The San Francisco call., 1908-12-16
Partisan Modiste Goes to Law
to Force Aristocratic r. Jaf-
fray Dusfan to Pay
Specter of Unpaid Bill Eddies in
Wake of Fashionable
Society Wedding
When Dottic wed a soldier
Her papa gave the bride away,
but left the bills unpaid.
Lyrics of Hard Luck.

Cupid, the dimpled god of love. has
come into violent collision with
Hermes, the god of vulgar commerce.
and the shock OF their contact has
been heard from the cottages of the
Preside to the mansions of Pacific
heights. The little blind deity has so
far had the worst of the encounter, but
the dispute must still be thrashed out
in the indelicate atmosphere of a COM
mon law court.
Hard luck palliates the tale that
tells why r. Jaffray Dustan, mining
engineer has been unable to pay
fashionable Partisan modiste for build
ing the trousseau of his daughter
Dorothy But hard luck is climber
that has never scaled the crystal
heights of fine society, and so that ex-
cuse may expect the snub direct when
the toothsome morsel of gossip is ban
died from dainty lip to dainty curling
lip over the afternoon teacups.
When Miss Dorothy Dustan two
years ago confided to exclusive ears
the secret of her engagement to Lieu
tenant Pease of the United States army
there were many envious maids and
lovelorn bachelors in the military set
Miss Dustan was a debutante of be-
witching beauty and magnetic tenn
perament and her engagement became
The wedding was to be what society
with calm finality calls an event; so
+. Jaffray Dustan saw to it that his
daughter should be properly provided
with the laces and fine linen, the silks
and broadcloths that befitted her po-
sition.
None but Nine. Camille Gimpel,
modiste of Rue ST. Anne, Boulevard
des Italiens, Paris, and of Geary street
near Stockton, San Francisco, was
deemed worthy to prepare the trous-
seau of Miss Dorothy Dustan. So all
the gowns and cloaks and bonnets and
all those wonders of lace and embroid-
cry and dainty colored ribbons that
brides exhibit to their intimate girl
friends amid gasps of OH" and 'Ah,"
were made by Partisan hands in the
establishment of Nine. Camille Gin
pei The bill totaled a comfortable
1894
When Lieutenant Pease was called
to serve his flag in the Philippines
Mrs. Dorothy Pease, nee Dustan, sailed
away with him, and so did the
trousseau. leaving papa, as was but
right and proper, to settle with
madame modiste. But. alas, earth
quake losses impaired the solvency of
r. Jafray Dustan and madame was
asked to wait
Madame G1mpel waited until her
Partisan patience was exhausted and
then she urged payment. Papa Dus-
tan explained his unfortunate position,
alluded in passing to the meager sal
ary paid by Uncle Sam to his son in
law and sent Madame Gimpel a six
months promise to pay.
Six months brought the note to ma
turity. but brought neither principal
nor interest to the cash register of
Madame Gimpel. About this time
Madame Gimpel tired of gowning the
maids and matrons of San Francisco,
closed the establishment which she
had opened at California and Devisa-
dero streets after the fire and sailed
away to the Rue st, Anne, Boulevard
des Italiens, Paris, where she has
ever since ministered to the fashion
able wants of the ladies of the exclu-
sive faubourgs.
Before leaving this city, however,
Madame -Gmpel handed a mass of UNI
collected bills to her nephew, Emile
Kahn of the real estate firm of Kahn
& FEEDER asking him to do his best to
collect from a number of refractory
debtors. Kahn has turned them over
to his attorney. Homer ]. Hankins, and
the suit for 1894 against r. Jaffray
Dustan is the first in what may be a
series of. sensational actions.