The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-16
A COSBY LETTER.
What Sensible, Economical Housewife
Saw and tho Effect It Produced.

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Saw ana tho Effect It Produced.
Dear Jennio-As a rule / always believe
what a woman says, being woman my
self, and usually when / disregard that
rule i have TO pay therefor. ] know cousin
Parthenobia well; she and used to play
together on our cellar door, and venturod
10 disbelieve what she said about the
danger OF seeing the Love Buttonhole
and Sewing Machine ii you didn't
wish 10 buy. l went, saw, and got con-
quered. Other agents had laughed at her
story, and cousin OF ours in the sewing
machine business had mcrcilessly ridiculed
all the claims OF the Love, told me how
very inferior in almost every respect II was
to his or half dozen others. | asked him
why II was that there ware more sold OF
that one machine than OF any half dozen
Of the well established kinds. He at
tempted smile and said: at won't
last long, it was just u way Graham
had OF showing his machine and which
he had taught Miller x Co., who were
experienced and No. ! agents, and he
posted me in all its Deficiencies and the
superiorities OF the others, so bought one
OF his machines, and then ] went TO SOC
Second street TO have some fun in taking
them down, and gathering material TO worry
Parthenobia. | lay awake half one night
preparing jokes ioplay on her. Did you
ever hear OF going n shearing and coming
home shorn? Did you ever play joke on
somebody, and find that the point was
turned your way instead of theirs? ! had
littlo ien-yer. old niece, who hadn't the
laintest idea OF machine or particle OF
mechanical ingenuity, but was very
anxious TO learn TO work n sewing ma
chine. She had fused over ard
nearly ruined my high priced and
vastly superior to- all others machin,
without having learned 10 do even
the simplest kind Of work. Seeing
the offer OF tho Love machine to give free
instruction, and that n child could learn "a
do all sorts OF work in a few hours or less,
| took her with. mo TO show them that
there was one tcn-ycar-old child that could
not learn to work their machine in awcek.
The pleasant room was full Of ladies ex.
aiming work or trying machines and two
or three slrewd country merchants seeking
agencies. soon foundthat there was some
good points in tho Love machine, beside
its name. II was sell-threadng. and |
wouldn't have 10 give away my age by DO.
ing unable to find the small eyelcts, or hole
In the needles for the thread; the shuttle
was sclf.ihrcading another thing the
length OF stitch which had always
worried me. was regulated by u
simple touch OF u thumb screw
working on gauge showing the exact
number OF stitches 10 the inch. Tho but
ton-hole device, instead OF being cumbcr.
some and difficult 10 manage, was us easy
as opening penkniic, aud could change
from plain 10 fancy sewing, or from either
10 embroidery or button .holing without
removing or displacing any portion Of
the machine. There Was young
man working ut machine, making en-
broidery, changing instantly from double
to single stitch, or making one needle zig.
gag and the other plain and doing work
that made mo enviouA l asked him how
many years he had worked nj iha2 lie
aaid: 81 cnmo In here this morning TO buy q
machine for my wife, and sat down TO
sec II ! could tell her how TO work IL
and here Is what | have done" aud he
showed mo better work than could do
with all my years OF experience and my
high toned machine. began TO have
more respect for rarlhcnObia aud less Tor
my sewing machine agent kiniolk. |
looked around Tor my stupid niece, aud
there she was, making bulionholes rs fine rs
! ever made by hand, aud making morc In
ten minutes than | could in all day.
knew II was n beautifully made machine,
but | had believed what the other ma.
chine agents had told mo that 'ii was
pretty enough, but no account but there
Il was with oil the evidence before me OF
work done by persons whom | knew posi-.
lively could have had no previous expert
oncc, aud such work as / could moi
by any possibility have produced IRON my
pet machine, and i thought Il wrs the
best ono | could buy | learned very
soon that the Love was the best all.around
sowing machine that any housewife OF
mother could own. can make
the price OF the machine In
tho saving In embroidery and
fancy work on the under skirts and trim.
mings Of my daughters dresses during one
season. l was the most thoroughly con.
ycr,ed woman YOU ever saw. bought 4
Love aud my recently purchased, so-called
very best saving machine IA for sale cheap
unless my agent cousin will take Il
back. A machine Of which ono general
agent can soil over 1000 In I've months
must have some good points. Country
merchants who deal In sowing machine.
are fast finding that out rs cilcciually as
did your AUNr GLADYA
A CHAN head In your business Is worth
many times the one dollar paid Tor bottl'