To the Editor of the "Norta-Cama Darty News."
Sin,—Possibly some scores of resident in Shanghai are in the habit of buying material and handing same to @ Chinese tailor to be "made up." Frequently when my wife's tailor hes brought back the finished garment she has remarked that there did not appear to be the same amount of material in the finished articl—after making due allowance for waste—as in the stuff originally handed to him in the " piece."
Only this week my wife gave her tailor five yards of material out of which he was to make an underskirt. Unknown to the tailor I carefully weighed the five yards of staff before handing it to him and it tipped the scale at exactly 15 oz. or three oz. to the yard. The skirt made up weighs 10} oz. so that there are 4} oz. short; other words 14 yards, which, ab 84 a yard, is a pretty good "squeeze for the tailor. I am now waiting for the gentleman to call with his bill. It seems to me that after taking into account his charges for making-up be will something. Ladies, material.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.