The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-12-28

thinki Well, coat, vest and---about tis.50.'
al should like to get the cloth and the cut
ting both for $50, II you could said Minnie,
family.
"well, y answered the tailor, patronizingly
that's it; we couldn't You can't get Eng
lish goods, you know, at American prices
We have cheaper goods, butt
81 should want this said Minnie.
"Well, us the best figure on that TIL say
$50. We don't mike anything on 10, any.
way"
Mrs Blossom was not deceived, but she
pretended to be, and with another exertiou
of courage asked for o months credit Then
she directed the cutting to be done by Alex.
ander's measure, already with the tailor, and
the next day carried her bundle in triumph
to her dressmaker. That was her idea Her
dressmaker, Of course, WINS one Of that ina
mite number of sewing women, found only
by sheer good luck, who are called "jewelsn
by feminine gossips, and who charge two
prices They ore said to DO reasonable" as
distinguished from the real modiste. Ac-
cording to immemorial usage among dress
makers, this particular "jewel" of Minnies
did not set a price, but she said It was q
"apfeudid plan" that she would try, and that
she would make everything satisfactory
toryi Minnie departed in great spirits
Time rattlsd on and brought the night Of
the clubs first meeting.
The blossoms acceptance had been duly
sent and Alexander had been cornplacently
informed that dress suitwould be provided.
He trusted to his wife implicitly, believing,
not that in two months she would create a
wonderful novel, as ladies' so easily do-in
other novels-but that she would pursue the
more Useful and perhaps more womanly plan
Of calling on her father Men ere so tardy
in conceding 30 their wives other than do
nestle virtues. But ono man was about to
have his masculine prejudices swept away.
The important night having rolled into War
rensburg, Minnie came dancing down stairs
in something" the gifted dressmaker "had
patched up out Of nothing" and consequen-
TALLY bade her dependent husband 10 ''coine
up and get ready" He went The bundle
was brought out for him 10 open. It was a
regular tailor's box tsuch was Minnies craft.
iness) and lo on the collar of the coat was
the clarifying name of New York tailor.
Minnie, of course, had obtained the name of
her father and sewed it on with her own fair
hands
Alec, with n full heart, donned the suit
and stood before the mirror. He cast two
careful, comprehensive chances at the trim
rejection, clasped Minnie to the new coat
and exclaimed In many raptures, "You dar-
lingi LISTS the regular thing!"
"Are you satisfedf' asked the wife, wish
ing him to commit himself beyond retrac-
ton before she divulged the low origin Of
the suit.
"Of courser' cried Alec warmly, wishing
he were woman, so that he could gush a
little. "Satisnedl Why, it's one of Acker-
mans best-that's what it is. Sec the way
it fits. / could tell that was Alderman a
mile off,
When he had rnved for ten minutes Minnie
confessed the history of the suit. $50 you
see. after all, !" she said at last, 1--WE women
do know something"
Mr.. Blossom looked at the coat moro crit
ieally, trying to detect Flemish, but he
couldn't.
care you still satisfedTn asked Minnie.
He had to admit that he was.
Snow, how much do you suppose it costg'
Mr.. Blossom couldn't tell "Now, q tail
or'--he began. ..
''Tailori" cried Minnie. "You mean rob
Der. | counted on just $40 and out of that
have this suit, which you say you like, and
this dress Of mine You would have paid
$50 for the suit alone. Tomorrow l shall go
and pay up, and warn you that every cent
l have left out of the $40 shall spend on
candy, every single cent? For Minnie had
the wolnan's love of extravaganza after all.
So this was Mrs Blossoms triumph. Not
a gentleman at the club was better dressed
than her husband.
They were both in raptures. Alexander
especially, when he had convinced himself
% -, -, H. a
tho disgraceful truth that it had been con-
/ structed by dressmaker.
The next evening, when Mr.. Blossom came
home and instituted the search for Minnie,
she did not leap out at him from her old un-
thought of hiding place. She was in her
room and crying.
"What's the matterF' asked Alexander
She did not reply at first, but still kept her
head from him, but when she had been
wrought up to the proper state of sympathy
and alarm she cried little more bitterly
than before, and quite unconsciously relaxed
her grasp on piece of crumpled paper. Al
exander OWNED that this dingy scrap was
the source OF the trouble, and picked it up.
It contained atrocious writing executed in
red ink, and looked like the work of dyna-
inter. But IL was not so brief. It began.
Mrs. Blossom to Mrs. Darden, mans Dress
Suite" and after eighteen or twenty lines of
trimmings, Innings, buttons, extra cloth,
making, etc., eliminated In ''totle $50 y
Under this ''totls" Minnie had written in
trembling figures what she owed the tailor,
s33, and thsn she had made u 'tootlep of her
own. The dress suit had cost her e7o
"You hate me-" she sobbed; you'll think
you've married simpleton."
Alexander was not distinguished for keen
insight into human nature. but with SO beau.
tifnl and appealing creature as Minnie In
tears who would not know the proper chord
"Simpletoni" he cried; and distressing the
power Of words alone he seized her by the
waist, ''sae jimp,n and gleefully whisked her
about the room, $50 you want compliment
on ycur fnancieringl You shall havo 1t.
You have got thing worth s75 for s7o;
made % by simply turning over your some
what dimpled hand. Simplston, forsooth
you are money grubberi Tnke me to the
theatre, capital and / will give the supper
afterwards Eha What do you think Of
| thatfn
Minnie, flying from tears to smiles, fool
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