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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 41, 19 February 1869, Page 2

At the late Paris Exhibition were to be seen " Sewing Machines No. 1 and No. 300,000 of the Wheeler and Wilson manufacture working side by siiie; the former not differing in principle from i the latter and doing as good work after 14 years' . use. Let the interested compare the machine sold in 1851 "for .£25 with those now offered for £10. The former owner of this machine, Mrs P. E. 8., gives its history as follows: — "This machine •>was finished early in 1851, and I learned its use from Mr Wilson himself. . 1 was thus, you see, 'the first to work the Wheeler and Wilson Machine, and -learned on the first machine they ever manufactured. In 185* I earned with the machine £61 los., besides doing my own housework and taking care of my baby. I used that machine almost constantly for more than 14 years, on all sorts of work, from the finest dressmaking to the heaviest tailoring. I quilted a full- sized white counterpane with it, which has been exhibited three times at a bazaar. It took •me three weeks to do it with my other work, but it could not have been done by hand in as many .years. I have even stitched leather with it, and at the time I exchanged it for No. 193,390 it; *- wrked jnst as well as when first made.' Time trira all things. Use only furnishes the final test. Opinions of the skill may be of value, but time is tieeded to confirm them, AH failures have had their advocates. The past .fifteen years have seen numerous machines, witli high-sounding pretensions, rise wish a flourish, and confound the . simple, and vanish. So will it be while credulity lasts. As the purchase of a Sewing Machine is, or may be, an act for a lifetime, care should be •had in getting what time and use have approved. «— JLady's Own Piiper.