SPIRITS AT THE SEWINGS MACHINE.

Southland Times, Issue 1585, 31 May 1872, Page 3

SPIRITS AT THE SEWINGS MACHINE.

At last! Spiritualism has not only become a fact^ but~a most useful fact. The spirits have been made to work a sewing machine. We have got the great new motive power which we have wanted so long. Seekers for perpetual motion may now set their minds at rest— for, of course, spirits can never grow tired — and Watt and Stephenson may hide their diminished heads. It is all quite clear and straightforward. A few Sundays since, at the house of Mr Stokes, in the J presence of Mr Home, the medium, Miss Cook, Miss Rogers, Mr Frank Everitt, and Mr Bond, a sewing machine was made, by unseen hands, to " work quickly and well." " On the Work being arranged, the spirits stitched along the entire length of the piece of calico which had been placed for them." After this we confess all our doubts are turned into warmest admiration and approval. We trust the Labor News will take up the subject thoroughly and at once, and let us know when and how we can hire " a spirit ;" also what the sewing-machine spirits charge per day for coming to work, whether in addition to the usual 2s, which we trust they will not exceed, they will require dinner and tea, and whether they will condescend to dine in the housekeeper's room ? — London Echo.