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PACTS AKD SCRAPS. 127
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« The Sewing-Machine In America. The Fol...
tion " M in y own behalf opinion of is , that these machines -who are has a Providential reflected upon inven the
-Shirt subject '— , — must any be one , thankful our indeed sex . , that who Any there has one is read growing Hood' up s e in Song the * of world the
a remed , y for that terrible waste of labor , health , and eyesight , which the use of the needle has caused in woman .
" Another argument in their favor is , that they remove the burden of labor from the woman—whose proper employment
, is of the the training household of — children to the , man the . charge In the of the increased aged , and demand the care for
income machinery formerl , and y in supplied , the emp by loyment the wife thus , mother afforded , or sister to men , can , the be
derived from the legitimate source , giving each their proper sphere , and sparing woman that expenditure of physical energy which Providence has not fitted her to endure .
" There are in the United States a dozen or twenty different are patented the most machines expensive , some and of hav them e the _yqtj readiest cheap , sale the . most I have approved
understood that at least a hundred , thousand are sold in America in a year dollars . When to one you hundred reflect and that twenty the best , you sort may cost imag from ine the sevent amount y-five _^
of " cap One ital of invested the modes in this by which manufacture women . in the United States obtain a in familiesIf
livelihood _£ work _3 ossess is a fitted , good is by and machine going prepared out , they to for sew can them find by the previousl constant day y emp and loyment in . a day . they The the
, work which it has required a good manager many days to prepare , can be passed through the machine . wish to
" Families who own a machineand employ a person occasionaHy to work it , obtain a woman , from the agency ; her wages are a dollar and three-quarters a day . The wages of a woman
who brings her own machine , are two dollars a day , with the cost of transporting it added . In both cases they are provided with
their " Of meals course by the their woman employers who labors , all day over a sewing-machine , needlebut she will
works as hard as one who does it with the , receive nearlas much in one day as she could make by her needle
in a weekwith y this advantage , that her mind is not depressed by the weary , consciousness that her labor is only advancing by the
slow " One progress of the of results inches . of the introduction of the sewing-machine in moderate
circumstances with us is , the increased For a small comfort sum and a greater ease of number _xDersons of garments
can be provided . for a family ; the mother has her press and full could of
linenwhich heretofore she has not had time to make , not afford , to have made ; the children are stocked with a _xDlentiful feels
bound supply to of mend clothing old at clothes a small ; she cost has ; increased the mother rest no , an longer d the poor
Pacts Akd Scraps. 127
PACTS _AKD SCRAPS . 127
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/55/
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