We have an account in our...
WVe have an account in our paper of to-day, of a meeting of tlie Foremen of the principal Tailors in the Metropolis associated under a somewhat fantastical name in the French language. WVe know nct whetlher the statement has been sent us in ridicule, bttt wve think the proceedings of these nimble youths as rational as thosc of many other assem- bled societics. They complain that men make clothes for the human body, without having the slightest idea of its form. If theywould read GOliver, they would filad that there exis:cd in one of the coulltries at whiclh the trave,ler arrivet, a method of " taking measure" by means thematical iinstruments. AVe do not exactly recommend this practice in England, but if Messieurs the Tailleurs Coupcurs would study anatomy, they might then mend the mnan, if he were ill, as well as make him clothes, up to the full corpulence of a healthy person, without waste .r compressioni. The word " cabbage," we observe, does not exist in thc account of the proceedings.