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Dunstan Times, Issue 470, 21 April 1871, Page 4

THE GROVER & BAKER ELASTIC AND LOCK-STITCH SEWING MACHINES ARE so well known and so universally used, that any description of their advantages is superfluous. They hem and width, cord, quilt, BRAID, PELL, GATHER, TUCK, BIND, AND embroider, and are considered by competent judges to be the best Sewing Machines yet known. The following are a few of the many testimonials we are constantly receiving, furnishing a convincing proof of their superiority. From the “ Express —‘ ‘ Having had an opportunity for several months past of closely inspecting the worhibg of a Grover and Baker’s Sewing Machine, we have much pleasure in testifying that it is adapted for every kind of work set forth in the prospectus. It combines the charms of plain stitching with the attractionsof embroidery, in which of delights. machinfe-i^xcecdnmjy uro|>d sewing, it is an its highest rank mupng its competitors, none of whom that we know of having attained such excellence. The machines .'ire, in fact, in every way invaluable to households, and when the immense saving of labor compared with hand-sewing is taken into consideration, it is remarkable that they are not more generally used.” . . . “No. 45, Adelaidestreet, Melbourne, October 20, 1868.- Gentlemen, —Having oneof your N0.26 Cabinet Sewing Machines in use for nearly four years, I have much pleasure in being able to speak of its excellence In addition to domestic work, we use it for the various materials in uphelstery, silk, bed-ticking, drugget, and furniture leather, and find it all that can be desired. It has never been out of order nor given any trouble in working from the first week, and I believe it to be the best machine extant. I am, gentlemen, yours, &c., D. M. Crowley, upholsterer. MATHESON", BROTHERS, Sole Agents for Dunedin, Minton House, Priuces-street, Wliolesal e Agents, NEWELL & Co. Melbourne 1 The tale that relate, This lesson seems to carry— Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. Cowper. Even in the healthy climate of Australia there are many men— Whose legs, like loaden branches, bow to the earth, Willing to leave their burden. Shakespeare. For now, as in the time of La Bruyere, “ many men expend the early part of their lives'in contributing to render the latter part miserable,” frequently realising Spenser’s discription— As pale aijA wamrts was his looke, His body as a rake. And In all countries, aon especially in newlyset: led regions, uroere a disparity of the sexes exists, / There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become Old in their youth, and die ere middle age. Byron. While it is a well established fact that Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide.—Colton. Recently published, in lOmo, cloth boards, price 4s. 6d. (by post, 55.), or handsomely bound in calf, 125., WEAKNESS In its relation to Married Life. BY DR. L. L. SMITH, For eighteen years the leading Consulting Medical Man in Melbourne in all Special Diseases, and in all Complaints incidental to Hot Climates. In this work will be found an answer to the question which heads this advertisement. In the Australian Colonies, more than in the Mother Country, is continually heard the complaint that young men will not marry,' and their conduct in abstaining from marriage, in certain cases, is highly commendable, for—“lt is less a breach of Wedlock to part than still to foil and profime that Mystery of Joy and Union with a polluting Sadness and Perpetual Distemper. M ilton. Yet it cannot he disputed that the highest degree earthly happiness is that yielded by the permanent enjoyment of the married state, for — “ Without our hopes, without our fears, Without the Home that plighted love endears, Without the smile from partial Beauty won, Oh ! what were Man ?—a World without a Sun. —Campbell. It that many marriages prove unhappy from there being no children and other causfes ; hut it is equally true that the cause Of unhappiness is generally removable ; for of nearly every woman it may be saidi “ In any honest suit she’s framed as fruitful As the free elements.”—Shakespeare. DR. L. L. SMITH, 192 to 194, Bourke-street East. Melbourne. Consultation Fee (by letter), £L “ Life is not to live, but to he well.” Martial. Holloway’s Ointment and Pills.— For mothers and all other members of the weaker sex, should he kept constantly ,on hand to use in all cases of irregularity and disorganization of the functions peculiar tf> them. They are harmless, but effective, and act as an alterative, tonic, and cxpellaut. They are the finest medicine known, for all female complaints, aud should be kept by every mooher cither for herself or family.