Chapter I (2)

=A SET OF DESIGNING PATTERNS.=—With this set any one can design thousands of beautiful pieces for Embroidery, Tinsel Work, Painting, etc. =No experience needed=—a child can do it. An Illustrated Book =shows how= to make patterns to fill any space; all the flowers used in embroidery represented. Every one who does stamping wants a set, =which can be had only with this outfit=. This outfit also contains =TWO HUNDRED or more Stamping Patterns ready for use=. The following being only a partial list:—=Splasher Design, 22 in.=, 50 cents; Roses, 12 in., and Daisies, 12 in., for scarf or tidies, 25 cents each; Wide Tinsel Design, 12 in., 25 cents; Strips of Scallops for Flannels, wide and narrow, 30 cts.; Braiding Patterns 10 cts.; Splash! Splash! “=Good Night=,” and “=Good Morning=,” for pillow shams, two fine outline designs for tidies, 6x8, 50 cts.; =Tray Cloth Set=, 50 cts.; Teapot, Sugar, Cream, Cup and Saucer, etc.; Pond Lilies, 9x12, 25 cts.; 2 Alphabets, $1.00; 2 Sets Numbers, 30 cts.; Patterns of Golden Rod, Sumac, Daisies, Roses, &c., Tinsel and Outline Patterns, Disks, Crescents, &c.

COUPON FOR ONE DOLLAR.

In addition to all these and many other patterns we enclose a =Coupon good for $1 worth of patterns= of your own selection chosen from our catalogue.

THE MODERN PRISCILLA. 1 Year.

=The Modern Priscilla= (the only practical =fancy work journal= in America), by arrangement with the publishers, will also be sent free for one year.

=The Great Value of this Outfit is in Good Useful Patterns.=

=T. E. PARKER, Lynn, Mass.=

Devoted exclusively to =LADIES’ FANCY WORK=.]

=THE MODERN PRISCILLA.=

Published monthly, at 50 cts. per year. Descriptions of new fancy work appear every month; all directions for knitting or crocheting carefully corrected. Everything beautifully illustrated.

=Miss Eva M. Niles says=: “I think your paper a little gem.” =Get up a Club. Great Inducements!! Send stamp for premium list.= Club rate is now 25 cts. a year, or 5 for =$1=. Get 4 subscribers and have your own free. Address,

=Priscilla Publishing Co., Lynn, Mass.=

=SAVE MONEY.=

Embroidery Material, Infant’s Goods, Kid Gloves, Corsets, Laces, Ruchings, etc., at =WHOLESALE PRICES=.

Sent anywhere by mail.

POSTAGE ALWAYS PREPAID.

25 Skeins Embroidery Silk, 11 cents. Box of Waste Embroidery Silk, worth 40 cents, for only 21 cents. Felt Tidies, all stamped, 10 cents. Linen Splashers, all stamped, 18 cts. Felt Table Scarfs, 18x50, all stamped, 48 cents. Ball Tinsel, 8 cents.

=T. E. PARKER, Lynn, Mass.=

AN IMPORTANT ADVANCE IN SUNDAY SCHOOL BOOKS AND
UNEXPECTED HELP IN PICKING THEM OUT.

Sunday School books have been growing better and better for many years; and yet we think they are scarcely keeping pace with the general forward movement. Indeed the improvement in Sunday School books has been largely brought about by mixing with them books designed for wider use.

Why not then widen the word to cover the fact, and get such other books for Sunday Schools as are fit for rising young people, books to help them rise?

That is the direction in which D. Lothrop Company has been working for several years; and its Sunday School books are largely made up of reading and pictures by no means confined to religious subjects. Now it goes still further in the direction of the popular tendency, and offers for Sunday Schools a separate list of books not often thought of for that purpose.

Everybody knows that children, especially boys, are apt to prefer a library where all sorts of books are within their reach. Such browsing unrestrained is apt to lead downward rather than up. But why not let the Sunday School library have the attraction without the danger? Why not afford the delight of inspiring, instructive, helpful literature in some of the books and religious teaching in others without the popular trash?

So two separate lists of books for the Sunday School library: one of modern (not “goody-goody” or stupid) Sunday School books, the other of secular books for the rising young.

These lists are arranged according to the relative acceptability of the books as shown in the main by the numbers called for. (1) religious Sunday School books; and (2) secular Sunday School books.

The books in both lists are arranged in the order of their acceptability. And so the lists are a help in choosing books. The majority vote may not be an infallible standard; but is there a better, especially when the voters are well-informed about what they are voting on?

The man who makes and sells a thing is the man who knows its quality; for the opinions of those who use it get around to him, and that very promptly. These lists are made with just that knowledge.

First and foremost of the decidedly religious books are the Pansy books. Pansy herself is a leader of children. She opens her mouth—they are eager to catch her lightest word. She raises her hand—instinctively up go theirs. The secret of such a power as that is sympathy, feeling together.

So in her books. She enters into their smallest experiences. The boys and girls of her books, the children of her brain, are just like her readers, natural flesh and blood; not life-like but real, just as real as you are yourself. They live in their world with the rest of us; have their ups and downs, perplexities, such as come to us all; and they win. So shall we who read!

That is inspiration. The reader becomes the actor, the hero, the heroine. Happy the writer who uses such power as that for helping, guiding, building up.

There are more than a hundred “Pansy books,” mostly by Pansy herself, a few by one or two helpers, a few by others altogether. They constitute, we may fairly say, the very highest class of traditional Sunday School books. They belong to the highest order of Sunday School work.

D. Lothrop Company, Boston, is just now getting out these lists of religious and secular Sunday School books, arranged with a view of marking their relative popularity. The Pansy books are at the top of the religious list, and Arthur Gilman’s History of the American People heads the secular list.

Send for the primer—sent free by the publishers.

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BABYLAND is so good a diversion for baby and help for the mother that it ought to be in every baby family. Pictures and jingles and laughter. Baby will study in spite of you.

PREMIUM LIST

The Things you are going to have your choice of—you who look about among your neighbors and help them pick out their reading and pictures.

It is a neighborly act. And the time to begin to be careful of reading and pictures is when the baby can understand them. Let them come in the following order:

_Babyland_: nurse-help for the mother, and baby-joy for
the little one; $0.50 a year.

_Our Little Men and Women_: delightful hours and years
for beginning readers; $1.

_Pansy_: the Sunday School age is the time for Pansy;
$1.

_Chautauqua Young Folks’ Journal_: for studious young
folks; $1.

_Wide Awake_: library, study, play-house, life at home
and abroad, companionship of the wise and good; $2.40.

Think of a life not only unhurt by wrong reading and pictures, but helped by right reading and pictures all the way through! It _is_ a neighborly act!

We make such Terms as you never heard of—for work.

D LOTHROP COMPANY
PUBLISHERS OF BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
BOSTON

Who Skips This Page Will Please Skip All

[Sidenote: What premiums are and to whom they are due]

Premiums are pay for work and nothing else. That work is getting new subscriptions. It is done when you send the names, addresses and money. Then you take your choice of the things in the List.

[Sidenote: Why we pay so much]

This work is of great importance to us, no matter how little there is to be done in your neighborhood. We pay for it _all the money there is_; we pay in such a way as to make it more to you than it is to us, especially if you happen to live where good new things are hard to get, where the stores are stocked with things that are going out of use instead of with things that are coming into use.

[Sidenote: The best things in the list]

We put in the List the best we can get and the best we can get for the money: some things because it is worth your while to know about them; others to answer wants we know exist—we put in nothing to be ashamed of. Some things are commonplace; not all are new or hard to get; but those we emphasize are worthy of careful study.

To be in the List at all is commendation. To be described is high commendation.

[Sidenote: When premiums are due]

Premiums are due when the names and money are here, and may be taken at any time thereafter, the sooner the better for us. You can have them right along as you earn them, or wait a little and have more together and save a part of the cost of transportation; but the sooner you take them the surer you are of getting them. Some will be gone by and by.

[Sidenote: Who pays for transportation]

All costs for freight, express and postage are paid by receiver, except postage on books, magazines and a few small things on which the postage is only a cent or two.

The postage on mailable things is stated in the List except as above. [When the postage is not stated: if the thing weighs only an ounce or two, we pay the postage; but, if heavier, it must go by express.] It is often true that mailable things go for less by express. We send the cheapest way, if we know it.

Some things are sent direct from the makers to save expense.

Everything over four pounds, too big for the mail, or for any reason unmailable, goes by express; and you pay the freight on receipt.

[Sidenote: How much the cost of a package is by express]

You can generally find out about how much by guessing the size and weight and inquiring at your express office.

You can economize freights to some extent by having several things in one package.

[Sidenote: Who is responsible]

We pack with care and deliver to carrier in good condition. That is all we can do. Beyond that the risk is yours. We register packages going by mail if you send the registry fee, ten cents a package, in addition to postage.

[Sidenote: What is a new subscription]

We pay for new subscriptions; not for renewals. What is the difference? A new one is that of a family not on our list before.

We pay premiums in good faith. We expect them to be earned in good faith. A subscriber may stop one magazine and become a new subscriber to another; but change of a magazine from one name to another in a family is not a new subscription. Your own subscription (if new) may count with others (not alone) for premiums. We have got to draw the line somewhere. We don’t reckon too closely, nor suspect bad faith too readily. We prefer to deal a little generously; but we don’t intend to be really imposed upon.

[Sidenote: Direct to D. Lothrop Company]

To be entitled to premiums you must send subscriptions direct to the publishers, not to another agent. We don’t pay twice for the same subscription.

[Sidenote: Whose agent you are]

You are entrusted with money for us by the subscribers you get. You are their agent, not ours. Be faithful to them. Send their names and money as soon as you get them. You are responsible to them till we get the names, addresses and money together. Then you are free.

[Sidenote: When a subscription begins]

Subscriptions begin at any time. If you neglect to name a date, we guess as well as we can.

The volumes begin as follows: _Wide Awake_, December and June; _Chautauqua Young Folks’ Journal_, December; _Pansy_, November; _Our Little Men and Women_, January; _Babyland_, January.

[Sidenote: Requirements]

No deviation in prices; no credit (send name, address and money together); remit by post-office money order, by American Express Company’s money order, by registered letter or by bank check (postage stamps may be sent in registered letters for change); write plainly and fully; give subscribers’ full addresses (they may be different); sign your name and give your full address in every communication.

The foregoing relates to premiums sent within the United States.

[Sidenote: Beyond the United States]

To the British North American Colonies other premiums have to be sent by express, the receiver paying whatever costs the tariff may impose; but magazines and books may be sent to these colonies by mail. There is a duty on books; not on magazines.

[Sidenote: Premiums for sale]

Things in the List are also sold for money, payment in advance, no discount, no charge for packing, sent at receiver’s cost and risk.

[Sidenote: Delays]

Wait for return mail and a week besides before you conclude your letter or our reply has gone astray; then write particulars: date of your sending, how you remitted, how much.

[Sidenote: The first thing to do]

The first step to take is to send us 15 cents for specimen copies of all five magazines, subscription blanks and other helps.

D LOTHROP COMPANY
PUBLISHERS OF BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
BOSTON

PREMIUM LIST OF THE LOTHROP MAGAZINES

Jack-straws, two sets. Prices 25 and 50 cents; for 30 and 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents. One set contains more pieces and also more sorts—ladders, spades, hoes, mallets, arrows, etc., of variously-colored wood.

Cultivates delicate handling and ingenuity.

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Puzzle Map of the United States, on oblong paper blocks to be matched together. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 6 cents.

Teaches what we elders need to study—where the States are.

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The Frisky Cow. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 44 cents—express may be less. Size 6 by 8 by 12 inches.

For little people. Johnny rolls the ball and hits the knob on the right, rings a bell and counts 10. Susan hits the middle knob, counts 20, and the cow jumps over the moon.

One of the jolliest toys we know of.

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Shadow Transformations. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 6 cents.

Figures cut out of cards cast shadows from any sort of light. The shadows are silhouette pictures. The combinations are hundreds. There is more fun in them than we can put on paper.

Stimulates invention and design; for nobody stops with these cards.

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Toy Money in a cash-box. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 4 cents.

The coins are printed card-board copies like the picture, only full size.

“Playing store” teaches the little merchants a great deal more than arithmetic; and how can they make change without money?

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Historiscope. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents.

A panorama of scenes in American history, with a brief “lecture.” You turn that little crank, and the “lecture” explains the pictures.

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American Toy Village. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 12 cents.

The buildings etc., which are painted wood, may be arranged on the lithographed “plan” as in the picture, or on a table, or lawn, or sand.

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Words and Sentences, a game, variations of which are known by several other names, Logomachy, War of Words, etc. Price 25 or 50 cents; for 30 or 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents and 7 cents. Two styles, one more substantial than the other and in wood box.

A family game by no means confined to children. Cultivates knowledge of words and facility in their use.

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Checker Men. Price 10 cents; for 15 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents.

Thirty double-face pieces 1¼ inches diameter.

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Halma. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 22 cents.

“The only important board game purely of skill invented since checkers and chess.” Introduced two years ago and said to be very popular. Large flat folding paper board and box with men and instructions.

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Chess, Checkers and Halma in one. Price $1.75; for $2 in new subscriptions. Goes by express.

Checker board on one side, halma on the other, with cherry frame and trough for the men, 19x19 inches: chess, checkers and halma men and directions for halma.

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Carpet Bowls. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 32 cents.

Like quoits, except that the balls are rolled instead of tossed, and the hub is a ball that gets moved about as the game goes on.

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Snap. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 4 cents.

Teaches quickness.

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Social Hours. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents.

A pamphlet of games, tricks, illusions and puzzles, with a box of requisite things to play with. A very large number; too many to count.

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Matched Pictures, scenes in the far West. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents.

Forty oblong pieces go together in a great many ways and make as many different pictures.

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Doll’s Dressmaking Bazaar. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 25 cents.

Paper dolls’ heads, arms, legs, dress-stuffs, laces, ornaments; an immense variety. Patterns to cut by. Instructions. The figures are handsomely lithographed on varnished paper.

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Interchangeable Combination Circus. Price 75 cents; for 90 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 20 cents.

A set of sectional pictures. The circus performs whatever part of the programme you choose amid the huzzahs of the spectators.

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Evening Party. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 6 cents.

A boxful of games, puzzles, charades, rebuses, tricks, conundrums, etc.; a houseful of frolic and fun.

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Checker and Backgammon boards, hinged boxes, with dice-cups and men. No 1, 8x14 inches closed, price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 25 cents. No. 2, 7x12, price 75 cents; for 90 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 20 cents. No. 3, 6x10½, price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 12 cents. They differ also in wood and finish.

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Kindergarten souvenir-material (Bradley’s). Tinted card with diagrams and colored illustrations, by which children are taught to cut, fold, embroider and make a great variety of beautiful useful things. A generous boxful. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 26 cents.

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Chess Men. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents.

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Building Blocks. Price 25 and 50 cents; for 30 and 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 30 and 60 cents. Express may be less.

As many blocks as cents; not painted.

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Fascinator, balls and cues, indoors or out. The boys will know the rest from the picture. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions.

Teaches skill with eye and hand.

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Kindergarten Occupation. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 32 cents.

GEMS FROM THE

Kindergarten

FOR HOME

OCCUPATION]

Weaving, embroidering, ring-laying, stick-laying, etc. A large box of materials with instructions.

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Pitch-a-Ring and Ring Toss. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 40 cents—express may be less.

The rings are made pretty and soft with plaiting of colored cotton, and the box they come in serves for base.

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Go Bang, Tivoli, and Fox and Geese. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 33 cents.

Leather-covered two-book-shape box, 2x7½x14 inches, turned wood men.

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Parcheesi. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 25 cents.

Size of closed board 9½x18½x⅜ inches. Brass-bound paper men; dice-boxes.

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Checkered Game of Life. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents.

Size of closed board 8x16⅜ inches; wood men; counters; teetotum.

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Set of Games No. 1 containing each in a box: A lot of puzzles; Old Maid; Round Up; Five Senses; Old Salt’s Yarn; Auction; Scramble; Steeple-Chase. Price 15 cents each; any three for 50 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents each.

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Set of Games No. 2 containing each in a little box: Old Maid; Jack Straws; Fortunes; Seth Spook’s Visit to Chicago; Beast, Bird, Fish; Go Bang; Selected Authors; Riddles; Optical Illusions; Tortoise and Hare; Siege; Historical Dates. 6 cents each; any four for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 5 cents for the four.

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OLD MAID IMPROVED

MILTON BRADLEY & Co SPRINGFIELD MASS]

Old Maid improved. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 4 cents.

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Solitaire. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 25 cents.

With bowls for marbles in play and a drawer.

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Perfection folding table. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. By express.

Top 19x30 inches and adjustable to eight heights between 23½ and 29 inches. Half-yard inch measure and checkers on it.

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Postage-stamp album with classified spaces for 2400 stamps and 264 engravings. Price 50 cents (cloth binding 75 cents); for 60 cents in new subscriptions (cloth binding for 90 cents). Postage 5 cents.

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One hundred postage stamps to begin with; price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions.

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Savings Bank. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 17 cents.

ONE CENT]

The music and dancing last half a minute after a penny is put into it. Goes by clock-work. Well made and not likely to get out of order. The music is imaginary, except the clatter of the dancer’s feet.

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Printing outfit. Price $2.50; for $3 in new subscriptions.

FAVORITE PRINTING PRESS AND OUTFIT

CARDS INK TYPE PALLET FURNITURE GOLD

THE FAVORITE PRINTING PRESS & OUTFIT]

Consists of a practical press of the slightest possible character, roller, one font of type, one case, leads, furniture, ink and fifty cards. Weight of the whole in a box about seven pounds. A boy with the requisite printing wit can do small jobs with it. Size of chase 2x3½ inches.

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Woods Air Line Gun. Price $1; for $1.10 in new subscriptions. Postage 30 cents.

The “barrel” is a straight wire; the bullet a wood spool; the force a coil of steel wire. Target with pocket to catch the bullets. Also a torpedo target.

Bullets for the Woods gun; 25 for 10 cents; for 15 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 5 cents.

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Doll’s Britannia Tea-set. Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 12 cents.

About 20 pieces, teapot 3 inches high.

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Sand-mill, that is, a water-wheel driven by sand instead of water, with a wooden man pretending to turn the crank outside. The mechanical boy will rig a pulley and get a good deal of work out of it. Sand play is the chief amusement of children at the seaside.

Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents.

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Toy scales 6½ inches long. Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 17 cents.

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Locomotive and tender of malleable iron japanned and gilt. Connecting-rods work, wheels turn and bell rings. 20 inches long, and weighs seven pounds. None so substantial and life-like ever made before for anything like the money. Price $2; for $2.50 in new subscriptions. Western orders filled from Chicago to save express.

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Whistle. Price 30 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions.

Celluloid; looks like ivory. Trills.

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Musical top. Price 30 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 4 cents.

Reeds inside of it, sing as it spins and change their notes with a touch.

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Locomotive 12-inch. Price $2; for $2.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 35 cents.

Goes by clock-work. Gong in the cab rings loudly.

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Locomotive engine 10 inches long. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 30 cents.

Goes by clock-work. Bell does not ring.

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Weeden engine. Price $1.25; for $1.35 in new subscriptions. Postage 35 cents.

Quite an elaborate, handsome and well-made engine, 8½ inches high, with safety-valve, whistle, smoke-stack, thumb-screws to let steam on and off and to whistle, heavy fly-wheel and double pulley. Goes half an hour with one firing and watering. Made of nickeled tin and brass. Power enough for a great variety of play-work.

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Engine. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 5 cents.

A little rough; but a boy can whittle it smooth; 5 inches high; with all the necessary parts. Goes as long as the water and alcohol last and drives a little light machinery. Even this is enough to find out a boy with mechanical bent.

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Propeller “Neptune,” an iron boat 10 inches long with a working engine strong enough to drive it briskly across the mill-pond for 20 or 30 minutes. Not really iron; mostly brass; the hull painted black with red stripe along the gunwale. A saucy craft, but not at all dangerous.

Price $2.25; for $2.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents.

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Revolving Wall Blackboard and desk slate. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions.

Size 16½x17 inches, including frame and trough for eraser and crayons. Outline designs on frame for drawing.

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Doll’s Folding Chair. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents.

Natural cherry, surprisingly well made and smooth. The seat is of pretty cretonne. Total height 11½ inches.

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Doll’s High Chair with table-leaf and wood tea-set. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 11 cents.

Daintily made of fine white-wood printed to imitate cane seat, etc.

It comes “flat;” and dolly’s maternal uncle puts it together. Foot-and-a-half high.

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Doll’s Chamber Set. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions.

Cherry, four pieces: bedstead 17x8x9 inches, bureau with bright tin mirror, pretty folding chair and table. All come “flat” and go together beautifully.

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Doll’s Carriage. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 8 cents. A folding easy chair on wheels; fine white-wood; pretty cretonne seat; arms of bright silk cord.

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Dolly’s Own Album of nearly two hundred transfer pictures; 7 cents; for 10 cents in new subscriptions.

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Folding Desk Blackboard with rolling sheet of more than a hundred designs for drawing. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions.

Height 3 feet; blackboard 14x18 inches.

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Doll’s Cradle. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents.

White-wood, 7½ x 8½ x 16 inches. Comes “flat.”

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Sliced Animals. Price 30 cents; for 40 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 12 cents.

Colored pictures of animals on strips of card-board with letters on one end. When the strips are put together right the animal’s name is there too.

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Sliced Objects. Price 30 cents; for 40 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 12 cents.

Yacht, engine, boat, car, fort, church, house, dam, bridge, coach, fountain, statue; all on strips and mixed together.

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Sliced Birds. Price 30 cents; for 40 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 12 cents.

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Britannia Collapsing Cup in a tin box. Price 20 cents; for 25 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents.

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Nickeled Collapsing Cup in a watch-case. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents.

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Dominoes. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents.

In neat and substantial wood box.

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Triumph toy Clothes-wringer, handy for small pieces as well as for dolly’s things. Rolls three inches long. Works perfectly. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents.

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Doll, No. 204, 20½-inches high, undressed, except chemise trimmed with lace and ribbon, bisque head, arms and legs, washable. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 30 cents.

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Dressed Doll Nellie, 14 inches high, in full summer dress set off with lace and ribbons, hat, lace hose and leather shoes; bisque head, arms and legs. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 25 cents.

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In-door Ball. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions.

Very light rubber, 3¼-inch blown up.

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Doll’s Tea-set. Price $1.25; for $1.60 in new subscriptions.

China, gayly decorated, 20 to 25 pieces. Cups about 2 inches across; tea-pot 5 inches high.

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Drawing Teacher. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents.

Thick paper stencils for pencil drawings; designs; a supply of suitable paper.

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Drum. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions.

Hammered brass body; sheepskin heads; red-white-and-blue cords and belt; 13 inch.

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Daisy Ten-pins. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 30 cents.

The pins are lithographed figures of boys and girls in holiday dress and the balls are solid gilt.

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Tin Kitchen. Price 60 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 30 cents.

Size 7x12x4 inches; about 20 pieces; pump pumps water.

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Fire Engine. Price $6; for $6.50 in new subscriptions.

Pumps from a reservoir, and at the same time throws a continuous stream. Consists of boiler, engine, force-pump, water and steam gauges, air-chamber, hose and hose-pipe. Size 5x10½x9 inches, exclusive of pole. The machine is an excellent one; the engraving is not a good one.

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Doll’s Head No. 38-24, bisque, 3 inches across shoulders. Price 30 cents; for 40 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents.

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Doll’s Head No. 710, bisque, 3½ inch, closing eyes, fine curls. Price 75 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. Postage 8 cents.

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Doll’s Wash-set. Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 30 cents.

Tub 9 x 5 inches. The wringer does not wring.

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Fairy Sewing-machine. Price $3; for $3.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 35 cents.

Actually sews, and is really useful to put in one’s trunk for a summer trip—the best of hand sewing-machines are silly at home.

This isn’t silly, because it teaches dolly’s mamma to cut and make her own dresses. An excellent play-thing for an industrious little girl, though we suppose it is made for serious use. Size 5x6 inches.

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Japanese Tivoli, Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 20 cents.

Jap lies on his back, heels up, with a marble in the bowl on his boots, Tommy touches the spring and counts according to where the marble goes.

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Large Jack-knife. Price 75 cents; for 90 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 4 cents.

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Bull’s-eye lantern. Price 75 cents; for 90 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 20 cents.

For hand or belt; 3-inch lens.

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A good photographing outfit complete for $2.50—Horsman’s “Eclipse”—for $2.75 in new subscriptions.

HORSMANS ECLIPSE PHOTOGRAPH OUTFIT

CAMERA, DRY PLATES CHEMICALS, PRINTING FRAME —SENSITIZED PAPER— CARD MOUNTS &c. &c. &c. —COMPLETE FOR $2.50.

RIPLEY PLATES CARDS TRAY 1 TRAY 2]

There is no better for less than $10. It is not good enough to take portraits. It is good enough for views containing persons or groups. That is, it gives attitudes and aspects perfectly; not the fine details of expression and feature. For ten cents we send two specimen photographs (largest size, 3x4 inches) taken with it.

An average boy or girl of twelve years can use it successfully and make about as good pictures with it as with any $10 camera.

The outfit consists of a small camera covered with imitation morocco, six rapid dry plates, two japanned-iron trays, two bottles of developer, package of hypo-sulphite of soda, printing-frame, six sheets of silvered and six of blue-print paper, bottle of toning solution, dozen card mounts, plate-lifter, sheet of ruby paper, directions for making a cheap ruby lamp, and full instructions for every part of the work. Weight about 3½ pounds; postage 60 cents—express may be less.

After supplies—Particulars in a circular sent on request.

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Foot-ball, two sizes, 6 and 9 inch. Prices $1 and $1.50; for $1.25 and $1.75 in new subscriptions. Postage on either 10 cents.

Made of heavy canvas coated with rubber, stout, blown up with key.

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Village Blacksmith. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents.

The blower works the bellows and the blacksmith wields his hammer. Worked by the engine.

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Fishing outfit. Price $1.15; for $1.35 in new subscriptions. Postage 20 cents.

12-foot jointed rod, brass tips and ferrules, bob, sinkers, 36-foot line, dozen assorted hooks, pickerel trolling-hook, ganged hooks with hair or gut snell, flies, and bait-box. Neat and substantial.

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“Winchester” double-barrel Rifle. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents.

A rather easy gun. Covered-rubber spring.

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Wilcox target Gun. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 20 cents.

Covered-rubber spring; removable cross-piece; bayonet; breech box for darts and targets.

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“Dr. Carver” Gun. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 17 cents.

A savage rubber-spring gun adjustable as to force.

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“World” Type-Writer. Price $8; for $10 in new subscriptions.

It is with gratification as complete as it was unexpected that we put this machine in the list.

It prints more neatly and perfectly than the Remington; not so fast and not so easily. A scholar’s type-writer; a type-writer for business not requiring speed or amount of work. Whoever wants a type-writer but has too little use for it to justify paying a hundred dollars for it, he is the man or woman, boy or girl for whom this machine is exactly right.

Nobody wants to take the time to acquire facility with a type-writer that amounts to nothing after he has learned it. The limit of the value of the “World” is its speed; which is from twenty to thirty words a minute. We hear that sixty words a minute has been attained. We are sure of thirty. Weight in box 5 lbs.

We are not permitted to sell it for money; only with subscriptions.

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Wringer with folding bench. Price $6; for $6.50 in new subscriptions.

Better than a tub wringer can be; handier; more substantial. Altogether the best of wringing devices. Folds into small floor-space. The proper place for it is where the family does its own work and wants the best facilities.

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Wringer. Price $2.75; for $3.50 in new subscriptions. The simplest of all the wringers. You put it on the tub; and the wringing pressure is on. Take it off the tub; and the pressure is off the rolls. For this reason the rolls are less likely to be injured by careless or ignorant treatment than those of any other style of wringer.

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Orchestra. Price $1; $1.10 in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents.

Lithographed figures on blocks worked by cranks and a belt from the engine.

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Musician. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 5 cents.

Worked by a belt from the engine.

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Sawyer. Price 40 cents; for 50 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.

Worked by a belt from the engine.

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Bradley’s Authors. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents.

A

CHARLES DICKENS.

Dombey and Son
Pickwick Papers.
Oliver Twist.

Born 1812—Died 1870]

The best game of the name [there are many]; and best material; waterproof cards.

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Tennis outfit. Price $20; for $30 in new subscriptions.

Consists of 4 “Standard” rackets, 6 regulation balls, regulation net 36x3 feet, poles, guys, ropes, pegs, mallet and book of the game.

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“Standard” tennis racket. Price $3; for $4 in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents.

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“Peerless” tennis racket. Price $5.50; for $7.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents.

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Croquet outfit for eight players. Price $3; for $4 in new subscriptions.

Maple.

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Luminous Match-safe. Price 20 cents; for 25 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.

BURNT

GOOD

SAFETY]

The word MATCHES shines at night enough to guide you to the box.

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Monogram-stamping outfit. Two letters 50 cents, three letters 80 cents; for 60 cents and $1 in new subscriptions. Postage on either 5 cents.

RED INK

BRONZE

INK PADS]

Consists of rubber stamp (whatever letters you want—size of letter ½-inch), indelible ink for clothing, red ink, bronze, and pads.

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Watson’s book-carrier. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 8 cents.

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Set of four rubber combs in a handy box. Price 50 cents; for 65 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents.

Coarse comb, fine comb, child’s comb, pocket comb.

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Stamping outfit for embroidery etc., a generous one. The maker calls it $5-worth, but sells it for $1. For $1.10 in new subscriptions.

Daisy alphabet 2½ inches high; roses 8x14; pond lilies 17x7½; pansies 3½x6; stork 7x11; bird and cherries 6x7; etc, etc. (large enough pieces); powder, pads, instructions.

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Pocket-knife No. 836. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 4 cents.

Pearl handle, fine, substantial, 3 inches long.

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Magic Pocket-knife. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 2 cents.

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Chased rubber handle with nickeled trimmings. A dainty knife of middling quality; not a whittler. Hold the blade-end down and press on top; the blade pops “open.” Reverse to “shut” it.

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Button-hole shears. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.

WARRANTY UNLIMITED.]

Adjustable for length of hole with a gauge for distance.

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Shears. Price 80 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents.

PAT.’D APR. 21ST 85.]

Japanned handles and nickeled blades; length 8 inches.

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Scissors. Price 80 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.

Nickeled.

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Ladies’ pearl-handle Knife. Price $1.50; for $1.75 in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.

Terry’s; length 2½ inches; fine design and finish.

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Magic Slate-cleaner; price 6 cents; for 10 cents in new subscriptions.

A wood water-bottle with a valve in the cork and a sponge on the side. You touch the slate with the point and let out a drop of water. Then the sponge.

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LIFE SIZE.

CAW’S PEN]

Caw Stylographic Pen. Price $1.50; for $1.75 in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.

To one who writes much a stylograph is a great convenience. It is really an ink-pencil. There are many makes. The Caw is the simplest; very likely the best, for dealers say that nobody finds any fault with it.

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Ladies’ gold pen with pearl holder. Price $2.25; for $3.00 in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.

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Gold-plated pencil. Price 50 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions.

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Gold-plated pencil watch-charm. Price 50 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions.

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Perfection Hammock—and the hammock is as good as its name—knotted all through and does not slip; soft, elastic, abundantly strong, with galvanized iron rings at the ends. A perfect hammock.

“PERFECTION”]

Number Size Price in money Price in new subscriptions Postage
A1 5x14 ft. $4 $5 $0.60
1 4½x13 2.50 3 .60
2 4x12 1.75 2.50 .40
3 3½x11 1.50 2 .25
4 3x11 1.10 1.50 .20

There is as much difference in hammocks as in “easy” chairs. Some are anything but easy. Nobody knows how easy a hammock can be till he has gone to sleep in this Perfection.

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Hammock-spreader. Price 35 cents a pair; for 50 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 25 cents.

A hammock is twice as good with a spreader.

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There is an outside door-mat so good that every civilized door where muddy feet have to come—there are thousands of such—will have it sooner or later. And one is enough; for it lasts forever.

There is nothing else a tenth so good. It almost keeps itself clean. A jar dislodges the worst and thickest of mud.

The Hartman steel-wire mat. An open springy texture of wire to scrape on—galvanized spring-steel wire—no rust, no wear—like a wire mattress but thicker and closer. You scrape on it, step on it, stamp on it, tramp on it fearlessly. The stickiest mud becomes innocent dust underneath and is swept away next morning. A pretty full account of it sent on request.

The price of the mat is $4, more or less according to size. The $4 size is a good one, 22x30 inches. You earn it by getting $4.50 in new subscriptions. To save express we send it from the manufacturer’s nearest office nearest to you.

The makers are doing their best to supply the quick demand from the cities. They would be overwhelmed if the country were equally ready. But where is a perfect mat most useful, where there are pavements or no pavements?

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Postage-stamp holder inside your pocket-book. Price 15 cents; for 20 cents in new subscriptions.

Nickel; the picture shows it open inside a pocket-book. Handy out of all proportions to its cost.

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Bissell Carpet-sweeper. Price $3; for $3.25 in new subscriptions.

Not a housewife rich enough to own a carpet would do without a sweeper if she knew how great relief a good one brings on sweeping and dusting day.

GRAND RAPIDS

FULLER-STOWE Co]

It sweeps cleaner than a broom and easier, makes no dust, and does nine-tenths of the work, leaving only an inch or two along the sides of a room and little corners—these must be swept with a broom—and it drops the dust with a touch on a spring as shown in the picture. That band around the sweeper is a rubber cushion to keep it from bruising furniture.

Three-fourths of all the carpet-sweepers in the world are made by one factory, the Bissell Carpet-Sweeper Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Of course they make good ones. The fact is, they control the really useful inventions and nobody else is allowed to make good sweepers at all. But their prices are fair.

There are several styles and sizes. We choose the best brush with common finish.

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Cabinet Book-rack. Price $2; for $2.25 in new subscriptions.

Maple, fine finish, brass trimmings, lock, and goes together without nail or screws; 24x23x6½ inches; packs flat.

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Shawl-strap. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 6 cents.

The tapes are tightened by turning the handle.

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Common shawl-strap. Price 35 cents; for 50 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 6 cents.

Leather handle and straps to buckle.

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Desk and blackboard in one. Price $2; for $2.50 in new subscriptions.

Ash with walnut trimmings, top of enameled cloth, lock, pigeon-holes, 25x25x19 inches; packs flat.

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“Favorite” table with drawer, top of enameled cloth, 31x27x19 inches, chestnut. Price $1.50; for $1.75 in new subscriptions.

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TRIPLE MOTION
WHITE MOUNTAIN
ICE CREAM FREEZER
]

Ice-cream Freezer, the best one we know of. 2-quart; price $2.25; for $2.75 in new subscriptions. 3-quart; price $2.75; for $3.25 in new subscriptions. 4-quart; price $3.50; for $4 in new subscriptions. 6-quart; price $4.25; for $5 in new subscriptions. 10-quart; price $7.75; for $8.75 in new subscriptions. Made every way for the very best results. The tub of clear pine made waterproof; the metallic parts of malleable iron plated with tin. [Zinc makes a poisonous oxide.]

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Kaleidoscope. Price $3; for $3.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 30 cents.

The name is meant to signify sights of beauty. The kaleidoscope is a maker of sights of beauty. We are indebted to it for combinations of color and form in geometrical decorations. Chance is at the bottom of them all. By taking out two small screws you get at the easy secret.

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Spy-glass 15 inches long drawn out and 6 shut up, inch object-glass, magnifies 13 times (the maker says). Price $2.50; for $3.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 12 cents.

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Spy-glass a trifle larger, magnifies 16 times (the maker says). Price $3.50; for $4.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 13 cents.

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Spy-glass 30 inches long drawn out and 10 shut up, 1⅝-inch object glass, said to magnify 25 times. Price $7; for $8.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 50 cents—express may be less.

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Two lenses mounted in brass; one of highest possible power for transparent objects; the other with larger field on stand for general use. Price of both together 50 cents. For 60 cents in new subscriptions.

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Pocket Magnifying Glass, three lenses, horn case. Price 90 cents; for $1.10 in new subscriptions.

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Square Reading-glass. Price $2; for $2.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents.

1¾x3½-inch double-convex lens.

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Reading-glass. Price $1.50; for $1.75 in new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents.

2⅞-inch lens.

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Stereoscope on pillar. Price $1.25, for $1.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 25 cents.

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Better Stereoscope. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 20 cents.

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Half-dozen Stereoscopic Views. Price 40 cents; for 50 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 5 cents.

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Microscope. Price 60 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 4 cents.

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Microscope No. 42½. Price 85 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. Postage 4 cents.

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Lester Scroll Saw and Lathe. Price $10; for $12 in new subscriptions.

Considered the best and most complete of the saws to be got for less than $20.

With nickeled tilting table; roller in table back of the saw which makes it run remarkably true; clamps hold any thickness of saw; clamps adjustable right or left, forward or back so that the blade can be kept in perfect line; with 3-inch circular saw on 3x4-inch iron table capable of cutting half-inch lumber; solid emery wheel; drilling attachment with six Stubbs drills; lathe attachment with iron ways and rests, steel centers and three fine turning tools—length of bed 15 inches, distance between centers 9 inches, swing 3 inches, length of slide-rest 4 inches; six saw-blades, wrench, screw-driver, two sheets of designs; neat box for small tools; guide.

A very important recent invention used in this machine is a clamp and strainer in one, by which at a touch of a lever the saw-blade is instantly clamped and strained. The remarkable accuracy of this saw is due to the roller in the table, another recent invention.

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Bracket-saw outfit. Price $1.25; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 18 cents.

Nickeled spring-steel saw-frame 5x12 inches with peculiar clamps, six saw-blades, awl, sheet carbon paper, fifty designs full-size.

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Bracket-work Drill No. 4. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 12 cents.

Iron 8-inch drill-stock, steel chuck and six points.

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Carving-tools. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents.

Rosewood handles, fine tools and ready sharp.

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Rogers Scroll Saw. Price $3.50; for $4.25 in new subscriptions.

The best of the low-price saws.

All iron; neatly japanned; parts interchangeable; bearings in perfect line; with blower; jointed stretcher-rod; clamps with hinged jaw, which avoids the overthrow of the blade, friction, strain and frequent breaking; 4¼-inch balance-wheel with rim of solid emery; drilling attachment on the right; and the whole machine is secured by screw-bolts wherever needed—no pins; six saw-blades, wrench, sheet of designs, three drill points. Rich in appearance, compact, strong, effective, easy, firm and durable. Weight in box 36 pounds.

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Key-hole Saw and ½ dozen blades. Price 40 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 5 cents.

The blade, which is 8½ inches long, can be set in the handle so that only the point projects.

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Saw-blades, ½ gross assorted sizes. Price 65 cents; given for 85 cents in new subscriptions.

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Manual of Wood-carving by Charles Leland. Price 35 cents; for 50 cents in new subscriptions.

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Graves’ Automatic Drill-stock and dozen points. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 5 cents.

Drills with one hand the most delicate wood without splitting. Can be used where bit-brace, gimlet or brad-awl are not available.

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Glass-cutter, Knife-sharpener, Can-opener, Cork-screw. Price 10 cents; for 15 cents in new subscriptions.

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Tool-holder No. 5. Price $1.50; for $2 in new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents.

Rosewood 7½-inch handle holds the tools; nickeled steel chuck; nine fine 4-inch tools. Indispensable.

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Glass-cutter and Putty-knife. Price 10 cents; for 15 cents in new subscriptions.

Better than diamond in inexperienced hands.

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Numerical frame; 60 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 25 cents.

An arithmetic school as well as a pretty and interesting plaything. The frame is maple; the balls red, green and black.

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Tip-Top self-inking one-line Stamp. Price 60 cents; for 70 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 4 cents.

With two lines of type; 75 cents; for 85 cents in new subscriptions.

With three lines of small type; 85 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions.

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Wax night-lights. Price 40 cents for a dozen box; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 8 cents.

Burn eight hours apiece with a steady little light, no smoke or smell.

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Night lamp with shade to soften the light. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 23 cents.

For burning wax lights. Not necessary; the lights may stand in a saucer.

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Family printing-outfit for marking linen, printing cards, etc. Price $1.50; for $2 in new subscriptions. Postage 11 cents.

Nickeled holder, movable rubber type on metal body, pads, tweezers, indelible ink.

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Dover Egg-beater. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions.

The best there is for few eggs.

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Binder for magazines. Price 75 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents.

Almost like book-binding, as shown in the cut. One style stamped Wide Awake; another The Pansy.

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Ready Binder for papers and pamphlets; length 8 inches. Price 8 cents; for 10 cents in new subscriptions.

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Lambie’s Dictionary holder. Price $5; for $5.50 in new subscriptions.

Beyond all comparison the best of them all. Adjustable to size of book, to height of stand, and angle at which the book is held. Revolves. On casters.

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Beginnings with the Microscope, a working handbook, by Walter P. Manton, M. D. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions.

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Practical Boat-Sailing, on small boats and yachts, with vocabulary of nautical terms, by Douglas Frazar. Price $1; for $1.20 in new subscriptions.

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Hunter’s Handbook, by an old hunter. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions.

Hints about camping out and life in the woods.

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