Show A POPULAR FALLACY the ht I 1 not alwy the slime folk find A woman who has gained wisdom by experience hopes some day to find time to arito an essay exposing the fallacy of tho popular idea that in tho end the best thing is always the cheapest As an in point she will tell yon some years ago sho saved and pinched ia order to lay by money enough to purchase an elegant gown the gown when it assumed form and was of elegant satin at 5 a yard and lavishly trimmed with expensive rose point laco she knew it was too alno for a young woman who had to exercise strict economy in dress but everybody told her that it loulu outwear halt a dozen ordinary cowna and in the end provo a most profitable investment the prediction as to the staying qualities of the satin gown were fulfilled it lasted from season to season fashions camo and wont but the gown staid on aud had to bo frequently made over at expense that would have bought new gowns of pretty but inexpensive ma aerial other young women reveled in tulles foulards fou lards and orlandies organdies org andies but the owner of tho satin gown had expended so much on that unfortunate investment that she could indulge in no other she wore the gown until abo was sick and cirod of it and until she felt that everybody alio know her was sick and tired of seeing her have it on at last arho came so to hate the old thing that remained enst as good as ever and bada fair to ladt from generation to generation eliat ao had it dyed blade aad evolved from it an underskirt and various trimmings of an exasperatingly durable sort then tor tho time in years abo indulged in some dainty and dress fabrics so cloap as to permit of renewal with the shifting fashions nud that aiho would not feel obliged to honor and cherish and wear world without end wo havo heard of a young couple who when they started out housekeeping were with an elegant silver service to correspond wish thia sarnico everything in their had to bo costly and genuine and it at last proved their ruin many housekeepers havo had tho earno with a grand piano or homo other expensive picco of furniture with a costly carpet cur tatna etc in tho effort to live up to priced articles and have everything else ia keeping they have como to grief the moral of all this is never lavish upon one or two articles of dress or alturo monay which should bo expended in nil around comforts rather than apon something EO grand that it will dwarf nil tho other surroundings and cause a vulgar incongruity while tho result aimed at should bo n tasteful and judicious harmony tribune |