The Penn's Grove record., 1886-07-03
Wa1amaEtr's.

I-fa fa-H
give it more Importance The
man we ought to have met
some years ago is the man.
His goods are the goods.
tell the whole story of
it comes about.
A Swiss embroidery-maufac-
tn rer-he it was who spoke
sentence we quoted the
day: SkraghHo>s0ard
is tie Mghtest business
1RteH,geuce-what a man he
must be to have made 1t!
You shall hear what he did in
his business years ago.
The bleaching of Hamburg
embroideries wasn't satisfac-
tory. They were either yellow
or rotten or both. The fault
was in bleaching. The en-
broidery-thread is waxed and
more or less soiled. The pill
ed-up threads required a sever
ity Of bleaching that threatened
the fabric. Gould the proper
white be got without imparing
the strength of the stuff? The
Swiss bleachers said no and
the industry stood in danger,
The value Of Hamburg en-
broidery lies in its strength. If
it isn't strong, what then?
Again its decorative available
ty lies in its being a part of the
garment it is made to adorn.
If it differs in shade of white,
what then? The practicable
ty Of the the whole business
depended on getting as good a
bleach on Hamburg embroid-
cries as it got on muslins and
cambrics and other white cot
tons. The Swiss bleachers
said it couldn't be done. The
Swiss neutrality-suspicious.
ers thought it Couldn't be done.
But here was a man who
didn't give up. That brings
to mind another saying of his.
20 look to the consumer. |
care nothing for wholesale mer-
chants or retail merchants. |
want the person who uses my
embroideries satisfied. | shall
hear Oft
He went on his travels in
search ola system of bleaching
that would whiten a pile of
waxed soiled thread without
/. injuring the delicate fabric it
was wrought Upon. To make
a long story short, he found it
at N Nottingham, England, John
Renals, the leading bleachcr
there against all the traditions
ofEnglishmen, made him vel
come, supplied the plant for a
i, proper bleachery and went
over to Switzerland himself to
see it started,
Hurrah for John Renals
IA year or two or three ago
we got together imprinted all
we knew about Grape and sent
it to Courtauld, whose Grape
we sell and we ask politely:
please tell us whatever more
you are willing the public
should know and what do
you think they told us? Sub
stantially "None of your bust
nessr' The other day we
made a like request about that
) English waterproof serge. The
f makers Representative
wouldn't utter a word, not a
word! So afraid of letting
their secrets out! Hurrah for
John Renals, the nottingham
, bleacher.
And so by zone mans preslst
) ence and another's generous
hospitality the Swiss embroic
ery-industry got its foot-hoIo
J., and you the advantage we tel
you of to-day.
-, Before the day of the Swls.
I machines a similar embroider!
was made by hand, one firm ii
!, Scotland employing more thai
Il a hundred-thousand womel
making it. This stopped tina
: by putting prices down beloy
the reach ofhand work. ScotcI
women have turned to some
thing else. Swiss machine
have taken their places in en-
: broidery. Prices have droppe'
to less than half.
1t seems to us a happy hit t
r get the man who has had s
much to do with creating Il
embroidery-industry in his ow
country to cmbroider for yo'
/ And we can't forget thos
a words OF his about straightfo.
1t ward dealing and looking ne
l to merchants butte consumer.