Date: 1891
Then comes the weaving of linen goods, from the ordinary web to a piece of sheeting 130in.  wide — the damask, from towelling to the beautiful flowered patterns we use on dining-tables — and so on, through process after process, each one full of interest, until finally, as the dinner-hour rings, we see the last fold neatly given by a machine to a piece of linen in the lapping-room.  Aud then we stand aside to see the operatives pour out for a short' rest in their weary day's toil, and feel that a visit to a spinning mill awakens in one not alone interest in and admiration for all the wonderful powers of machinery, and for all that is necessary for the perfecting of the simplest article made for our daily use, but the visit also makes us think very deeply over the lives of those that toil — hard and painful lives for the many, with much wanting in them that might brighten and elevate — much that could be done by masters and teachers and preachers, but much more that only the people can do for them-.