Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1906 — A STINGY RICH WOMAN. [ARTICLE]

A STINGY RICH WOMAN.

Attempt* to Dispoae of Second-Hand Clothe* and How They Failed. That many rich women are stingy in small matters has long been recognized, largely through hints droppet) by tradespeople and servants, but a well-known facial masseuse had an experience with a patron which certainly cap]led the climax 'of heF intercourse with rich women. Her patron bad laid aside a ballgown In tolerably good corndition and the masseuse counted among her friends a struggling young actress who, she thought, might utilize the dis* rarded frock, says the New York World. The deal went through,the actress pay Ing $lO for the gown, which had cost $75. By making it over witli some new material and the aid of her own deft fingers she had a beautiful stage dress for S2O. A week later the masseuse received from the rich patron a most remarkable communication. "My dear Miss P it ranj “I am sending you a few articles of dress wUTcTd/wbuld like to dispose of.. I have sent word to a of old clothes men to call at your bouse. Yon see it would be quite Impossible for me to allow them to come here, but I am sure as you did so well with my blue net you can dispose of these for me to great advantage/’ ■ ■' - ■■■?../ Not a word about commission. The lady simply took It for grantdU that the meek and lowly masseuse would be glad to thus show her appreciation of fashionable patronage. When the little masseuse came home that night to her boarding house, which was by no means unfashionable, she found three boxes jammed into her room and a vigorous kick from the landlady, who had been annoyed with would-be buyers the entire day. The boxes were opened to disclose raiment so old and dilapidated that not even a maid would accept of it as a perquisite. From old shoes to hat frames from which all trimmings had been stripped the odd collection ran, Stifling her anger, the masseuse sent for an expressman, paid bis charges and shipped the entire outfit back to her patron with a ladylike note of refusal to act as a commission agent. At last accounts a worrier! little dressmaker was trying to sell the old clothes, and the mdre independent masseuse was short one customer.