It was someone very confident in the kindness of the average human who asked, in our advertisement columns, someone else to recommend her a good house tailor. A fairly close acquaintance with the subject leads to the belief that a good house tailor is about as common as hen's teeth. At least we have never yet heard of any lady for whose intellectual attainments we have had any respect admitting that the gentleman who plies the sewing machine on her behalf is anything but the most exasperating failure. Yet there are good ladies' tailors who are regarded as verity able treasures, but they are rarely, if ever, recommended to anyone else. The tailor with a small shop and one or two clients very often fails to expand his business because of the satisfactory nature of his work. His customers try to keep him to themselves, for the bigger his business the less time he has to devote to them, while a house tailor who is really up to his work must be protected from other pre-datary females at all costs. The chances are that the advertiser will not obtain what she wants by the method she has chosen. The best means is to hunt one out, preferably one in the service of bosom friend, and offer him more salary, to change employers.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.