Your appearance is a part of your capital in the way of getting business.
When you have garments that have been ready for customers one month, notify them, saying that you will hold them for thirty days longer. Say that in the meantime you wish they would call for them.
Everything for the cleaning, repairing and pressing of clothes may be had at this office. Send samples or explanation of what is required and price list will be forwarded to any address. These goods are sold at the lowest possible margin of profit for handling same, and only to those of our students who have bought the method.
The following is a partial list of what may be had:
Press-jacks, tables, irons, sponge cloths prepared, brushes, scissors, sewing machines, mirrors, desks, chairs, coat, vest, trouser, jacket, and skirt hangers, racks to hang clothes on, chalk, needles, thimbles, tape measures, basting cotton, linen thread, silk thread, buttonhole twist, buttons for coats, vests and trousers to match cloth. Sleeve linings for undercoats, vests, overcoats, waist band lining for trousers, for ladies' jackets and coats. All kinds of silk and satins for body linings, heavy silk facings, for Tuxedos, Prince Alberts, and dress coats; velvet collars, any size, silesias, sateens, rubber tissue, buckles, haircloth, canvas, beeswax, cleaning fluids, moth preventative, and anything used by the cleaner and presser.
Transcriber's Notes:
Apparent spelling and printer's errors normalised.
Index had entries for pages 20 and 21 (including page numbers) reversed in the original.