Show ay R aleli we hope that there are few ladles who have cause to suspect their dressmaker of keeping back portions of the material In trusted to her care tor mak ing up tone the less an interesting precaution extracted from a letter written about 1730 Is amusing the plan which the lady set forth was to bur everything that boes to the making of a costume even to the tape and thread and when they are delivered out they are all together weighed before the needlewoman s eyes and when she brings home the costume it Is again put into the scale with the shreds of every sort and it Is expected the whole shall answer the original weight |