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Evening Star, Issue 6174, 26 December 1882, Page 4

SEWING MACHINES, THE WONDERFUL “ WEKTHEIM ” SEWING MACHINES. A PROFITABLE INVESTMENT, A T all times ami everywhere in these coloJ: jL nies are public companies and institutions proffering to take cave of your money. They will pay you generous interest, or they hold out expectations of tempting profit. Banking, insurance, mining, maimfacturing, 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 respectfully to impress you with an investment which will even eakn itsklf, and which will all along make better proportionate profits than any othe 9 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 she only the first requisite of a household, viz., a Wkrthkim Sewing Machine. This is the investment which will earn its OWN cost and continue long after to yield you most ample profits. “ A penny saved is a penny gained,” and some more strongly express that 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 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 WKRTHKIM MACHINES. A moment’s examination of the work which anyone may perform with them will convince hereof that. We will give her No. 200 cotton, and she shall make with the Wertheim New Family Machine 82 stitches to the inch, at the rate of 500 a minute (a good operator will make 1,000 a minute.) Each stitch will be faultlessly accurate, and in the precise place whore it was intended to go. Very delicate materials, which would rather suffer by handling, may be stitched upon the Wertheim without marking or disturbance. She may even thread the needle and shuttle with her own hair, and embroider initials upon a cambric handkerchief. In the other extreme, she may use the same Wkrthkim New Family Machine with a ninecord 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 sew with 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 all bo stitched by the wonderful Wkrthkim 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 ladles who aro delicate we wish to say that the foot-pressure necessary to drive the Wkrthkim New Family Machine is so slight that the more 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 imparts increased power to the mechanism. Instead of the constrained and stooping posture already alluded to in connection with hand-sewing, the operator rests her hands upon the tabic and can change her position at pleasure. The stitches do not require close watching, so that no strain whatever is made upon the eyesight. Yet we can produce sewing so fine th*t 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 whoso predilection is in favor of a hand-machine, wo supply one which is particularly easy to drive, and it is much swifter than the kinds ordinarily in use.

The great success of the Wertheim Machines throughout Europe and the Colonies is a matter of common observation. Joseph Wertheim has manufactured nearly One Million Five Hunch ed 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 consequence, 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. Until the introduction of the Wertheim an advance upon hand-sewing had been made to a limited extent by the use of American and Glasgow-made machines of flimsy construction The chief aim and object of the manufacturers of these has consistently been to reduce quality and cheapen the cost of production until it has become the practice to make the shuttle small and soft, the works generally slight and attenuated. Twenty years ago the wonder was that a sewing-machine should sew at all I And often, now, it is amusing to see the gratified surprise of a lady possessing one of the Yankee notions aforesaid at finding that she can actually sew two pieces of stuff together with an ordinary straight seam. Usually “the feed” needs a little assistance by pulling, and not without missed stitches here and there, but the astounding fact is that “it sews.” Now the day for these makeshifts is over. Her machine should accomplish all kinds of sewing, or it is behind the age and should be discarded. With the Wertheim New Family Machine, whether for hand or foot use, you can hem any width, make double seams or fells, kilt, bi-aid, 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; sew on trimmings without guiding; make frilling, ruffling, or niching; quilt, weave your own braid with any combination of colors and stitch it on at the same time; make thick woollen door-mats, embroidered antimacassars, window curtains, and so forth. You can easily andjrapidly perform the fashionable shirring or gathering so popular for sleeves, bodies, or skirts of dresses with an appliance supplied gratis; lay the small cords in hoods and stays, do largo cording, gather with or without a band, and generally do all kinds of straight sewing upon any material whatever. The Wertheim will pass from eight folds of tweed or twenty of calico to two of thinnest muslin, or even mos-quito-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 W ertheim 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.

We have a special word for husbands. When the day’s business is over, and the evening meal is finished, the wife—and perhaps the sister or daughter—sits down to her sowing. 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 oldfashioned 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. She 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 lady of the house is anxious to obtain a first class machine—that which will be the greatest of all 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-wcek 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 to bo diminished, by the possession of a Wertheim Machine, How often do wo not waste money upon really useless knick-knacks or upon needlessly expensive articles or indulgences ? The Machine should far more than pay for itself during the time you are clearing it off, and it will then become your own, earning or saving money as before. Is it not fairly to be called a PROFITABLE INVESTMENT ? The Wertheim Sewing Machine Retail Dep6t DIMFDIN: CORNER OF PRINCES AND DOWLING STREETS. ROBERT LOCHHEAD, Manager. And Authorised Agencies throughout the whole of New Zealand, Australian Representative: HUGO WERTHEIM, SO FLINDERS LANE EAST, MELBOURNE. Factories and Branches : Frankfort, Carlsruhe, Barcelona, Madrid, Constantixiople, Florence, Coblent?;, Odessa, Cologne, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Etc., Eta., And Authorised Agents Throughout the World. Manufacturer ; JOSEPH WERTHEIM, FRANKFORT. JOE PRINTING, Large additions having been made to the PRINTING PLANT or THI evening star office, By the Importation of New Machinery and a well selected assortment of JOBBING TYPE AND MATERIAL, Orders can now be received for every description of Printing,