Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-02

pleads guilty rather than stand trial and
take a chance of his case coming to the
ears Of the faculty. The student police
court is designed TO wipe out this alleged
injustice.
Latest advices from the inner circle Of
the elect of Chicago north side society
women tell of Mrs. Harold Mccormick
throwing up her hands in utter dismay
when she arrived at an ultra-fashionable
tea and beheld twenty-five of the leaders
OF society arrayed in costumes which
only fortnight before had been her
own.
Here was 4 gown. the eccentricity Of
whose curves and lines had brought its
designer such praise as no previous per-
Torrance had ever wrested from Mrs.
Mccormick, who is 4 daughter of John
ID. Rockefeller. And here was another
in whose fashioning she herself had
spent a deal of cerebral energy Every
gown IN the room was as familiar to her
as the rings ON her fingers, 1t was as
though she had come TO a spectral party
But II was worse; il was real. Hence
Mrs. McCormick's dismay
IL happened in this manner. Mrs.
Mccormick, after wearing her gowns
once or twice, sells them to a dealer.
The last consignmen of twenty-five went
Ito a particular cotelie of appreciative re-
clpients-gr gratis, despite the fact that all
possess wealth calculated to obviate any
desire to don tnery from which another
has worn the first sheen and glamour
To send such garments to the relief of
the downtrodden and the depressed
would be equivalent to offering an affront
to them.
Mrs Mccormick is less noted for her
wealth than for her taste, and she is
known as,one of the best dressed women
in the world When some Of her friends,
who also can afford Paquin and Worth
models, heard that she sold her clothes
after wearing of them they told her they
thought she should give them the priyi-
lege of securing what they considered
some of the most beautiful dresses they
had ever seen.
Mrs Mccormick made no reply until
her recent return from Cleveland. where
she had been visiting her father and
mother. Then she needed 20 clear her
wardrobe space for winter stores, and
she brought forth twenty-five handsome
gowns in cloth of gold, rich iaces, and
hand wrought decorations The twenty.
five hats belonging with the gowns were
also taken out of their boxes. and TWEEN.
ty-five coats with their furs aud orna.
iaents were laid beside the hats and
dresses.
She next called up by telephone TWEEN
ty-fiye of her dearest friends aud told
them there was going to be a sale OF
second hand clothes at her house t.
which they were invited. 1t was morn
ing affair, and not one of the invitation,
was declined
There was much trying On and discus
sion Of relative becomingness before any
one thought to inquire anything about
prices. Indeed. it was all settled VIII,
was to have which costume before TIL,
question Of money was thought of. Whef
it was mentioned Mrs. Mccormick re
piled merrily that there would be n,
charge, and she served her guests Will
tea
That noon residents of the Lake Shor,
drive. Bellevue place and Dearborn
avenue witnessed the sight not common
in those neighborhoods ,of fashionabl,
women carrying large packages From
some of which a plume and n feather es
capped and trailed their lengths. And
few days later at an exclusive little tri
the twenty-five costumes In their entiret,
hats. coats, belts and all the minor &c
cessories- appeared adjoining their new
owners.