St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-10-26


0Fses.Aaksn Who Gamble Somstl0es fUs
the Pay Das Them.
1t is said by . New York correspond
emit Of the Chicago News that dress
makers occasionally finish costumes on
pure speculation. and run the risk Of
ever being paid 1t all. the medium o.
this speculation being some pretty girl
Of good social position and empty purse
who has . right to expect that she
might marry we'll were she properly
presented before the fastidiOus eye OF
the eligible bachelor. There is q story
told. for whose truth I'm not altOgeth-
er prepared 70 answer. but which one
hears told very often, about n certain
famous Now York beauty who has very
little money and a great OF physical
loneliness, and who made the mistake
Of fancying that English peers cared
enough about American beauty to mar
~ it without fortune. She is exquis-
itely pretty. - well As clever and high
bred looking. One OF the rich dress
makers thought SO too, and hearing
her ono day bewail the fact that for
want Of clothes she could mot accept
an invitation to spend the season in
London. offered to furnish her with q
handsome wardrobe on speculation,
providing that she would pay a GER
tain interest ON the money after she
had married her Earl or Duke. as the
case might be. The girl jumped Mt
tho offer. for her looking-glasses 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
needed to set her before the world in
. proper light. and enable her to pop
miarize 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. ard
she wanted tho world 10 see what she
could do with q good subject The
London world ravcd over her. she
sat for famous artists. Her pho."-
graphs were In all the shop windouA
Her picture was in all the ILLUSTRATED
papers. and all the poor guards:;s:a
and impecuniOus younger scas lost
their heads sufficiently to proFHse to
love In . cottage. But when the dukes
and earls found she had no fo",Nnc
and that the fine clothes did not rep
resent Government bonds or pvrk-
packing establishment. they came 10
the conclusion that she was too exfaa-
sive . luxury, and at the end Of s.e
season the beauty returned unweddc@!
and with no means of paying th:.t
dreadful drcssmaker's bill. which
seemed q nero bagatelle to her which
she had sailed away to become an En-
glish pcercsa That was two years
ago. She II still unwedded. the
dressmaker's bill is still unpaid.
and tho talk is now thst
she is about to. accept g
wealthy gentleman with a curved nose
and m oriental surname. who will mo-
mind tribes OF q few thousands fog
clothes when it means the securing cf
50 beautiful a woman. whose cOnncs~
ton will give him an cptree into tic
fashionable society where he longs TO
spend the income of his millioDs
Some Of these speculations, however.
have turned out much more Fortunate
". 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 recommend h''r
and who. with setting OF goS-l
clothea managed to marry an excellent
parti. Within one season she had NIT
only paid her bill. but had purchased
dozens Of splendid new frocks. fcc
which she was enabled TO pay dowo
her husbands ready money. -