Category: History - American
“With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread— Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch— Would that its tone could reach the Rich!— She sang the ‘Song...
“With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread— Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And...
2. CHAPTER II.The earliest attempt at sewing by machinery of which any authentic account exists was made as early as July 24th, 1755, when a machine was patented in England by Charles F. Weis...
3. CHAPTER III.The humble origin of the first practically successful sewing machine was told by Mr. Singer himself a few years before his death. We reproduce the interesting narrative in his o...
4. CHAPTER IV.Starting with a capital of _forty dollars_, and that borrowed from another man, this poor mechanic launched upon the stormy sea of commercial life. Discouragements and disappoin...
5. CHAPTER V.Our lady friends may like to know how and where the “Singer” was made which has done such valued service in their homes, and as it is a most natural desire, we are glad to be ab...
6. CHAPTER VI.There is a valid reason for everything in this world, whether we are able to find it or not, and for all this wonderful growth and Aladdin-like success there is a reason too. In...