
can manage with ten dollars worth of
French flowers if | use them with dis
cretion. OF course Phil will send me
leaves thirty-one dollars and half for
my dress, not counting the dress-mak-
er's bill, of course Madame Pcrot will
wait Do you think can make it do,
mamma"
You will have to make it do, Nettie.
Your father says he can't possibly give
YOU any more. You know he has heavy
losses in two or three directions, owing
to the recent failures"
It's so provoking ! Just now, too,
when | especially want to make good
appearance at this party. Pm sure |
can't see why the banks couldn't have
waited little longer before breaking
up in this horrid way. If they had
only waited till next week, l shouldn't
have cared so much,' Nettie said,
poutingly.
They didn't break simply to vex
YOU, Nettic, rest assured of that; so
forgive them the misfortune" her moth
er returned, half laughingly, half re-
proyingly. and be content, my dear,
that it is no worse, Think how many
girls there are who can not have warm
and comfortable clothing even, much
Iess fifty dollars to eXpend on ball
fncries."
i don't believe such people exist ex-
cept in novels. | don't know any girl
who hasn't comfortable and elegant
clothes. Why, even our servants dress
with Il certain style. Their clothes are
not only comfortable, but really hand
some, of good material, and as fashion,
ably made as any ones and all my
friends dress elegantly. Nellie will
>pcnd three or four hundred dollars for
her new ball dress Clara will spend
quite as much then Maud Campbell
is to have magnificent set of new Jew
els, and her dress-I went with her to
madame's to have it fitted yesterday,
and it's grand | can't begin to de
,crbc its magniticence in the way of
AccS and flowers. One single spray
cost forty-seven dollars and iifty-one
beggardly tifty--for my entire dress,
shoes. gloves, flowers, and every thing /!
Oh dear oh dear"
You have dozen dresses, Nettie.
hat are plenty good enough to wear"
Your idea of good enough and
mine are very different | haven't a
thing fit to be seen"
Your apricot silk p
Is entirely passee."
Your yiolet?'
Never was becoming. Blondes Of
my style are horrid in violet"
Your Nile green?"
Oh, don't mention it, please, mann
ma; every blonde | know has worn
sreen green, green, till I'm sick of the
sight of it,
Your scarlet satin? ! am sure that
Is color blondes don't often indulge in.
1t Is certainly becoming, and undeniably
I'm elegant dress. You can take off the
White opphq1te flounces and remodel with
my black Chantilly, trim it with white
and red roses, and you have a dress fit
Tor an empress"
Too imperial, mamma dear. It's
Entirely too early in the season to appear
IN such a brilliant dress"
Then wear your blue gros grain. 1t
"A beautiful dress, Nettie, and certainly
can't be objected to ON the score of not
beng becoming"
eS, it IS becoming Nettie said,
oastlng a conscious glance toward the
mirror; but the truth is, mamma,
want ne,o dress. I'd be mortified to
ueath 10 wear one of my evening dresses
u last season"
When | was a girl, Nettie, one silk
'TesS for occasions of ceremony, and Il
lnlet muslin with pink or blue ribbons,
We're considered very nice outfit. |
,enember the night your father fell in
.oFe with me | wore a white muslin,
with scarlet roses in my hair, and he
avs II Is the love)iest dress a girl can
Wear"
can assure you, mamma dear,
.dneS are changed. Simple muslin and
scarlet rose dresses the heroine of a
.2'ei very nrettily, but such common
pace clay rs Nettie Locke requires a
1lo>N OF satin and glimmer of pearls, if
."t expects 70 reign queen rose of the
.'>'-nud garden of girls I'd wait a