Wichita eagle., 1889-09-13
Dressnaahers Who Gamble Sometimes fo
the Pay Due Them.

Dressns akers Who Gamble Sometimes for
the Pay Due Them.
| It'ls said by a New York correspondent of
| TheCAicago News that dressrnakers occasion
| ally finish costumes on pure speculation, and
run the risk OF ever being paid at all, the me-
dun OF TINS speculation being some pretty
! girl OF good social position and empty purse
! VINO has right TO expect that she might
, marry well were she properly presented be-
fore thefafidious eye Of the eligible bachelor.
! There is story told, for whose truth I'm
not altogether prepared TO answer, but which
! one hears told very often, about certain
famous New York beauty who has very little
money and great d,ealof physical loveliness,
and who made the mistake of fancying that
English peers cared enough about American
beauty to marry it without fortune She is
exqulsltely pretty, as wei as clever and high
bred looking. One of the rich dressnakers
thought SO, too, and hearing her one dav be
wall the fact that for want of clothes she
could not accept an invitation to spend the
season in Lossion, offered to furnish her with
handsome wardrobe on speculation, provid-
ing that she would pay certain interest on
the money after she had married her earl or
duke, as the case might be-
The gul jumped al the offer, for her look
ing glass had always told her that she only
needed the proper setting to make her
Jewel which duke might be glad to place
amid the strawberry leaves, and she firmly
beheT ed that a London season with beautiful
closfles was the one thing needful to SET her
be'ore the world in proper light and en-
al de her TO popularize the fortune she bore i'll
a Ar face. Well, she got the clothes, and
charming ones they were, for the dress
makers artistic pride was aroused and she
wanted the world to see what she could do
with good subject.
The London world raved over her. She
sat for famous artists Her photographs
we're in al the shop windows. Her picture
was in ali the illustrated papers, and all the
poor guardsrnen and impecunious Younger
sons lost their heads sufficiently TO propose
love in cottage. But when the dukes and
earls found she had no fortune, and that the
fine clothes did not represent government
bonds or q pork packing establishment, they
came to the conclusion that she was too ex-
pensive luxury, and at the end of the sea-
son the beauty returned unwedded and with
no raeans OF paying that dreadful dress
maloer's bill, which seemed mere bagatelle
to her when she had sailed away to become
an English peereSS.
That was two years ago. She is still I'M
welded, that dressmaker's bill is still unpaid
and the talk Is now that she is about to ac-
cept wealthy gentleman with a curved nose
and an oriental surname, who will not mind
triteS of few thousands for clothes when it
means the securing OF SO beautiful woman,
whose connection viii give him an entree
into the fashionable society where he so longs
for an opportunity to spend the income of
his millions
Some Of these speculations, however, have
turned out much more fortunately, and,
strange to say, one of them was in the case
Of very plain girl who had nothing but her
witty tongue and stylish carriage TO recon-
mend her, and who, with setting of good
clothes, managed to marry an excellent
parti- Within one season she had not only
paid her bill, but had purchased dozens Of
splendid new frocks, for which she was en-
abled to pay down her husbands ready
money.