Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-06-14

TTAS received the highest premiums at the FAIRS
III Of the Virginia Mechanics Institute, Virgins
State Agricultural Society, Maryland Institute, and
all other Fairs where it has been exhibited.
Christmas being near at hand, when persons hire
their sew ants for another year. now is the time to
saoe tie hire of Sergant, by purchasing one of these
Machines
THE BEST INVENTION EYER OFFERED TO
THE PUBLIC.
ADVANTAGES OF THIS MAcHrNE.-l. Clothes are
washed far cleaner far more thoroughly than by hand
even when pounding is added At one and the same
instant they are subjected to the threefold operation
of Pouud;nq. Rubbing and Squeezing; those parts
which are the most soiled receiving the most of it;
whilst owing to the limited resistance offered by the
floating balls, no injury is sustained from the opera
tiop even by the finest textures. 2 The time con,
srmed is but VERY SMALL FRACTION of that required
in washing by hand. o. The wear and tear of clothes
is far less even when pounding is added to the
rubbing by hand. Persons have done hundreds Of
wasbings with the machine, without ever knowing
button to be torn off broken. In numberless in
stances the experiment has been tried of putting in
bank notes together with shirts, considerably soiled
After being washed the time requisite for making the
shirts perfectly clean, the notes have presented no
change sded
soan is much less s. Less fuel is consumed than in
washing bv hand when the latteris done with hot
water and the clothes are boiled afterwards. 6. All
necessity for boiling is superseded, excepting only
snch clothes as are in the very foulest state when Ia
ken to wash T. All injury to the hands is avoided
no bleeding or sore fingers; none OF the bhsterng,
and chapping and callous, such as washerwomen's
hands 80 often exhibit. The hands are never i'm
mersed in the water never Wet except TO the extent
r putting the clothes into the sash and Ia
king them out, and in wrnging them. s. The ma
chine is EASY to work. very easy that the whole Ia
Dor of working it. Tin doing the weeks wash of a
large family is among the highest tasks involved in
the daily routine of household duties. Very small
children can take part in it, any girl of or
binary strength however little used to labor. do
the whole without fatigue and with great benefit from
tbe exercise this being of the best kind for strength
ening the arms, chest and loins g.. The process OF
washing with il is most simple consisting as it does
in the two acts of laying the clothes in the sash, and
in working this up and down. by giving the like mo-
ton to the lever which the sash is attached to. Any
person of the most ordinary intelligence will acquire
sufficient knowledge of it by witnessing 1t for ten
minutes; and without having seen 1t at all, no
such person can fail to become conyersant with It, IN
half hours practice, observing tne printed dlrec
tons. For merely washing clothes clean, and ena-
bling any one to do wash in time so Short that 1t
can Scarcely be credited by those who have not wit.
messed it. all needful directions would De comprised
in few lines But for doing wash in the most per-
feet manner possible and in the briees time possible
number particulars must be at!enaee W. Mnlcn,
although they could be all learned in few minutes
bv seeing, cannot be described so briefly. 10. The
machine cannot get out of order in any way exceptlt
he actually broken; and it cannot be broken IN using
IT, If broken the damage, when thegreatest posslole
can be repaired by any common carpentern one nour
IL Its durability has other limit out tnat OF the
mower of wood to resist decay.
would beg leave to refer to the following gentle
mon who have tried the above machine: Rev. W. i.
Richardson, 81. L. Gallaher, DIR. G. Alexander J;H
Smith, j. S. Wallace, Peter Hanger, Sr., u: u. Coy
ner John Coyner, r., and John Taylor, Ut ayhes'
boro, where they are manufactuTee ana GW4Ss Oh
Wavnesboro' Dec. a. 185S.-6m