The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-08-30
(Prom the New York Sunday Times)
The Family Sewing Machine.


40 understand the value OF the Sewing
Machine, and the happy changes which it
has effected in the social and family rela-
tiOns, one must be familiar with the quiet
households scattered throughout the East
and West, the North and South, of this
great and thriving Country.
Every where I'm the interior domestic as
sistance of any kind is so difficult to be OBJ
tanned, that it is scarcely looked for, and
every good house wife relies upon her own
exertions, not only to keep her house in
order.her harder well supplied with the es-
sential luxuries of homemade bread, cake
and pies, but her own, the childreh's, and
frequently her husbands wardrobe fur
nished with all the useful, if not the orha-
mental, articles of dress. ..
This necessity provided an immense
amount of work for one pair of hands to
perform-the female head of the house, the
hard tasked wife and mother. found not a
moment for relaxation. The drudgery of
the kitchen was succeeded by that of the
work basket, whose pile of fshirts and small
garments seemed never to decrease Not
moment of time could be afforded for the
qualification Of any simple fancy, even in
ornamental needlework, all, to the last
moment, and far into Saturday night, was
exhausted in the necessities of the plainest
work upon little aprons, frocks, and draw
ers, and an inevitable weekly collie ton OF
family mending. '.ft'' 3"
In large number of these households
the case is now widely different; the Sew
ing Machine, generally the GROVER & BA-
KER, occt1pies an hoilored place in the fam
lily sitting room, and accomplishes more
and better than the most skillfti1 seams
tress. 1t is in q sense, which only those
can appreciate who have known what it is
to sew ali the household garments by hand
the family friend. It is looked upon with
eyes of real affection.
The interior of a country house, at this
season of the year is as pleasant as can be
immagihed; and it is made so, in great
degree, by the presence of the Sewing Ma
chine. An hours work in the afternoon
upot d bright, rapid, wonder-workins
GROVER & BAKER, will accomplish NOR,
than could be done by weary hand work
ing almost into midnight. 1t will not on
ly finish the dozen shirts in ''less than NJ
time," but it will tuck drawers and chem
ises, ruffie nightgOwns, stitch trowsers
quilt Innings and cOverlids, and all this
and much more, with such strength, beau
ty. ahd precision, as would throw the neat
est hand-wOrk into the shade. t"
10 L. %or -
chased once in lifetime, it Is therefore O
the greatest importance to get the best
the one which, all things considered, Il
most perfectly adapted to meet the require
ments. f ."r rnfH
This We sincerely believe, and the opin
is corroborated by the hikirest. authorities
in the community, is the GROVER & BA
KER Machine making the celebrated '1GRo.
YER & BAKER" stitch, the only stitch, al
far as We know, sufficiently elastic to b.
adapted to all kinds of family sewing.
The peculiar qualities Of the Grover
Baker Machine,are strength, beauty, ,elasti-
city, and versatility, or adaptation to any
kind of work. 1t compasses the whole
range Of family sewing completely, ant
without any of the vexatious delays in re-
winding, fastening, and finishing, which
are common to other machines and which
occupy so much time, and waste so mucl
material. 1t makes beautiful, smooth
| elastic seam upon cloth or cambria, which
giues when it is washed or stretched with
out breaking, and in which every stitch il
Lo1 hot ho no
off between every half dozen stitches with
out impairing its strength.
Testimonial letters, from ladies ant
housekeepers all over the country, epeal
unitedly of the beauty and superior elias
ticity of stitch. One lady says, it is th'
only machine that can ''quilt;" another
that is the only one sit for boys trowsers; :
and third, that she is particularly de
lighted with the way in which it make
''wOolen drawers and flannel garments"
The Grover & Baker stitch is the only on'
can that be properly used upon bias seams
and is therefore adapted to an immens'
variety of garments containing stich seam
and also seams which are subjected tt
much stretching and wear. In addition
| to the fact that no rewinding and no fast
ening Is required, a great deal of time ant
temper too, is saved to the operator, by th'
simplicity, regularity, and ease of the va
rious movements, the adjustment without
change of tension to different kinds o
work, and the method by which it il
thrown from the machine, without delay
or embarrassment, and also in such way a.
| to enable the operator to maintain pleas
ant and graceful position.
For dress-makers, the Grover & Baker
is the only suitable Machine; it is the on
1y one that will accomplish satisfactorily
and with an immense saving of time, al
the plain sewing, stitching, and quilting
which they have to accomplish.
For the heads of families tits equally
valuable. 1t will do every thing. 1t i:
simple, reliable, perfect in its operation
easy to be understood, not easy to get ou,
of order, and gives such thorough satisfac'
ton, as to leave no room for complaint.