THE DAILY EVEJSING TELEGRAf HTR1 PLK SHEET PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, r ECEMBER 22, 18C9. WILLCOX &. GIBBS. A Glimpse-of Paradise; A WOMAN'S LETTER. I BBk yonr congratulations, my dear -, ttiatl fiave discovered, a little late lu the day, to be sure, the one thing needed to complete my circle of do encBtic comfort! Von smile fancying you could supceHt many desirable additions to my sum of human felicities; but possessing "health, peace, and competence;" the dearest nest of a home; and six-, f ect-and-an-lnch of "a huHliand who never reruscs hiB wife anything," what more could reasonable woman ask? And here, by way of episode, let me whisper a nccrct, for the special edification of our mutual Jricnd, your Mr. . Never refuse your wife anything she has set her heart upon ; never try to convince her that she "does not need It;" or that you "cannot afford it,' Don't get into an argument on the subject, or rest assured she will get the best of it. On the contrary, assent cheerfully to her sug gestion (even although at first glance it may appear somewhat startling); discijgs the style and quality of the desired article, and good-naturedly compare tastes. Then, If you really cannot uirord It, you may say, "My dear, you shall have It, soon ; but, just now, our taxes must be paid, you know." (The wise , husband never says "my taxes." It makes a woman realize her partnership In tho domestic firm, to be allowed an interest in the taxes !) Or, you may speak of a certain debt to be paid ; or a horse, or some fine cows to be bought; or a new garden fence to be made; or a henery; or you need a mowing machine, as workmen are so scarce ; or whatever it may be that really Interferes; and the dear, reasonable woman cheerfully defers (only defers, you see; the equally reasonable husband does not require her to renounce) her pet scheme. In pro cess of time, either the wife discovers that she can do very well without the once-coveted article, or the husband himself will have the pleasure Home fine day of saying, "Now, wife, If you really want that article we were speaking of, I think we may afford it." This is the result of my observation of hus bands and wives (ilrst suggested by a capital little magazine story, which the author would do well to republish), now extended over a quarter of a century. The "arguing husband" is the one whose wife, be he able or usable, always gets the things she wants, reasonable or unreasonable. "The husband who never refuses his wife any thing," always has a wife who Is willing to wait until he can afford to gratify her wishes. This may seem paradoxical, but the study of human nature, of which most wives have a fair share, will explain the apparent mystery, which really Is no mystery at all. Now to return from this long detour. Troba bly I am not so smart as many women, for, some how, I can never quite overtake my work; but a small mountain of that feminine Incubus, needle work, rests always on my "chest," and, although piece after piece is abstracted, still; the year rolls on, the seasons come and go, and other and perhaps heavier pieces take their place. So , I never can feel that I have leisure, for a pleu saut book, for Instance ; or a bit of fancy-work ; a walk with a friend, or a drive wits my good hus band, or a frolic with my grand-children, because 1 must finish this, or I most begin that. It Is always t "Stitch, stitch, stitch, whilst tUe cock Is crowing aloof, And stitch, stitch, stltck, when the stars shine on the roof." lint I sec you grow impatient to learn what is this wonderful additlou to our rnenage, which by affording this coveted leisure, makes a happy woman cf me? "A seamstress, perhaps," you Bugt'eHt or another "help" in the kitchen? Neither of them, my dear, but a "Willcox and Uibbs Sewing Machine:" nothing more, nothing let! Now I am aware, that here ' I come full against host of prejudices and prepossessions In your mind. I know that you rest under the delusion, often expressed, that "There Is but one Sewing Machine, and Wheeler and Wilson are Its makers ;" therefore I entreat you to be patient, whilst I tell you way I vote (as women may vote ou the Sewiug Machine question) for "the Letter O." First, this machine Is so simple anil so quiet. 1 confess to a poor development of tho organ of 4 'constructivenetis," or whatever it, may be, that gives a good head for machinery. You remember, when I took my ilrst watch to pieces, I could not put It together again (and never heard the last of it In the family since). Now I can see right through this little gem of a machine, while the complicated affairs, such as yours and others, with their racket, set my head In a whirl. Again, this little darling, unlike most other ma chines, the human Included, never goes the wrong way; but with the sweetest Uttle humming son?, goes on right all the time. It snaps at you, to be sure, with a pretty show of petulance, when you set the tersion wrong, and drive with too loose a reiu; and It bites off the thread if reined up too tight, and thus prevents a clumsy operator from spoiling her work. Then, If you make a crooked seam, as a novice is tolerably sure to do occasionally, you have only to mop the machine aud take out the sewing; aud WILLCOX Bt QIBBS. when you learn the trick, you can wind the thread lACkonthe ipooi wlUiout breaking, ami .so eco nomize In material And ono thing more, a skiirni but unusually candid operator on the "W. and W." machine admitted, In my hearing, that the "Letter U" made tin stronger seam. The truth Is, 1 always stand In awe of one or these pretentious machines; but the Wllleox Ulbna seems limt the thing for a household pet; and I In tend teaching my little grand-daughter to use It. Her mother has a Wheeler k Wilson, and woe betide the unlucky urchin that ventures meddlesome lingers about It. This charming little machine was, therefore, the one thing lacking to my perfect domestic satisfac tion ; and I wonder now how I have gotten along so many years wtttymt Certainly, I was "one of the foolish womento decline the offer you tendered me, of a first-class new machine at half-pTlce! Such op portunities occur only once in a decade, I fear; for, sad to tell, this darling, this gem of a machine, which has opened up such vistas of future ease and elegant leisure, which I can no longer keep house without, is only orrowed for a season ! . i In a few weeks my Invalid rrlend to whom the machine belongs may reclaim it, aud then, alat for my visions! My husband says I shall have a machine, and I know he means what he says; but he has already, told mo about our taxes, which, since tho war, have been enormous, to be sure, though yearly lessening I am thankful to say. So I don't like to worry him about If. I wisn 1 knew a way to get one, all by myself ; but what can a woman do ? I should feel so proud to eam and own a "Letter O." S. E. M. Makpfiei.ii, r., sept. a, 1MI8. ......... i HIGH-HEELED BOOTS. How familiar to every city housekeeper who spends her suminers in the country is the autumnal breaking-ln of her servants on her return! Most servants-are a little wayward artcr a season of rest, and some cannot bear rest at all. The modern seamstress, if she be one of those "Sewing at once, with a double thread, , - A shroud as well as a shirt," Is a servant of this class ; for no other gives her mis tress so much trouble as she. I'pon such a servant, a summer spent in Idleness has the same effect that a month in clover has upon a fickle horse. In either case a fracat may be expected on the Ilrst call to work ; and when Miss Double-thread gets in such a mood your dress Is spoiled In the making, or for want of Its timely completion you are unable to meet your appointments, and so your plans, for a week or a month, arc frustrated, to the great disap pointment of yourself and others. We believe, however, that, with all their imperfec tions, the Double-thread family have been of use In their day. In the mechanic arts, original perfection is un known; both origin anil progress must here precede the finished and perfect result. This is at least the general rule, and to this rule the Iron Seamstress constitutes no exception. In her case, there was first the idea, (two threads), crudely embodied In the complex, anil for a time impracticable, instru ment of kowc. Next followed a Trio of inventors, born of the same faith, and wedded to the same Idea, who, aiming at nothing higher, succeeded in so im proving his Invention as to adapt it to practical use in the work-shop and in the hands cf those house keepers endowed with super-feminine skill. Third and last conies a bolder genius of original concep tions, a more simple faith, and a higher aim. He, regardless alike of the opinions and prejudices; of others, goes back to first principles. He asks himself, Why is it that all sewiug machines yet invented are so often out of order? He Investigates, und finds tho cause in their complijated mechanism. Again he traces the emme of that complication to the use of an txtra thread ; and again he inquires, Is an extra thread necessary? Jteilcctlon answers, No; at least not if a reliable stltcli can le made without it. Again he asks himself, Can this be done ? He thinks It can ; and setting himself to work, he at length succeeds in the invention of a new stitch made of one thread only, yet us secure as any made of two. The "nnder-thread," now no longer necessary. Is cast aside, and with It go all its resulting complica tions. He constructs an instrument embodying, the principles .hue discovered ; and that iustrumeut is now rapidly superseding the older ones. Thus has the Iron Seamstress grown to her pre sent estate; and thus have the Double-thread family as the introduction to a better class performed an Important part In these results. Nor is it to be denied that they have been practically useful, both in the workshop and in families where the requisite skill is possessed. But for wncral household use, they are too complicated, noisy, and troublesome. A lady correspondent, who has had much experi ence with this kind of help, and who is there fore competent to judge, has favored us with a written statement of her experience in these words : "1 formerly had in my employ, at different times, four of these Double-thread seamstresses, each for a period of one or more years; aud I have to con fess that my experience with caul; was nearly the same, and not altogether satisfactory. When my husband was at home to help me out of my difficul ties, I managed, usually, to get along pretty well; but when he was absent, and especially when Miss Double-thread had been Idle awhile, 1 was often in trouble; and that trouble was sometimes rendered doubly vexatious by the exalted opinion Miss Double thread entertained of herself, aud the provoking way she had of showing It. "It offended her to be even suspected of the slight est imperfection : For, 'Wasn't she acknowledged to be first-class f 'AVasn't she admitted to tho best society V Aye, 'Was she not a Ooublc-threud t Who then should say a word disrespectful of her lady ship?' 'Was she ever known to rip'.1' 'Hadn't she u beautiful face alike on both sides-.'' 'Didn't th tailors employ her? and the collar manufacturers .' and tho shirt manufacturers? and the shoe makers? and the manufactnrers of hats and caps '.' Who then Bhould presume to doubt her superiority ? "Again, getting on her high-heeled boots, und raising her voice to a higher pitch, she would break out thus: 'Who could show such a record as her'a all glorious within aud without? or sport so muny Jewels, in 'premiums' of gold, aud silver, and brass?' Or, soaring yet higher, 'What seamstress had ever been decked, like her, with ribbons and garters imperial? with legions of knightly honors- direct from the Emperor s own right hand?' "Her virtues thus established, objections would bo disposed of In a manner equally conclusive: 'What If she did have "jits" sometimes? Hadn't she a right to indulge In that luxury as well as other ladies? Or, 'What U she did break a few needles daily and snap the thread occasionally and confuBO things generally? Surely no ono should think to complain or these little fallings. Had not other first-class seamstresses the same?' Or, 'What If she hadn't any joint In her elbow, and so had to work with a it iff fjrii, and a moved wttile to Ulutcu It? If tula were WILLCOX & OIBB9. a fault, sne, like thousands of her kin, wm not with out good company 1' And, lastly, 'Why should she be expected to consult the feelings of mistress of others? Did they consult hers? and were not ner rights as sacred as theirs? They had gone theif way all summer, while she was left in waiting, and she would have her way now long enough, at least, to teach mistress the art of self-government nndcf provocation though it did cost the peace of tho household,' j . , , i "Wltfl these exalted Ideas In her head, It wa often, as you will readily believe, a difficult task to keep Miss Double-thread at her work; and what work she did, was sometimes so badly done that 1 was obliged to take it all out a distressing job and do It over by hand. And these difficulties were so frequent and troublesome that, as a choice of evils, I did ft large- portion' of my sewing In those days by hand, without calling on Miss Double-thread at all. ! "Of tfonne my patience as often sorely tried, and as often I wondered If there could be no remedy. At length relief came, In the person of Miss 'Willcox- Olbbs,' a young seamstress of singular virtues and rare accomplishments, but bo unassuming that I, like many others, was at first inclined to doubt her qualifications. After a little delay I concluded to give her a trial ; and the result was so satisfactory that I, soon discharged Miss Double-thread, and Invited "Miss Willcox-Jlbbs to occupy her place, which she has done ever since to my eulire satisfac tion. - "The name and famo of the Misses WUcox-Oibbs (they are now a numerous family) are already spread far and wide, and they have little need of recora mendattori fromany source ; yet my Miss Gibbs has been such excellent help, and I feel under so great obligaffon'to her, that I esteem it a privilege as well as a duty to speak a good word for the family. I have already influenced several of my lady friends and acquaintances to make the exchange that I did, and the result has In every Instance been equally satisfactory. Indeed It could not well be otherwise ; for the Aliases. (Hubs are all alike, and what is per fection with me, must also be perfection with others. It is not so-with the Misses Double-thread. There may be a general family resemblance, but In action and temperament they differ as widely as servants of different nationalities, in fact, you never know, when you select a Double-thread seamstress, what you are gettlng-4tlfyou have proved her. TuX the Misses .WUlcox-Gibbs. as I said before, are nil exactly alike at least they are so per sonally; the only difference is in their dress. You certainly could not distinguish them by any differ ence In size, form, features, or action; In capacity or dlspooiyon; by the quality of their work, nor yet by their Voice t In the faculty last named they are quite peculiar; indeed, their conversation Is always in a whisper, and so low as not lu the least to disturb the onvsaWoh of others. 'While on the subject of changing seamstresses, I want to add that the practice Is becoming quite com mon in the circle of my acquaintance ; aud I am told that a very considerable portion of the applications received for the services "of tho Misses Willcox tllbbs are from ladies who have previously employed one of the Misses Double-thread. 'As to my own experience with Miss Willcox- Gibbs, I can say that, as soon as she was fairly settled Jn her new home she went right to work, and in a few duys had our wardrobe In complete order; and it has never been otherwise from that day to this, a period of nearly seven years. In all that timo she has not given the slightest occasion for reproof. Nor has she had one 'fit!' Indeed, I am not aware that she has ever been 111 for a moment. Certainly we have had no doctor's bills to pay for her, which is a fact of some importance in her favor as com pared with any seamstress of the Double-thread family that 1 have- ever employed. Tho amount of bills we paid for our Miss Lock-stitch, on account of surgical aid and medical advice, was truly frightful. I don't know the exact sum, but I think it exceeded the value of all the work she ever did for us. "I have, however, somewhat more to say of Miss Wlllcox-Cilbbs. She minds her own business, has no company, and Is always ready for duty. When ever we intend making a journey I scarcely have to let her know It and every garment needed is found ready at the appointed time. So also on our return, tho same watchful eye aud ready hand go almost in stinctively to work, and the family wardrobe Is again put In order often long boforo our other servants get fairly broken In. "Miss WHlcox-Ulbbs has also a peculiar faculty for making friends. If, on being Introduced at a new place, she happen to meet with a cold reception as she sometimes does, on account of the preju dices which thoRe lu the interest of the Misses Double-thread are active In disseminating It never disconcerts her, and she never fails to dispel that prejudice on a very slight acquaintance. Her quiet, lady-like, and winning way of receiving and treating strangers, has the effect to put every one at ease In her company. She is also a great favorite with chil dren. When not otherwise employed, she ofteu amuses them by making frocks aud aprons for their dolls ; and no matter how roughly they use her, she never gets out of temper, or becomes otherwise unfit for instant service when her mistress calls. "She Is also on Intimate terms with the feeble and the aged, who find in her an agreeable companion and a sympathizing friend. She never has any diffi culty with the other servants, and I doubt If she has an enemy In the world. Even the Misses Lock-stitch, and all the other members of the Double-thread family though professionally her rivals, are person ally her admirers if not her friends. My own Miss Lock-stitch used often to say : 'What a charming mtle seamstress Miss Willcox-Gibbs is ! If she ouly had another string to her bow so that she could go into flrt:ela8s society how delighted I should be with her company !' And though I did not then ap preciate her admiration of Miss Willcox-Gibbs, not bcingaouainte(rwlth her myself, I could not help saying, In a hulf-joklng way, 'Never mind, my dear, you way see the day when you will wish that you had one string It to your bow !'' TO THE LADIES A NEW IDEA. Did vou ever dream that the drudgery of sowing would ouu'day become the cheerfulcst pastlmo? Did yon ever believe that a littlo polished seamstress would step Into your sewing-room, ami, with scarcely a breath of noise, make up your entlro wardrobo ? Did you ever think that a sewing-machine would do all your work, even In the hands of your servant girl, without the complaint of "out of order," "use less," which Is so often, and too Justly, mado of sewing-machines generally 7 Any one who will watch the operation of the Willcox A Glbbs machine for ten minutes, while, In the hunds of a little girl, it throws off the most delicate hems and fells In absolute per fection cuts its triumphs la beautiful letters, figures, and wreaths, In rich embroidery and fashionable braid now sewing in a sleeve or sewing on a skirt of your dregs, and now flashing over yards of seam with but the nutter of a swallow's wing will cer- WILLCOX to. GIBBS. talnly get a new Idea of the practicability and real benefit of a family scwing-maohine, Sparc the Women. OVEnwonKED Women. "An overworked woman Is always a sad sight sadder, a great deal, than an overworked man, because she Is much more fertile In capacities or suffering than a man. She has so many varieties or headache sometimes as if Jael were driving the nail that killed Slsera Into her temples, sometimes letting her work with half her brain while the other half throbs as if It would go to pieces, sometimes tightening around the brows as if her cap-band were Luke's Iron crown and then her neuralgias, and her backaches, and her fits ot depres sion, In which she thinks she is nothing, and those paroxysms which men speak lightly of as hysterical convulsions, that is all, only not commonly fatal ones so many trials which belong to her fine and mobile structure, that she Is alwavs entitled to pity when she Is placed In conditions which develop her nervoas tendencies. HKvery word true as preaching. It U a sad sight to see an overwerked woman; but its sadness is In creased by the fact that her tolls might bo alleviated, and her burdens lessened, If men would but con sider. Why should our mothers, wives, and daugh ters be compelled to labor day after day, and not un frequently night after night, doing up the sewing of the family, when a comparatively trifling outlay would purchase a machlno with which all this te dious, health-wasting work coaldbe done in a fourth of the time, and In a better manner? We have In our family, and have had for years, and always In tend to have, a neat, noiseless, simple sewing ma chine, that never gets out of order, may be operated by a child, does Its work with almost Inconceivable rapidity, and in the best possible manner; never misses a stitch, uses but a single thread, and pro mises to last for a century. We tried one of these machines first. After using it a while we were fool ishly persuaded to believe there were better kinds. We exchanged our old machine for one or the better kind, and this for a second, said to be as nperior one, and this seoon superior one for a machine de clared to be best of all, and wound up our trading operations by going back to our first love, and or dered the Willcox Gibbs Noiseless Sewing Ma chine, the one above all others which we would re commend Tor family purposes. Unfortunately Horn vritli rVerrcs. The "busy hum of labor" is a poetical idea enough, but unfortunately some of us are born with lusmcs; and I confess that the monotonous whir, whir, wuik of a Sewing Machine in the house has sometimes sent me out or it. 1 have often wondered if this could not I c I S OF Anv really first-class Sewing Machine presents peculiar advantages to the seeker of articles, not costly, but beautiful and valuable, for BRIDAL or HOLIDAY PRESENTATION, but of all the Standard Ma chinesand there are many which merit the appellationthe one most certain to prove entirely satisfactory is the An exnerimental trial! The rciuarkable, Hunplitity of the Willcox & OliLbs improved Fami'y Sewing Machine, the noisdes8iuns of its movements, the sjteal, e8e, and accuracy with which a child may successfully work it, and the large range of setting to which it is pre-eminently adapted, have already established for it an enviable distinction among the rmsx-cxAKS Sewing Machines of the age. WILLCOX &. OIBBS. be remedied without Impairing Its usefulness. This I find Willcox A Glbbs have succeeded in doing. I bave lately been making trial of one of their "Silent Bcwlng Machines" the name attracted me "Silent!'' I find that one can easily listen to reading while ope rating It. This seems to me a great gain on all that have preceded It, My dressmaker, who baa had ten years' experience with Sewing Machines, gives this her unqualified preference. I myself have owned one of another make for eight years, which, In my judgment, does not approach this In utility. For all the rcMons above stated I give my hearty preference to tho "Willcox & Gibbs Silent Sewing Machine." Fnng Fern. The Family ScwImr Machine. Stout pants for boys, dolicato ruffling ror gins, men's overcoats and ladies' trimmings should not now be the weary work for ladies' fingers, and need not be; for the steel sinews of the Sewing Machine will turn weary days of work into a morning's pastime. But a small share of this work Is generally done on the sewing machine, because of the lack of ability to make the machlno do it. It makes little difference how complicated a machine for a tiwit ioIr; for there operators make it a business to learn and manage them. But the machine for the family should be of tho simplest and most perfect mechanism. We are led to make these remarks In Justice to a comparatively new machine, which has gained great favor among us on account or Its quiet,' prompt, rapid, and real business ability to do all our work, and with astonlsning neatness and perfection; It Is tho Willcox .V Glbbs. Sorth western Christian Adeotate., Tnis is Indeed an age of Invention, of progress, and of Improvement. One mind conceives a new Idea; another grasps the idea ami makes it practi cal; but the highest state or perfection is rarely ever reached by the first or second effort. Many trials, difficulties, and discouragements must be en countered and endured before complete success can be attained. A rorcible illustration or this truth Is the gradual development or the wonderful Letter "G" from the first crude Idea of sewing by machi nery. For a long time too threads were deemed essential In the construction or sowing machines. Hence the necessary complications of every produc tion. But finally it occurred to ono of the most thoughtful of our modern Inventors that one thread had ever been regarded as sufficient for hand-se wing. Then from analogy he reasoned that one thread alone ought to be employed In a machine supplying the place of hand labor. Acting npon this theory, he soon achieved a success altogether unprecedented In the history of sewing machines. Tho first invention was not moro remarkable or meritorious than this last, while its results were far less valuable to the world. The first established that machine sewing was possible. The last demonstrated the practical utility ot sewing machines for general family use. i f ho first was composed ot many parts, and required a skilled operator to manage it. The last Is a perfect marvel of simplicity, and can be N I M IT ABLE Ti AS G INTIIIN SIC WOIITH; WILLCOX $c GIBBS, solicited. OOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I'ote. So well aKurel am I that t n tlinrmiirli ! si I rlA tlrtll... i 1 & 111' Family Sewing; Machine ! cannot lull to convince even the most skeptical that It Is beyond all question "the best Machine In the -world," I freely oiler to all w ho w ill receive them, the' grn tuItoiiM ne ol Machine for one $ month. D. S. EWING, No. 720 C1IESNUT STREET. ? OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOa 0OO000O0OO)0O000000MJ')0o00 PRINCIPAL DEPOT, No. 720 CHESNUT STREET. WILLOOX it QIBBS. used with the greatest freedom and snores by mere child. The first was capable of hut a small range of plain stitching. The last embraces almost tho entire scope of household sewing. The first wu poorly constructed and liable to frequent disorder. The last la tho very pe'ection of meehmnitm. Mrs. Henry Ward Bccchcr, In a letter to the Inven tor or the Seir-Sewer, says: "I have the Wheeler Wilson, the Grover Baker and the Willcox k Glbbs Sewing Machines In my family. ' "I use the Willcox. k Glbbs most frequently, think ing It far superior to cither of the others." Fanny Fern, writing to a friend, says: "My dress maker, who has had ten years' experience in tne nse or Sewing Machines, gives the Willcox k Gibbs her unqualified preference. "1 have myself owned one of another make for eight years, which in my judgment does not approach the Willcox k Glbbs In utility." Kev. Oliver Crane, of carbondate, Pa., Rpeaklug of the merits and 'demerits of tho various Sewing Ma chines now before the public, says: "My wire would not accept one of any other patent as a jift, if she must receive It upon condition of n'vmgup the Willcox k Glbbs." i . ' r . I . 1 i 7 .' , "WK have used a WilUox k Glbbs sewing machine ror more than two years, and like It better and better. We never fail to recommend it when the opportunity otltrs. It in I ike a tmt and tried frit ad always on hand and ready when v t want to unc t7." Itev. Henry Aston, Cutchogue, L. I. "For MMVi.ir itv and easy makacemekt, I con slder the Willcox A- Gibbs the best machine for family use." ' ' ' ' , ' ; Mrb. .1. c. Hahi, -- No. 830 Tine streer, Philadelphia. "My HEcOMMFKDATtON or the Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine bus ever been or tho strongest Jam is M. Bates, ' j Secretary Am. Ex. Fire Insurance Company. "The Wiu.cox A Gibhh skwtno Maciune In use In my family given unalloyed natifa'tii m JAMKS HOWARDS, Barrte, Canada. . "The Wn.t.rox A Gtnns skwina Machine Is fault lean; runs beautifully, giving every satisfaction." E. A. Sciwerkroi. Washington, D. C. "Mrs. Reid says that the Willcox Gibbs Sewing Machine Is certainly the best beyond comparison." Rev. II. A. Reid, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. "We would be glad to know that one of Willcox Jfc Glbbs admirable Sewiug Machines was in every family in the I'nion." Rev. J. B. Fitman, Buptist Church, Matteawan, N. V. ' "The Wn.i.cox A GitiB.s is the best Machine i TUE WORLD." Mr. D. L. De Goi.Ja "TnE least wc can say of the Willcox & Gibbs noiseless Family Sewing Machine is: i is juit what we want and that we say heartily." ' Rev. J. M Ferris, Grand Rapids, Wisconsin. 1 F T S :jt.'j The Willcox k Gibbs latest improved Family Sewing Machine is tho most won derful instrument for Sewing ever invented Simple, Silent, and Complete. Its stitch is more elastic than the "lock;" more reliable than the "chain," and far more beautiful than hand sewing. This Stitch has proved the fact that two threads aise not, as was once supposed, NECEHSAUV TO THE C0N8TBUCTI0X OP A TEItrKCT AND DURABLE SEAM. '
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