American inventions and inventors . - and worn,With eyelids heavy and red,A woman sits in unwomanly rags,Plying her needle and thread—. w >. _ SEWING BY HAND. 174 AMERICAN INVENTIONS AND INVENTORS. Stitch! Stitch! Stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt. Work! Work! Work! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work—work—work. Till the stars shine through the roof! Band and gusset and seam,Seam and gusset and the heart is sick,And the brain benumbedAs well as the weary hand. Indeed, the time had come long ago when some ingeniousdevice was needed by which the seamstress could sew withles
American inventions and inventors . - and worn,With eyelids heavy and red,A woman sits in unwomanly rags,Plying her needle and thread—. w >. _ SEWING BY HAND. 174 AMERICAN INVENTIONS AND INVENTORS. Stitch! Stitch! Stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt. Work! Work! Work! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work—work—work. Till the stars shine through the roof! Band and gusset and seam,Seam and gusset and the heart is sick,And the brain benumbedAs well as the weary hand. Indeed, the time had come long ago when some ingeniousdevice was needed by which the seamstress could sew withless wear and tear of nerve and muscle. Efforts were madein England for machine sewing nearly one hundred and fiftyyears ago, but they were not successful. A sewing machinewas invented by Thomas Saint about one hundred years agowhich had some of the features of the sewing machine ofto-day. It was left, however, for American inventors to producemachines that would do the work easily and successfully; themachines themselves had such simplicity and were so nicelyadapted that they were not likely to get out of repair butwould remain
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