Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-07-05
MY W1FE,s SEWING MD
CHINE.
BY DoEsTIGKs.
From the n. Y. Sunday Nercury.l

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Sewing machines are the subject of this al
/ ticle. I've got wife; a bran-new article
with bonnet, white vail, long stockings, hoops
cuils; embroidered things, in the way o
clothes; worked other things, in the way o
clothes 10 fact. more clothes Of every con
| ceivable variety than ever dreamed coult
belong to any one woman-but I've got her
all complete. HolC got bcr, wonder. Il
fact, l think that when any man regards con
templatively that most wonderful work of The
Creator, a wife, his soul must be filled with
admiration for himself, as wonderfully clever
fellow, to win such a curious contrivance, OF
else he must be overcome with supreme thank
falness at his own good luck.
I've not yet ceased wondering how got
my wife: but I've got her. all complete, as
said beforei and if you don't believe it, there
she is
No, by Georgel there she tsnf She's gone
down town to get some screws, or needles, or
something, for her sewing machine.
(WhiIe she's gone, I'll say something that
every married man has thought. bnt no one
has said before. The most astonishing thing
in the world to a modest young man is, to
wake up the morning after yon amt bache
Ior any more and see pair of Wouan's slip
pers on the Aoor, pair of longer stockings on
the chair, and heap of women's other dress
ing mysteries, piled mp in places where you
have been used to seeing only boots and empty
cigars boxes. Don't tell your wivesi for it
isn't Il good thing to let them know that you
have ever been otherwise than in a state of
the most perfec' and thorough selEpossession.)
However, TO come back, for the third or
more'th time TO the sewing machine ques-
tion>
My wife-my wife-my wJe-MY WIFE
listen to that-MY WIFE! my wife wan
ted sewing machine. Of course, if she had
asked for a small locomotive engine, and a
circular raiIrcad round the parlors, she should
have them or rather, 1colsli have had them,
and so l bought the sewing machine; and
what is worse, paid Tor it. If hadn't paid
for it, could make them take it back; but as
ii is cherish no such deusive hope
have tried to keep her in work. have
bought twenty or thirty pieces of cotton cloth
which she has nude up flannel ditto, calico
the sanc; WOODEN also; carpet also, and oil
cloth, even more also, We have had the ma
chine a month; she has male me shirts enough
lor IL regiment of u ,uaves in active service;
she has made sheets enough for dozen first
class hotels; she has made me 50 many pairs
Of pantaloons that she has got sick of them
Jefore have had chance TO try hall of them
1n, and has begun TO give them away to beg
CARS; the amount and description of garments
The has mad. for herself could only b. stated
II three volumes.
Now, having mlde all the new garments
he could, she has begun to make the others
vice over. Llst Monday morning. [ found
ny shirts sewtd together with double seam
Ill round, 81 that Ilisht as well try to get
nto an unopened sarIine box. She has taken
n hand four babies, of ages ranking from
wo to eight years, and has gone TO make
lothes for them. She has nude them so ma
" garments that each one of these unfortu-
l1te children has 80 be undressed at least
line times in a forenoon, to try on the pro
ucts ofour wonderful sewing machine.