Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-25
M. DUFREE, LADIES TAILOR

nue. 1t appeared there one misty morn
ing. When the fog lifted bit, Miss
Mangrove caught sight of it and ex-
claimed:
II shall positively sell this house and
move further uptown. Trade is resist
less as the sea, and for Society to en-
deavor to stop its encroachments on the
aristocratic portion of the city is as vain
as was Mrs. Partington's broom fight
with the waves. abhor Trade"
She turned from the window with a
shudder, as If the gilt letters of the sign
had leaned over and touched her famil-
iarly on the shoulder?
Miss Mangrove was besieging So
ciety.
Jabez Mnngrovc, her father, had been
a persistent success from the timo he
loft the farm and sold tinware from
house to house. When he bought for q
song a prescription for liver pill. he
| quilted peddling and devoted his energies
to pushing "Mangroves Liver pills"
Fate may have been sarcastic when il
took him out of the world of congestion
of the liver, but the public had no IDEA
how congested his pocket book was, till
the amount of his estate became known,
and thcn there was aniazement that there
had been so many bad livers in the world
| during one mans lifetime.
The first step taken by his only heir,
Amelie, was TO sell the pill mandatory,
its good will and patent, at such a sum
that proved she was born to commerce.
Then she bought the mortgage on an
aristocratic mansion, foreclcsed i gn9
took possession. From there she had
besought society to take her in. had
hoped 10 ensnare some scion Of the old
families, and had failed because her
father had been in the patent medicine
business. That was why she hated
trade.
But her tactics had changed. She had
to breGk into society. She wasn't pretty,
exactly, but she had n good figure, and
| flattered herself that she had manner
as pronounced, not in tho way of loud
ness, but as noticeable as that of any
of the Four Hundred. But she was not
in it-this was the sum of it all. And,
accordingly, she fretted outside of the
closed doors, and lay awake at night in
her dainty bed devising ways of making
break in sociosy's walls.
Ono night, with weary sigh, she fell
into troubled sleep; for hours she hal
been scheming how to obtain the entree.
And now, in her uneasy slumber. she
began again the wearisome will-o'-the-
wisp chase after the magic word entree.
Even in her sleep o felt herself utter
ing n protest against repetition of the
useless pursuit., but before she had wholly
voiced her unwillngness to follow the
dancing, teasing sprite labelled entree
she saw the letters of the ladies tailor's
sign march before her. They were in
command of the big gilt NJ, who lifted
his hat respectfully TO her as his COM
pany filed past At the word they
broke into double-quick, and in few
seconds they had surrounded and held
prisoner the agile and evasive little imp
she had chased so many times in vain.
The company of gilt letters faced
distance of her. halted. While they
presented arms, the corporal NJ led for
ward the mischevous imp and placed
him on the palm of her outstretched
hand, which she closed gently, holding
fast the coveted privilege which in her
dreams the sprite always had repre-
scented.
II have the entree at last" she ex-
claimed, and awoke to vexation at having
felt So much joy over delusion, and
finally TO wonderment about the signi6-
canoe of the letters having made the en-
tree prisoner and then presenting it to
her.
The dream troubled her not little the
next day. To her its meaning was plain
M. Dufre, ladies' tailor, could pro-
cure for her the entree TO society. But
how could she call upon him, when no.
body that was anybody patronizedr him?
At last she concluded to request him to
call upon her, and she sent him sue
cinct, busness:like note.
The following morning he called upon
her, and she was astounded to meet a
handsome, quiet, well-bred man. who
proceeded at once TO open case of sam
Piles.
"Not those" she said, haaghtily.
Somebody else will wear dress off the
other end of the same web"
''Ah," said the tactful business man,
closing the case. IL suppose was to
show you the latest importations, but
am at your service to procure for you
and fit you with what even the Baroness
Rothschild cannot procure duplicate
Of"
"The reason want n new tailor il
that may be original in my costumes
If you are reader of the society gossip
published in the sarcastic weeklies, you
will see that am laughed at because 1
as they vulgarly say, am not init, mean
: ing that am excluded from the circle tC
which aspire. Yesterday, owing TO q
dream Of the night before, had an idea
which determined to confde TO the frs
ladies' tailor whose face inspired conf
dence. You seem TO be gentleman
and not likely TO betray a secret. =
She paused moment to note the cffec
of her words upon him, and was please'
that he showed no symptoms of excite
ment or eagerness to learn the nature o.
the communication she was about t.
make.
81 determined never to wear the du
plicate Of the material or the pattern o
dress or hat. worn by any other woman
to that extent can be exclusive. ID
you think you are able TO meet my de
mandsi And, IL you are. what is
worth 70 you TO render me wholly orig
fnal In fho ,..kt.~ ~ drteser