| Show BORROWED PLUMES women get G cdx from shops use une thomm and nd return them nit am unsuitable it is a recognized 0 fact that eliat one can borrow or buy bay the use of almost anything at a great cruh cru h it is ib understood that those who entertain may havo hired most of the chairs and there are caterers cateress cater ers who make it their Iu business siness to rent out entire dinner services 1 it is a matter of harmless conjectural con jectura urn as to how many young men at a dancing party wear their crebs suits bytho bythe grace of five dollars dollar a night or hy by tho the more knavish process of stealing the use of a secondhand second hand one from a friend under promise to pay when remittances come from home dont you know but thero thera are times when social swells rebel against paying even a modest sum for an accommodation in in tile the way of supplying what their menage lacks there is not a leading merchant in this city who could pot not tell some scandalous tales concerning people of wealth and social standing who have had goods sent home on approval there is absolutely no limit regarding the stylo style and variety of the articles thus pressed into service opera cloaks fans jewelry and headwear are kept over night and then returned the next day after having done duty at some social function within the twenty four hours that they have been absent from the store writes di vernon vern n n in the san man francisco newsletter news letter since the greatest offenders in this respect are often the firms best customers tho the victims are forced to grin and beor be bc or r the imposition as best they can and so the polite knavery is passed over in silence sile dec but it has been reserved for some of san francl Francis cos rich people to play playa a trick upon trustful importers of brica bric a brac when certain people enter the art rooms look at cut glassware and then order several of the handsomest specimens to be sent up to the house hoube this evening be sure you send them up this evening for my husband to see them by gaslight 0 the clerks know full well that a big dinner is on the tapis in thit thib supposition s tion they are arc sustained on the return of the goods by the unmistakable signs of dried soapsuds in the deeper crevices of the rose cuttings sometimes these society frauds do have the grace to letain one piece and pay for it as the price of the cut glass display which their assurance enabled them to make before their guests of the night preceding but quite as likely the whole lot billbo ill be returned without corn com punctious ioD iou and with regrets |
