Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1918 — FLOCK TO HER WITH GIFTS [ARTICLE]

FLOCK TO HER WITH GIFTS

Woman in Atlanta Used Slippers as a Bait for Men Friends and Got Many Presents in Return. There was a sharp young lady in Atlanta, who had 40 or more admirers. For each of these she bought slippers, all of the same pattern, which she had an aged seamstress make up, says the Augusta News. Meanwhile she kept a pair for herself in the parlor, where she could have them on hand whenever one of her lovers called. Of course, each young man asked for whom she was making such pretty slippers. She would reply, with a bewitching smile and half a wink : “Oh, they’re - for a man friend of mine.” Then each Infatuated youth went off to invest in a gift. Some bought clothes. Some bought jewelry. One; bought furniture. In return, the girl bestowed each of them a pair of slippers, worked by the seamstress and footed by a Dutch shoemaker, at an average cost of $2.65 a pair. The presents from her admirers averaged $45 per man. The pair the girl worked herself she presented to a oung dry goods clerk in Augusta, to whom she was secretly married. She afterward sold her presents arid had enough to start housekeeping.