PERSUADED NOT TO DIE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XXIV, 14 December 1895, Page 758

PERSUADED NOT TO DIE.

A few days ago the friends of a prominent society woman were startled by the report that she was dangerously ill. The town talker, in speaking of her illness to a particular friend of the lady, brought out the cause of the illness. She is allowed by her husband so much a month for dresses. During the last social season she bought so many handsome ball costumes that her allowance only seemed a drop in the bucket toward paying for them. Her costumes attracted so much attention that her vanity was excited and she endeavoured with each succeeding dress to surpass the last. This she succeeded in doing. Every action must have a corresponding reaction. Hcrpleasure, caused by being the best dressed woman in the city, has given place to her sorrow, caused by her having the largest millinery bills of any woman in that place. The bills were sent to her amounting to /'3OO. She immediately retired to her bed. Doctors were sent for, but for a week she continued to grow worse. Her husband became alarmed, and told her that if she would just get well he would do anything for her. She said she could not. At last in despair she told him that if he would pay her bills she would get better. Her doting husband promised to do so, and she immediately recovered.