The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-10-15 00:00:00

ROBERT H. XAIR, LL.D.,

II IFILICDP3 01 THI

SZWING MACHINES,

P4lll :--

Tilinestimable benefits that have occurred
t! society by the introduction of the Sewing
Ifachine are Inappreciable; but the denim who have
most Isenatted by it are those who, formerly " with
eyes weary and dim," earned a precarious end
wretched exiMenes by insane of the needle. It has
increased labour for those persoos to an extent that
could scarcely have been anticipated by causing
costumes, and every minutia of female apparel to be
so profusely trimmed, and that they entirely put into
the shade the old-fsehioned and puritanical looldng
plain dresses of half a generation ago. Indeed to such
• height has elaboration of detail in deem now reached,
that the occupation of Dressmaking may almost be
styled an art, while the prate attendant thiaeon have
more than proportanately increemd. Instead, there-
fore, of the poorer classes Iwlicareaszas was
anmattinted, by the Bowing =ine have
y benatted by it, as riot only • value
of their labour been enhanced, but It has eves
employment to many thousands of additional persons.

rr H/I_,Riltitt Hon. the Baroness Foley, when
at a committee of Ladies, in the West
Riding of Yorkshire, founded for the purpose of con-
sidering a banal:dal mode of aiding females to obtain
eloplmeat., stated that after much patient con-
sideration the committee had decided to present
superior liewibnilfachines to Women of good
character, as the best means of carrying out the
views of the committee.
L —Because they would enable remunerative em-
ployment to be =fried on at the Girls' homes.
2.—Obviate the neoessity of Women going out to
work in unfavourable weather, and
3.—Materially .promote and preserve domestic
morals.

The Civil Service Gaseke_ruloonole. on the anthor4t7

of '6O-7,W147,i.7.7-thii

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.

Sewing Machines not only save money, but they
enable Ladies to relieve themselves of the monotony
of plain needlework, which formerly oocupied a groat
portion of their time, inasmuch as Machines may be
utilised for every description of domestic *swing, in.
eluding that b4fe 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 moriwately well-
to-do householder to be without one, especially as with
only occasional use its wet can be more than saved
during the first year.

To the " Idachinist," a name that has &Imo.'
that of seamstress, the Sewing Machine is
igd
Invaluable, as if she pomeeme one, and be moderately
expert, work is always procurable. It is only the
poorchinmrhinist, without the means to purchase •
who experiences even occasional difficulty in
procuring employment; but even her earnings are, on
the whole, so far in excess of the needle-woman's that if
she be thrifty her ambition to own • Machine may be
gratified within • reasonable time.
Philanthropic person* wishing to aid poor Indus-
trious women cannot confer a greater boon than by the
presentation of a good but not cumbrous machine.