The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-27
COST OF A TROUSSEAU.
A JERSEY GIRL GOT .THRoUGH
ON A THOUSAND DOLLARS.

She Thinks That a Small Sum If One is
Going in for a Good Outfit, but Sug-
gests That the Whole Matter Could
BE Simplifed by a Judicious Elope-
nient.
Susie Eldridge win be one of the June
brides. The invitations to her wedding,
June 5, will be out in a few days. She
was talking over matters with some of
her school friends, and giving them good
advice recently.
She will have a very simple church wed
ding, with no bridesmaids, and no recp-
ton, going home after the ceremony only
long enough to put on her travelling suit
Susie was telling the girls that, hike al
most everyone else, she wants to appear
once in a BRIDES frock and tuIe veil, or
else she would wear her going-away rig.
She told them that she supposed they
would think she was real silly when they
heard they were going to Niagara hrst
but for her part she didn't believe althose
stories that were going around. She
didn't for a moment think it was true
that if a young man, on a moonlight
night, stepped out upon a hotel balcony
occupied by a dozen or more young women
and said:-"Darling, that they would all
answer:-'Ducky, is that your"
She intended, she told them, to behave
real sensibly, and not try to pretend thai
she had been married goodness knows
how MANY wears. She said to the girls
that they all knew her father wasn't rich,
and she thought, and they all agreed with
her, that he did very well when he gave
her 81, 200 and told her she DO with
it as she liked. At all events, 1t was all he
could afford, and his advice was to buy
with it a comfortable trousseau, leaving
some money for ready cash on
"Of course, girls she went on, II had
never had any money in O lump DeIore,
and | thought l was made. l declded
that | would get myself everything that
was real nice that I could wear for one
wear. l rushed right off to mamma, n SO
as not to make any mistakes we talked
everything over carefully and put it down
on paper, finally cutting down our hrst
list considerably. -
"Now, since / have bought everything
nave a very nice list and some good
clothes, but would you believe it, girls, |
was ready last week to cry my eyes out,
and | wouldn't have told poor papa TOT
the world there were still a lot OF things
/ really had to have and not one cent left.
I was thinking how small it would Q
not to have a cent to spend unless Jonn
happened to give me some. Mamma told
me then that she had been saving little
sums for years for some such occasion,
and she got out her bank books and found
She had $3.50 put away, and took it all out,
and we took great care and made $500
cover the other things, so that can have
$500 in money to take away with me;
II wouldn't have been married in church
at all, only quietly at home, but John was
| a lot to open a church, and the groom is
| expected to pay for that. My advice to
you girls" she concluded, unless you are
| going to marry a man of means, and your
| fathers can afford to spend a lot, don't set
| out to get a regular rousseau. just be
| content with a few necessary things and
| keep the balance in money. Now | will
| show you my list of expenses for my nice
things you all like so much. Naturally,
when put down the expense OF a dress |
mean to include the making and trim
mino Here is the list