Most of us are familiar with the arrangements of an ordinary lock stitch machine, and an able paper by Mr. Edwin P. Alexander, embracing not only a good account of its history, but most of the elements of the earlier machines, has already (April 5, 1863), been read before you.

Adjusters manual for Singer sewing machine 246-4 for trimming and blind stitch hemming in one operation, form 20251 (149).

Instructions for using and adjusting Singer sewing machine 124-1 for stitching bags.

So she got him a nice bit of green baize, and in the afternoon he made his bagno gobble-stitch work, but good, honest back-stitching, except the string-case, which was only run, that it might draw easier and tighter.

Instructions for using 1, 6 and 12 stitch ruffler for family sewing machines.

But although marked development in the machines has occurred in so short a time, it may be taken for granted that those advances are but the accumulated results of many years' prior invention and experience of stitching appliances.

The chief point of interest in the machine is undoubtedly the means employed in transferring the motion from the main shaft to the underneath parts, an arrangement as ingenious and effective as any device ever introduced into stitching mechanism.

I do not know of any instance of sewing machinery in a factory being driven by an electromotor, but such means of conveying motive power appears admirably adapted for that purpose, when the stitching room happens to be far removed from the main shafting or engine.

Speaking of straw hat machines, mention should be made of Wiseman's hand stitch apparatus, as improved by Messrs. Willcox & Gibbs, and shown here this evening.

Thousands of people go to and fro in the wilderness of bricks and mortar, earning mean wages, professing a mean religion, wearing a mean attire, thousands of women who have never found any expression for their exaltation or their tragedy but to go on working harder and yet harder at dull and automatic employments, at scolding children or stitching shirts.

10 represents the right and left hand loopers and loop spreaders, and for the stitch making.

all as nice as their handy little fingers could make, and every stitch telling of their earnest love and bright faces!Every one of those children is dead.

"We shan't have to wear a stitch underneath," Lady Betty announced decidedly, while she pirouetted before a cheval glassthey were all in Lady Anningford's roomwith some stuff draped round her childish form.

DE FACTO AND DE JURE I. DE FACTO The later summer sunbeams lay on an expanse of slightly broken ground where purple and crimson heather were relieved by the golden blossoms of the dwarf gorse, interspersed with white stars of stitch-wort.