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Press, Volume XLIII, Issue 6371, 19 February 1886, Page 4

A PBOFFI'ABLIii""" INVESTMENT. AT all times and everywhere in these colonies are public compuiies 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 yon must live and be clothed, and here permit us respectfully bo impress you with,an investment which will evenEABN ITSELF, and which will all along make better proportionate profits than any other disposition of capital whatsoever. Every home and every person m it ceaselessly demand the products of the busy needle. The house-linen and upholstery require attention, and new garments are ever needed. Otten the housewife stitohea 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, visT, a WEBTHEIfIf Sewing Machine. 1 his 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 strcngly express the truth in saying " money saved is twice earned." Little hand-sewing ie now performed, for the product of the labor is so very small in comparison with the patience and time expended 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's examination of the work which any one may perform with them will convince her of that. We will give her No. 200 cotton and she shall make with the WEUTHEIM New Family Machine 32 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 the precise place where it was intended to go. Very delicate materials, which would rather Buffer byhandling, may be stitched upon the WEBTHEIfif without marking er disturbance. She may even thread the seedle and shuttle with her own hair, and embroider initials 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 A family. Many folds of tweed or thickest moleekin, twenty folds of unwashed calico with any size of cotton or thread, she may sew with the utmost ease and rapidity, lhe baby's tiny clothing, upon which mothers love to display their choicest handiwork, the' boys' tweed emits, the drawing-room carpet, may all be stitched by the Wonderful WEBTHEIM 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 Bay that the foot pressure necessary to drive the WEBTHEIM New Family Machine is so slight, that the mere weight of the limbs is more than sufficient. The t.MiVinfl 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 TBfloniwifawv Inatead of the constrained and stooping posture already alluded to in connection with hand-sewing, the operator rests her hands upon the table, and can change her position at pleasure. The stitches do not require close watching, so that no sixain whatever is made upon the eyesight. Tet we can produce sewing so fine that 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 raatisfaotios. For ladies, whose predilection is in favor of a hand-machine, we supply one which is particularly easy to drive, and is much swifter than the kinds ordinarily in use. The great anccesa 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 in conseqenoe has constantly and rapidly increased. Many 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,Mlt,braid.stiteh 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; sew en trimmings without guiding, make frilling, ruffling or ruching, quilt, weave your own braid, with any combination of colors, and stitch it on at the same 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. Lay the m »il cords in hoods and staysi 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 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, if desired. This peculiarity is sometimes useful when children's clothes are intended to be altered. Wβ have a epecial word for husbands. When the day's business is over, the evening meal ia finished, the wife—and perhaps the sJßter 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 v, perhaps, an old-fashioned machine, with which she may, by hard driving, occasionally stitch—with a noise like a sausage machine—a simple straight seam, but that is no great help. Bhe ought to be able to do ALL the work with it, short of stitching on buttons, which is a trifle. And we have known some instances where the laly of the house is bo anxious to obtain a firstclass 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 part of its cost. If the lady will use it, it MUST earn far more than the half-crown a week necessary to nurchase it. On one little garment she "win save that sum, bo that m addition to increased comfort, your household expenses will not be enlarged, but ought toibe diminished by the possession of a WEBTHEIM Machine. How often do we not waste money upon really useless knickknacks, or upon needlessly expensive articles or indulgences? The Machine should far more than for itself during the time you are clearing it off, and it will then become your own, earning or saving money a> before. Is it not fairly to be called A PJJOFITABLE INVESTMENT With the NEW WEBTHEIM MACHINES is supplied a self-acting bobbinwinder, which nils ne bobbins as evenly as reels of cottony without the operator touching it, or even holding the thread. A balance-wheel ia 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 i much as you can with the mar-ninon of the old-fashioned makes. Thus you need not' take out your shuttle co 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 NBW FAMILY MACHINES will be observed. It is brought as near toperfectionaacanbeaccompliahed by ingenuity, large capital, and minute supervision. The automatic machinery which finishes the parts ia designed and patented by Joseph Wetthekn The work is carried out by rnanageraandoperators who have been ecientiIcauy trained in the German Polytechnic Schools. Sole Agente for Christchurch: HALLENSTEIN BBOS., Nsw Zealand Clothing Factost Cashel Street. Christchorch. 4-17