The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1856-12-11
Saving Machines

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Since sewing machines were Invented |
have watched their success with unfailing
interest. have examined them when they
have been announced 20 the public. snl |
must say / consider Item the most blessed
Improvement of the age | am willing
TO do with my needle anything which the
comfort of NV family requires. but at the
time, when com PEELED 10 do W hat ma
chine could accomplish more neatly and IN a
hundredth part of the time. l feel degraded
by it. There several machines.
each Of which claims 10 be the best. | do
not pretend te decide on their respective
merits, although for my own | prefer
that OF Grove K Baker. l know lady in
Boston who uses one OF his small boy ma
chimes. aud is perfectly delighted with it !;
she IS AFRAID OF becoming indolent, as she can
easily make two shirts a dav Another has
been enabled to dispense with the services Of
a seamstress and nursery maid; this lady me-
only does her own sewing. but sews for her
friends. A cousin Of mine owns Of these
machines and her husband. when vist.n-,
US a week ago, told the work never
ripped. SO soon as Grover & Baker have
been able 10 fill their present orders. | expect
TO be enriched bY the possession of one Of
their machines. hayv taken my first lesson
on some plain sewing which | took TO the
city. and | cannot tell you my delight a the
amount / accomplished in a few minutes.
| did more sewing In half hour than |
should have done in the whole dav a. home.
Grover IL Baker have manufactured a va
rie;y Of sewing machines for different pur-
poses, There is one designed especially for
cylindrical work, ike boot legs Others ior
shoes and CATERS bag making and tailors'
use, for shirt making, quilting, &c. There
!s one they consider particularly adapted to
plantation work, of which kind they send
many South. Perhaps Mollie Broom would
ike one of these 10 aid in the disappearance
of the great piles Of WORK over which every
sprin. and autumn she is called 10 preside.
Then there Family Machines, ranging in
price from seyeutyhve 10 one hundred and
ten uouars. They do nut tahv up 50 Inu,I,
room as an old fashioned fax wheel. The
machine is kept in motion by treadle. ex-
/ cept the boy machine, which NAV be used
either with the treadle or be turned by the
haGd. The machines for family work are
beautiful little things, simple in construction,
and easily kept in order They will make
pantaloons or muslin under sleeves with equal
neatness and dispatch.
Beside Grover 81 Bakers machine, there
are Singers, Wheeler * Wilson's, and four
or FIVE others of less repute. Singer manu-
features in New York city, and employs about
900 men Wheeler Il Wilson have removed
to Bridgeport, Conn, AMI employ at least
one hundred men Grover & Baker manu-
iacture in Boston, where they are erecting a
building which will employ about goo men
Sewing machines have heretofore been
less than $50 machines in making ladies
skirts, of which they turn out three thousand
a day. Ny dress maker in the city uses
machine which saves her the expense OF five
girls From one thousand to two thousand
stitches a minute is by no means an unusual
number; on shirt bosoms the number aver
ages about fifteen hundred. One halt the
machines sold are purchased by needle
women, who thereby support themselves
with ease. | heard one young woman say
that she paid for her machine by sewing in
six weeks.
In families of ordinary size, a sewing
chine would, doubt not, prove good econo-
my. When one family cannot afford to pur
chase alone several might unite. and thus
release themselves from the weafisome bon
dage Of the needle. | hope to be able to
cure one in season - DO ny fall sewing: il
| do, | presume YOU viii hear fron, me again
in regard to H. for ! am sure / wish all your
readers may have SO skiliful rapid aud un-
failing a seamstress as my own.
ANN HOPE