Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-07-24
A COSTLY WEDDING GOWN.


A COSTLY WEDDING GOWN.
When la Hurd wrote her friend
Mrs Dean asking her to buy wedding
dress N Paris for her, she had, Oh
course. no idea of the bother the COM
mission would give the lady. A favora
Well, yes: but Ada was sure she should
be quite willing to do the same for any
one else, and with all those lovely shops
TO choose from, and jamie providentlal-
~ just her size, so that there could be
no trouble about the fit-and what
woman would not like to fuss over a
trosseau? And what distinction to
say her gown came straight from Paris.
not - mention that of course it would
be cheaper, for the Morgans had bought
Lovely things the year before for almost
nothing, and tiled 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 wears in Paris without making
friends, it is to be hoped. and with the
nifty thousand returning pilgrims of the
next autumn, of course dear jamie
could easily fiud some one to bring the
dress.
= But AIRS Dean. reading her letter be-
fore the open tire of her pretty salon,
had another opinion. Buy wedding
dress. indeed and send it over by some
one so as to Il old the Custom-house.-
was ever such impertinence9 Really,
long as she had known Ada and they
had played together in the years before
she married hichard Dean and came
with him 90 Paris, where he had charge
OF the foreign branch of his father 5
INf1-I -ha no
heavy tax on her friendship. She
had filled smaller commissions once or
twice for gloves and laces. and she had
offered the year kefore-she remember
ed it ruefuliy now to send black silk
dress to here der sister. And Just here
it came TO her that the Hurds were
Elinor's next neighbors. and had been
specially kind to this pet sister in a long
illness the year before. i hey were
nice people, and Ada was pretty girl,
and naturally elated at her engage
ment TO Ned Morgan. She wanted
everything as handsome as pos sibie,
since she was marrying into a family
above her OWN, and she had not too
much money. probably, for the Hurds
Were not precisely in the hundred
thousands. And 1T was pretty certain
TO make u eco ness between the fam
lies If she refused. and-and-ln brief,
1.-The woman who heaitates is lost. y
Mrs. e,tn abandoned her first inten-
ton OF throwing the letter into the fire
and leaving Ada to think the mails re-
miss. and picked it up aga II to read her
.direati rs.
something soft and rich'-velvet
and satin ard 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
train, and fit I'd on YOU Well. we
used to wear each others gowns, but
who knows If now-and she's willing to
trust my taste for all details, Us If I
wanted such a responsibility And
upon my word, now [ think of it, she
hasn't sent any money!"
She threw down the letter again,
ready to give up the whole business,
but she was not a woman to do things
by halves, and she had liberal check
by her now, gift from her father
toward prospe .tive refurnishing of
their apartment. >he first endured and
presently embraced the idea of devoting
part of 1t to the sacred cause; but
8 shrugged her shoulders as she put
the letter away. al IN 4 fool for INV
pains; but Ada knew when she wrote
that | would be just so good-natured.
i dare say she thinks it will be pure
pleasure tt buy her 3 wedding dress.
and she'll. ext ect tremendous bar
gan A%
; And this thought made. indeed, half
the misery of the commission. She
could not buy outright of Madame
Atourprix, who would take all the re-
sponslbility off her mind. She must
wait for an occasion at the Louvre TO
get her material, and huntup 4 cheaper
woman. who was stylish but not re-
nowned. she worried Il deal more over
the lace than if it had been for herself,
and was distracted aft r she bought the
silk because the dressmaker feared it
would crack Then there were all the
pretty tinishings TO he added-gloves
and fan and handkerchief and silk
stockings-an altogether she wasted
six precious afternoons over the bust
ness, and was drenched finally IN an
unexpected shower, where no cabs were
at hand, in the suburb where she had
found her dressmakec. But it was sent
home at last, and Mrs. Dean paraded
in it one evening before her husband,
half to show him how pretty it was,
half TO save her conscience over the Gus
had been worn.
..8ut don't see what your putting
the dress on has TO do with that" Mr..
bean said, when in burst of confidence
she mentioned this. And / should
like To know, my dear. how you are go
ing to get it TO Ada without heavy bill
of charges.
..oh. Il shall get some friend to take
it over-Mrs. W arren, perhaps. There's
time enough, thank fortune! Ada don
expect to pc married before Thanksgiv-
ing, she writes"
..Delightful commission TO propose to
Mrs. Warrenr' Dick went on. ''She
viii have more finerv of her own than
she can manage"
e<..A by, I don't know" Mrs. Dean
sa:d, doubtfuIly. examining the lsce
draperies s.She comes over so often
she don't need TO buy ont che shops
every time. The lace doesn't look as
well as I thought il would, and I'm
afraid Ada viii open her eyes over the
bill o. it. But If she s not satisfied, after
all the trouble I've taken"
..0h. but people never are" Mr..
Dean said consolingly. They al
ways think You might have done better