The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-16
WARpRoeEs ON "sPEc."
Dress-Makers who Gamble Sometimes for
the Pay Duo Them.

Dress-Makers who Gamble Sometimes for
tho Pay Due Thorn.
1t 10 said by New York corresponds
ent OF the Chicago News that dress
makers occasionally finish costumes on
pure 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 ripbt to expect that she
might marry we'll were she properly
presented before the fastidious eye OF
the eligible bachelor. There is story
told, for whose truth I'm not altogeth-
err prepared to answer, but which one
hears told very often, about q certain
famous New York beauty who has very
little money and great OF physical
loveliness, and who made the mistake
of fancying that English peers cared
enough about American beauty to mar
ry lG without fortune. She is eXquiS
itely pretty, rs 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
handsome wardrobe on speculation,
providing that she would pay GER
tain interest on the money after she
had married her Earl or Duke, as the
case might be. The girl jumped az
the offer, for her looking-glasses 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 believed that a London season,
with beautiful clothes, was the one thing
needed to set her before the world in
proper light, and enable her to pop
ularize 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 photo
graphs 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 to
love in cottage. But when the dukes
and earls found she had no fortune
and that the fine clothes did not rep
resent Government bonds or pork
packing establishment, they came to
the conclusion that she was too expen-
sive a luxury, and at the end of the
season the beauty returned unwedded,
and with no means of paying that
dreadful dressmaker's bill, which
seemed a mere bagatelle to her when
she had sailed away to become an En-
glish peeress. That was two years
ago. She is still unwedded. the
dressmaker's bill is still unpaid,
and the talk is now that
she is about to accept a
wealthy gentleman with d curved nose
and an oriental surname, who will not
mimi trines of few thousands for
clothes when it means the securing of
SO beautiful woman, whose connec-
tion will give him an entree into the
fashionable society where he longs to
spend the income of his millions
Some of these speculations. however,
have turned out much more fortunate
ly, and, strange to say, one OF them
was in the case Of n very plain girl.
who had nothing but her witty tongue
and stylish carriage to recommend 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 enabled to pay down
her husbands ready money.