Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-08-05

The famous success of the SINGER MANrFACruR-
ING COMPANY has stimulated many other com
paucs to put forth all their energies and talents to
produce a sewing machine that would eclipse or
eaual the Singer, but in every case they have sig
nally tailed a. IS plainly shown by the ihet that oi
all the travelling agcnts-"1unner- or drummtre
OF other companies. none have the assurance 10
claim more than an equ.lity with the Singer. even
upon any special class ol work.
There many sewing. machines, now offered 10
the public that have their good points. and are OF
much assistance to the housewife and the induetri-
ous seamstlcss. Parties purchasing sewing ma
chine of any sort, find the Improvement on the old
fashioned way OF sewing by hand so great ana
pleasing, that they naturally, but enormously
led believe that they have the best until the spell
is broken by the introduction of the Singer Of 1870
into neighbor's family, which is sure, by the in
creased rapidity and ease with which II does every
kind of plain or fancy sewing, To awaken them 10 a
positive. although it may be silent acknowledge
ment of the painful truth that there are very many
varieties of work that are easily executed upon the
Singer, but that they must either be content to DO
without or exchange, at heavy pecuniary sacri-
iice, their curveaineedled trail-powered, unrelia
ble-tenSoned, low-speeded or raveletltched ma
chine for Singer Ne'c Famity Machine
Various eXpedlent> are reSorted tx that the pub
lie eve may be turned from the Singer tor the pur-
pose of Introducing inferior machines-yiz The
Double Lock knot-Sti n'Elastic Stitch, Twist
ed Loop self Adjusting Tensons,"" High Finish
and Beautifully Ornrmented,n "Strught Needle
Vertical Feed Bars" "Noiseless Running" Isl
lent Feed and last and wor. of all the low-priced
Family shuttle Machines"
MANY of these points are desirable, (and the
Singer exces all in each individual speciality but
the greatest made of these special points ls by
the retail agent who parades them before the mex
perienced purchaser with such fluent and earnest
style, entirely divert attention from the really
important bearings of the case. While other inno-
cent local agents ignorantly represent that te ma
chine sold by them is capable of doing every varie-
ty of work equal to the Singer, and often do they
thus unconsciously swindle customers who cannot
afford. to squander their substance upon guided
follies and worthless rattle-traps. 80
Parties in quest of a Sewing Machine should look
about them and learn what machine is most extern
sively used in families, tailor shops, shoe factories,
and carriage factories. II is acknowledged fact,
Ireeiy unlimited by o seictag ndchiRe deaters, thai
more than tco-thirdS Of all the clothing rorn IN this
country By both Seres hefher custom made or reddy
ndde is actually manufactured upon THE SINGER
SEWING MACHINE.
These Machines are manufactured by one OF the
oil lest, strongest, and most enterprielng Compan-
les that has ever been engaged in the business IN
the world Throughout their immense mahniac.
tories which are Kept in cons tant operation day
and night" none but highly skilled mechanics are
employed. Newly improved machinery Ii en-
ployed turning out each part finished to that me-
chanical .Xactness that every one is perfect du,
plicate of the other in size weight and hnlsh: Al
new inventions are carefully examined ana tested,
and if approved, are adopted regardless ot eN-
pense while the many impractical humDugs that
are patented, are left to grace some ne" wonder
and learn the purchaser when too late, that he has
"pad too dear for his whistle" 1t should be re-
membercd that the Singer Manufacturing Com
pany has never made poor Machlne-r"m the
yerv first twenty-odd years ago. They never buy
editorial notices, or eXpend funds III 'log-rollInS
at Fairs to gaia medals or premiums.
They simply make their Machines as valuable as
money and science can perfect then-place then
in their Sales Rooms, and leave the pubhc to IND
out their virtues in their own way By inns stfaieht
forward course they now manufacturing about
four hundred per day, and at that rate, even, are
unable to supply the demand.