The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-09-27

III f/lE/<IS4M DOCh presents
I ~ odze(SS5 ~ her compliments
| @z to Messrs Crump
.Jly<$A & Crushit.
Wa 80 sssca.M ssHer ladyship
~ ~ incloses her pho
Az5@.---=5sa sl ri tograph, as she is
~ SsssS2A VIZ w DESTROYS of point
80 sFa ing out to Messrs.
Mg[$zzSSM s,H Crump an d
| { c4 @ 4 Crushit the fact
~ that she possesses
Ss''S--s remarkably fine
figure and elegant appearance, being, in
fact, known as fashionable beauty,
and would therefore at any time be a
very good advertisement for any really
stylish milliner or tailor. Owing to the
extreme depression III the value of land
which has naturally resulted in the di-
ninution Of the incomes of the nobility
and aristocracy, Lady Charlotte Grad
dock proposes that Messrs. Crump &
Crnshit should make an arrangement
to provide her ladyship with costumes
! for the rest of the season. her Iadyship'S
recommendation inthe very best society
to be considered in lieu of other or pecu-
MARY remuneration. Lady Charlotte
Chaddock incloses half a dozen cards
of invitation for one week, that Messrs.
Crunlp & Crushit may feel assured that
all recommendation viii be in the very
best quarters. Perhaps AIessrs Crump
& Crushit viii be interested in know
ing that Mime. Sidonie supplied her lady
ship, on the same conditions, with a
court dress for the first drawing room
this season, and that the dress was de
scribed in Fiction, The Spheres, and, in
fact, in all the smartest journals, and
that Sidonie received nearly dozen or
ders for the next drawing room in con-
sequence of the descriptions already men
toned of Lady Charlotte's appearance. !"
Mr. Crump-short, puffy and very
glossy with pomade and finest broad
cloth, and Respondent with beaming face,
patent leather boots, diamond rings and
ruby and diamond scarf pin--touched
an electric bell which summoned clerk
into his august presence.
"Send me the shorthand clerk" he
said.
There was knock at the door, and the
shorthand writer entered.
s.Sit down, Brown, and write as I die
tate, said Crump, of Crnmp & Crushit,
ladies' tailors and outfitters to H. r. Fl.
the Princess of Wales, etc., ETC., New
Bond street. w:
.MADAM-Mr. Crump begs me re
spectfully to inform you that, as he has
upon his books very many pretty and sol
vent ladies moving in the best society,
who patronize his art and pay their bills,
he can enter into no engagement to pro-
vide your ladyship with costumes for the
season. Nevertheless, if your ladyship
would like to call upon Mr. Crump at II
a. m. on Monday next, which hour will
be convenient to him, he viii see if he
thinks it would be of any service to the
firm to come to any arrangement with
your ladyship.
81 remain, madam,
ssYours respectfully,
s.pro CRUMP & CRUsHIT."
Lady Charlotte Craddock was only 26
years of age, and had enjoyed the repu-
tation of being fashionable beauty for
seven years. The fourth of Lord Eglin-
toms seven unmarried daughters, seeing
no chance of ever tasting the joys of a
season in town while her three elder sis
tiers remained still unmarried, and feel
ing that as her years already numbered
IS, she would be passee and "quite too
frightfully elderly before it could posi-
bly, be her turn to be presented, she made
the most of her opportunities at afternoon
tea during the autumn, SO that before
the end of the shooting season Col. Sir
Algernon Craddock had formally asked
for her hand and had been accepted as
son-in-law by Lord and Lady Eglinton,
who congratulated themselves upon hav-
| ing been able to establish daughter so
well without any of the expenses of pre-
sentation or season in London.
Lady Charlotte Craddock was present.
ed upon her marriage, and Immediately
took foremost place among thatseasons
bellies.
In the autumn her husbands regiment
was ordered to Fizabad, an Indian sta
ton in the province of Dude. As du-
| tiful wife, Lady Charlotte accompanied
her husband to India; but as she found
life uncomfortable in the station, she soon
formed the opinion that the heat was in
! furious to her health, and discovered that
! her constitution had already suffered
severely from the trying effects of the
climate, and that it was absolutely nee
essary for her to fly to the hills for the
benefit of her health. There the purel
air, heavily charged with the Irritation
which ever hourishes in Indian hill sta
tions, apparently had a very beneficial
though not lasting, effect upon hel
health; for it seemed to be necessary
that Lady Charlotte Craddock shoulc
spend the greater portion of the year al
Tucoori, or the Happy Vale, where hel
solitude was relieved by the society anC
! attentions of Mr. Lotus Brackenbury
young cavalry officer, who was able t.
enjoy invalid leave with sufficient healtl
and spirits to inaugurate q Irritation Will
the belle of the station, and to waltz a
every informal dance, Of which ther,
are always many in hill stations, hastil,
arranged with a view to beguiling Tia,
WEAKNESS of lone married women who's,
husbands are away in the plains. A
these little dances, it soon became a matte
of course for Mr.. Brackenbury and Lad,
| Charlotte to waltz together through ;