Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1858-12-25
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deeu we surprised ourselves with A coat
sewed in important respects by machine-.
Wesaw linen pyramids of sheeting made
for hotels and steamboats, by, sewing-ma-
chimes. al f..f-.,-s s.t s.,.'......, BE-. -.
| The case was growing serious, indeed
and, at last, il came to head, when the
head of the family Informed us that wo.
man was 10 come Ia few days. with her
| Wheeler and Wilson, and do up the family
sewing Ofcourse, we submitted without
4 a word. And the three capable persons
OF this household began to prepare matter
\ for the machine, to au uextent1whieh show
! ed how perfectly they had been fooled by
t1e story Of its cxecntye ability. Piles
/ o, large stun lay incach corner; little stuff
/ covered the table; and miscellaneous stuff
4 lay everywhere. We ran against cotton
heaps were IN danger Of getting tangled
in@ebs Of linen and sheeting at every turn,
md such ripping and tearing, aud cut
| ting and bastiDg, as went on, would lead
one to imagine that an army was to be
clothed, .T.... ~. r... s.,e,.5 -.,..'..1
/ The day dawned. The woman came, and
! the iron Wheeler and Wilson came with
| her, only the lady had to act as bean, and
offer her ard to wait on Messrs. w. and W.
| After little, there arose hum from our
1 chamber, not ualike the buzz of a wheat
mill, such as we have heard in simmer. Sit
/ ting ah,ier willow trees onuthe eflre Of a
stream, oYeragainst a red mill, white-dust.
cd, Soon we heard excited exclamations.
Everybody seemed stirred up, The girls
let their work; the children forsook their
playthings, and we followed the example
There sat before tue simple machine
stand q fair young womah, Some sixteen
years Old, whose foot, Ike that OF old.fash-
| Toned haX-spinners, was working the trcadle
with the nimblest motion. Then came the
conviction, for the first time, that sewing
vas conquered aud vanquishedh Loug
sheets, entering the fatal pass, streamed
through, and came out hemmed, in q ridi-
culouSly short time. An hours work was
done up before your eyes in one minnie
~ shirt was set IN, Of such dimensions, that
I'VE call Baron MunchadSen to withess!1
man could not get round it by fair walking
in less than;--well in some time ! 1t
streamed throughthe all-puncturng Wheel
er aud w Wilson about as soon as q good
sized flag, being hoisted, would unroll aud
iiow out TO the wind. A bnndle of linen
took its turn, and came forth a collar,
| handkerchief, a cap. There goes in d piece
Of clothi--there comes out a shirt! We
were bewildered Not much was done for
+ some hours in that house but gaze won
! der. We mistake. A good deal more was
done, and done more effectually, than had
ever been done q in Ten times the time be-
fore What heaps of towes-what piles
Of sheets-what bedfuls of small trumpery
what bureaus full Of fine trash-what
carpet-littcring stacks of unmentionable
matters that make up the cloth-inventors
of household wealth! p t" af ~
The dsmayed woman of the house saw
her three days prepared work melting a.
whyabelore noon, as a three days April
snow disappears in few hours! b sss.I :.
The yoracious machine began to show
its teeth and to demand more food-and
now it was fair race, whether two women
could prepare as much as one machine
could perfoim 1t did our very souls good
AT last, we hoped that this was working
fast enough. oh, what early hours has
our lamp been made to inumine! All, what
breakfasts have we eaten, aad seen cleared
away, long before the sun touched ever
the cheek Of day. What impetuous in-
dustry, had glow ed about the house, fore
noon, afternoon, night, midnight : never
enough, never oyermatchcd ! We grew
tired even TO look at it AT last, said we.
You've got your match. Now, then, we
will sit down and see this race, with salts
faction that shall include years of revenge
for disturbed indoepce! .- .-,r,.,. :
For a long time the match was doubtful
Sometimes it was the machine that had the
advantage, and sometimes it was not The
contest was passing into the middle Of the
afternoon, II was doubtful Sometimes
the fasJ-driyen needle evidently gained
then again, in rounding up a sleeye-gather-
ing, the needle tagged, and then the hand
worked scissors gained But iron and
steel are more enduring, even, than house
wife's courage, And though for any single
hour the hand could prepare faster than
the machine could execute, vet, taking the
day through, Wheeler aud Wilson had the
advantage, and came out at dark decidedly
ahead. That settled it, There was a re-
volution in this household Our Miriam
sounded her timbrel aud triumphed over
the cruel Pharaoh of the needle, whose dy |
nasty and despotism were ended 81. l
\ ow, sewing IS the family amusement. !
Our Wheeler and Wilson is played on
great deal more than our Steinway piapo-r
and is the cause, too, of more real music
than is ever got out of that instrument
for two canary birds, perched on either side
of the bookcase, understand the first click
of the sewingmachiae to be challenge,
aud while the machine sings staccato they
warble GG hbitUm, and between the sOlf6g-l
gio of the one and the oqatQ6ile of the 9th
er, we go crazy. adl 5aJ H 90 10
The New York Eveaiag Post thus ridieules
the modern mode Of writing obituary notices Of
deceased New Y ork merchants. We think it
may furnish some useful hints in an indirect
way, to some heTeabouts who are given to Obitu-
Ty notices n 900 1>4 81. efi i
"IIe was born at HuddletowD, Connecti-
cut, in the year 1902. By the time be was
teu years old (Very old, indeed, be was at
that time Of life, he had made one hun
dred aud sixry-fye bargains, barters aud
diekers in shoe strings, peg-tops and jack.
knives, and had amassed the sum Of five
dollars aud 6fty-three cents At the age
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