A PECULIAR WAGER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1054, 23 January 1913, Page 4

A PECULIAR WAGER.

New Yoik society is holditg up its bauds iu assumed horror at the spectacle enacted at a fashionable ball at Doug Beach, New Jersey, as the result of a wager started by two meu as to which lady owned the largest number of evening dresses. Two ladies accepted the wager, and repeatedly went to their rooms oud redescended to the ballroom wearing each time a different dress. About the thirty-filth time the ladies made their appearances at longer and longer intervals, says the New York correspondent of the Doudon Daily Mail. Finally, one ol them declared that the thirty-ninth was absolutely her last dress. After a prolonged wait her rival appeared iu a bathing suit, and on this the gown score was declared equal. The wagers were increased, and the judges were about to declare the match a lie, when the second lady descended in a silk bath-robe, pinned in two places at the bottom, roped in at the waist, and odorned at the neck with a lace collar hastily torn from a blouse. This was also adjudged a gown,

and its owner awarded the prize, on condition that she wore it throughout the rest of the dance.