Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-07-20
[ORIGINAL
THE SEWING MACHINE.
. Good Wife.
BY ISAIAH

In Buffalo street. neal the river, we
met a gentleman, who exclaimed: "Why,
Mr.. Sewing Machine, l never expected
to see you againr' Giving Walt + h S
card he aided, ''call this evening, with
your friend, early, and report your wan-
derings.'
walter" said 1, chow did you obtain
that ~snbriquet?"
"Thirty-tiv years ago, David R. owned
a stone building, where that brick now
stands. In ii small room, upon the sec
ond fioor lit was only two stories high),
l built a sewing machine. l was then
young. and all the thoughts OF the hoy
we're engrossed by that machine. When
1 had it in working order Il visitor re-
ported it to the Daily Democrat. The
editor of the Albany Evening journal
saw the notice, and unable to entertain
two ideas in one day, became v~irtuousIy
indignant for the poor seamstresses, and
said, The machine should be sunk in
the centre of Lake Ontario, and the in
ventor % cruel editor!) judged by a
Jury of women!' Before the jury OF
women were impannelled to pronounce
sentence u ON the Offending youth, some
person put fire to the building, and the
machine became a mass of ruins. My
credit was exhausted, my clothes were
getting 'sce,ly, and L went to work., like
an honest man, to repleni>h my funds.
Before L could rebuild, some man,, not
having the fear of u Jury OF women be-
fore his eyes, built the second machine,
and people have learned that it is wo-
mans best triend."
Last Tuesday evening was very agree
ably passed at the house of Mr.. Theo-
dore b, a gentleman of seventy-nine
winters. 81 knew your father WE'LL
spanking to Waiter c.. "He bought
lot OF wild and (woods) near to Where
1 lived. a small brook ran through thai
o.. (They have no creeks, only brook
and rivers in New Hamp>Iire). On that
brook he built a saw-mill, which was
very useful in that new country. In Il
few years he had his LAND in a good state
of cultivation. When L was c"ngratu-
lating rim upon his success in business.
he replied:
sit is all my wife's doings. She first
proposed the mill, and by her manage
menG it was built, and is now paid Tor,
though we had not a spare dollar to start
on. With II strong emphasis, he contin-
ued, MANY a tree has she felled, and
many a log has she rolled with her nee
die and her goose
"What did lie mean by that? L asked
Mr.. B.
"well, I'll tell you; The people were
poor, and considered it Il great favor to
be able to pay in work for having their
garments made"
. ssThe wife is everything said Walter
c. sit matters but little what the
man is, if the wife is right they will
prosper. If she is incompetent or disin-
clined to be truly a helpmeet, the best
OF men will be in trouble. 1t is an old
adage that a woman can throw out more
with a spoon than a man can throw in
with a shovel. Men who have been un-
fortunate in their choice OF partners will
drag along IA miserable. existence, always
in debt, and what is far worse thai debt,
in constant torture by an ~interneclne war
of the vixen. The unhappy vie has
driven scores of men to the dram-shop
and then to an untinely grave.
After the trials and temptations of ten
or fifteen years, Providence does some
times kindly remove their incumbrance.
With a second wife their troubles cease,
because she happens to be a woman OF
good sense. Their shops will spruce up
and business is plenty. Surrounded by
friends, their grateful hearts seem to take
a new lease of life. Men have been res
cued from the vortex of woe, by Il con-
sort whose benign influence and sou in
spring society would reclaim the tro-
ward steps of an erring husband. The
society OF a lady with a happy, intel
lectual mind, and 4 sou of poetry and
love is ali powerful to control the desti-
MES of her partner. Is any good done
by we frail mortalS, woman is the NOV
ing cause. Is any evil act committed.
the origin OF it you may trace back to
one OF the daughters of Madame Eve.
Are children hopeful n lovely, woman
claims all the p aise. Are they shlftless
and unhappy, burdens to society, an i'll
p~oor-house or the penitentiary!"