Show TO STOP SOCIETY GRAFT GRAFTY 9 devise plan to prevent women fro 1 I wearing gowns and then returning them new york the latest develop development of the graft exposing fraud that Is no now w sweeping through now york ufa life la is revelation the revelation that women of wealth and good standing in new york society have joined the ranks of the gr grotters grafters grat not only do these women take grafts graft but they go out and get it and the situation has now reached a point where the dep department artmen t stores which have been tho the worst Ruffer sufferers ers have organized to protect themselves the women have of course been cruelly shocked to hear bear the right name given to their practice which wd wa ono one of the oldest and simplest of gentle gratta grafts the woman who feels eels that none of evening gowns w would do for or a particularly cu brilliant occasion would saunter into a store during the early afternoon no look 0 over ver and try on an gowns till she eho found the handsomest one that she could wear ands and order it sent home immediately in modia tely on approval next day she would return the gown saying that her husland husband did not like it or that the color was waa all changed when she ahe got tt it in the gas light the store people though they know knew from the lee feet of the fabric that the gown had been worn tor for an evening could not protest tor for a customer even a bad one to la always la in the right and the store la Is always lc fr the broni when it comes to a diffidence of opinion tho the stores cure for the trouble is simple aad effective thay abay now paste it label of flimsy paper on the sleeve or back of each gown in a contrasting color big enough to be seen blocks away A tag or an oril nary sewed cloth label could be removed but the light paper stuck on with a preparation that cannot harm the cloth has to be torn off in scraps it the tha label Is not in place the gown la Is regarded as sold and theres an end to it it |