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convenient method is to fasten tape 

 on both sides of the cover for tying 

 it on the board. A sleeve board can 

 be secured for a reasonable price and 

 it is a great help in ironing infants' 

 clothes and sleeves. 



THE RURAL TELEPHONE. 



Rural Canada needs to be nearer to 

 its market, its neighbor, its church, 

 its newspaper, and it cannot move its 

 homes and farms to attain this. Rail- 

 roads are being built, rural mail de- 

 liveries extended, and good roads con- 

 structed, but these do not meet the 

 requirements of the whole of any com- 

 munity, let alone of the whole coun- 

 try. And all of these things involve 

 the investment of many thousands of 

 dollars and many months of work. 



Rural Canada needs adequate com- 

 munication now, however, when dis- 

 tances are greater than they will seem 

 fifty years hence, when farms and 

 villages are more isolated than they 

 will ibe even five years hence. 



The one thing that puts every farm 

 in close touch with every other farm, 

 every farmer's family near every 

 other farmer's family, and near the 

 doctor and the minister and the vete- 



rinary, the grain dealer, the implement 

 house, the railway station and the 

 telegraph office, is the rural telephone, 

 that efficient hired hand that is never 

 too tired, never too sleepy, never over- 

 worked, never too busy, but always 

 ready day or night. It is easily in- 

 stalled. Any farmer who can build a 

 fence can build a telephone line and 

 install the instruments. That solves 

 the item of principal cost because he 

 and his neighbors can get together, 

 and do the work when the farm work 

 is not pressing. 



The best telephone on the market, 

 together with a good lightning arres- 

 ter, two hatteries, and the necessary 

 inside wire and ground rod, can be 

 bought for about $16j50. And the 

 wire, brackets, insulators, etc., for a 

 ten mile line can be bought for about 

 $235.00. That means that in the parts 

 of the country where native poles can 

 be cut and supplied by the farmers, 

 and they do the work themselves, ten 

 of them living one mile apart, can 

 build a line and install their tele- 

 phones at a cash outlay of about 

 $40.00 each. 



One word of caution ahout rural 



SEAFOAM POWER DRIVEN 

 WASHER AND WRINGER 



A boon to every farm house. 

 Will thoroughly wash and wring 

 clothes with no other labor than put- 

 ting in and taking out. 



Will wash or wring at the same time 

 or separately. 



Runs from a gas, gasoline, steam en- 

 gine or windmill. 



Cover lifts without removing belt. 

 We can furnish a small powerful 

 electric motor, which converts the 

 machine shown into an "electric" that 

 will run from an ordinary light 

 socket. 



— MADE BY — 



CU M M ER-DO WS WELU "'^''^^^ 



HAMILTON, ONTARIO 



