This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...at winter evening meetings. She spun as sne walked, grazing her cow or her sheep. The seamstress was the workwoman of towns. She worked at home, either continually, or alternating her work with domestic duties. For any important undertaking, this state of things has ceased to exist. In the first place, prisons and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...at winter evening meetings. She spun as sne walked, grazing her cow or her sheep. The seamstress was the workwoman of towns. She worked at home, either continually, or alternating her work with domestic duties. For any important undertaking, this state of things has ceased to exist. In the first place, prisons and convents offered a terrible competition with the isolated workwoman; and now, the sewing machine annihilates her. The increasing employment of these two machines, the cheapness and perfection of their work, will force their products into even' market, in spite of every obstacle. There is nothing to be said against the machines, nothing to be done. These grand inventions are, in the end, and in the totality of their effects, a benefit to the human race. But these effects are cruel during the moments of transition.--Dickens's "AU the Tear Bound." Sewing On Black Cloth.--To remedy the difficulty which persons with defective eyes experience when sewing on black cloth at night, the Scientific American directs: Pin or baste a strip of white paper on the seam of black cloth to be operated upon, then sew through the paper and cloth, and when the seam is completed the paper may be torn off. The black thread will be distinctly seen on the white paper, and drawing the stitches a little tighter than usual, good work will be produced. This method is well adapted for sewing by machinery as well as by hand. The Old Maid Without A Disappointment--There is something touching in the lot of a woman who has courageously got over an early disappointment, and who sets herself to do good in her generation, and give her neighbors as much happiness as she can. But although there are old maids whose disappointment is in this noble way, there are other old maids w...
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