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The Virgin had straightened up, so the feature-stories ran, and correctly so. Never had she entered a Dawson City dance-hall. When she first arrived from Circle City, she had earned her living by washing clothes. Next, she had bought a sewing-machine and made men's drill parkas, fur caps, and moosehide mittens. Then she had gone as a clerk into the First Yukon Bank.
You can hand her out the window and let me visit her, if I can't see Lois." It was a raw December day and none of the Callahan children were playing, as usual, in front of the little brown house. The sewing-machine was rattling away at such furious speed that Miss Margery's knock at the door was unheard. The Charity lady hesitated a moment.
Read it here, see it in the movies, play it on the phonograph, run it through the sewing-machine. It was night in the mountains of Kentucky. Wild hills rose on all sides. Swift mountain streams flowed rapidly up and down the mountains. Jemima Tantrum was down at the stream, brewing whiskey at the family still. She was a typical mountain girl. Her feet were bare.
Yegorushka went into another room; there was a sewing-machine; in the window was a cage with a starling in it, and there were as many ikons and flowers as in the drawing-room. Near the machine stood a little girl with a sunburnt face and chubby cheeks like Tit's, and a clean cotton dress. She stared at Yegorushka without blinking, and apparently felt very awkward.
In most cases the sewing-machine was not used, the clocks were so worthless that they did not keep correct time and if they had, in nine cases out of ten there would have been no one in the family who could have told the time of day while the organ, of course, was rarely used for want of a person who could play upon it.
The decent poor man or woman who is anxious to earn an honest penny by the use of, it may be a mangle, or a sewing-machine, a lathe, or some other indispensable instrument, and is without the few pounds necessary to buy it, must take it on the Hire System that is to say, for the accommodation of being allowed to pay for the machine by instalments he is charged, in addition to the full market value of his purchase, ten or twenty times the amount of what would be a fair rate of interest, and more than this if he should at any time, through misfortune, fail in his payment, the total amount already paid will be confiscated, the machine seized, and the money lost.
The Colossus boasted that it could meet every commercial demand; supply a sewing-machine needle or set up a saw-mill; receipt for gas bills and water rates or fit out a general store. Under one roof it held the resources of a city.
But I shouldn't care for diamonds myself. I'd like a swanky tennis- racket." "I'd like a revolver, latest pattern," said Jerry. "I should like a first-class camera," said Hugh. "I'd like a pure-bred bull-dog," said Dick. "I'd like a nice little model sewing-machine," said Prue. "I'd like six pairs of stilts," said Grizzel, "and then we could all walk home on them."
She said to him one day, when he had been telling her that as likely as not she might have to take in washing or set up a sewing-machine: 'I am not afraid. You can always get money. There's nothing you can't do. He laughed. 'That may be true. But how if I disappear some day and leave you to take care of yourself?
They open the furrow, sow the seed, reap and winnow the harvest. In-doors, the sewing-machine performs a great part of the labor formerly done by the fingers of the seamstress. The art of printing has attained to a marvelous degree of progress.
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