SOCIETY SINS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8786, 13 April 1907, Page 3

SOCIETY SINS.

Ilier Vaughan’s latest indictment lo “smart set” included a charge (Society butterflies flit about m jived plumage. These ladies —or lof the—are charged with ohjug tilings ‘‘ on appro, ’ ’ wear[hem for one night, and then reIng them to the strop whence [came on some trumped-up pre- | such as that they are nusatis|ry.

■e Drapers’ Chamber of Trade, [hose notice Father Vaughan’s Ippic was brought, at once rclised the over ‘‘smart” set whose Igs the preacher described. The p trickery was well known to it. It’s a fact, ” said the secretary, M ladies have had goods ‘on ap- ’ used them, and then returned i after a day or two as nusuit- • ’ Some liavc also obtained rnilty in the same way, bad it cop,and then scut back the original ot approved. I heard of a case "Inch a lady procured a hat from ell known millinery firm. She her husband to another firm, she ashamed to go herself, and had copied in cheaper material, and lower price. Then the original was sent back. ’ ’

ewly every large aud well known per,’ according to the secretary of Drapers’ Chamber of Trade, more dcntarly those that advertise a ideal aud allow their goods to out “on appro, ’ ’ suffer from the chant of some women —if only a single night—for finery, for iththey have not paid. It is not ays easy to detect the trick that wen played—the offending lady takes care not to get a deli--6 at fabric—and even if the shopper's suspicious are roused ho r = to say anything lest he losa- the domer's altogether. Tire secroJ added, however, that though s dishonest practice does exist, it iby no means general. The trick of course, the exclusive memory of the rich, or apparently rich. lor People would stand no chance getting goods.