The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-06-23
TH1 PAoIrIo
Commercial Advertiser.


A He0seb0ld Treasure
We have . special word to say to our lady friends.
entnered about our cheerful Comfortable. >, this
eesofeor1s!y day. We have been listening to Mrs.
49, anu WIS Brown very particularly, on the old
10Aossc grevance-the servant Question. We nc
knovieige that much Of their experience has
Deen our owns but there is one family servant
snepaoie TO none of their charges-one that never
'a'S unless It Is the VIII Of the employer, and Is not
gwen to being over dressed, consumes no food, makes
no washing. asks no wages. and above all, though
freefy sfmitted 10 the hmily-circle, never retails
YOUR private affairs in the kitchen.
should Ike to see such u paragon, that's all 20
IL Green says, skeptically. But Mrs. Brown
sH 1ddie we have pronounced.
ssnk.HL Green doesn't believe in them. Its all
oAw we'll for these poor souls we read about. who
<~o ~sixpence a day for making shirts, or for
>~ rsrk-rooms like Douglas and Sherwood
tine. s>)da people; but they won't answer for
warden Is ID, and she thereupon produces an i'm
zinsh Of chanof individual testimony to support the
Aau where tips 50 too Mrs. Brown adds; eff
comes the foa there's the whole seam 30
Whers iron il great cord on the under side :" Mrs.
<foa- All thes though she has come to spectacles,
The labor is pherself on her stitching. Plain sew
words are ints as an accomplishment in Mrs Blacks
. . ss:s' and 1t never will do for hns work
Dc In the .nidst Of the lasts little Mrs White. busy
buildings we have just Intestinal rufies.
M&8m e08f06-.. OTucE " 3siys MIS-
ehsse immen corroboratingo opinion Of the
faWJ that The pat week herfectly useless, and there's
maeeonseys an tda Of thsn away
- The Our eoassing feet get one, it should be the
works fSsAsr.t[~ 8 cheap things. What could
Of rsre 6nis1evhas h. 2@that's the thing" And
thing is neat which ed mouth turns 3 little sccrn-
idsa how musf 70 ID seems to indicate that she has
. But there is sorsiti IS impossible to solve In the
spinuing-room iAending claims.
the sight Of tpas6pd oat; but imagine Mr.. W bite
shuttles keep s-rssred and twenty-five dollars for me.
click In theS was beside myself if asked it. A
from room tosPrisn't made every day, and l think
and atytbswe DO save for her husband and chill
IN, Shave been married a year, little lady. and you
nv. many beautiful theories, but experience IS the
!. n-,gpide, You aim high to be your husbands
perSohs ne shelper, in all social and intellectual
frva desx< pattern and example to your children;
- "A h,v- years roll on, and a crib is added to a
baby's CRADLE, and the wants Of elder children accu-
muiAte q pressure Of spring or winter sewing that
depresses your spirits and wears upon your strength,
how are your higher duties to be accomplished in the
midst Of iueessant toll, that forbids alike progress or
recreation /, That is not economy which wastes a
wifs's best. capital-health and cheerfuiness- ASK
your neighbor-fretful, sickly Mrs. Jenkins-what
she thinks of help that, for once in her married life,
would empty the over6owing work-basket; or pale
Miss Thomas, that you pity so, because, as the eldest
daughter Of that great family, she sits, from break
fast till dinner, and from dinner till tea, toiling more
steadily than her mothers maid-ofall-work while
she Graves time for study and womanly accomplish
ment though she bends, with patient self-denial, to
the bme bondage. Do you know. besides all this,
that the husband for whom you are ready to sacrifice
80 much will whit away the hundred dollars before
you have saved twenty-dve! You had no brothers,
and You do not know that cigars are forty dollars a
But it is time. since such discussions arise in every
little womanly gathering throughout the land, that
he " Center-Table" pronounced, in sober earnest
hess, on the various objections that are urged, and
- 80 ". r~-S.~ q L. - l. |
,est ~ more especially.
We commenced our investigation in a social and
capacity- Fully a year since, when the
universal ruin brought many q delicate hand in
ontact for the hrtt time with toll, it became a mat
.sncs 70 6@6e fesfsa - the
.sss;sute for the wearing needle-work that alone
.sao5 between her aud absolute want The kindness
friend supplied the meaus-the support Of three
children the strongest motives for immediate acton
and. with these reasons for deciding wisely for one
who called forth our strongest sympathies, we entered
On our seifappointed quest
>. First "to the great work-rooms" which Mrs
Green has cited, where years Of experience had fully
tested the several inventions At Genin's we were
told wheeler & Wilson's, for family sewing, most
unquesrionably." We inclined, at that time, to an
ether manufacture, and were net disposed TO make
tbs dnsf- At Brodie's the same reply.
In the midst OF the marvellous enterprise and in
dustry at Douglas & Sherwooi's, We were pointed TO
the same source, for their efficient aid; for simplicity,
for ~rapidity, for the best stitch. the most durable
work and for all this we wished to find. But for
shirts, for family sewing." We asked of others to re-
ceivc the same reply. So Wheeler and wilson
uas purchased, TO prove, under observation, the truth
Of sii that was urged in its praise. Still, the price
-at first Sl25, now S1OO-for the pretty workable,
entirely closed, seemed a great deal to pay at once,
even with 4 prospect OF future payment, as n :" saw
fngs bank frum a moderate income. OF late We
noticed by chance, the advertised reduction, by the
same firm. OF a really good and useful machine for
half that SUN 70 assure Ourselves that it was fully
a. serviceable, we paid our first visit to the establish
menf. Imagine. if you please. a large and elegantly
furnished drswing-room :et about with pretty little
articles Of furniture, which at first might be taken
for a small musical instrument, and in the center a
group Of from ten to twenty ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ladies, " taking lessons," though the music has more
Of the cheerful hum Of the spinning-wbeel than the
sad tone Of the meIodeon. These are purchasers, who
are being instructed in the full use Of their new pos
sessiou-in its scanning, quitting, gathering, hem
ming, and telling capitalization competent in
structors. provided by the firm. One of them most
kindly and fully satisfies our curiosity; assures us
that, for all Eorkiag purposes, though unornamented
and uninclosei, the workable at fifty dollars EQUALS
ins more costly neighbors; explains to us the con-
struction Of the Instrument; illustrates practically
the regularity Of the stitch upon both sides of the
seam, there being no ridge whatever underneath
the working Of the guages for regulating its width,
until the hand and eye are trained, and, above all,
the new and all important 80 ~hemmer,'' by which the
most delicate rufHe may be turned and hemmed with
. raPidity and precision that defy description
Therefore we speak advisedly in commanding for
general family use, this most profitable OF all sers-
ants, to be found st the intelligence Office of
Wbesler q Wilson, willingly acting as reference to its
honesty, docility. and general good character.
a.e.s Prs'e-s..'i-.-
I. Darlington N50L6iey. now Lord Macaulev. the
author ot tAs Hiaosy Of England, and the celebrated
British Bsayiss thus testi6es his knowledge of the
D-cSc~S~,f and CofhnIr~ I~son