The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-09-13
wARpRosEs ON "SPEc."



the Pay Due Them.
II is said by a New York correspond
ent Of the Chicago News that dress
makers occasionally finish costumes on
purc speculation. and run the risk OF
ever being paid at all, the medium o.
this speculation being some pretty girl
Of good social position and empty purse
who has a right to expect that she
might marry we'll were she properly
presented before the fastidious eye OF
the eligible bachelor. There is a story
told, for whose truth I'm not altogeth-
err prepared to answer, but which ono
hears told very often, about n certain
famous New'York beauty who has very
little money and n great Of physical
loneliness, and who made the mistake
OF f~ancying that English peers cared
enough about American beauty to mar
ry it without fortune, She is eXquls-
itely pretty, as well as clever and high
bred looking. One OF the rich dress-
makers thought so too, and hearing
her one day bewail 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.
providing that she would pay II cer-
tain 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 looking-glasses had
always told her that she only needed
the proper setting to make her Il jewel
which a Duke might be glad to place
amid the strawberry leaves, and she
firmly believed that a London season.
with beautiful clothes, was the one thing
needed to set her before the world in
a proper light, and enable her to pop
ulari2e 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 the world to see what she
could do with n good subject. he
London world raved over her. She
sat for famous artists. Her photo
were in all the shop windoUA
Her picture was in all the ILLUSTRATED
papers, and all the poor guards,Iea
and ~impecunious younger srrs lost
heads sufficiently to profxrso to
love in a cottage. But when the dukes
Nd pp,l, r,,-I .ho h,l ,n 1,
md that the fine clothes did not rep
resent Government bonds or a p2rk-
packing establishment. they came 10
he conclusion that she was too eXran-
i've a luxury, and at the end OF so
'eason the beauty returned unwcddGS.
with no means of paying that
dressmaker's bill, which
ecmed n mere bagatelle to her which
he had sailed away to become IN En-
,lish peeress. That was two years
go. She is still u%nwcdded, The
bill is still unpaid.
nd the talk Is now thrt
he is about to accept B.
gentleman with a curved nose
nd an oriental surname, who will n0t
mind trifles Of a few thousands 70:
lothes when it means the securing Of !
0 beautiful Il woman, whose conne<~
ion will give him an cntree into tho
society where he longs m .
pend the income Of his milliont.
'ome OF these epoculntions, however;
ave turned out much more fortunat,- !
Y, and, strange to say, one of them '
vas in the case of a very plain g!rl,
had nothing but her witty tongue !
nd stylish carriage to recommend hrr. )
nd who, with Il setting of goe-l ,
lothes. managed to marry an oxceleut :
arti. Within one season she had MT
My paid her bill, but had purchased =.
ozens OF splendid new frocks, fcc q
'hich she was enabled TO pay dowH
er husbands ready money. :,