The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-27
LIST. LAY ASIDE PREJUDICE.

| Don't select u machine merely DO.
cause your mother or your neighbor has
it. This is IN age OF Improvement, and
lyou should avail yourself of the progress
of thought and invention, when 1t is In
your power.
end. Don't purchase machine be.
cause it has been along time on the
market, and publishes large number
OF sales. Some of the machines offered
for sale, and most largely pulled, have
little merit now, and what they did
have vanishcs, when they are compared
with later and improved machines.
3rd. MAKE YOUR OWN SELECTION.
Choose the machine you are con-
WINGED has the most good qualities.
The one you want is tho one which
will save you time labor and vexation.
See that il possesses the following points,
which are essential to u first-class sew
ing machine:
list. ABILITY TO DO PERFECTLY ALL
| KINDS OF WORK
demanded of u sewing machine, with
out requiring changes of adjustment.
You will find that the Royal st. John
answers this demand.
Its range Of work is from the finest
lace or cambria, to the heaviest cloth or
leather, without nicc adjustments of
tcntions, which are practically SELF
grgWi0tiag.
It's stitch is firm, round, and elastic:
alike on both sides of the goods and
locked in the center.
| End. EASE OF MANAGEMENT.
A sewing machine should be so easily
managed that child can operate it.
On this point the Royal st. John has no
equal, for the following reasons:
1t is the only machine made which
runs either .J0,7cdrd or backtndrd with
out stopping the machine, without
changing the direction in which the
goods are fed through, without loss or
change of stitch. BY means Of this, n
child or inexperienced operator is not
in danger of breaking thread or neadlc
by starting the machine the nroag aoay,
and the experienced operator can safe
ly start the machine with the foot, per
hitting free use of the hands in manag-
ing the work. This desirable feature is
secured not by compllcating the ma
chine, but by simplifying; Il complicat-
cd machine cannot run both ways.
| 1t has a self setting needle; it can
not he set wrong side out; it cannot be
set at wrong angle; it cannot unless
willtully be set ut wrong height.
1t has feed on both sides of the
needle and ample room under the arm,
so that the work can be fed through on
either side of the needle, ut convenience
of tho operator.
II has strong beautifully shaped
shuttle, easily threaded having no holes
to thread through; a perfect and relia-
bic tension, which can be altered with
out disturbing the work, or removing
the shuttle, and large bobbin holding
an extra amount Of thread.
1t winds the bObbin without running
the machine, 40 that it is unnecessary
to remove the work or unthrcad the
needle. .-.
Bird. LIGITTSEss OF RUNNING AND EASE
OF MOVEMENT.
| There are numerous machines which
will, to II greater or less degree, do salts
factory work; but they are either hard
running from the start, or soon become
so on account of the wear resulting
from their irregular movements. The
| ROYAL ST. JOHN is the only Ma
chine made whose movements arc ell
tircly regular and positive.
III has II plain reciprocal motion on
both needle and shuttle, and so does
not become hard running from irrcgu
lar wear, but the longer it wears the
smoother and easier will be its motion.
1T has fewer dead ccnters to over
come than any other machine, and con-
sequcntly runs with less jar, and when
once in motion is more easily kept in
motion.
IT'S so made and pinned together
that it cannot be put out Of adjustment,
except by violence.
Again, Il machine may be light run
ming, but from an improperly construct
cd trcadlc movement, may be tiresome
and iatiguing to operate. We boldly
claim for the ROYAL ST. JOHN, that
from the well calculated arrangement
of its trcadle movement, ii can be OPP
Grated longer with less fatigue to the OPP
orator than any machine made.
4th. SIMPLICITY AND DURABILITY OF
CONSTRUCTION.
So that the machine will not be con.
stantly getting out of order, or readily
worn out. The Royal st. John possess
es these points prominently.
1t has the fewest number of parts.
The parts are of simple and regular
forms, made of the best steel and iron.
All of the wearing points are hardened
and provided with means for effective
ly taking up all wear.
1t has perfectly balanced motion,
by which it is possible TO run it either
f0r3ca,H or JdcIscard, and consequently
it will not wear so Rapidly rs a machine
which has an irregular motion, and will
only sew in one direction.
1t has no yielding joints; no cams or
cogs; no motion produced by springs.
1t has fewer bearings and less friction
than any machine made, and there can
not be wear where there is no friction.
9Th. CONVENIENCE
In addition to q good and easy running
machine, you want one fitted up con-
veniently for your work. This is Of
fercd in full measure in the Royal st.
John.
1t furnishes with place to keep the
cover of machine, and make it useful ms
work box, by attaching it to the end
of the table while using the machine.
II is provided with graduated yard
measure on the front edge of table, So
that you can measure your work with
out moving from the mach e..
, 1t has n convenient foot est, on the
brace above the trcadlc, q riding you Il
comfortable change of ..htion while
preparing work for the m ,chine.
} In conclusion if you will examine every
) machine on the market, subiecting it t.
the tests given above, you will be forced
to the conclusion that the
ROYAL ST. JOHN
' Possesses the most points OF excellence
:, Possess the most new and valuable i'm
, prOvcmcnts.
l Is the perfection of Sewing Machines.
Is TIE MACHINE YOU WANT,