ANOTHER LADY'S INVENTION.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4546, 23 May 1889, Page 3

ANOTHER LADY'S INVENTION.

«-r 9 — Mdme. Supple, of Now York, must, according to the Sewing Machine and Cycle Neat, have (truck the sympathetic car of a Now York roportor, judging from tho follow, ing, whioh appeared reoenlly m a daily contomportry of that city, under tho heading, 'An Important Invention.' Ono of the bijrgcat little indentions of rocetit dato is the

■ slotted eewing machine neodle, a patent for ; which wus taken out a short time ngo by a woman seventy years of age. It docs entirely i awny with the old procoss of threading by , twisting tho end of the thread to a fine point, ! and thrusting it at the needle's eye, until by , eomn olmnce it happens to strike the murk, i This new invention m domestic economy has a bevelled slot, m ono Bide of the eye, through which the thread Blipß as easily as a nickle . drops into fie slot of a weighing machino or a lung tester. A blind old grandmother need not have tho slightest difficulty m sewing now. Nothing could be Bitnpler than tho slotted needle, and all who see it wonder why it was not thought of years ago. The inventor told me the other day that it cost 30,000d01s to make the experiments which resulted m producing procisely the kind of slot which, while readily admitting the thread to the eye, prevents it at the same time from slipping out m tho operation of sowing. What a boon this will be to our mothers and wivc3 may bo easily realised wfaca it is understood thnfc ono sewing machine company alone m New Jersey turns out every montli over 2,000,000 needlos.