Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-08-23
WARpRoeEs ON sic
DressmalSers who Gamble Sometimes for
the Pay Due Them.

1t is said by a New York correspondent Of
| The Chicago News that dressmakers occasion
ally finish costumes on pure spedss lation, and
RUIZ the risk Of ever being paid at all, the me-
diun Of this speculation being some pretty
girl Of good social position and empty purse
who has right to expect that she might
marry well were she properly presented be
fore thefastidious eye Of the eligible bachelor
There is a story told, for whose truth I'm
not altogether prepared to answer, but which
one hears told very often, about a certain
famous New York beauty who has very little
money and great deal Of physical loveliness,
and who made the mistake Of fancying that
English peers cared enough about American
beauty to marry it wsshout fortune She is
exquisitely pretty, as wen as clever and high
bred looking. One Of the rich dressmalers
thought so, too, and hearing her one day be
wall the fact that for want Of clothes she
could not accept an invitation to spend the
season in London, offered to furnish her with
a handsome wardrobe on speculation, prOvid-
ing that she would pay a certain interest on
the money after she had married her earl or
duke, as the case might be.
The girl jumped at the offer, for her look
ing glass had always told her that she only
needed the proper setting to make her a
jewel which duke might be glad to place
amid the strawberry leaves, and she firmly
Believed that London season with beautiful
clothes was the one thing needful to set her
before the world in a proper light and en-
able her TO popularize the fortune she bore in
her 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
were in all the shop windows Her picture
was in all the illustrated papers, and all the
poor guardsmen and impecunious younger
sons lost their heads sufficiently to propose
love IN a cottage. But when the dukes and
earls found she had no fortune, and that the
fine clothes did not represent government
bonds or 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 means Of paying that dreadful dress |
makers bill, which seemed a iaere bagatelle /
TO her when she had sailed away to become
an English peeress.
That was two years ago. She Is still un-
welded, that dreesmaker's bill is still unpaid,
and the talk is now that she is about to &C
cept wealthy gentleman with a curved nose
and an oriental surname, who viii not mind
trifles Of a few thousands for clothes when it
means the securing of so beautiful a woman,
whose connection will give him an entree
into the fashionable society where he solongs
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
parh. Within one season she had not only
paid her BILL but had purchased dozens Of
splendid new frocks, for which she was en-
lbled to pay down her husbands ready
money.