We are happy to perceive that the project of establishing
a Dressmaking Company is likely to be successful. The object of this association, briefly stated, is to get good dresses well made by first-class hands without working them to death or shutting them up in badly-ventilated rooms. The shareholders are expected to bring custom as well as money, and the profits over a reasonable per-tentage are to be devoted to the relief of the women employed in the trade. Some 800 shares have been taken out of 1,000, premises occupied, and a great deal of patronage secured, and if the managers are not too philanthropic, enforce good work, and are not too peremptory with customers in a hurry, we do not see why they should not succeed. They have an immense advantage in the fact that their patrons will be just of the class which can pay ready money. Madame Elise would give her hands, we dare say, nearly as many feet of air as convicts get, if she could only secure ready money thereby.
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