Evening journal., 1891-10-30
) OF bis pencil, said: Twenty dollars {"
" much for cutting outfs


ting both for $50, If you could" said Minnie,
family
well, answered the tailor. patronizingly,
that's IL; we couldn't You can't get Eng
iIsh goods, you know, at American prices.
we have cheaper goods, butt
u should want this, said Minnie
We'll, as the best figure on that III say
$S5. We don't mako anything on IL, any
way
Mrs. Blossom was not deceived, but she
pretended TO be, and with another exertion
Of courage asked for a months credit Then
she directed the cutting TO be done by Alex
anders measure, already with the tailor, and
the next day carried her bundle in triumph
70 her dressmaker. That was her idea. Her
dressmaker, OF course, was one of that inf
mite number OF sewing women, found only
by sheer good luck, who are called Jewels
by feminine gossips, and who charge two
PRICES They are said TO be reasonable as
distinguished from the real modiste. Ac-
cording TO immemorial usage among dress
makers, this particular "jeweln Of Minnie's
did not set price, but she said is was
splendid plan" that she would try, and that
she would make everything satisfactory
What can be more satisfactory than satisfac-
toryl Minnie departed In great spirits.
Time ratified on and brought the night Of
the climbs first meeting
The Blossoms acceptance had been duly
sent, and Alexander had been complacently
informed that dress suit would be provided.
He trusted 10 his wife implicitly, believing,
not that in two months she would create
wonderful novel, as ladies so easily do-in
other novels-but that she would pursue the
more useful and perhaps more woinanly plan
Of calling on her father Men are so tardy
in conceding 70 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
rensbug, Minnie came dancing down stairs
In something the gifted dressmaker had
patched up ont Of nothing and consequent
tally babe her dependent husband 70 acome
up and get ready He went The bundle
was brought out for him to open IL was
regular tailors box such was hinnie's craft
iness and lol 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 a full heart, donned the suit
and stood before the mirror. He east two
careful, comprehensive chances at the trim
reflection, clasped Minnie to the new coat
and exclaimed in many raptures, you dar-
ling lists the regular thingr
Are you satsfiedr asked the wife, wish
ing him 70 commit himself beyond retrac-
ton before she divulged the low origin of
the suit
"Of conrseFn cried Alec warmly, wishing
he were a woman, so that be could gush
little "Satsfiedi Why, it's one Of Acker-
mans best-that's what it is See the way
it fits. / could tell that was Alderman
mile or
When he had raved for ten minutes Minnie
confessed the history Of the suit $50 you
see, after all, she said at last, I'VE women
do know something"
Mr.. Blossom looked at the coat more crit
icaly, trying 10 detect blemish, but he
couldn't
Are you stil satis6edg' asked Minnie
He had 20 admit that he was
"Eow, how much do you suppose it eost7n
Mr. Blossom couldn't tell Now, a toll
orn-he began.
"Tailorl" cried Minnie "You mean rob
Der counted on just GO, and out Of that
have this suit, which yon say You like, and
thus dress Of mine. You would have paid
| &75 for the suit alone Tomorrow ! shall 20
and pay up, and warn yon that every cent
/ have left out Of the $40 ] shah spend on
candy, every single cent For Minnie had
| the womans love Of extravaganza after all
So this was Mrs. Blossoms triumph. Not
a gentleman az the club was better dressed
than her husband
They were both in raptures Alexander
especially. when he had convinced himself
that his suit did not proclaim to the world
the disgraceful truth that il had been con
structed by a dressmaker.
The next evening, when Mr.. Blossom came
heEne and instituted The search for Minnie,
abe did not leap cut at him from her old IN
/ 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 % The proper state Of sympathy
aud alarm she cried little more bitterly
than before, and quite uDconsciously relaxed
her grasp on a piece OF crumpleci paper. Al
exander OWNED that this dingy scrap was
the source OF the trouble, and picked it up
Il contained atrocious writing executed in
red ink, and looked like the work OF a dyna
inter. But it was not 50 brief II began
Mrs Blossom TO Mrs Darden, mans DreS
Suite, - and after eighteen or twenty lines Of
trimmings, Innings buttons, extra cloth
making, etc, eliminated in "totle $50.
Under this "totlen Minnie had written in
trembling figures what she owed the tailor
Ss3 and then she had made ''tOtlen OF hei
own. The dress suit had cost her S52
''Yeu hate me- she sohbed; ''you'l thinl
you've married a simpleson."
Alexander was not distinguished for a keeI
insight into human nature, but with 50 beau
tiful and appealing a creature as Minnie il
tears who would moi know the proper chord
"Simpletoni' he cried; and distressing ID
power OF words alone be seized her by tn
waist, ''sAe jump and gleefully whisked be
ahont the ROOM 80 you want compliment
on your hnancieringi Yon shall have il
You have got a thing worth SO for ST.
made s. BY slaply turning over your some
! what dimpled hand Simpleton, forsooth
, you are q money grubborl Take me to th
theatre, capital and J VIII give the suppe
afterwards Ehi What do you think {
, thatin
Minnie. fying from tears 70 smiles, foo
ishly thought Alexander more adorable tina
ever, and that evening az the play, althoug
it was very fatal tragedy, they successful
5 maintained the highest spirits. But betts
, than all, when the story WAS related
hinnie's father, he--knowing bow 20 stril
b the right chord--immediately presented h
with large check as a guarantee that h
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