November, 1907 



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SINGLE ANB DOUBLE TULIPS 



Crimson King, snow white, single. 3c each 25c doz. 



Couleur Ponceau, rosy crimson, single 3c " 25c " 



Duchess of Parma, orange yellow single. . . 3c " 25c " 



Cottage Maid, carmine pink, single 4c " 75c " 



Golden Standard, bright red, single fee " 60c " 



Single P'ine Mixed 3c " 20c " 



DOUBLE TULIPS 



La Candeur, pure white 3c " 30c " 



Rex Rubrorum, scarlet 4c " 40c " 



Duke of York, carmine rose 4c " 40c " 



Tournesol, oranee yellow 5c " 50c C1 



Double Fine Mixed 3c " 20c ' c 



HYACINTHS 



Single all colors mixed 7c (< 75c et 



Double all colors mixed. 7c <( 75c " 



CROCUSES 



All colors mixed 10c doz. 60c per 100 



SNOW DROPS 



Single mixed ,. 15c " 



Double mixed 25c " 



ROSES 



Crimson Ramblers Each 10c. 3 for 25c. 



Set of four Ramblers, crimson, white, yellow and pink, 4 for 30c. 



Address all orders to 

 E. C. GRAVES SEED CO., 510 6th Ave., Des Moines, Iowa 



SUN-DIALS 



with or without PEDESTALS 



Send /or Illustrated Price List H 2q 



HENRY SANDERS CO. 



Chicago, Illinois. 



New York Office, J J 23 Broadway 



The "Beautiful Hand-tOo-den 



PEQUOT RUGS 



Refreshing Simplicity 



Wholesome and agreeable colors. Decidedly artistic in design 

 and inexpensive. Send for Booklet. 



CHAS. H. KIMBALL 



46 Yantic Road, Norwich Town, Conn. 



Grow Mushrooms 



For liig ami Quick Profits, Or For Your Own Use 

 Ten years experience enables me to give prac 

 tical instructions that will add $5 to $60 per week 

 to your income without inter! ering with regular 

 occupation. For full particulars and free book, 

 address JACKSON MUSHROOM FARM, 

 8348 TX. Western Ave., Box 381, Chicago. 



James Wesson Phelps, ifcS 



ELEVEN YEARS' 

 EXPERIENCE. 



Bolton, Connecticut. 



FRUIT TREES 



Apple, Pear, Plum, Cherry, Peach and Carolina Pop- 

 lars, healthy and fumigated, as cheap as $5.00 per 100. 

 Freight paid. Guaranteed true to name. All trees, plants 

 at low wholesale prices. We meet other reliable Nur- 

 series in quality and prices. Send for catalogue. 



RELIANCE NURSERY CO., B ° x Geneva, N. Y. 



'laves ©f ttlhie La 



'By John E. Kennedy 



HERE are eight lamps — waiting to be 

 cleaned/ They are Parlor Lamp, Din- 

 ing Room Lamp, Upstairs Hall Lamp, 

 Kitchen Bracket Lamp and three Bedroom Lamps 



Besides all these there is the Lantern, maybe. 



Consider for a minute what unpleasant wor 

 these lamps call for 305 days in the year. 



1st. — Collecting them and carrying them to the 

 kitchen. 



2nd. — Taking off shades and chimneys carefully. 



3rd. — Scrubbing off soot from awkward inside of 

 each chimney. 



4th. — Careful snuffing and level trimming of 

 dirty wicks. 



5th. — Unscrewing of every burner or cap to let in 

 Kerosene. 



6th. — Filling bowl of each lamp with Kerosene. 



7th. — Screwing on burners or caps again after 

 filling. 



8th. — Wiping off dirty old flies and Kerosene 

 from bowl and stand of every individual lamp in 

 the eight. 



9th. — Screwing on cover of Kerosene Can and 

 carrying it out to safe place in cellar or shed. 



10th. — Putting on chimneys of every single lamp. 



11th. — Carrying each lamp back to its particular 

 bracket or place in the eight different parts of the 

 house, and putting on shades. 



12th. — Cleaning up table, storing away filthy old 

 Kerosene cloths, and trying to wash from hands and 

 clothes " the smell that won't come off." 



Think of all that! 



Ninety -six different processes to go through — 

 while the stale Kerosene disgusts, soils and sickens. 



And this must be done 365 days in every year, 

 wherever Kerosene lamps are used for lighting. 



Get on your thinking cap, madam! 



What does all this everlasting daily Lamp Slavery 

 cost? 



— In time, comfort, appetite, health and the days' 

 happiness — what does it cost those who live in 

 country homes? 



Would any sane person choose to do that hind 

 of work, year in and year out, for 2 cents per lamp, 

 if they could avoid it? 



Well, 2 cents per lamp means 16 cents per day, 

 exclusive of breakages, new wicks, and waste of 

 Kerosene. 



Sixteen cents per day amounts to $58.40 per year, 

 without cost of Kerosene. 



— Then the soot and smell — the burn- r 

 ing up of life-giving Oxygen in the air — 

 the giving out of poisonous Carbonic Acid 

 Gas from lamps, to be breathed and 



rebreathed by children, parents and 

 guests in the homes. 



Then the mean yellow light, the clouding 

 chimney, the unevenly charred and smoking 

 wick which will go wrong when you most 

 need good light. 



All this because "Mother used Kerosene 

 lamps!" 



Why don't you stop it? 



You may if you will — and save money. 



How would you like to roll all these dirty 

 disagreeable 96-processes-per-day into a once- 

 a-nvmth session of fifteen to thirty minutes? 



Thirty minutes per month instead of 30 



ACETYLENE 



hours per month. 



You can save 25 hours lamp cleaning per month 

 — if you want to. 



You can dispense, with Kerosene lamps and the 

 dangerous Kerosene Can forever if you'll just be 

 modern and use Acetylene Gaslight instead. 



An up to date Acetylene Lighting Plant can now 

 be completely installed in the average country home 

 — ready to light up, — in two days' time — without 

 injury to ceilings, floors or walls. 



And when once installed it will give you the same 

 amount of light as you now use for one-third less than 

 regular lamps will give with Kerosene at 12 cents 

 per gallon. 



That's modem Acetylene Lighting. 



No more lamp-cleaning, filling, chimney -wiping, 

 wick -trimming, breakages, soot nor smell of vile 

 Kerosene. 



Instead, Acetylene Light from permanent hand- 

 some polished brass brackets on the walls and neat 

 brass chandeliers from the ceilings — city-like, elegant, 

 up-to-date and out of the way. 



Can't tip over (like Kerosene Lamps) where 

 there are children — can't do anything but give you 

 brilliant, beautiful, white light, whenever you merely 

 turn a tap on wall bracket or chandelier. 



Acetylene Light which does not need mantles, 

 wicks nor chimneys. 



Acetylene Light which is so pure, so free from 

 soot and color-fog that you can distinguish pale blue, 

 pale pink or pale yellow under its rays as clearly 

 at night as you could in broad daylight. 



Once a month the hired man must clean out 

 -- _ ~i and refill the generator in the basement. 

 Takes him 15 minutes to 30 minutes per 

 \ montli to do this, if he isn't lazy — 30 min- 

 utes per run nth. 



"The cost of all this?" you ask. 

 So small, comparatively, that the 

 plant soon pays for itself through what 

 you save on labor, and chimneys and on 

 the difference between the cost of Carbide 

 and the Kerosene you are now using. 



Shall we give you more precise figures 



about this "Rural Gaslight" — Acetylene? 



Then write us to-day how many rooms 



you've got in house, or hotel, or how large a 



store to light so we can answer intelligently and 



to the point. 



Address Union Carbide Co., Dept. B, 151 

 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 111. 



