EXPENSIVE LINGERIE.

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 48, 24 February 1917, Page 13

EXPENSIVE LINGERIE.

A newspaper cable tells about Mary Garden, on the eve of her departure from Paris for America, being ordered by a French Magistrate to submit her wardrobe of lingerie to the Court for appraisement, as a part of the proceeding in the lawsuit of a modiste against the singer. When it was found that Miss Garden's intimate under-garments were worth £1000, much indignation manifested itself in Paris. The newspaper La Bataille says : " One 'must bo lacking in all decency to cover one's flesh with priceless laces at a moment when women and children are suffering from hunger and cold." The New York Musical Courier comments as follows: " The point is not well taken. Miss Garden is not French, and there is no necessity for her, on patriotic or other grounds, to deny herself' anything at this time. Unfortunately the poor, hungry, and cold are with, us always, and so are the rich. Miss Garden, we are informed, has been particularly generous in ■ helping the French by nursing the wounded, singing in the trenches, and turning over her house for hospital purposes. / It is therefore unjust and ungallant for La Bataille to insult Miss Garden so grossly, even though there may be little ethical justification for any woman owning £1000 worth of lingerie in these or any other days."