The experiment of the Bradford Corporation in opening a store for the sale of cheap suits and overcoats has been so successful that there may be important extensions in this direction in the near future.
The first supply of 2,000 suits and 1,000 overcoats, which were sold only to the employees of the Corporation, has been exhausted, and the Corporation have now decided to tender to the Disposal Board for another 5,000 suits, which are to be sold to the general publi The first lot of suits cost the Cor: poration 45s. each, and they were sold at 50s. The present tender for 5,000 is at the rate of 40s. a suit.
The store manager has received letters from all parts of the kingdom, showing the difficulty experienced by a large part of the public in getting clothes. One Scottish burgh asked to be supplied with 100 suits at 50s. each afl. "The request has been accede for the use of members of their
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Tartor's Prick £6 10s.
The Government has many thousands of the garments on hand yet, but now that many other municipal ities are contemplating following the example of Bradford, among them Manchester, it is prob: able that the surplus will shortly be much depleted. A private tailor ie reported as saying that he could not make and sell a suit of the same quality at less than £3 10s, As is known. it has been decided to ignore the ban of the Board of Trade, which would have prevented selling the garments to any but Corporation employees. A member of the Finence Committee says there is no direct means that the Board of Trade might take to pro-vent the Corporation selling clothes or anything else to the citizens if they so desired. "They might take steps for moking it difficult for us to borrow money, or to get Bills passed through Parliament, but so far as I am concerned we can make out a good case for selli either clothes, furniture, carpets, or even fried fish. T see no reason
store."
we should not start a general Eves the English parish magazine is feeling the change of the times. The "Barking Parish Magazine" has come out with the assertion that there are to be no more pale young curates. "The day of stagnation is over. Even curates are changing. They are no longer tame; they are wild. That graceful ornament of society, that hero of a thousand bunfights, that adept juggler of afternoon tea cups, he is going. Soon, soon will only his slippers remain as a curio. They will rest beside the crinoline, Beautiful curate's slippers, of divers colours of needlework on both sides. And that choir-beloved anthem will lose some of its tender associations. "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of them that preach. For we are moving on, dearly beloved."
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