Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1879 — Howe Come You Sew? [ARTICLE]

Howe Come You Sew?

’•llere, John, i* a Hit of article* we need,” said John U —'a handvoiue wife a* lit drove up to the door. "Are yon euro this is all you went, Mary,” asked John ns h* hastily scanned the slip of paper handed him. ‘-i'hy. no, it i* not all I want, but wo must got slung with as little »i wc possibly csrt these hard times,” was Mary’s reply. “Yes, I know that,” continued John, "but there ia one thing mure you need, and lam going to get it.” "What ts it?” asked (he anxious wife. "Why, a sewing machine,’’ was the slariliug reply. "I am not going to have those tender linger* picked to pieces by the treacherous needle. ’ She blushed visibly at this and exclaimed: "Oh, John, how good you are! Of course I needed it, but 1 did not like to say anything. But, can you afford it?” "Never mind, my door, I shall bring the machine this evening.’’ --Cut, John, what kind of a machine is it wiiat make do you intend ptiroh ising? ’ "Will, I don't know; I lluught of buying one wherever I could fat it, the cheapest.” “Oh,' don't do thatl f jou can I get the Howe machine don’t r l any.’’ "Why, Mary, how is it you prefer this piake of machine to the Singer, Weed, Amei lean. onJ other seemingly good msebiuea?’’ "For shame, John, to speak that way, rs if yod knew what a machine was. You know what experience l have bad with all of them. Do you remember the fall I worke I for .Mrs. D—? Well, she had a comparatively new Singer machine, i worked on it three hours I do beliovo before 1 could adjutt it so it would work, und such delicate works you never saw. Although at times it woull sew well enough, still you could place no relianco iu it. Urs. Jenkins actually had to lay her Singer to one side until the agent could come and fix it, declaring that she ‘could not make her Singer sing any more,’ and she only bad teceived it a year and u half before. Then there is Mrs. Cnker, you knew I an American; I liked it firstrate the first week I sewed on it, but I soon began to perceive i<s faults. Mia. Baker was forever telling me to be very careful ns this and that would break very easy, and I may say that I never experienced so much trouble in all my life before as I did ou this machine. It was in many respects like the Singer.’’ "Well, now you have made so many comments.on these m ichines, tell me how yon know that Ihe Howe is any better than they nref” "How db i know? I should think I ought to know when I have been helping Mrs. Grci-n across the way lor the past six months with the Howe she got of Mr. Fendig nearly two years ago; and oh, John, you ought to see it; when it runs you can scarcely hear it, and' its rapidity of movement, its symmetry and beauty combine to make it a marvelous machine. The works nre such ih«t they cannot possibly got out of order, and you can’t break them. They will last longer than two such machines as the Singer or Ame’ican. Mrs. Green told uio the reason she bought the Howe was that a relative of hers in Ohio wrote to her that she had a gcol Hown machine that shujiad used over iwer.ty-sevei voars.” "Unit s'enough,” . said John as he jumped into ihe wagon. " I see you women know more about sewing machines than 1 will ever know, \nnd rest assured, Mary, that none but a llowe sewing machine willyver Yomo jnio this house even if 1 have to pay five or ten dollars more to procure one.” “That's a JJOOU IlluU.inU; -flttH* DIHrJ, WrUT A InOSr bewitching nnj[e on her thee ns she kis-ed him jp*?l bye. "Remember,’’ said ihe, "Ralph Frndig is the sole agent for the county, and has always a good supply of them on hand.” ‘ That is what they all say, and I believe myself that the tiowe_, aside from being the original machine has points of superiority which is possessed by iio other machine. It is the standard and only good machine, and is therefore the chcaj.iGt.”— Advertisement.