The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-10-01 00:00:00

ROBERT H. HAIR, LL.D..

111 1i114X1310 OF 1111

SEWING MACHINES,

ISATIS :-

MHz inestimable benefits that have occurred
1 to society by the introduction of the Sewing
Machine are inappreciable; but the classes who have
most benefitted by it ere those who, formerly " with
eyes weary and dim," gamed a precarious and
wretched existence by means of the needle. It We
Increased labour for those =room to an extent that
could scarcely have been anticipated by miming
C 01401111416, and every minutia of female apparel to be
so profusely trisna4 and that they entirely put into
the shade the olti-ioned and puritanical 1
plain dreams of half a generation ago. Indeed t7l=
• height lam elaboragoa of detail in dress now reached,
that the occupation of Dressmaking may almost be
styled an art, while the prodte attendant thereon have
more than prop.xtloaatsy increased. Instead, there-
fore, of the poorer clans= Iwalim was
anm=mabysfi
M the Sewing
ad by it, as not only las Ae vane
of their labour been enhanced, but it ham gime
employment to many thousands of additional perm=

THE Rht Hon. the Baroness Foley, when
at a committee of Ladles, in the West
Riding ci YorLhlrs, founded for the purpose of con-
sidming a beneficial mode of aiding fasmies to obtain
employment, stated that that much patient con-
adoration the committee had decided to present
=Perks iiewittas.ltachines to Women of good
character, as the best means of carrying out the
views of the
L--Beam. they would enable remunerative em-
ployment to be carried on at the Girls' homes,
2.—Cobriate the necessity of Wonseldgoing oat to
work in uniavocrabie weather,
3.—hiaterially .promote and prawns domestic
morals.

The OW &nice Game& announces on the authority
of Court Newsmen that
The EIf:PRESS of the FRENCH,
The EMPRESS of RUSSIA,
The QUINN of BAVARIA, and
The QUEEN of GREECE,
Beguile their boon with the Sewing Machine...

Sewing Machines not only save money, but they
enable Ladies to relieve themselves of the monotony
of plain needlework, which formerly occupied a great
portion of their time, inasmuch ai Machines may be
utilised for every deeoription of domestic sewing, in-
cluding that Ur arm termed "patching," while
executing in one hour what formerly occupied a whole
day to perform. So cheap are Machines at the present
time, that there le no excuse for any moderately wall-
to-do householder to be without one, especially as with
only occasional use It. oast can be more than saved
during the first year.
To the " Machinist," a name that has almost
usurped that of @Garniture, the Sewing Machine Is
invaluable, as if she ponies= one. and be moderately
expert, work is always procurable. It in only
poor machinist, without the 01•111311 to porc a
Machine who experiences even occasional difficulty In
procuring employment; but even her earnings are, on
the whole, so ler In *IONS of the needle-woman's that if
she be thrifty her ambition to own a Machine may be
gratified within a reasonable time.
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Philanthropic persons wishiog to aid poor Indus-
trios, WORM cannot oonfer a greater boon than by the
presentation of a good but not cumbrous machine.

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