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TAPESTRY LEATHER SOUVENIR SPECIALTIES 



THE LITTLE EM BROI DE Ft ESS 



Amusing and instructive. After considerable trouble, labor and expense 

 we have prepared this outfit, our aim being to please the little ones, which we are 

 sure we have accomplished. No such complete outfit for the money has ever been 

 offered. It pleases, amuses, instructs, and keeps your little girls busy. Our outfit 

 contains 6 six-inch doilies, hand colored on linen, which guide to the correct use 



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THE "BOOTIE" 

 PURSE POST CARD 

 In tan or white. A winning sou- 

 venir for any locality or place. 

 Catchy designs, blank space for 

 name. Burnt leather effect, big 

 sellers. Order now. 



10 cents each, postpaid 





Front and back stitched, complete with fringe 

 Price, $1.50, postpaid 



the silk floss cotton 

 12 skeins of our 

 mercerized N e a r 

 Silk Cotton, and 3 

 embroidery needles. 

 This is one of our 

 special big value 

 outfits, and our aim 

 being to introduce it 

 in every home, we 

 have made the price 

 within the reach 

 of all. 



Price, each, complete 

 15 cents, postpaid 



TAPESTRY LEATHER 

 POST CARDS 



100 designs. Send for a sample order of 

 100 Cards, $1.75. postpaid 

 Single Cards, 2 cents each 



ART TICKING PILLOW TOPS 



Contain 15 catchy and beautiful colored 

 designs. Burnt Leather effect. 



35 cents each, postpaid 



JULIETTE 

 PURSE POST CARD 



"Just out." A novel and attract 

 ive souvenir, with local or comic 

 views. Entirely new and original. 

 Space also for initials. 



25 cents each, postpaid 



| THE SOUVENIR PILLOW TOP CO. 



COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF SPECIALTIES 

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Have a Greenhouse- 

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A MAN is not a man until he has lived out in the country, 

 digged dirt with his hands and grown a flower, a fruit cr 

 a vegetable ; then and not till then can he know and 

 understand wonderful, mysterious, mystical Nature. This men, 

 ambitious of today, seems not to be satisfied with many cf 

 Nature's slow processes and must and will have his flowers, fruits 

 or vegetables a little more luxuriant, luscious or appetizing than any 

 his neighbor can grow. The greenhouse is his natural ally. With 

 the greenhouse he accomplishes his desires, but on account of the 

 many different kinds of greenhouses, adapted each to its particular 

 purpose (each designed to bring about certain desired results), one 

 type might assist or defeat his purpose. This knowledge of the kind 

 of greenhouse for the various phases of plant life is a science, exact- 

 ing and inflexible. The building of greenhouses in strict accordance 

 to its laws :s our business. There's an unmistakable perfection of 

 plan, distinction and convincement in the way we do this green- 

 house building not found in other houses. Write [ox New Booklet. 



HITCHINGS & COMPANY 



GREENHOUSE DESIGNERS & BUILDERS 



iRinufafturers of grating anil "Ventilating apparatus 



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HONEY 



Delicious To Eat 

 Profitable To Sell 



Nothing we eat has sweeter recollections of genuine 

 pleasure than " honey and the honey-comb." Nothing 

 is easier to sell to all classes of people than a nice, 

 smooth, clean section of white or golden-tinted honey. 

 Bee-keeping in not hard to learn. It is delightfully fascinat- 

 ing. Moreover it is profitable. There are scores of people who 

 keep bees and are successful. You can be too. The accumulat- 

 ed experience of 35 years successful bee-keeping in all its 

 branches surelv qualifies us in teaching yon how to start in this 

 ' work. We willprevent nianv disappointments, warn 

 inst loss and mistakes before you get a chance to 



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make them. Just follow our directions. 



"A BC In Bee-Culture" 

 The Great Bee-Keeper's Guide 



Is the book you should get first. Costs $1.20 postpaid or »1 with 

 goods. This book tells all the "ins and outs" of the bee-business, 

 reveals the secrets. It is full of pictures— 550 of them-tells how to 

 construct home-made hives— in short, makes bee-keeping simple to 

 understand. After reading this get one of 



Root's Bee and Honey Outfits 



It consists of a full colony of honey-making bees, hives, gloves, veil, smoker, 

 bee-hat and fuU directions-for raising bees and getting surplus honey. 



"Gleanings In Bee Culture" 6 mos. 25c 



is the foremost authoritv on current happenings in "beedom." Come 

 15davs full of good things from every land. It tells how to sell your honey so 

 vou'l'lmake most profit. Subscription, adollar a year. If youonly want to try 



it to see how good it is, our special Beginners' Offer is 6 months lor doc. 



Write us— ask questions— we gladly answer them all. 



THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY, 



Medina, Ohio. Hew York City, Chicago. 111. Philadelphia, Pa._ 



Washington. D. C. St. Paul, Minn. Syracuse, N. Y. 



Mechanic FaUs, Maine. 



