River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-09-17
The National Garment Cutter.

This offspring Of modern genius is
expanding its popularity from week to
week, and is making wives their own
dress makers and tailors, and giving
scores of young ladies an opportunity
to become skilled in the indispensable
art of sewing by enabling them to cut
and fit the material themselves. 1t is
a fact that has already engaged the at
tention of those who constantly OBJ
serve and note the progress OF differ
ent branches of industry and the de
velOpment of rising generations, that
the women of the present age are rap
idly losing all knowledge of the most
useful and profitable household art,
viz that of making different articles
of apparel for themselves or those
who by consanguine relations or 9TH
erwise are dependent upon them for
this work. 1t is not because the
housewives of America are becoming
INDECENT and acquiring a natural EMU
for this duty; but because modern taste
and the voice of fashion have made 1t
imperative that our apparel shall be-
come "a thing of beauty" as well as
an article of necessity, and this idea
has so firmly fastened itself upon the
minds of the present age, that almost
any one of reasonably well developed
refinement will sacrifice means which
they can lily spare to conform to
this sentiment. yankee ingenuity
comes to the rescue, however, just as
it has on many former occasions when
we seemed doomed to precipitate de-
struction and lifted US up out of and
beyond the apparent peril. The Gar
ment Cutter, with little practice, CON-
paratively speaking, enables any one
to learn the most intricate part of
dress making or tailoring. Practice
is all that is needed to make every
lady i'll the land an expert in this
work, and now that the long-standing
problem has been solved there is no
reason why the reform should not
begin at once. Let every family pro.
cure the "Simple System and every
child of sufficient age learn its use,
ana in a short time clumSily fitting
garments will be thing of the past
and the girls now idling away time
and wearing clothing the secret OF
whose construction they know not,
will learn to be useful, industrious
and skillful, being satisfaction to
themselves and a source of assistance
to their mothers. Those who desire
an easy, profitable and legitimate busi-
ness can secure the same by addressing
National Garment Cutter Company,
River Falls, Wis, or the Home office,
645 West Lake St., Chicago. They
desire to secure a large force of hard
working canvassers throughout this
part of the state, and those that will
work diligently can make it profitable
to engage III this work. Those want
ing agencies should apply early.
In letter to Mr.. Doran from Honey
Grove, Texas, June 20, 1885, we find
the following:
eff my experience in introducing
the National Garment Cutter in Texas
was summed up it would be as fol-
lows: AS a pleasant and profitable
business the Gutter has no rival 1t
has brought employment and opened
up avenues of industry to thousands
of idle hands. To the poor, the mid
die class and the rich, it has alike
furnished the art of cutting and max
ing all kinds of garments III the best
manner and latest styles, an art hith-
erto supposed to belong exclusively to
tailOrs and dress makers. 1t is the
only scientific system OF cutting yet
adapted to general use, and is so easily
learned that any lady can with few
hours Instructions use it efficiently.
1t has no long string of proportions to
BE- remembered or puZzling calcula-
tions to be made. | have never taught
any lady who did not learn to use 1t
with satisfaction to herself, and yet |
have never in a single instance turned
off an applicant. Many ladies have
taught could not learn the chart sys-
TEN they had tried, but learned to use
the Cutter easily. My agents are de-
lighted with the work of selling the
Cutter, and say that everywhere they
go they are received as benefactors
rather than as agents.
J. Fl. SNITHERS.