New-York tribune., 1908-07-03
OF Interest ~
& to 6Vornen.
A CLEVER TRADE TRICK
Women Who Make Their Friends
Pau for Their Clothes.

To make ones friends pay for ones clothee
would to be difficult thing to accomplish
but there are some women who do it all the time,
and 1t is said to be quite simple Wnen one pos
the necessary qualifications
THE woman who gets her clothes IN TINS way
is sometimes very rich says business woman
who has had opportunities for studying this class
More often she is the sister of a rich woman or
connected In some way that gives her influence
with the people whose patronage the business man
wants. She is always person of culture ana often
much travelled. She can quote prices IN Lonoon
Berlin and Paris She knows the productions ano
styles OF all the celebrated makers or women
gowns, and can recognize the mooes Oh the iloS'
artistic milliners.
with these qualifications she goes the ROUNDS
of various establishments until she finds where she
can do best. Then, after getting the lowest esu-
mate on the thing she wants. she springs on the
business the fact that she has many frienos
and can influence their trade in his favor This
means yet lower price on the article sought IL
also means commission on any order given or
purchase made by her friends-5 per cent on Things
below $50 and 10 per cent on anything above that
figure The holds good Of the friends OF
these friends and if the woman is clever the ar
rangement becomessan endless chain Now all
this comes not out Of the merchant but out OF
the friends, the woman thoroughly understanos
For instance handsome set of lynx furs was
sold to the friend of a millionaire's daughter 1or
sS5. The price s65 and the difference was SUD
tracted from the price of sable coat Tor the
daughter of the millionaire, in accordance WIN
a promise made when she bargained with the fur
rier in placing her order. Several other snah
items of this class purchased by other friends re-
duced the price of the coat $40 This same woman
at the same time was having 5000 worth of gowns
made. it could not have been any lack OF gen
erosty on the part of her father that reduced her
to such practices.
RICH WOMEN LOOK FOR BARGAINS
Another woman went to a tailor and ordered
suit s125, every dollar of which amount was
paid by work done for her friends Some or the
very richest women in New York the wives not OF
miIlionaires, but of mult-miionares, never pay
for their photographs. They order them from nrrns
charging 800 Dozen and the price Is PAID oy thelr
friends
Nor is this the only method OF economy prac-
tsed by rich women What do you think of
owning a whole block Of houses on Broad
way, who hestated to pay S9 S for hat tnat
suited her perfectly and that she wanted very
badly? The milliner had said she thought she
could give her what she wanted for 81 %, but when
the hat finished at that price it seemed to lack
something, and the mner thought it was a pity
to spoil it for the sake of dollar or two, SO she
added a bit of net. and some velvet ribbon The
customer was delighted with the effect, but baked
at the price. Nine dollars and twenty-eight cents
wasn't 81 80, she argued. Well can take the net
and the ribbon off, said the miner. That will
bring it down to s. So Aut 1 want them on an
swered the customer. Then, I'm afraid you'll
have to pay for them returned the milliner, and
pay she finally did, after taking four days to think
about it.
this business. and when their things are sent home
the tradesman sometimes gets startling revea-
ton. Such woman came to the tailor just men
toned recently. She wore expensive but old
clothes and her gloves were worn even 10 holes
He thought she had been hit by the hard times
and did her work as reasonably as he could. What
was his surprise sending the gown home to find
that she was occupying of the most expensive
suites in fashionable hotel.
SPENDING THEIR MONEY ABROAD.
Sometimes they count having orders sent
home without paying for them One such woman
when she found that her gown wouldn't be sent
to her until she had paid the bill had to go away
to bury her father She is still buryng him. Her
husband is a we'll known business man and she
is great dresser
Then there is the woman who does all her shop
ping abroad-lives off and gives nothing back.
I know woman who for thirty years has not
bought so much a paper of pins in this country.
| have to pay s3 15 when 1 want a pair of long
gloves, but rich mans wife buys them for 81 %
in Paris and when she is at home she wants all
her work done cheaply she get it done
in Paris woman who has spent couple of
years in Paris will bring mlliner box of ma
terals bought abroad and ask her to make as
many hats as she out of them, and. of course,
she doesn't want them to cost very much. The
next year when she wants new hats she will buy
them In Paris Another will order nice little in
expensive hat You see, she just needs it to cross
the ocean and about in. She will get other
hats after she gets to Paris. One day one of
these much travelled women complained that peo-
pie were not paying her rents.
How can you expect it? l asked.
Why not?' she answered. Isn't the property
ours?
''You tell me- I said. that you have lived in
Paris two years. and that you going back
again and will get everything you need there
Does it ever occur to you that there thousands
like you and do you not see that you are cutting
off your nose"
"She did not see, I explained to her that il our
American women spend all their money abroad,
and a great ma jorty of the comfortable class-not
the so-called Four Hundred-are doing so. this
money will pay the rent of their fathers stores
and Offices in America
IN other country in the world do women OF
wealth and position do these things, and think
when American women come to realize this
we shall have a moral awakening. We are greatly
in Deed Of