BY TO H. R. H. THE ICH DIFF APPOINTMENT PRINCE OF WALES. ALLEN'S PORTMANTEAUS 37, WEST STRAND, LONDON, W.C. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES OF NEWLY INVENTED AND REGISTERED ARTICLES POST FREE. HAND SEWING MACHINE. Awarded the First Prize in competition with all the leading makers. PRICE FOUR GUINEAS. TREADLE 30s. and 35s. EXTRA. The "PRIMA DONNA" is extremely simple, easy to learn. It will stitch, hem, fell, braid, bind, gather, tuck, quilt, and do all the sewing required in a family. For ladies in delicate health, to whom exertion would be injurious, the "Prima Donna" Lock-Stitch Shuttle Hand Machine will prove a real boon. In its construction the defects of other Machines have been avoided, and it combines every recent improvement. The working parts being covered, the fabric to be sewed is perfectly protected from oil. Its stitch is very strong and durable, far surpassing the best hand work. It can be placed upon the most valuable table without causing the slightest injury. It can be worked either by hand or treadle. elegant stand the price is £5 148. TESTIMONIAL. Messrs. WHIGHT & MANN, Mounted on EAGLE HOUSE, ECCLESHALL, Dear Sirs,-Please send me another Packet of Needles. Your Machine, which I had more than Twelve Years ago, is still working satisfactorily. Yours truly, LOUISE E. TUNNICLIFFE. WHIGHT & MANN, PATENTEES AND MANUFACTURERS, 12, Holborn Bars, London, E.C. THE NEW WILLCOX AND GIBBS SILENT SEWING MACHINE WITH AUTOMATIC TENSION, AND OTHER IMPORTANT PATENTED IMPROVEMENTS. A TRULY MARVELLOUS IMPROVEMENT in Sewing Machinery. It does away with the LAST OF THE DIFFICULTIES in using the Sewing Machine, while it also renders certain the doing of PERFECT SEWING, even by beginners - PERFECT in SECURITY, PERFECT in BEAUTY, PERFECT in DURABILITY. It leaves nothing to the judgment of the operator beyond the choice of the style of work to be done. After that choice ALL IS DONE by this New Sewing Machine, which is in every respect the most PERFECT Sewing Machine yet made. Perfectly adapted to all the requirements of Family Sewing. A MONTH'S FREE TRIAL AT HOME. Carriage Paid. Price List Post Free. WILLCOX & GIBBS SEWING MACHINE CO., Chief Office for Europe-150, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON, West-end Branch-135, REGENT STREET. Branches at MANCHESTER, GLASGOW, BRIGHTON, and CANTERBURY. CERTIFIED AGENTS IN ALL TOWNS. BENJAMIN EDGINGTON, 2, DUKE STREET, LONDON BRIDGE, S.E. TENTS OF ALL DIMENSIONS Emigrant, Fishing, Boating, Bathing. &c. Flags of all Nations for Sale or Hire. Flags and Banners emblazoned with Arms and Devices to order. Garden Netting, New and Repaired. Cotton Netting for Preservation of Fruit Trees from Frost. Rick Cloths, New and Secondhand, with Poles, &c., complete. Cart and Waggon Cloths, of Improved Pliable Waterproof Material. Address, BENJAMIN EDGINGTON (only), 2, Duke Street, London Bridge, S.E NO OTHER ESTABLISHMENT. ROYAL DEVONSHIRE SERGE MADE OF SELECTED & ELASTIC STAPLE WOOLS. No other Article manufactured equals this in general utility. It is Woven for Ladies' Dresses in Navy Blue and other solid colours, and in Heather or Homespun Mixtures, price 1/11, 2/6, & 2/11 per yard.; also in Light-Weighted Yarns for Summer Use. And for Children's Wear in White and Navy Blue at 1/64 per yard. The qualities for Boys' Hard Wear are Extra Milled and Strengthened, as also those for Gentlemen's Suits; prices, 51 inches wide, from 4/9 per yd. Book of Patterns containing 100 will be sent on application to SPEARMAN & SPEARMAN, Devonshire Serge Factors, Plymouth. N.B.-THE ROYAL DEVON SERGE is the only true Yachting Serge; sea-water cannot i jure it. Good wear is positively guaranteed by the factors, who cut any length desired, and send parcels over Two Pounds in value, carriage paid, to Bristol or London, and by steamer to Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Waterford, and Glasgow. Heavy and Light Qualities are specially made in dust colours for travelling. PHOTOGRAPHY FOR TOURISTS THE THE TRIUMPH OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ART IS NEW POCKET CAMERA OF ROUCH AND CO., which requires no previous know ledge of photography. Extensively used by tourists and travellers, no chemicals required in the field, the prepared plates are marvels of sensitiveness, will keep for years in any climate, price 3s. 6d. per dozen; every plate guaranteed to produce a picture; Camera, three double slides, Alpenstock tripod, Ross's lens, and sling patent leather case, price complete £7 10s.; larger size, No. 2, 5in. by 4in., price complete £8 17s. 6d. These appliances being made in our own workshops, no other make can equal them for quality. Fullest particulars post free, or at the Manufactory. W. W. ROUCH and CO., 180, STRAND, LONDON. Established 1851. COOK'S BRITISH MUSEUM BOARDING HOUSE 59, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London. This Establishment is pleasantly situated within three minutes' walk of Oxford Street and High Holborn, the great Omnibus route to the City and the West End, with easy facilities for visiting every part of the Metropolis. LEICESTER. Cook's Commercial and Family Temperance Hotel, 63, GRANBY STREET (Adjoining the Temperance Hall). Ladies and Gentlemen visiting Leicester, for purposes of Business or Pleasure, will find at this Establishment the ordinary comforts of a quiet home, in close proximity to the chief centres of commerce. The Hotel is situated in the principal thoroughfare, within five minutes' walk of the Railway Station, and about an equal distance from the principal Banks, Public Offices, Mercantile Establishments, Markets, Post Office, &c. An Ordinary is provided daily at One o'clock. |