The PS Corner

My dear Blossoms:

I have a very nice plan for the year. I wonder who of you will join me? A Bible Band. That is what I now want to form. I will select and have printed in each Pansy a list of readings for each day in the month. How many of my Blossoms will engage to read the day’s portion with me, and write out in little blank books prepared for the purpose, answers to the following questions:

1. What is there in this reading that I ought especially to remember?

2. Is there a direction for me to follow, if so, what?

3. Is there something for me to avoid, if so, what?

How can I make these verses help me through this day?

Now the way I am going to plan it is to read over the verses, and make my report in my little blank book before I leave my room in the morning. Perhaps that will not be a convenient time for all of you. Perhaps the little people who cannot yet read nor write, will have to wait for mamma’s or papa’s or sister’s leisure hour, to get help. But I wish all who could would join me in the morning before going down stairs; then, after the reading, we will kneel down and ask God to help us remember the verses all day.

I would like to have each member of the P. S. who will join this Bible Band, send me a letter addressed to Winter Park, Florida, giving his or her promise to obey the rules of the Band as given here. To all such I will send a little card for their Bible bookmark with the name of the reader written on the back, and the date of the pledge. I shall keep a roll of all members of the Bible Band. At the end of each month I should be glad to have a copy of what you wrote in your little blank books. If you like, you might get a large sheet of paper, the first of the month, and make a copy for me each day, sending it to me at the close of the month.

I shall keep a list of those reports, and, at the close of the year, I will publish the names of those members who have reported each month, and send them each a little token of my pleasure because of their faithfulness.

Now I wonder how large a Band I shall have? Of course I will keep you informed through The Pansy of its size and growth, and send you words of greeting. I think a great many of you will join me. I hope so. It will be very pleasant to think of my Blossoms reading and thinking each day about the same Bible verses. Who will be the first to send in his name, and receive the bookmark?

Lovingly, Pansy.

P. S.—If any of you know of something unusually nice, which happened at Thanksgiving time, write us an account of it.

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READINGS FOR THE BIBLE BAND ADOPTION.

Nov. 1. 2 Cor. 14-18.

“ 2. Gal. iii: 25-29.

“ 3. Eph. iii: 14-21.

“ 4. Eph. vi: 11-18.

“ 5. John i: 9-13.

“ 6. Gal. iv: 4-7.

“ 7. Heb. ii: 10-18.

“ 8. John xi: 41-52.

“ 9. Rom. viii: 14-18.

“10. 1 John iii: 1-3.

“11. John xx: 19-22.

“12. Heb. xii: 5-10.

“13. Phil. ii: 12-16.

“14. Matt. v: 44, 45, 48.

“15. Eph. v: 1, 2.

“16. Matt. vi: 25-34.

“17. Matt. v: 13-16.

“18. Matt. vii: 7-12.

“19. Matt. v: 9-12.

“20. Matt. vi: 12-15.

“21. Luke vi: 35, 36.

“22. Matt. vi: 1-4.

“23. Prov. xiv: 26.

“24. Num. vi: 24-27.

“25. Is. lxii: 2, 3.

“26. Matt. xiii: 43-46.

“27. Matt. vi: 9-13.

“28. Gen. xlviii: 5-11.

“29. Ex. ii: 1-10.

“30. Ps. xxiii.

Lucy May Quint. If all the Pansies were as busy as my little friend in Whitefield how very busy I should be adding names to The Pansy roll. Many thanks, my dear. To make your meetings good will require a busy Lucy, thinking, reading, planning, conversing with parents and others, praying Jesus for guidance and comfort, never despairing, no matter what happens to spoil your meetings.

Keep gathering for your meetings, a crumb in this book or paper; another from a talk with some one; and so on. Thus you will always have something on hand.

You had a “nice,” “splendid” time in the church on Children’s Day, amid flowers and singing-birds, evergreens, and, best of all, a good sermon.

It is right to join the church. Now be true, dear, to your covenant, for Jesus’ sake. Don’t let any one who knows you doubt as to whether you are a Christian.

Christiana Lacy. No, the Editor did not forget Sevenfold Trouble, but “Uncle Sam” somehow forgot to get it from the writer to the printer. The mail does not always behave as it should.

Yes; I have read some of Miss Alcott’s works.

You and your friend Jennie seem to have a good standing in school. I am glad to hear good things of every Pansy.

Alice of Minn. “At the farm.” No wonder you like it ever so much; in the orchard, where you have a swing; down at the brook, where you try to catch a speckled trout; among the sheep and cows; riding on hay or wheat from field to barn; then sweet bread and sparkling butter!

As for the dishwashing, how you three girls do chatter while you are at it, and boast as to whose cups and saucers are wiped cleanest. If you will send a copy of the Queer Story, corrected, I can tell if it be right.

Ruth Kimball. Hunting eggs; boating among pond lilies; at Cedar Bend Farm; with such a dear companion as Alice must be, what a happy girl you are. Well, child, make other hearts sunny, too, won’t you?

Gertrude Burgess. None but perfect ones on the Queer Story appears in my report. Many come within one of it; that is a failure all the same as one hundred. See? “A miss is as good as a mile.” So, look your work over and over and over before you send it. Thus you will certainly do perfect work some day. Meanwhile the effort will be a—school to you. You are a blessed girl to be fighting so bravely against that fault. Have you learned how to lean your weakness upon Jesus’ might?

Lydia Sewell. The pansy on the card is larger than many, but no larger than some I’ve seen. By careful culture they grow to great size. Your corrected Queer Story is well done, yet with a few errors. It would be rather unusual if every particular had been right. Still, if you are a girl of good metal, you will certainly tug away at this spelling business till you will know the right as readily as you now know your mamma’s face from five thousand others. Keep on and show yourself a true Pansy soldier.

Lydia I. Boring. Your Queer Story is within one of perfection. So you need not be cast down. Some have made a dozen mistakes. I guess you will be A No. 1 one on the next Queer Story.

Adella F. Coy. Am glad you are pleased to think so kindly of your Pansy picture. I wonder if you have the picture of the Lord engraven on your heart and often look tenderly upon it through the eye of faith and love. Let’s never grow too old to delight in leading and blessing the little ones. You rejoice me in what you say of the badge. Many others say the same thing. If you will send me a corrected copy of the Queer Story I will examine it.

Helen S. Sloan. See above about the Queer Story. You “Busy Bees” made $127. The hospital will think that sweet as honey. You must write D. Lothrop Company, Boston, Mass., about the “prizes.” They will explain.

Mary E. Simpson. At your request, I hand your letter to R. M. Alden. I guess he will not throw it into the waste-basket.

Charlie Compher lives in Leesburg, Va. He will be glad to get a letter from you.

The country is a blessed place. Isn’t it queer that so many country boys and girls don’t think so, but are discontented and want to get to the city, feeling sure that the city will make them happy? Contentment, my dear Mary, is a precious possession.

Nannie Johnson. You are eleven years old. Now if you live to be seven times that and each day “grow in grace,” what a beautiful old lady you will be. Of course you will outgrow “carelessness” the first month, and have plenty of time to pick up after mamma, instead of her doing it after you; and the “pony” and “parrot” and “dog” and “dear little baby sister,” and everybody else, I guess, will be glad.

K. G. Boring. A capital account, yours, of your Fourth of July. I can almost see you at the parade, and I’m so glad you got home safely from the crowds and the tramp of horses and that your fingers are not blown off. Rockets and Roman candles seen from the house-top! Balloons, too! Happy child! But what will you say when you see the great Lord coming in the clouds? How rejoiced you will be if you are His at His coming.

May Cameron. Let me commend you for finding so many mistakes in the Queer Story. I must see your work to determine its correctness. As to faults: Many are temper faults; many, disorder; many, teasing, answering back; “wait a minute;” biting nails, etc.

Remember me to Mr. Doane. You seem to be a wide-awake Band of Hope, with your meetings, “Mizpah,” flowers, and care of the sick. To be busy for the Saviour is to be safe from Satan.

Charlie M. Ritter. You are very kind to remember the organ. I wish I could say something to make everything green and beautiful about you. But your turn will come. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage. He hears the young raven when it cries. What a delightful time you must have had on Children’s Day.

Elma Holmes. And while you wear your badge here and there, be sure that you so live that your mother and all the dear ones at home can say, “Our Elma does what she professes.”

Edith G. Grant. I shouldn’t wonder if your Queer Story was correct. Let me see a copy now. Allie will soon learn other good things besides “cutting kindling-wood,” perhaps to read Pansy or Bible stories when mamma is tired. How I should love to visit you in your summer home in “beautiful Tullahoma.” Instead, I went to beautiful Ashville, N. C., in September.

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IN MEMORIAM.

ANOTHER Blossom transplanted into the garden of God. Herbie Baily of Madison, Wis., at the age of ten, July 6th, passed away. With his parents he was attending a Fourth of July celebration, when an accidental ball struck him. Nothing serious was feared till two days later, when, at 8 P. M., he rushed into the house, screaming: “My head! My head! I shall die!” At 11 he breathed his last. Now, can you wonder that this dear boy, “so tender and quick to sympathize with any one in trouble and pain,” to whom “nothing was so charming as the ‘Story of the Bible,’ who delighted in everything pertaining to the life of Christ”—do you wonder that the mother says: “It seems as if I cannot bear his loss?”

Maybe now some loving heart will be prompted to write a word of sympathy to Herbie’s mother, Mrs. A. S. Baily.

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WHERE ARE YOU?

Sylbil L. Anderson, Gilbert Anderson, Lizzie Carnes, Addie R. Crane, Estelle Duncan, Edith R. Foster, Mrs. Joshua Gowing, Josie ——, of Amesbury, Mass., Carrie I. Glauche, H. H. Hass, Jessie M. Hatch, John W. Holland, Marcella McDougall, Mabel A. Morse, Rose Price, Christine and Ollie Seely, Alice Stone, Rena B. Williams, and H. G. Shattuck, A. S. Willick, S. Willard Wood, Norma E. Wood, Mary W. Wells, Nellie M. Merritt.

To nearly all these names letters, with badges enclosed, have gone and returned. Most failed to give post-office, State, county, Street, or number. Write me now and say just where I may send these letters. Be plain and particular.

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MIRZA ALI’S LETTER.

My Spiritual Teacher:

Dear, magnanimous Mr. Wright:

First: I hope your existence is safe and you have no bodily ailment. Second: If you wish to inquire my health, I thank God, I and my mother and my sister are very well, and we are thanking to our Lord and Saviour in return for His gifts. My words will not be finished if I want to count the gifts of our God. It is only sufficient to write that He gave His beloved Son, Jesus Christ, and saved us from death.

If you wish to acquire of circumstances of gentlemen and ladies, the missionaries, thank be God, all they are safe and busy to cause to reach the good news to the multitudes.

Their families and ladies are safe. Our school and the teacher, Baroon Wahan, and the scholars are safe; every day is Baroon Wahan busy to teach them. They learn the means of holy books.

I, ownself also, every day in the mornings am busy to give lessons in Turkish to my dear Sir Mr. Whipple, agent of the American Bible Society. Other times I am in telegraph office. There I write the subjects; there I am busy till night and night we finish. These days I give lessons in English to the son of chief of telegraph, and both the son of Aga Mirza Abdul Ali, the doctor. I am sorry I have no dictionary from Persian to English. When I want to translate a book from Turkish to English it is not possible. I remain unable and become unequal. If I have this dictionary I hope I will spread English abroad. You are my benefactor; you are my kind and merciful friend.

If you have not any more Dictionary and you have one only and it is necessary for yourself also, you cannot send (it) for me. You promise to me that you write to Constantinople or America. They send for me. You calculate it present, given at Festival time to me. I hope you desperate not me, but you will help me.... I am expecting for answer. I hope you will send me that book and you will make me glad and happy. If you have order, write me. I will execute and perform it. I will obey to all your commands. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen! And God may increase your love for Jesus, His beloved Son. Amen! If you find and see some mistake shut your eyes from my faults. Excuse me, sir. It is the first letter I wrote in English.

Mirza Ali, The teacher of Mr. Whipple.

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THE QUER STOREY.

WEN the Pansy Socity begun, thar was a boy, whos name musent be given. His mother tride to purswade him to plege his-self aganst useing sigars. He had became a grate smoker. The supertenent of the sundy schol of wich this boy was a nenber tride two. But he dident want a bage or too have his apetite controled. He became verry bad, folowing anny and evry boddy abowt too git a sigar. This brout him into the salloons, whar he lernt two drink lagger bier and sware and tel storys.

If all the sigars, wich he has smoked sence that was lain end too end, thay wood reech neerly one fifth of a mile!

How menny galons of bier he has drank and how menny oths he has swoar woold take too larg a peice off paper to rite them all onto, i am sory two hav to anounce, he is not giting enny beter.

[Send a corrected copy to Mrs. Alden.]

The following persons have mastered the Queer Story. A few others may have done so, but not having sent their copy for examination it is impossible for me to know:

Glenroy L. Black, Lucy Dickerson, Charlotte Fitch, Louise Hosmer, Cora J. Russell, Margaret Hoyt, Jessie Strengle, Hallie Edwards, Daisy Vaughan, Lydia Boring, Agnes Oliver.

Several others came within one or two words of perfection.

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NEW BOOKS.

(Published by D. Lothrop Company.)

Soldier and Servant. By Ella M. Baker. Price $1.25; to Pansy Society 75 cents. A thoroughly good book for girls, with not a dull page in it. The young Christian cannot fail to be helped by the story of Lisle’s pure true life as soldier and servant.

After School Days. By Lucy Wheelock. Price $1.00; to Pansy Society 60 cents. It is a thousand pities that the sensational fiction which constitutes the chief reading of many of our older girls could not be replaced by such simple, charming stories as this one. It is bright and healthful, and filled with good lessons, both practical and spiritual.

Swiss Stories. From the German of Madame Johanna Spyri. By Lucy Wheelock. Price $1.00. To Pansy Society 60 cents. A lovely book within and without; just the thing for a gift. It is not simply amusing; every child who reads it cannot fail of being helped by its pure, sweet lessons. We quote a few pages from “Lisa’s Christmas”:

“The next day the great question was, what the lamb’s name would be.

“Lisa proposed calling it Eulalie, for that was the name of her friend’s cat, and it seemed to her an especially fine name. But the boys did not like it. It was too long. Kurt proposed Nero, as the big dog at the mill was called. But Lisa and Karl were not pleased with this name.

“In despair they went to their mother, who suggested he should be called ‘Curlyhead,’ and Curlyhead he was from that forth.

“The little creature soon became a great pet for the children. They took him out for a frolic whenever they had a few spare moments. Sometimes they went to the pasture and Kurt and Karl would search for rich, juicy clover leaves to bring him, while Lisa sat on a bank with the little creature’s head in her lap.

“Whenever a child was sent on an errand to the mill or to the baker’s, the lamb must go, and he listened so intelligently to all the conversation his companion addressed to him that it was evident he understood every word. He grew round as a ball, and his wool was as white and pretty as if he was always in his Sunday dress.

“The beautiful sunny autumn was drawing to a close, Christmas was coming, Kurt and Karl disclosed all their cherished dreams to Curlyhead, and assured him he should have his share of holiday presents.

“Lisa had a particular friend, Marie, who lived in the great farmhouse on the way to the Zillesback. Lisa was very anxious to visit this friend, for she could talk over her prospects for Christmas more fully with her than with her brothers. She had permission to go on her first free afternoon, and when the time came she was so impatient to start, that she could hardly hold still long enough for her mother to tie on her warm scarf. Then she ran bounding off, while her mother watched her until she was half-way down the hill; then she turned and went into the house again.

“At that moment it came into Lisa’s mind that Curlyhead would enliven the way if her brothers had not already taken him. She quickly turned around, ran back to the barn and took out Curlyhead. Together they ran down the hard path where the bright autumn leaves were dancing about in the wind. They soon reached the end of their journey, where Lisa and her friend where quickly lost in deep conversation, walking up and down on the sunny plot of ground in front of the house, while Curlyhead nibbled contentedly at the hedge.

“The two friends refreshed themselves occasionally with pears, and juicy, red apples, which grew in great abundance on the farm.

“Marie’s mother had brought out a great basketful, and Lisa was to carry home what were left. When it was time for Lisa to go home, Marie accompanied her a little way, and they still had so much to say that they were in sight of Lisa’s home before they knew it. Marie quickly took leave of her, and Lisa hurried up the path. It was already dark. Just as she reached the house the thought flashed through her mind like lightning: ‘Where is Curlyhead?’

“She knew she had taken him with her. She had seen him nibbling the hedge and then she had entirely forgotten him.

“In a most dreadful fright she rushed back down the mountain again. ‘Curlyhead, Curlyhead, where are you? Oh, come, come!’

“But all was still. Curlyhead was nowhere to be seen. Lisa ran back to the farmhouse. There was a light already in the window of the sitting-room, and she could look in from the stone steps by the house. They were all at the supper-table; father, mother, Marie and her brothers and the servants. The old cat lay on the bench by the stove; but nowhere was there a trace of Curlyhead to be seen as Lisa peered into all the corners. Then she ran around the house into the garden, around the hedge, again into the garden, and along the inside of the hedge, calling ‘Curlyhead, come now, oh! come, come!’

“All in vain; there was no sight or sound of the lamb. Lisa grew more anxious. It grew darker and the wind howled louder and louder, and almost blew her from the ground. She must go home. What should she do? She did not dare to say she had lost Curlyhead. If she could see her mother alone first!”

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

Thirty double-face pieces 1¼ inches diameter.

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.

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.

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.

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

Teaches quickness.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

With bowls for marbles in play and a drawer.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

About 20 pieces, teapot 3 inches high.

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.

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

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.

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

Celluloid; looks like ivory. Trills.

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.

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

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

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

Goes by clock-work. Bell does not ring.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

In neat and substantial wood box.

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.

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.

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.

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

Very light rubber, 3¼-inch blown up.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

For hand or belt; 3-inch lens.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

A rather easy gun. Covered-rubber spring.

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.

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

A savage rubber-spring gun adjustable as to force.

“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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Worked by a belt from the engine.

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

Worked by a belt from the engine.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Maple.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Pearl handle, fine, substantial, 3 inches long.

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

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.

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

Adjustable for length of hole with a gauge for distance.

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

Japanned handles and nickeled blades; length 8 inches.

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

Nickeled.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Number Size Price in money Price in new subscriptions Postage

A15x14 ft.$4$5$0.60

14½x13 2.50 3 .60

24x12 1.75 2.50 .40

33½x11 1.50 2 .25

43x11 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.

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.

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.

AN INCH OR TWO AT THE CORNER OF IT, BOTH SIDES ALIKE.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The tapes are tightened by turning the handle.

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

Leather handle and straps to buckle.

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.

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

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.]

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

1¾x3½-inch double-convex lens.

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

2⅞-inch lens.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Rosewood handles, fine tools and ready sharp.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Better than diamond in inexperienced hands.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The best there is for few eggs.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Handbook of Wood Engraving, by William A. Emerson, wood engraver. Price $1; for $1.20 in new subscriptions.

Taxidermy without a Teacher: an illustrated book of instruction on preparing and preserving birds, animals, fishes, eggs and skeletons; with recipes. By Walter P. Manton. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions.

Field Botany, an illustrated hand-book for the collector, containing instruction for gathering and preserving plants for the herbarium, also instructions in leaf-photography, plant-printing and the skeletonizing of leaves. By Walter P. Manton. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions.

Lessons in Candy Making. By Catherine Owen. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions.

The author says “I have written these lessons for intelligent women who cannot leave home to help them make money.” And she quotes from an Englishwoman pupil-reader “I can make as delicious candies as ever I ate in Paris.”

For a like reason we put her book in the List.

Insects: how to catch and prepare them for the Cabinet; an illustrated book of instructions for the field naturalist. By Walter P. Manton. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions.

Shakespeare. Price $8; for $10 in new subscriptions. By express at receiver’s cost.

Handy Volume edition; 13 small volumes, flexible, cloth.

Mayflower Pocket Cook-stove and Boiler. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents.

All nickeled; burns about ½ hour.

Larger Pocket Cook-stove. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 20 cents.

With quart boiler and gridiron. Boils water enough for a cup of coffee in five minutes.

Alcohol-flask for pocket stove. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 5 cents.

Lambie’s revolving Book-stand and Dictionary-holder. Price $9; for $10 in new subscriptions. By express.

Size of book-case 16x16 inches. The upper shelf is available also.

Universal Garden-tool. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 35 cents—express may be less.

Many good tools in one: the hoe is also a spade, shovel, scraper and ice-cutter; the rake is also a fork and hook—there may be other uses. The dotted lines show the positions of both on the handle.

WHITING’S INDELIBLE INK COLORS Etc.

We commend the following seven with all the more satisfaction because the market is full of pretentious stuff under similar names but of very little value. These are exactly what the descriptions call for. Circular sent on request.

Whiting’s Indelible Laundry Ink, for marking without preparation. Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions.

Whiting’s Magic Indelible Ink, for marking difficult stuffs without exposure to sun or heat. Price 60 cents; for 80 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents.

Whiting’s Etching Ink for etching on linen, with supply of pens and “preparation.” Price $1; for $1.10 in new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents.

Whiting’s Tracing-box. Price $1; for $1.35 in new subscriptions.

The glass is 8x12 inches. Must go by express.

Whiting’s Etching Designs at the rate of $1 for $1.10 in new subscriptions. List sent on application.

Whiting’s Transparent Colors for coloring photographs; box of ten colors. Price $3; for $3.25 in new subscriptions.

Half-case with five colors. Price $1.75; for $2 in new subscriptions. Must go by express.

Whiting’s Special Instructions for etching on linen. Price $1; for $1.10 in new subscriptions.

Towel-holder. Price 15 cents; for 20 cents in new subscriptions.

Nickel; about the size of a silver dollar.

Splasher-bracket. Price 30 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 7 cents.

Black inch pegs; nickeled 33-inch rod.

Towel-bracket. Price 30 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 6 cents.

The pegs are enameled black; the rod is bright nickel, 18 inches long.

Roll Dressing-case. Price $6; for $7.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents.

Box dressing-case. Price $6; for $7.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents.

Both the above are neat and substantial leather cases with first-class furnishings, but without extravagance.

Perfection Lemon-Squeezer. Price 35 cents; for 40 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 6 cents.

Not a squeezer at all, but better. Press half a lemon down over the burr and turn it round with the hand.

The burr cuts the pulp, dislodges the juice and saves it all without squeezing the bitter oil of lemon out of the rind. No seeds, no waste, no spattering.

Cold stove-door Knob. Price 6 cents; for 8 cents in new subscriptions.

Wood handle; hangs on the knob, saves burning the fingers.

Dust-pan. Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 12 cents.

Japanned-steel; propped up behind in position to use so that one need not stoop to hold it by hand—a touch with the foot is enough.

Kerosene-brick for burning kerosene in any cook-stove, heater or open fire-place, as kindler or fuel. Porous fire brick.

We do not know (at the time of writing) its limit of value, having only just now got it. It is safe—no doubt of that. It is the best kindler ever discovered—no doubt of that. But to what extent it is going to be used for summer fuel and fuel for transient occasions of all sorts we do not know. It is a new thing of very great importance everywhere. We therefore state what we know of it carefully.

The reason why it does not explode is that the oil is fast in the pores of the brick and can’t get out, except as it is slowly driven out by the fire. Kerosene lamps are dangerous; but you are careful with them. There is no possible way in which the kerosene-brick can explode. The only harm that can come of it is through keeping a larger supply of kerosene for fuel then you would keep for light. The answer to that is that a barrel is no worse than a pint. Either is enough to blow a house into kindling-wood.

The reason why it is the best kindler is that it is the cheapest—in other respects it is not much better than pitch-pine.

Tradesmen are likely to overstate the cheapness of it; but it is very cheap—how cheap depends, of course, on the cost of your kerosene; and that is so different in different parts of the country that we cannot give the cost of using the kerosene-brick. It saves its cost in wood perhaps ten times over.

It makes smoke and soot; but they go up chimney.

The first cost of the kerosene-brick is as follows:[A]

No. 1. Price 35 cents; for 40 cents in new subscriptions. No. 2. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. No. 3. Price 75 cents; for 85 cents in new subscriptions. No. 4. Price $1.20; for $1.35 in new subscriptions. No. 5. Price $1.75; for $2 in new subscriptions. No. 6. Price $1.50; for $1.70 in new subscriptions.

And you want a peculiar sort of tongs (see the cut) for handling the kerosene-brick. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions.

To save express charges, we ship from the manufacturer’s nearest place of business (nearest to you) wherever that may be.

There is going to be a kerosene-brick of a shape to imitate wood for use in open fire-places. Not yet made and may not be so handy to fill. By the way, we haven’t told how to fill the kerosene-brick.

“No. 1” above means a tin can with three small kerosene-bricks in it. You take out one of the bricks, fill the can with kerosene and let it stand fifteen minutes or over night. The two bricks are ready for use any minute and stay so indefinitely. The smallest is big enough for kindling. Maker’s circular sent.

Ignites with a match. You put it out by dipping it in water. Throwing water on it does not put it out.

Set of little flower-garden tools. Price 30 cents; for 40 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 18 cents.

Good tools and large enough; hoe and rake 14-inch, blades 3½-inch; fork and trowel 11-inch.

Spice-Box. Price 75 cents; for 85 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 25 cents.

Japanned-tin, 7-inch and 2-inch.

Vegetable-masher, sauce-strainer and handy squeezer for twenty uses. Price 65 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 18 cents.

Large enough for two or three small potatoes. Really it is not a potato-masher. It turns potatoes into a different sort of edible, lighter, bulkier, mealier. Let them go into it steaming hot; let the masher itself be hot; receive the dainty outcome in a hot dish and immediately cover it. If this excellent tool has a fault, it is in cooling potatoes.

Le Page’s Glue. Price 20 cents; for 25 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 5 cents.

Doubtless the strongest glue as well as the most available. Liquid and used as it is, unless chilled or thick, when warm it a little, or add vinegar. In handy tin can with screw top.

Mends crockery; not glass because not transparent. Diluted enough makes excellent mucilage. Let every family have it.

Turn-over Broiler that keeps the gravy out of the fire and on the meat. Price 65 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 24 cents.

Of light sheet-iron very smooth, punched full of holes, and the holes are “dished” in the punching, so that none of the gravy is lost. Makes good steak better and pays for itself in a week.

Bartlett Domestic Press. Price $1.50; for $2 in new subscriptions.

For meats, jellies, wine, cider, etc. Easily washed. Pressure of a thousand pounds is easily got by turning the crank without danger of breaking the press.

Daisy Pillow-sham Holder. Price $1; for $1.10 in new subscriptions.

Out of sight, holds the pillow-shams in place by day, and lifts them out of the way at night, is light, handy, goes on a bedstead of any size, saves work and money. The best device for the purpose. By express.

Crumb-tray and brush. Price 60 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 15 cents.

Prettily painted tin tray and good brush.

Self-winding Tape-measure, with mirror on one side and perpetual calendar on the other. Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.

Self-winding Tape-measure, with stop. Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.

Neat bright nickel case. The stop holds the tape wherever set.

Crochet Needles, dozen. Price 20 cents; for 25 cents in new subscriptions.

Nickeled, assorted sizes, perfect and smooth.

Mineral Cabinet, No. 1. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 14 cents.

Another, No. 2, the same except different minerals; terms the same. No. 2 contains: opal agate, aragonite, milky quartz, cuprite, jasper, galena, sulphur, crocidolite (polished), selenite, hematite, feldspar, fluorspar, variscite, argentite, chalcedony, petrified cedar, alabaster, lead carbonate, telluride ore, muscovite. With brief explanation of every specimen. Neat box with clasp.

These cabinets give invariable satisfaction in schools and families.

Anything that children wear from baby up, at the rate of $1 in clothing for $1.60 in new subscriptions.

The clothing comes from Best & Company, 60 West 23d street, New York. You send for their catalogue, pick out what you want, and send your order to us with money and names of course.

The reason we send from Best & Company is that they keep the largest variety and serve an absent buyer as well as if he were there in the store.

Most of the big city dry-goods houses keep more or less of children’s clothing; but they generally slight it. The work is apt to be shabby, the materials flimsy, the styles too pronounced if not “carried over from last year.” Girls’ things are considered especially hard to get satisfactorily.

Tammen’s Cabinet, forty smaller specimens. Price 60 cents; for 75 cents in new subscriptions.

Paper box with sheet of explanations where the minerals came from, what they are used for, etc.

Diamond Dyes. Price 10 cents a color; for 15 cents in new subscriptions.

Dyeing at home in the most satisfactory manner is very easy and profitable. Silk and woolen stuffs come out of the dye about as nice as when they were new. For cotton some of the colors have to be specially made. Wood stains are made from the dyes.

Diamond dyes are complete in themselves; that is, nothing more is required to set the colors. It is really no more difficult to dye with most of the colors than to rinse or starch. And full instructions accompany the dyes.

The colors are: yellow, old-gold, orange; green, olive-green, dark-green; pink, magenta, scarlet, crimson, cardinal, garnet, terra-cotta, maroon, dark-wine; violet, plum, purple; light-blue, navy-blue, dark-blue; slate, drab, black; and yellow for cotton, green for cotton, cardinal for cotton, scarlet for cotton, and blue for cotton.

Diamond dyes do not stain the hands or utensils if used with a little care. You handle the stuffs with sticks till you come to the wringing.

Book-rack, No. 318. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions.

Maple; 18x24 inches; neatly put together without nails or screws; packs flat.

Book-rack, No. 424. Price $1; for $1.10 in new subscriptions.

Same, 23x32 inches, four shelves.

Book-rack, No. 424½. Price $1.50; for $1.65 in new subscriptions.

Same size as last, more work on it.

Knitting Outfit. Price $1; for $1.10 in new subscriptions. Postage 8 cents.

Consists of 2 balls of Florence silk, whatever colors you like, 5 needles, and book of information. Extra silk at 40 cents a ball; for 50 cents in new subscriptions.

SCHOOL AND ART FACILITIES

Eagle Fine Arts pencils, polished cedar box of 7 grades. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 5 cents.

As fine as any, free from grit, of uniform grades, clean lead, erasable leaving no smirch; for the most exacting requirements. BBB to HHHHHH.

Eagle Fine Drawing pencils, polished cedar box of 6 grades from extra-soft to extra-hard. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 4 cents.

Eagle Best Colored Crayons:

Box of 24 colors. Price $1.75; for $2 in new subscriptions. Postage 10 cents.

Box of 18 colors. Price $1.35; for $1.50 in new subscriptions. Postage 8 cents.

Box of 12 colors. Price 90 cents; for $1 in new subscriptions. Postage 6 cents.

Equivalent to water-colors. The full assortment is 50 colors.

Eagle Scholastic Colored Crayons. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 6 cents.

Paper box of 5 colors, same crayons as last, with 6 colored sketches and 12 outline designs adapted to children’s use.

Eagle Eraser. Price 10 cents; for 15 cents in new subscriptions.

Automatic Drop pencil. Price 25 cents; for 35 cents in new subscriptions.

Acts precisely like the magic knife. See page 13 of this list.

Extra leads; price 8 cents a box; for 10 cents in new subscriptions.

Eagle Solid-ink Fountain and Pen. Price 10 cents; for 15 cents in new subscriptions.

The solid-ink fountain is simply a stick of solid ink, which is held in a clamp inside an ordinary penholder, used with any pen. You dip the pen in water, and the water dissolves the ink.

Extra ink. Price 10 cents a box of 6 sticks; for 15 cents in new subscriptions.

Eagle Ready Companion. Price 10 cents; for 15 cents in new subscriptions.

Wood pen and pencil-carrier; opens and shuts like the magic knife on page 13 and the automatic pencil.

Prang’s Non-Poisonous Water-Colors for Children:

Box No. 2, 8 colors and brush. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions.

Box No. 4, 12 colors and 2 brushes. Price 40 cents; for 50 cents in new subscriptions.

Perfectly harmless. The colors conform very closely to accepted standards, and flow from the cakes with a touch of water. The brushes are good camel’s-hair. The boxes are very pretty and useful.

Prang’s Fine Water-Colors for Schools and Amateurs, box No. 13, 12 colors and 2 brushes. Price 75 cents; for 85 cents in new subscriptions.

Not non-poisonous, but not more poisonous than the Murillo colors.

Introductory Lessons in Drawing and painting in Water-Colors, by Marion Kemble. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions.

For those who know nothing at all of either.

Jack-plane pencil-sharpener. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions.

The best pencil-sharpener we know of at any price, because it is handy, does its work perfectly, never breaks the lead; and the plane-knife can be adjusted and sharpened exactly as in a carpenter’s plane.

Polygraph, brass. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.

The same, bright nickel. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents.

Pattern for almost every sort of figure and combination; wonderfully useful for children, designers, and artisans.

Prang’s Water-color Studies are the best examples of what is known as the new style of water-color painting, in which transparent colors only are mixed in the brush and laid on broadly.

They are reproductions of works by American artists designed primarily for instruction in art, but none the less available for home-decoration on that account. Indeed they rank the higher in interest, being all they seem to common eyes, and faithful illustrations besides of recent advances in one of the least familiar departments of Art. They are not unfinished sketches, but exquisite finished color-work. The use we expect to introduce them to by this List is chiefly the non-professional, home-decoration. Let it be understood, there is nothing more fit for that use, and nothing higher, within the reach of people of limited means.

They comprise landscapes, marine views, flowers, animals, birds and figure pieces from such artists as Turner, Moran, Bridges, Lambdin, Giacomelli, etc.

We send Prang’s catalogue and supply whatever may be selected from it at the rate of $1.10 in new subscriptions for $1 of catalogue prices.

Postage on sizes under 12x12 inches 6 cents; over 12x12 inches 10 cents.

On the Use of Water Colors for Beginners. By Ross Turner. Price $3; for $3.25 in new subscriptions.

“Hints to assist a beginner in a right direction, assisting him to start right, and upon such a beginning to work out by personal study and experience his own way of using materials,” by an eminent artist and no less eminent teacher.

Large quarto, illustrated by engravings and six fine colored plates.

Prang’s Reproductions of Oil Paintings supplied at the rate of $1.10 in new subscriptions for $1 of catalogue prices.

We supply whatever may be selected from Prang’s catalogue; but, as that affords no clue to the works beyond titles, sizes and artists’ names, we have chosen a few of the most available pieces and printed descriptions of them. From this short list you can pick out what is likely to answer your purpose.