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RECREA TIOiV. 



Of Special Interest 



To Actual Subscribers for 



" Recreation" 



Careful readers of Recreation are not wholly uninformed as to the extraordinary 

 claims made for the 



^^ZON=0 = PHONE^— . 



THE IMPROVED GRAMOPHONE 



although they may not be aware how utterly impossible it is to obtain an adequate idea of 

 this truly wonderful invention, except by personal knowledge of its results. 



Regarding it as at once the most curious, the most interesting, the most varied, and the 

 most satisfactory source of ln=door Recreation of which I have any knowledge, it is 

 with pleasure I announce to my subscribers an arrangement I have made with the 

 National Gramophone Company, 874 Broadway, New York, whereby their latest and 

 most successful style of instrument — No. 25 — complete, with new sound box, etc., can be 

 bought on the instalment plan, giving immediate possession and enjoyment at an outlay 

 that will occasion no inconvenience, and will never be regretted. 



This arrangement is for the special advantage of actual subscribers 

 to RECREATION, and must be availed of before May 1, 1898. 



While the ZON-O-PHONE, the improved GRAMOPHONE, is not the only "Talking 

 Machine" in the market, it is 



THE ONLY ONE 



THE ONLY ONE 



THE ONLY ONE 

 THE ONLY ONE 



with carrying power and utterance sufficiently 

 distinct to be heard (by actual test) in every 

 part of the Metropolitan Opera House — the 

 largest auditorium in New York ; and out of 

 doors (as I know by personal experience) for 

 nearly half a mile. 



in which every inflection and accent of the 

 speaking voice is accurately and distinctly re- 

 produced, so that individual peculiarities are 

 instantly recognized. 



so far as I can learn, recording the illusive 

 high C. 



using indestructible records of hard rubber. 



As a Source of Never=Failing Amusement and instruction the variety offered by 

 the ZON-O-PHONE is limited only by the supply of entertainment of every sort and 

 fashion appealing to the Ear. 



If it's Anything to HEAR, the ZON-O-PHONE will reproduce it. For instance : 



Songs in all languages 



Lullabys, yodels, «« coon " songs 



Solos, duets, quartets, choruses 

 Arias from the operas 

 After=dinner speeches 



Sousa's incomparable band 



