XV111 



RECREATION. 



Something fletv! 



Pat. June 19th, 1902. 

 Other Pat. Pending. 



PRESTO! CHANGE! 



Attachable Eyeglass Temples 



Every wearer of eyeglasses wishes occasionally that they 

 were spectacles. Spectacles stay on, however violent one's 

 exercise, however warm or stormy the weather. This little 

 device can be readily attached or detached without injury to 

 the lenses, thus in a second giving you the choice of either 

 spectacle or eyeglass. Just the thing for outdoor sports. 

 The Temple Attachment will fit any of your eyeglasses and 

 can be carried in the same case with them. 



Send thickness of lens when ordering by mail. 



Price in Nickel, 50 cents a pair 



Price in Gilt, 75 cents per pair. 



Send for Circular. 



Our illustrated holiday catalogue can be had for the asking. 

 We carry everything in the Optical and Photographic line 

 Eyeglasses, Spectacles, Cameras, Opera, Field or Marine 

 Glasses, Thermometers, Barometers, Telescopes, Hygrom- 

 eters, Sun-dials, etc. 



GALL &. LEMBKE, Department C. 

 Established 1842. 21 Union Set., New York. 



Cleaning Rods Free: To anyone who 

 will send m a subscription to Recreation 

 through me I will give free a 4-jointed brass 

 rifle cleaning rod with cocobole handle; or 

 a 3-jointed, hard-wood, brass-mounted shot 

 gun cleaning rod, each listing at 6o cents. 

 For 2 subscriptions I will give a 3-jointed 

 cocobole wood, nickel-plate mountings, shot 

 gun cleaning rod, listing at $1.25; or for 3 

 subscriptions, the celebrated Powers brass 

 cleaning rod for shot guns, with oil can and 

 screw driver in handle and listing at $2. 

 Above rods are standard quality and guar- 

 anteed. Please state caliber or gauge 

 wanted. H. C. Dieckhoff, 230 South Main 

 Street, Decatur, 111. 



LANTERN SLIDES COLORED 

 IN AN ARTISTIC MANNER 



Special attention given to the wants of Amateur 

 Photographers Correspondence promptly at- 

 tended to. I refer by permission to the Editor 

 of Recreation. 



MRS. BUTTLES SMITH, 

 606 W. U5th Street, New York City. 



IMiWMfMHiCB 



LkiT STEREOPTIGONS and VIEWS 



for Public Exhibitions, Church Entertainments, for 

 illustrating sermons. Many sizes. All prices. 

 Chance for men with little capital to make 

 money. 260 page Catalogue FREE. 



MCALLISTER, Mfg. Optician, 49 Nassau St., fi. Y, 



"BUFF." 



His name was Buff, No one seemed to 

 know why or when or where he got it; yet 

 all his pals called him that, and that suf- 

 ficed. Could that name have been given 

 him because he spent most of his time on 

 freight car buffers? Perhaps his complex- 

 ion called it forth; for Buff was a curious 

 bundle of rags and sallow — one could not 

 say flesh exactly. Who would expect 

 healthy flesh after all those meals of "pies 

 an 'things," broken only now and then by 

 "lucky finds," when no was looking. Buff 

 was not a really bad fellow, but he would 

 steal ; and if his stowaway places had been 

 searched at any time a number of articles 

 would have been uncovered. One morning 

 Buff awakened with a start, for he had 

 rolled off a bridge into a creek below. It 

 was the first time he had ever worked, and 

 the spectacle of his spluttering and splash- 

 ins- v/ill never fade. Buff reached the bank 

 at last, exhausted and water soaked. After 

 a while he began to take an inventory. He 

 felt inside his coat somewhere and his 

 hands struck a sticky, slipperv. mass which 

 bothered him at first. He pulled out his 

 hands and wiped them on his dripping 

 rags. He was startled again, for that mass 

 had made his hands a different color. What 

 could it be? He did not know, except that 

 it was something he had stolen from a box 

 the day before. Later he struck the mass, 

 and again rubbed his hands against his tat- 

 tered garments. His blood tingled. He 

 rubbed his hands across his face, and in an 

 ecstasy of delight plunged into the creek 

 again, and rubbed that sticky, slippery stuff 

 from head to toe. Something seemed to 

 carry him back to the days when he wore 

 good clothes and was a useful member of 

 society. After drying in the sun he walked 

 the ties to a station house not far away. 

 There he boarded a car with a gang of 

 laborers and begged the foreman for work. 

 That provoked the gansr to laughter, but he 

 persisted, and finally became one of their 

 number. In a few weeks his faithful serv- 

 ices were rewarded by promotion, but 

 everywhere he went tales of his past proved 

 embarrassing to him, so he severed all old 

 ties, and is living in a distant region under 

 another name. 



The thing which was the saving grace in 

 his life is, however, still with us. It is 

 Fairbank's Glycerine Tar Soap, everywhere 

 known as the most cleansing and invigorat- 

 ing at any price. It is 5 cents a cake, for 

 sale by all grocers, and especially useful for 

 shampooing, for removing grime and for 

 the bath which follows a vigorous exer- 

 cise. 



It differs from other tar soaps in being 

 made of pure pine tar perfectly saponified, 

 and its effect on the skin makes one feel 

 that it contains the very life of the great 

 forests from which it comes,. Have you 

 not us^d it? 



