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Press, Volume XLI, Issue 6055, 11 February 1885, Page 4

Public WoUcee. A PROFITABLE INVESTMENT. AT all times and everywhere In these , colonies are public companies and institutions proffering to take care of your money. They will pay you generous interest, or they hold out expectations of tempting profit. Banking, insurance, •mining, manufacturing, mercantile, land and loan companies, building, co-operative, and other societies, fill the air with rosy promises. And for those who have ample means, success will likely enough attend upon good judgment, for "money makes money." Meantime you must live and be clothed, and here permit us reepedfullyto impress you with an investment which will even EABN ITSELF, and which will all along make better proportionate proflte than **iy other disposition of capital whatsoever. Every home and every person in it, ceaselessly demand the products of the busy needle. The house-linen and upholstery require attention, and new garments are ever needed. Often the housewife stitches until her eyes become weary, till her spine and her fingers ache, yet she cannot overtake her work. She must purchase ready-made articles at the shops, inferior to and more expensive than those which she might produce herself had ehe only the first requisite of a household viz., a WEBTHEIM Sewing Machine. This is the investment which will EABN ITS OWN COST and continue long after to yield most ample profits. " A penny saved is a penny gained," and some more strongly express the truth in saying '* money saved is twice earned." .. Little hand-sewing is now performed, for the product of the labor is so very small in comparison with the patience and time ex penoed upon its (moreover the stooping posture which is necessary, with the head bent downwards, and the arms more or less constrained, and the sustained demand upon the eyesight, are injurious. It is impossible, utterly impossible, for a lady to stitch so finely, and delicately, and accurately by hand as ehe can by the Wonderful WEBTHEIM Machines. A moment's examination of the work which anyone may perform with them will convince her of that. We will give her No. 200 cotton and she shall make with the WEBTHEIM New Family Machine 82 stitches to the inch, at the rate of 500 a minute (a good operator will make 1000 a minute). Each stitch will be faultlessly accurate and in theprecise place where it was intended to go. Very delicate materials, which would rather Buffer by handling, may be stitched upon the WEBTHEIM without or disturbance. She may even thread the needle and shuttle with her owb hair, .and embroider initials upon a cambrio handkerchief. In the other extreme, she may use the same WEBTHEIM New Family Machine with a nine-cord thread (used in bootmaking) for sewing occasionally leather, or any such heavy work that can be needed in a family. Many folds of tweed or thickest moleskin, twenty folds of unwashed calico with any size of cotton or thread, she may sow with the utmost ease and rapidity. The baby's tiny clothing, upon which mothers love to display their choicest handiwork, the boys* tweed suits, the drawing-room carpet, may a . be stitched by the Wonderful WEBTHE. r ijl Machine. Examples of all kinds of sewing required in dresses, millinery, underclothing, tailoring, and upholstery will be shown and explained at our offices, free of charge. To ladies who are delicate, we winhto say that the foot pressure necessary to drive the WEBTHEIM New Family I Machine is so slight, that the mere weight I ofthelimba is more than sufficient. The anklea alone need to move, the remainder of the muscular system being entirely at test. This comfort is partly attained by providing a fly-wheel under the table, which also imparts increased power to the mechanism. Instead of thelconstrained and stooping posture already alluded to in connection with hand-sewing, the operator • rests her hands upon the table, and can change her position a$ pleasure. The stitches do not require close watching, so that no strain whatever is made upon the eyesight. Yet we can produce sewing so fineu oa the stitches can only be counted : with the aid of a microscope. Scores of doctors and : surgeons have purchased machines from our Australian offices for ■ use in their own families, and always with satisfaction. For ladies, whose predilection is in favor of a hand-machine, we supply one which is particularly easy to drive, ana is miwb swifter t^"^ n the frinifo ordinarily in use. The great success of the WEBTHEIM Machines throughout Europe and the Colonies is a matter of common observation. JOSEPH WEBTHEIM has manufactured nearly One Million Five Hundred Thousand of these Machines, and the whole tendency from the first has been to enhance the quality, improve the finish, and add to the appliances. The demand increased. of the appliances are not possessed by, any other Machines whatever, and we. desire especially, comparison side by side. THE WONDEBFUL WEBTHEIM. With the WEBTHEIM New Family Machine, whether for hand or foot use,- you can hem any width, make double seams or fells, kilt, braid, stitch with chenille, Berlin wool, or gold cord, and such like for fancy work} you may make a pretty lace stitch, tuck ever so finely, bind dresses, coats or carpets j sew on trimmings without guiding, make frilling, ruffling or ruchinir, quilt, weave your own braid, wi£h any combination of colors and stitch it on at the Bame time; make thick woollen doormats, embroidered antimacassars, window curtains, and so forth} you can easily and rapidly perform the fashionable shirring and gathering so popular for sleeves, bodies or skirts of dresses with an appliance supplied gratis j lay the small cords in hoods j andstaysj do large cording; gather with or without a band, and generally do all kinds of straight sewing upon any material whatever. The WEBTHEIM will pass from eight folds of tweed or twenty of calico to two of thinnest muslin, or even musqulto net or tulle, without the operator changing needle, cotton, stitch, or tension, and the fine material will not be gathered in the slightest. Any of these performances will be shown at our chops At any time. The WEBTHEIM makes a lock-stitch which cannot ravel, yet by a momentary alteration , the sewing can be done so as to rip from end to end, if desired. This peculiarity in sometimes useful when children's clothes are intended to be altered. We have a special word for husbands When the day's business in over, the evening meal is finished, the wife—and perhaps* the sister or daughter—site down to her I sewing. With her hands alone she cannot, i as aforesaid, do anything like the whole of I the work required. In a corner of the room I is. perhaps, an old fashioned machine, with! wnichshemay, by hard driving,occasionallaj stitch—with a noise like a sausage maehinH —a simple straight seam, but that is nM] great help. She ought to be able to do ALA I the work with it, short of .stitching off] buttons, which is a trifle. And we haw 1 known some instances -where the lady 9 I of the house is so anxious to obtain, a firsv class machine, that which will, be tip greatest of ,all her helps tq her, but tap husband demure on the score of espensS; Why, it is the, only article of tin household furnishing which will evel return you -any paxfr of its cost. If the lady will use it, is MUSTearn far more thas the half-crown a* week necessary to purchase it. On one little garment she will Bave that sum, so that in addition to Jm creased comfort, your household expenses 1 will not. be enlarged, but ought to_bedi-| minißhed by the possession of a WES-1 THETM Machine. How often do we not waste.money upon really useless knickknacks, or upon - needlessly expensive articles or indulgences P The Machine should far more than pay for itself during the. time you are clearing it off, and it wiu then become your own, earning or saving money as before. Iβ it not fairly to be called A PBOFITABLE INVESTMENT P With the NEW WEBTHEIM MACHINES is supplied a self-acting bobbinwinder, which fills the bobbins as evenly as reels of cotton, without the operator touching it, or even holding the thread. A talance-wheel is provided, so that the works are at rest while the bobbins are being wound. You can put eighty yards of cotton on one bobbin, being nearly twice as much as you can with the machines of the old-fashioned makes. Thus you need not take out your ehuttle so often, and you get a far more perfect etiteh. -.The tables are* beautifully finished, *-w\ are stamped with a yard measure, which is Useful. A host Of Other in the WEBTHEIM NEW FAMILY MACHINES will be observed. It is brought as near to perfection ascanbeacoompliahedby mechanical ingenuity, largecapital,and minute supervision. The automatic machinery which finishes the parts is designed and patented by Joseph Wertheim t»™nQ ft if T The work is carried out by managera and operators who have been scientifically trained in the German Polytechnic Schools. Sole Agents for Christchurch: HALL ENS TEIN BEOS., Niw Zhat.aito C&othinq Factobt, Caahe street, ChrisSehurch. 4-17 898