Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-05-25
HER HUNDRED GOWNS.
The Fortunate Womau Who Il AIways
Buying New Oresses.

rhe Fortunate Womsn Who Is Always
Buying New Dresses.
There Is a married belle whose name
s often seen in the reports of doings
II. the ultra-fashionable world. proud
and naughty young wife. worth over
million in her own right, and mar.
ried to about two millions. 1t may be
interesting to tell the public how she
keeps her dresses. how many she has,
how she buys them. what she does
with those she tires of. and all the
rest that women would like to know
about a woman who has whatever she
wants. whenever she wants it. and no
matter what it costs or where it has
to be gotten. She never considers
whether she has dresses enough; in
fact, she tells me that ever since she
was married she has had great MANY
more dresses than she could keep the
run of. She is forever coming across
pretty dresses. wraps, sacques. morn
ing gowns. and things that she had
forgotten. and that she falls in love
with anew and dresses up in and
enjoys with the pleasure of
child, for she is very
tasteful. and makes of dressing a
study and an art. In all. she must
have over one hundred dresses, suits
aud full costumes of various kinds.
Then. she has about dozen trunks
that are fillei with linen. hosiery,
handkelchiefs. lace, hats. boots.
gloves. wraps. shawls, cloaks and all
The rest of the little things that go to
complete wardrobe.
1t is in dresses that her taste leads
her to excuses. and you must know
that the great number she has on
hand mainly represent only half
years collection. for she sorts over
her things twice yrar. and weeds out
great bundles and boxes of them,
which she gives away to her servants,
her favorie hospital. the needy family
OF her scamstress. who is always in
her employ. and to her poor friends; for
she has number of girlhood friends
that are not well off and she almost
dresses them and fits th,m out for
marriage, and clothes their children
all out of her superabundance. This
sounds exaggerated. but it is not a
particle so. She sen Is away what
would fill four or five trunks twice a
year. Her cook, l am sure. is better
dressed whenever she goes out than
the wives of most men VIII o earn 81. 600
year
The way she gets her dresses is this:
She goes TO her drcssmaker now and
them should say about every two
Months. and tells her what she wants
She wants II ball dress. street cos
tune. morning gown for the house.
and morning dress for CHI rch. She
has no idea what she wants in single
nstance when she goes there-I mean
as 10 goods. or cut. or what not. She
looks over the dresses then on hand,
those under way, or tin ose ready 10
send out to customers. She likes the
goods in che and the front drapcry of
another, and the back of Il third. and
she has all these things combined. She
is apt to spend day over each dress.
and thus she gives up the better part
of one week in eight at her dress
makers. She does not seem to care
how much she spends. but wants the
worth of her money. She buys hats
increasing ly-all the lime. She sees
pretty hat in the hors ear or the the
alter. and it gives her II hint Tor prct-
tier one. or she will combine two hats
that she sees in the street.
She has hats an wclry. b)ots al
Stockings. for every thing she puts OIL.
All her plain gold and silver jewelry
she Ike p' in little boxes and saucers
in Ii r dressing-stand top drawer and
Oh The stand, in the pincashion and
scattered abou. She says she never
lost thing that way in her life. Her
'wels her rnbies. pearls. diamonds.
,apphires and stones of all kinds, she
keeps in fire-proof box In the wall
of her bedroom.
You never saw woman dress so
quickly as she docs. She lays out her
suit. the stockings and shoes to ma CHI,
the 'welry she is g,iag to wear. the
appropriate handkerchief and gloves,
The right bonnet and vail-anl hon
cstly think she has hundreds of walls
and then she puts all on and is
dressed. She only wears her hair one
way so that is no trouble. and every
Thing else fits and matches precisely.
SO there is no bother about it. She
has floor glass six feet tall and three
feet wide, thie,-sidel face glass and
the mirror on her DIR, s,ing case. so
that glance here I'd there tells her
whether she is all right or not. be-
hind and at the sides. An when she
steps out Of her room sh, is every
inch belle AMI a queer. the envy of
her sex and the most attractive wom-
an OF her set to the men. about whom
she cares no more than if she was a
statue and they were so m any pump
kins around it.-M y Sam