
OU wili be interested to get 
acquainted with the ripe olive. 
Ripe olives have long been the 
principal food in the far 
Eastern countries, because 
they are the perfect food, 
containing intact the oil that 
the system craves. The table 
oil which many of us consider absolutely 
necessary to the meal comes not from the green 
fruit that we ordinarily see, but from the ripe 
olive, which is rarely known except to those 
who are fortunate enough to live in the countries 
where the olive tree grows. In our own West, 
where these trees grow and thrive, ripe olives 
are as well known as a food as potatoes are to 
the Eastern farmer. This delicious ripe 
fruit, however, has not been well known here 
in the East for the very good reason that until 
recently no process was discovered whereby it 
could be preserved so that it would keep indefi- 
nitely, or until it could be placed upon the 
tables in climates other than that of its native 
country. The Lyvola process now preserves 
this complete fruit-food in nature so that the 
flavor of the ripe olive is not lost and that with- 
- out deteriorating it may be kept indefinitely in 
almost any climate. A ripe olive is a revelation 
to those who know the fruit in its green state 
only. Write to the Lyvola Olive Company, 
Rochester, N. Y., and mention RECREATION. 


In their improved Nitro Special single-barrel 
gun, the Stevens Arms and Tool Company is 
putting on the market a gun which promises to 
become even more popular than any they have 
heretofore brought out. The barrel is made of 
high pressure steel, with lugs swedged on the 
barrel 7.e., a part of the barrel, not brazed on; 
it will stand the heaviest loads of dense powder. 
The new gun has the regular Stevens check- 
hook to take up all wear and prevent any strain 
on the foreend, and also has a patent snap 
foreend. It weighs about seven pounds. To 
get a full description, with prices, etc., address 
the J. Stevens Arms and Tool Company, 
Chicopee Falls, Mass., and mention RECREA- 
TION. ~ 

Is there anything so fascinating as building 
your own boat? The winter is drawing on, and 
now is the time to begin to prepare for next 
year’s boating season. When the ice is thick 
PARAGRAPHS FOR PURCHASERS 

over brook and stream, and the fire crackles 
merrily on the hearth, is the time to think and 
plan for the coming summer and—why not 
begin to build that boat you have promised 
yourself for so many years? Motor boats, 
launches, sailboats, canoes, all kinds and shapes 
and sizes, are covered by the Brooks system. 
A paper pattern the exact size and shape of 
every piece of wood or metal needed in the 
construction of your boat is supplied, together 
with full plans and specifications. Write to-day 
to the Brooks Boat Manufacturing Company, 
Bay City, Mich., mentioning this magazine. 

There are such a number of books, old and 
new, good and bad, treating on hunting and 
fishing, that one is often in doubt as to which 
to select as containing the most useful informa- 
tion. Andersch Bros., Dept. 51, Minneapolis, 
Minn., publish a book entitled the ‘‘ Hunters 
and Trappers Guide,” which will be found of 
value to any one contemplating going ‘‘in” 
during the coming trapping season. Write for 
full particulars and mention RECREATION. 

Ever try to clean yourself up so that when you 
struck town you would look respectable, and 
accomplish it without shaving? Well, hardly. 
And don’t you remember how the wind dried 
the lather on your face before you could make 
one sweep with the razor? Yes. Well, next 
time don’t try to lather out of doors with ordi- 
nary toilet soap, but take along a stick of 
Williams’ shaving soap, the kind that does not 
dry on your face. 

A folding rear peep-sight is a good thing, all 
right, but the trouble with it is that when you 
have finally sighted your moose (who has also 
just sighted you), and thrown your rifle to your 
shoulder, you may find that your patent folding 
sight has folded itself. A little thing like this 
has cost many and many a hunter a fine trophy. 
For it causes a loss of a second or so before the 
sight can be adjusted again, and at the same 
time is extremely disconcerting. Most often 
when the hunter looks up from fumbling with 
his sight the game has vanished. So it pays to 
have a Lyman sight, which you can lock up, 
and when you start hunting, it is up to stay. 
Write to the Lyman Gun Sight Corporation, 
Middlefield, Conn., and get their circular telling 
all about it. 
