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objecting to it, and you best know whether or 

 not a little lecture of that sort will be agreeable, 

 especially if delivered in the presence of other 

 women. Warn your tailor of your determination, 

 then, and if his devotion to his ideal should com- 

 pel him in consequence to decline your patron- 

 age, go to another, until you find one who will 

 be content not to transform you into the like- 

 ness of a wooden doll. Women are not made 

 to advertise tailors, whatever the tailors may 

 think. 



What must you pay for your habit ? You 

 may pay three hundred dollars, if you like, 

 although that price is seldom charged, unless to 

 customers who seem desirous of paying it, but 

 the usual scale runs downward from one hun- 

 dred and fifty dollars. This includes cloth and 

 all other materials, and finish as perfect within 

 as without, and is not dear, considering the retail 

 price of cloth, the careful making, and the touch 

 of style which only practised hands can give. 

 The heavy meltons worn for hunting habits 

 in England cost seven dollars a yard ; English 

 tweeds which have come into vogue during 

 the last few years in London, cost six dollars ; 



