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Show MONEY IS VERY HARD TO GET A fashionable dressmaker tells her story In tho Decembo r Woman's Homo Companion. Sho says: "Mrs. Vlncet St. John, tho great lcadtr of Now York and Newport, was my first recruit from this Banctlfleid group. Horetoforo sho had always gono to Mrs. Dltmark, the fashionable) Fifth Aenuo dressmaker. Knowing this, I was almost ovorcomo by my triumph. I was a mado woman. "Miss rietcTior,' sho commenced abruptly, 'I want a littlo nftornoon flock. What would you chargo for it?' "That doponds,' ropllod I; 'probably 'prob-ably ono hundrod dollars.' "Ono hundred dollars' Nonsense, my doar Miss Fletcher Surely you can muko mo somothlng for seventy- i five. Think of tho advertising it will mean.' "I foolishly yielded. "Did Mrs. Vincent St. Jonn thereupon there-upon go to her friends nnd say, 'You must patronize that woundcrful littlo Miss Fletcher; pay her anything she asks.' Not at all. Sho said to everybody every-body she knew: 'Miss Fletcher will give you a better gown than Dltmark and don't ou dare pay more tlmu uovenly-flve for u froc't of n suit. "As a result 1 ivas stampeded by tho smart set." I even neglected my old customers for the honeyed privilege privil-ege of turning out sevonty-flvo dollar gowns which It cost mo a hundred to make. Worst of nil, they refused to pay their bills In any reasonable time." |
