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Press, Volume XLI, Issue 6153, 9 June 1885, Page 4

I PoMie Wottece. \

A PROFITABLE DHHSSTMENT.

AT an times and everywhere in theee oolomee axe public companies and institutions proffering to take care of year 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 aoeietiee, fill the air with rosy promisee. 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 respectfully to impress yon with an investment which will even EARN ITSELF, and which will all along make better proportionate profits than any other disposition of capital whatsoever. Bvery 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 she only the first requisite of a household viz., a WERTHEIM Sewing Machine. This is the investment which will EARN ITS OWN COST and continue long after to yield most ample profits. "A penny saved ie a penny gained," and some more steongly express the truth in saying « money saved is twice earned." Little hand-sewing is now performed, for the product of the labor is bo very small in comparison with the patience and time ex pended upon it; {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 she can by the Wonderful WEBTHEIM Machines. A moment , a examination of the work which anyone may perform with them will convince her of that. Wβ will give her No. WO cotton and ehe shall make with the WEBTHEIM New Family Machine 38 stdtohee to the inch, at the rate of 50Q a minute (a good operator will make 1000 a minute). Each stitch will be faultlessly accurate and in theprecise place where ft was intended to go. Very delicate materials, which would rather suffer by handling, may be stitched upon the WEBTHEIM without """fring or disturbance. She may even thread the needle and shuttle with her owa hair, and embroider initial upon a cambric 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 & family. Many folds of tweed or thickest moleskin, twenty folds of unwashed calico with any size of cotton or thread, she may bow 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 WEBTHEuJ 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 wish to say that the foot pressure necessary to drive the WEBTHEIM New Family Machine is bo slight, that the mere weight of the limbs is more than sufficient. The ankles alone need to move, the remainder of the muscular system being entirely at rest. 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 nets her hands upon the table, and can change her position at pleasure. The stitches do not require close watching, so that no Btrain whatever is made upon the eyesight. Yet we can produce sewing so flneu ea the stitones 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. E'er ladies, whose predilection is in favor of a hand-machine, we supply one which is particularly eney to drive, ana is much swifter than the kinds ordinarily in use. The great success of the WEBTHEIM Machines throughout Europe and the Colonies is a matter ofoommon observation. JOSEPH WEBTHEIM has manufactured nearly One. Million .Five Hundred Thousand- of .these Machines, and tho whole tendency from the first has been to enhance the quality, improve the finish. and add to the appliances. The demand in consequence, has constantly and rapidly increased. Many of the appliances are not possessed by any other Machines whatever, and we desire especially, comparison Bide THE WONDEBFUL WEBTHEIM. With the WEBTHEIM New Family Machine, whether for hand or foot use, you can hem any width, make double Beams or fellfl, 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 i sew on trimmings without guiding, make frilling, ruffling or rucning* quilt, weave your own braid, with any combination of colors and stitch it on Bb the same times make thick woollen doormats, embroidered antimacaesare, window curtains, and so forth; you can easily and vapidly perform the fashionable shirring and gathering so popular for aleeves, bodies or skirts of dresses with an appliance supplied gratis; lay the email cords is hoods and stays] do large cording i 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 musquito 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 shops 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, 2 desired. This peculiarity is sometimes useful when children's clothes are intended to be altered. We have a special word for husbands When the day's business is over, the evening meal is finished, the wife—and perhaps the sister or daughter—sits down to her sewing. With her hands alone she cannot, as aforesaid, do anything like the whole of the work'required. In a corner of the room is, perhaps, an old fashioned machine, with wmchshemay, by hard driving, occasionally stitch—with a noise like a sausage machine —a simple straight seam, but that is no great help. She ought to be able to dp ALL the work with it, short of stitching <m buttons, which is a trifle. And we lave: known some instances where the laayot of the house is so anxious to obtain a firstdase machine, that which will be the greatest of all her helps to her, but the husband demurs on the score of expense. Why, it is the only article of the household furnishing which will ever return you any wit of its cost If the lady wiu use it, it MUST earn far more than the half-crown a week necessary to purchase it. On one little garment she will save that sum, so that in addition to increased comfort, your household expenses will not be enlarged, but ought toibe diminished by tiie possession of a WEBTHEIM Machine. How often do we not waste money upon really useless knickknacks, or upon needlessly expensive articles or indulgences? The mV>»ih» should far more than pay for itself during the time you are clearing it off, and it will then become your oftming or saving money as before. Is it not fairly to be called A PROFITABLE INVESTMENT f With the NEW WEBTHEIM MACHINES is supplied a self-acting bobbinwinder, which nils the bobbins as evenly as reels of cotton, without the operator touching it, or even holding the thread. A Valance-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 vf-x\ with the i«»mi»iiiw of the old-fashioned makes. Thus you need not take out your shuttle so often, and you get a far more perfect stitch. The tables are beautifully finished, and are stamped with a yard measure, which is usefuL A host of other improvements in the WEBTHEIM NEW FAMILY MACHINES will be observed. It ia brought&s was to perfection ascanbeaocompliahedbj ingenuity, large capital, and nnDntoenpczvMon. The automatic machinery which fintehea the parts is designed and patented by Joseph Wextheim himself. Tie work is carried out by managers and operators who have been acientiflcaßy trained in the German Polytechnic Schools. Sole Agents for Christohurch: HALL EN STEIN BROS. Naw Zealand CioTHnre FaciosTj Cashel street, Cfaristahurch. 4-17 868