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Portable — weighing, complete and ready for shipment, only 22 lbs.; simple beyond 

 belief; easily kept in order — no battery, no electricity — there are many reasons why I 

 believe the ZON-O-PHONE will be found of special service to Recreationists. 



This is why I have entered into this arrangement. 



For evenings, and rainy days in camp, on yachts, and wherever you may go, on 



your vacation, it will take the place of piano, banjo, cornet, and trombone, for it is all 

 these instruments, and many more, played, not by amateurs, but by world-renowned 

 performers. 



To make my meaning clearer, let me suggest one of a hundred perfectly feasible 

 programs for 



An Evening at Home 

 Or in Camp with the 

 Improved Gramophone— The ZON=0=PHONE 



And it can not be too distinctly understood that these performances, resulting, as they 

 do, from sound waves precisely similar to those vibrated by the originals, are in no sense 

 imitations, but actual reproductions. 



It is Photography applied to Sound. 



You don't hear a squeaky, falsetto imitation of the immortal soliloquies of Jefferson's 

 Rip Van Winkle, but you hear them just as you have heard them fall from the lips of the 

 eminent comedian himself — and as they will thus be perpetuated for the delight of future 

 generations. 



You don't hear something that sounds a little like a brass band, but you hear Sousa's 

 band itself, just as it played in the National Gramophone Co.'s laboratory, with all its 

 magnificent verve, and swing, and perfect tempo. 



You hear recitations, stories, conversations, etc., so natural and distinct that if you 

 were to shut your eyes you could not tell but what the talking was done by persons 

 actually in the room. 



The ZON-O-PHONE is not only the Universal Entertainer suitable alike for home and 

 camp, for individual amusement, for dinner parties, social gatherings, yachting excur- 

 sions, pic-nics, etc.; but, as it can be heard in halls, by hundreds at the same time, it is 

 often made a source of revenue. 



You can begin now to earn money for your next vacation. 

 Perhaps pay your way to Niagara, or for a tour of the Great 



Lakes, or Europe ; 

 Raise money to fit up your club-house j 

 Or buy a Boat, or a Bicycle. 



The ZON=0=PHONE can be made to earn its price before you pay 

 for it yourself. 



PRICF \ Machine complete, $25. 

 \ Records, 50 cents each. 



TERMS, until May i, 1898, to subscribers for RECREATION, $5 cash, and $3 

 a month. Records, 50 cents each. No expense is spared to keep the reper= 

 toire strictly up to date. 



_ The National Gramophone Company is confident the ZON-O-PHONE will prove 

 satisfactory, in all cases, and I am authorized to say that in any case where a Recreation 

 subscriber says it does not do so, and will return it, the money — less express charges — 

 will be refunded. 



For further information, and printed matter, record catalogues, etc., address National 

 Gramophone Company, 874 Broadway, New York. 



G. O. SHIELDS, Publisher Recreation. 



