The Victor Vacuum Cleaner ^ ^ «> ^ <« ^ (»^ "« 



Not a portable toy machine, but a real vacuum cleaner, which can be installed in 

 any liouse, czVj' or country, old or new. 



Electric Current Not Necessary, but it can be used if you have it. 



The vacuum pump is placed in the cellar ([Stationary }, and is driven with an 

 electric motor, or witli a small especially designed and very handsome engine using 

 gasoline or city gas. 



A polished nickel-plated stand pipe is run up through the house, with a hose con- 

 nectioti at eaih floor. All dust is taken down to receptical in cellar (the pedestal on 

 which engine or electric motor rests is the dust receptical), which has sutiicient ca- 

 pacity for cleaning the entire house several times without emptying. The entire outfit 

 is al^solntely tirst class, and is the very best vacuum cleaner ever made. 



Don't clean house Spring and Fall in the old antiquated way any longer, just 

 kcci-i it clean by the weekly use of a Victor. 



It is impossible, without actual experience, to appreciate just what it means in 

 actual comfort, satisfaction and saving of expense to have a Victor Cleaner in your 

 house. It is never necessary to take up carpets or rugs, the weekly use of a Victor 

 will take all the dirt off of the carpets, out of them, and from under, and will keep carpets 

 or rugs absolutely clean and in a sanitary condition. Sweep days are no longer a 

 terror, the work is easily and quickly done and without any dust. 



If you have used a small portable machine, you perhaps have found it some im- 

 provement over the broom and brush, but you liave also found it very unhandy, 

 bothersome and inefficient. The great noise and the vibration set up by a portable 

 electric cleaner makes their use impossible in most instances and disagreeable in every 

 case. Then the dust tank must be disconnected, carried out and emptied every few 

 minutes. They are too heavy to carry around upstairs and down, the lamp sockets are 

 continually burnt out, the power is insufficient and they are unsatisfactory in every 

 way. With a Victor these conditions are reversed, and you have an apparatus that is 

 a permanent fixture, handy, efficient, easily operated, does perfect work, will clean an 

 entire liouse without stopping, and the use of which will be of more real comfort to 

 everybody in the house than any other one thing you can possibly buy. Can be in- 

 stalled in a few hours by anyone. No threads to cut on pipes. 



Price for everything complete, ready to set up in house, $250.00, including engine 

 or motor, dust tank, vacuum hose, nickel-plated stand pipe, full set of nozzles, tools, 

 wrenches, oil cans, etc. Ordec now. Send for catalogue. 



VICTOR CLEANER CO. 



YORK, PENNSYLVANIA 



BOUND VOLUMES OF 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS, 1909 



494 Pages 



1274 Illustrations 



Price $5.00 



Amrrtrtin l^nmea anb ^ar&?na 



V. 



covers a very widescop<'; 



it deals with house build- 

 ing from the design and construction of the modest house on small 

 lots, to the building of mansions on large estates. All degrees of gard- 

 ening from laying out of landscape to the planting of a window-box 

 are dealt with. Practical questions of water supply, of sanitation, or 

 tlie arrangement of the kitchen receive equal treatment, witli draping 

 of windows or the arrangement of old china. 



Am^rtran Inntpa anb (Sarbptta i^ beautifully printed. Ti)e 



_ year s volume contains 



more than 1,200 engravings, which are as full of detail and finish as 

 actual photographs. They depict some of the old and historic mansions 

 of America, and the most beautiful gardens or of natural scenery. The 

 following list of a few of the practical articles which appear in American 

 Homes and Gardens during 1909 will show the wide choice of subjects : 



Notable American Homes (7 descriptive arti- 

 cles). Homes of American Artists (5 de- 

 scriptive papers). What Really is Colonial 

 Architecture. The Beauty and Economy 

 of Stucco. Flower Box Beauty. Window- 

 Curtaining for the Bedroom. Birds inthe 

 Country Home. The Bungalow and its 

 Furnishing. Children's Playhouses. 

 Concrete Ornaments for the Garden. 

 Concrete in the Building of the Small 

 Country House. Decorative Features in 

 the Small Home. A French Model Dairy. 

 Evolution of the Small House Plan. Fur= 

 nishing the Nursery. Problem in House 

 Furnishing. Garden Worl< About the 

 Home. Garden Notes. The Farming Ex- 

 periment of a Woman. Model Motor 

 Houses. Plumbing for a Small Country 

 House. Wayside Inn. What Can be 

 Done with a Hand Loom. The Craft of 

 Hammering and Piercing Metal. Prac= 

 tical Suggestions for Domestic Ventila= 

 tion. Revival of an Old Handicraft. 

 Handmade Rugs. New Developments in 

 Stenciling. Colored Windows in the 

 House. Wild Mushrooms. Wall Gardens. 



A limited number of volumes for 1908 are available. 494 pages. 

 1,100 illustrations. Price $5.00. A volume for 1907, $5.00. Volume 

 for 1906, $5.00. Volume 1905, $3.50. 



MUNN & CO., Inc., Publishers, 361 Broadway, New York 



q^HE SELECTION of a built-to-order McCray 

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Col. G. G. Pabst, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, illustrated above, is another 

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MeCRAY 



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