Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-15
A COSTLY WEDDING GOWN.

A COSTLY WEDDING GOWN.
When Ada Hurd wrote her friend
Mrs. Dean asking her to buy a wedding
dress in Paris for her, she had, Of
course, no idea of the bother the com
mission would give the lady. A favor?
Well, yes: but Ada was sure she should
be quite willing to do the same for any
II else, and with all those lovely shops
to choose from, and jamie provident.al-
ly just her size, so that there could be
no trouble about the tit-and what
woman would not like to fuss over a
trosseau? And what q distinction to
say her gown came straight from Paris,
not to mention that of course it would
be cheaper, for the Morgans had bought
lovely things the year before for almost
nothing, and flied her ears with the
tale of bargains, till she expected a
marvel OF elegance for a modest sum.
AS for the sending-well, one does not
live i've years in Paris without making
friends, it is to be hoped, and with the
fifty thousand returning pilgrims OF the
neNt autumn, of course dear jamie
could easily find some Il to bring the
dress.
But Mrs. Dean, reading her letter be-
fore the open fire of her pretty salon,
had another opinion. Buy a wedding
dress, indeed, and send it over BY some
II sc us to avoid the Custom-house.-
was eNer such impertinence? Really,
long as she had known Ada and they
had played together in the wears before
she married Eichard Dean and came
with him to Paris, where he had charge
OF the forei9 branch of his fathers
business-she had not expected so
heavy a tax on her friendship. She
had filled smaller commissions once or
twice for gloves and laces, and she had
oaeted the year lefore she remember
Ell il rnetulIy now to send a black silk
dress to here der sister. And yust here
IT came to her that the Hurds were
Ellnor's neAt neighbors, and had been
specially kind to this pet sister in along
illness the year before. hey were
nice people. and Ada was a pretty Girl,
and naturally elated at her nyaoe-
ment to Ned Morgan. She wanted
everything as handsome as pos ib.e,
since she was marrying into a family
above her own and she had not too
mach money, probably, for the Hurds
We're not precisely in the hundred
t oGsands. And it was pretty certain
to make a coo ness between the fam
lies If she refused, and-and-in brief,
'the woman who hesita,es is lost.
Mrs. ! can abandoned her first iDten-
ton OF throwing the letter into the fire
n leaving Ada to think The mails re-
miss, and picked it up aga Il to read her
dlrecti ms.
Something soft and rich'-velvet
and satin and silk are all that and
with lots Of lace on it delightfully."-
vague that-'and cut in whatever is the
very latest style. only with a nice LONG
and fitted on you Well. we
used to wear each others gowns, but
who knows ii now-and she 5 w%illing1o
trust my taste for all details, rs ii |
wanted such q responsibility. And
upon my word, now | think of it, she
sent any money!!'
She threw down the letter again,
ready TO give up the whole business.
but she was not a oma to do thinos
by halves, and she had q liberal check
b. her now, a gift from her father
toward a prospe tive refurnishing of
1hclr apartment. >he first endured and
presently embraced the idea OF devoting.
q part OF 1t to the sacred cause: but
S e shrugged her shoulders as she put
the letter away. 81 m a fool for nv
pains; bat Ada knew when she wrote
that | would be just SO good-natured.
l dare sa, she thinks it will be pure
pleasure t. bu4 her a wedding dress.
and she'll ext ect a tremendous bar
And this thought made, indeed, half
the misery OF the commission. She
co"ld MOI buy outright OF Madame
AtoutpriN, who would take all the re-
sp~onsibllity oil her mind. She must
wait for an occasion at the Louvre to
get her material, and huntup cheaper
HoMan. who was stylish but not re-
now1rad. She worried Il deal more over
the lace than if it had been for herself,
ami was distracted after she bought the
silk hecause the dressmaaer feared it
would crack Then there were all the
pretty tinishings to be auded-gloves
and fan and handkerchief and silk
stockings-an altogether she wasted
siN precious afternoons over the bust
ness. and was drenched finally in an
unexpected shower, where nocabs were
at hand, in the suburb where she had
found her dresSmakea. But it was sent
home at last, and Mrs. Lean paraded
in i, one evening before her husband,
half to show him how pretty it was,
half to save her conscience Overthe Gus
toms. for now one could swear that it
hai been worn.
- ut l don't see what your putting
the dress on has to do with that" Mr..
lean said, when in a burst OF confidence
she m~-nGoned this. And i should
lik,. i, krow, my de:r. INV you are 90
H.. 10 get it TO Ada without alaa,y bill
0 chMrges.'
"uh, | s'iall oct som friend to take
:, uyer Mrs. u arrcn, perhaps. here's