Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1913 — How to Work While You Play. [ARTICLE]

How to Work While You Play.

A French collaborator of Thomas Edison has just invented a sewing machine which is aldo a piano. Its mechanism is so arranged that every time the operator strikes a note on the keyboard, she completes one stitch. A single waltz will hem three handkerchiefs —Beethoven symphony will sew an entire trousseau. Thus, the dressmaker can work and play at one and the same time, and the more they play, the more they work. To bring the invention into the vogue it so> fully merits, schools will be established in many parts of France for the training of young women for the degree of M. P.-M. —“master piano machinists." Music with its charms will thus be given an undoubted utilitarian 1 value, and all the roundabout societies “for the furtherance of musical appreciation” will be left in the shade by a simple mechanical contrivance.