XVI 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 1908 



On a Carpet Sweeper 



Insures Easy, Thorough Sweeping 



To use tallow candles for illuminating purposes today would be no more 

 absurd than to use a corn broom for sweeping fine carpets or rugs. Would 

 you use a harsh whisk broom to brush a delicate fabric of silk or satin? We 

 are confident you wouldn't. 



Then why use a narsh corn broom for sweeping a fine carpet or rug > A corn 



broom is positively destructive to fine carpets or rugs, to say nothing of the fact 



that it doesn t sweep clean. After you've swept with a broom, the B1SSELL wil' 



rolluw and gather an immense quantity of fine dust and grit. 



Once you use a B1SSELL you will never be without one, and don't forget its 

 economy, as it will outlast fifty corn brooms. Sold everywhere— Prices $2 5f) 



$3.00 $3.25, $3.50, $3.75, $4.00, $4.50, $5.00, $5.50, $6.00, $6.50. Send for 

 tree booklet. 



Buy a Bissell "C 

 slip within oti 

 neat, useful present FREE. 



Bearing Sweeper now of your dealer, send us the Purchase 

 "KSST ,he date of Purchase, ;.nd we will send you a 



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Grand Rapids, Mich. 



(Largest and Only Exclusive Carpet Sweeper 

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The expense and annoyance of painting will not recur every year 

 or two if you use 



DIXON'S SILICA-GRAPHITE PAINT 



the " Proven Shield for Steel Work." Durability records in all 

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Three Great Stories 



THE CUB REPORTER— By Rex E. Beach. (Our Fiction 



Editors call this the strongest story of the year. ) To all the mystery of a 

 swift detective story is added the warm human qualities of an attractive 

 boyish hero. It will rank as one of the few perfect newspaper stories — 

 all motion and speed like newspaper life itself. It is a story that falls into 

 place with Richard Harding Davis's "Gallagher" and Jesse Lynch 

 Williams's "The Stolen Story." 



McGENNIS'S PROMOTION By Rowland Thomas. 



With a vivid story-telling gift the author has effectively dramatized "The 

 White Man's Burden" and expressed it in human terms. He pictures 

 the natives, part devil and part child, reaching out beseeching hands to the 

 strong White Man who is in charge of their little cross-section of chaos, 

 and when the call comes to him to go to a larger job his people are broken- 

 hearted. But most broken-hearted are the tiny girls whom he has been 

 teaching and to whom he has been telling stories. 



HE ALSO SERVES— By O. Henry. A tale of a heathen god, 



dead and turned to stone, who comes to life as his beloved approaches. 

 The scene is laid in a ruined temple on a far-off island, and has an under- 

 tone of romance and dead religions — and yet it is told in Bowery cocktail 

 slang. It gives the effect of a funeral march played on a banjo. It is just 

 one more of O. Henrv's perfect stories, wherein he strikes the bull's-eye 

 while he is looking the other way and shooting over his left shoulder. 



Illustrated by noted artists, these stories will be pub- 

 lished complete in the November Fiction Number, 

 issued October 31, and on sale everywhere during the 

 entire month of November for Ten Cents 



Collier's 



The National Weekly 



Green Corn 

 In Mid-Winter 



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 in six hours from the time of plucking. 



Kornlet 



is not canned corn. If it was you 

 couldn't begin to prepare it in so many 

 tasty ways. You can have it a new 

 way every meal. 



took for recipes on every 

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If your grocer hasn't 

 Kornlet, write us. 



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 a copy of my new \ 



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BUNGALOWS— C0n AGES 



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