GLEANINGS IN BEP: CULTURE. 



Nov. 1.5. 



Home f^epaimng Outfit. 



THE HOME REPAIRING OUTFIT NO. 1, PATENTED OCT. 8, 1895, 



Consisting of the H9 tirst-cliiss tools and materials shown in cut. Hegular price, $'fi 00. Sent with Glean- 

 ings one year for $3.2.5. A new subscriber, with your own renewal and $3.8.5. secures this outfit. 

 Home Repair! ng OkI fit iVo. ^is ihesamekit witlithe h;irness and solderinu- tools left out. Regular price $2.00. 

 With Gleanings one year, only $3.50. A new subscriber sent with your renewal and $3.10 secures outfit 

 No. 2. 



All these tools are full-sized; practical, neat, and cheap; not mere toys. They enable any person to do 

 his own half-soling, boot, shoe, rubber, harness, and tinware repairing. 



Our improved Iron Lasts and Standard are one of the handiest tools you can have about the place. 

 The Standard on this Outfit is made on the e.xtension principle~Mi;it is, it can be used standing up at a 

 bench, or on the floor wliile sitting in a chair. For use on a bench, the extension on top part of the Stand- 

 ard is omitted, making the height about 13 inclips; while for floor use it can be instantly attached and the 

 height adjusted to about 20 inches, making it just right for tlie lasts to be held between the knees when 

 sitting in a a chair, the base of the Standard renting on the floor. 



The Iron Lasts are four in number, smooth and solid, 4, 6, S, and 10 inches long, thus enabling one to 

 half-sole all sizes of footwear. They are attached to tiie Standard by the use of a thumb-screw, wliich 

 holds them in a perfcotl3' ligid manner, so that they can not bound off or shuck around, as in the case of 

 ordinary outfits. 



The Sewing-clamp is iittaclied in the same manner, and this fact alone renders it the most practical 

 clamp on the market. The jaws are thrown open mechanically by a coiled spring on the bolt. It can be 

 used for filing saws, and in many other cases where a vise would be necessary. 



2 American Typewriter. 



A durable ma- 

 chine which does 

 very nice work 

 more rapidly than 

 t luin you can write 

 with a pen. Our 

 price $8 00, includ- 

 ing Gle .\ NI NGS 

 one year free. A 

 t> pewiiter is al- 

 ready a necessity 

 in Inisin ess requir- 

 ing correspon- 

 dcnce of only a 

 moderate extent, 

 and it is fast be- 

 coming a necessi- 

 ty in every busi- 

 ness iind almost 

 every home. But 

 the standard ma- 

 chines at S50 to 

 $100 are beyond 

 the re:ich of a 

 yreat many peo- 

 ple. We have been 

 on tlie lookout for 



a good cheap typewriter to offer oui' readers. When the American typewriter was brouyht out a year or so 

 ago at $5 OU or $6.00 we got one to investigate it. We decided that it was not durable enough to be service- 

 able very long. The manufacturers have recently brought out the No. 2 at $8.00, in whicli they liave over- 

 come the defects of the former one. It is now quite strong and durable, and we consider it a great im- 

 provement over the World typewriter which we sold a few jears ago It has 73 characters, including cap- 

 itals, small letters, figures, punctuation-marks, and the various commercial signs. A line S's inches long 

 can be written on paper 9 inches wide It is very simple, and easy to operate. A child can learn to write 

 on it. and in a little while will write faster than you can with a pen f f you do not write pliiinly you es- 

 pecially need a typewriter. There are some people who write to us i.) whom we would almost be willing 

 to donate a typewriter if they would use it. If we can not give you all a typewriter we will give you 

 Gleanings one year if you order a typewriter at the regular price. S8.00. It weighs, boxed, 6 lbs. Every 

 other subscription besides your own, which you send us, will count 35 cents toward the price of the machine 

 provided nt least half or more are new names. For instance, if you send 3 new subscribers and 2 renew- 

 als, with $11.25, you get the typewriter and your own sub'^cription ndvanced one year. Tliis, you see, 

 leaves $5.2.5, the cost of the typewriter after taking out $6.00 for the six subscriptinns. 



