The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-11-05 00:00:00

IN SPILLING OF TEI

SEWING MACHINES,

&AY@ :-

THE inestimable benefits that have oocurred
-1 to society by the Introduction of the Sewing
Machine sr* Inappreciable; but the dames who have
most bmefitted by it are those who, formerly " with
eyes weary and dim," earned • precarious and
wretched existence by means of the needle. It has
iiicreeeed labour for those pneons to an extant that
could warmly have been anticipated by causing
soettimm, and evoy minutia of female apparel to be
so profu•oly trimmed, and that they entirely put into
the shade the old-fashioued sad puritanical
plain dreams of half a generstion ago. Indeed roc.ila
scuct
• height has elaboration of detail in dress now reached,
that the occupation of Dressmaking istmjantrti be
styled ma art, while the profits hare
more than proportionately increased. Instead, there-
fore, of tile poorer classes losing work, as was
aatt.t:irdim by the Sewing Miaine, they have
Ily nefitted by it, as not only has the value
of their labour been enhanced, but it has given
employment to many thousands of additional persons.

THlgrese: Hon. the Baroness Foley, when
at a committee of Ladies, in the West
Riding of Yorkshire, founded for the purpose of con-
sidering a beneficial mode of aiding female, to obtain
employment, stated that after much patient con•
sideration the committee had decided to present
superior Sewing Machines to Women of good
character, as being the best means of carrying out the
views of the committee.
L —Because they would enable remunerative em.
ployansat to be carried on at the Girls' homes.
2.—Obviate the necessity of Women going Ott to
work in unfavourable weather, and
3.—Materially promote and preserve domestic
morals.

The OW Service Gerdes announces on the authority
all Court Newman that
The EMPRESS of the FRENCH,
The EMPRESS of RUSSIA,
The QUEEN of BAVARIA, and
The QUEEN of GREECE,
Beguile their hours with the Sewing Machine.
Bowing Machines not only save money, but they
enable Ladies to relieve themselves of the moaotony
of plain needlework, which formerly occupied a great
portion of their time, inasmuch al Machines may be
utilised for every description of domestic sewing, in-
cluding that be noire. termed " patching." while
executing in one hour what formerly occupied • whole
day to perform. So cheap are Machines at the present
time, that there is no excuse for any moderately well-
to-do householder to be without one, especially as with
only occadonal u,e itl cost can be more than saved
during the first year.
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To the "Machinist" a name that ham almost
usurped that of seametresa. the Sewing Machine is
Invaluable, as if sb• iroileeleell one, and he molerately
expert, IVO& is always procureble. It is only the
poor machinist. without the means to purchase a
Machine who experiences even oecadonal difficulty in
procuring employment; but even her earnings are, on
the whole. so far in excess of he needle-woman's that if
she be thrifty her ambition to own a Machine may be
gratified wit iin a reasonable time.

Philanthropic pen. ma wield g to aLI poor Indus-
triotte women cannot confer a ,frester boon than by the
presentation of a good but not cumbrous machine.