The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-28

The favorite plan is now to exchange
bad for good things. 1 am growing
almost philosophical over the deplor
able shabbinesS of my wardrobe from
i this constant swapping. Last week,
/ on coming up late to the dressing room
from dance I found in place of my
/ brand-new green suede carriage over
shoes. two over-large. badly-worn ones
of rusty black velvet, and my lace
head scarf exchanged for a frayed one
of soiled white chiffon. Naturally
cross and sleepy, l fell on the tired
maid, who wept and denied, but looked
as if she could tell a tale.
only to make a test case of it 1
rolled my new French golOshes in my
macintosh, laid my card on top and
put them in a safe corner of the
dressing room of a house where l went
/ to luncheon the other day. But it
was of no avail; the goloshes had been
metamorphOsed into pair of muddy
rubbers with holes in them when I
went back, and I didn't grumble, since
my pretty umbrella was left. Alto
/ gether this season has cost me some
[ four pairs of perfectly new rain boots
and endless umbrellas, and yet my
I case is not 50 hard as that of other
victims. The work of the spoiler goes
on in the cloak rooms; when big we'd
ding receptions, teas, musicales and
private balls are in progress.
AT one Of the big dances of the
season the hostess simply ordered her
maid to issue checks for every wo-
mans wraps and, charming TO relate,
not so much as a hairpin was lost,
for at her daughters wedding recep-
ton, only a week before, three muffS
got away somehow without their right
full owners, and the possessor of $500
sable hand warmer found a scrubby
Z al r,..1-a,v ~, &c Mo
That is where these fashionable
ldeptomaniacs salve their consciences
by an exchange you see, for rarely is
anything taken that some inferior
article is not put in its place, and
very rarely are they caught up with.
Their position in society is one of pro-
lection, and their victims are too timid
or proud to trace a clew, which too
often leads right TO the door of their
best friends. or some woman who is
aiding materially in helping them
along in society.
There are occasions. however, where
a bold spirit does demand justice, and
do know of an instance where this
determination to chercher la femme
led to almost tragic results. Both
victim and the guilty one had hard
attacks of nervous prostration after it,
and the pretty aristocratic klepto-
maniac has gone to live permanently
abroad
Then there isn't the slightest reason
why we shouldn't hear all about it,
insisted the blonde, while everybody
else clamored for the story.
Well. the victim wa.' a Boston girl.
who is not at ell rich, 30 her joy and
pride in a brand new 81 i skin coat,
wealthy aunt gave her, can be under
stood. During the winter she was in
yited TO stop at charming house in
New York and during her visit a smart
friend gave a luncheon in her honor.
1t is needless to say she wore the seal
skin coat and had very good time,
but all her pride was turned TO tears
when she failed to find in the cloak
room her precious wrap. Laid exactly
in its place was a seal skin coat to be
sure, but caricature of her own new
and beautiful one. The hostess was in
despair and wrote around to all the
other luncheon guests. asking if they
had worn her friends coat home by
mistake; she discharged the maid, who
had that. day presided over the cloak
room and the Boston girl went home in
a state of almost settled melancholy.
"She wore the ragged old substitute
around while, and finally, one day.
when she was obliged to menu one of
its pockets, put her hand down in the
lining and drew out "a letter. At least
a piece of one, which was nothing
more than an affectionate epistle to
the hostess of that fatal luncheon from
her husband. Being endowed with
plenty of genuine New England frank
ness, fearlessness and grit that Boston
girl promptly took the train for New
York. She spent % intense minutes in
the house of her late friend and
though she came out very pale. she
wore her own long-lost seal skin coat,
having resigned the old one to its |
rightful owner
MILLICENT ARROwPOINT.