Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — A NEW MEASURING DEVICE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A NEW MEASURING DEVICE.

—v . It Is Adapted Especially to the Use of Practical Tailors. The man with these standards and straps all around him is not a recaptured lunatic, whose freedom of action the, other man is seeking to restrain, but he! looks like it. On the contrary, the illustration is intended to set forth the peculiar merits of a new and harmless device, by means of which a tailor may make accurate notes of your physical proportions and produce a coat that shall fit you like a glove. If we may judge by the appearance of the thing, the ordeal must be a trying one, but then, what will a man not undergo to have his coat ift well? The honor of the invention belongs to a Philadelphian. It is illustrated In the Scientific American, which thus describes it: It consists of two upright telescopic standards, one to be placed at each side of the person to be. measured, and forming supports for several other pliable measuring attachments

adjustable on the standards, and conveniently arranged for taking the different measurements required. A sleeve hole measuring device is carried by one of the standards, there being a strip projecting horizontally therefrom, while also supported by the standards is a breast strip, a back strip being secured to the neck plate, breast strip, and the strip carried by the sleeve hold device. A shoulder tape is secured to the breast strip at the front and rear, the attachment at the rear being at the point where the back strip unites with the breast strip, and a shoulder strip is secured to the shoulder tape at the front and to the breast strip at the rear.

FOR THE USE OF TAILORS.