Renting Ball Dresses

There are storesMn the city where evening ilresses are rented. They are made up handsomely, witli the skirt all finished except the waistband, and with the waist itself basted together instead of stitched. The woman who desires to rent the costume can have the waist iitted. It is fitted and prepared for her in a way that does not preclude the possibility of its becoming refitted for others 'or other occasions. She rents it for the evening, paying $10 or $15, returns it in :he rnoming with the consciousness that she looked at the ball just as well as her millionaire neighbor. It is rather a severe thing to assert. jut these trades people do not hesitate to say that men are responsible for the starting in of this custom of renting finery. They say that wives caught the idea f rom their husbands, who make a iractice of renting dress suits instead of owning them. Everybody knows that it s quite a commou thing for a man to hiro a dress suit for the ono or two times a year when some occasion demands of lim this respect to conventionality, yet I suppose this same man, would be the first ;o condernn this folly in his wife - if he mew