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WASHING MADE VERY EAST, 



With a great saving of clothes, too ! The HOW 

 and WHY: In ordinary washing, we use soap 

 and hot water to dissolve out and remove grease 

 and other matters, including the oily secretions 

 given off from the skin into the clothing. Water 

 boiling rapidly,— if the washer's hands could 

 bear it,— would dissolve all these a thousand 

 times better than cold, or even pretty warm, 

 water. But wo must rub, pound, squeeze, etc., 

 to keep the water frequently passing through 

 the fabrics, and this breaks the fillers, arid, with- 

 out great care, seriously injures, if it does not 

 ruin laees and other delicate materials. This 

 work is hard on the hands, shoul- 

 ders, back, and chest, and many 

 a cold is caught thus, resulting 

 in sickness, if not death. ALL 

 the above is saved by a very 

 simple, cheap, effective appara- 

 tus, called Kobbin's Washer 

 and Bleacher (with recent great 

 improvements making it per- 

 fect). It is put into an ordinary 

 wash boiler, or any kettle, or 

 iron pot even, large 

 ' - -. enough to hold 

 the clothes. Water, 

 clothes, and soap 

 are put in. (Much 

 less soap than is 

 commonly used is 

 needed, as the steam-hot water does some work 

 of soap.) When set on the stove, this apparatus 

 causes the hot water, ten gallons a minute, to 

 circulate round and round all through the clothes, 

 and speedily dissolves everything you want out; 

 indeed, bleaches them a good deal, without any 

 caustic bleaching powders to harm the fabrics. 

 No. 25 is suitable for any vessel holding ten to 

 fifteen gallons, aud for small families. No. 26, 

 for twenty to thirty gallons, for larger families 

 and small hotels. We will supply No. 25 for $3.50 ; 

 or PRESENT it for 8 subscribers to Amer. 

 Garden. No. 26 for $5.00 ; or PRESENT it for 

 12 subscribers. (To a purchaser, $l.on deducted 

 from the price for each 3 subscribers sent 



BEST AND CHEAPEST LIGHT. 



Look into the WHY of it —Here is some inter- ! 

 esting as well as very useful information. All 

 Candle and Lamp 

 light comes from 

 burning Gas (ex- 

 cept in the electric- 

 ity lamp s). The 

 gas for Cities and 



JUST HOW TO MAKE THEM. 



EVERY LADY in Amer 

 all the GIRLS, too, will in 

 a A T e»> Bool-, costing but 

 beautiful Illustrations a: 



Villages is 

 retorts or 



ade in 

 a r g e 



WOMAN'S GREAT HEALTH AND LIFE SAVER, 

 A First-Rate Sewing- Machine, 



That makes twenty perfect stitches while the hand 

 could make one, that saves the eyes, the compress- 

 ing of the lungs, the night hours for sleep, and ex- 

 ercises the lower as well as the upper limbs, is 

 now indispensable. Its cost for interest and wear 

 is less per week than two hours' wages for a seam- 

 stress. The DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINE 

 No. .3 is a Perfect One, every way, in its beautiful 

 complete Table and all needed Drawers, etc., and 

 with everything w anted, for Sewing of all kinds, 

 for Hemming, Tucking, Binding, Felling, Braiding, 

 Gathering, etc., etc. We will supply one for $60.00, 

 and -noil present one for 75 subscriptions to 

 Amer. Garden at $1.00 each. Any Lady can soon 

 get this without expense, for she can find among 

 friends and neighbors 75 subscriptions for so good 

 a Journal wanted by everybody. A few Young 

 People can unite their efforts to gather a club of 

 subscribers and present the Premium Machine to 

 a poor worthy Widow. 



oil, tallow, lard, etc. 

 (usually coal), are 

 heated, and the gas 

 produced is carried 

 in pipes to distant 

 burners. In a can- 

 dle, the wick is a 

 little hot retort that 

 changes the tallow 

 into a volume of gas, 

 which spreads out 

 all around in cone-shape and burns on the outside 

 by uniting with the oxygen which makes up one- 

 fifth of the bulk of the air. If the air was a third 

 or half oxygen, the burning would be faster and 

 the light brighter. The same thing occurs in a 

 lam.p-wiek. Kerosene only burns when it is va- 

 porized. All oils and fats are chiefly carbon (coal) 

 and hydrogen. Coal atoms are the same as dia- 

 mond atoms— both are carbon. The gas from 

 coal, tallow, oil etc., is chiefly carbon and 

 hydrogen united. When this gas burns around a 

 candle or lamp wick, its carbon atoms unite with 

 the oxygen atoms of the air, making carbonic 

 acid (the same as that in soda fountains, in 

 bread to make it light, etc.). This union of car- 

 bon and oxygen gives out heat, which raises 

 other carbon (diamond) atoms to a glowing heat, 

 thus sending out light. If oxygen enough be 

 supplied, some of its atoms unite with the hydro- 

 gen of the gas, to form water, which escapes 

 from the flame as vapor, though invisible, and 

 this burning intensities the heat and light. 



NOW APPLY THE ABOVE TO LAMPS. 



The lamp- wick sucks up oil by capillary attrac 

 tion, aud changes this oil to gas, which burns. 

 If the wick he clean, and always of the same 

 length down to the oil, the flow of oil into it is 

 steady and uniform, and so is the light. If the oil 

 gets lower, the wick above it is longer, and the 

 flow of oil is less free and uniform. 



Again, if you have a tube sending air up into 

 the inside of the flame, as well as around the 

 outside of it, you get more oxygen info it, the 

 carbon is better burned, and the hydrogen is also 

 burned. Lamps with this inside air-current burn 

 better aud brighter, and give a good deal more of 

 light from the same amount of oil consumed. SUCH 

 LAMPS PAY THEIR COST SEVERAL TIMES 

 A YEAR, by using less oil for the same amount 

 of light, and a far better one. Now, we can see 

 tnd understand why the Lamp called the Ger- 

 man Student Lamp is the best and cheapest, not 

 only for students, but for EVERYBODY. On 

 one side is a double oil Reservoir, from which 

 the hollow cross-bar carries oil over to the Burner. 

 This reservoir is so arranged that it lets out 

 oil to its bottom cup as fast as the oil sinks a 

 twelfth of an inch or so. This leceps the oil in the 

 burner always at the same /tight around the wick, 

 and you get a STEADY FLAME. New arrange- 

 ments in the reservoir keep the oil from spilling. 

 The BURNER of this lamp has several ingenious 

 •ontrivances, the most important of which is the 



ir-current inside the flame, which is made very 

 rapid by a peculiar shaped, tall chimney. So this i 

 is a PERFECT LAMP, saving much oil, and giving 

 a, clear, steady light, more important in SAVING 

 YOUR EYES than a hundred times its cost. 



It stands on a heavy base, is ornamental, in 

 polished Brass, or in beautiful Nickel which looks | 

 just like Silver, and never tarnishes. For $4.50 

 we supply the Brass Lamp of the best make, in- 

 eluding Chimney, white glass Shade, etc. ; and 

 for $5.00 will supply the beautiful Nickel one. We ! 

 will Present No. 28, the Brass one, for 9 sub- 

 scribers to Amer. Garden, at $1.00 each ; or the 

 Nickel one (No. 29) for 10 subscribers. 



If to be forwarded by express, send twenty- 

 five cents for box and packing. 



, young and old, and 

 reatly delighted with 

 rifle, yet giving 400 

 Patterns of Taney 

 d Needle Work, in 

 mderful variety , with 

 xin directions how to 

 lice at home. It is 

 en worth many times 

 i cost to keep to look 

 . The eminent writer, 

 :nny June, says of 

 is Book : 



" It supplies with in , its 

 eomjiass a greater ea ri- 

 ety of excellent designs, 

 every one of which is 

 useful for dress or 

 household decoration, 

 than have ever before 

 been, gathered within the 

 leaves of one Manual." 



This is not too high 

 praise. It is a Reliable 

 Book for Daily Refer- 

 ence, enabling one to 

 do artistic Embroidery, 

 Lace Work, Knitting, 

 Tatting, Crocheting, 

 Maeramc Lace Work, 

 Net Work,— indeed, all 

 dnds of Fancy Needle 

 Work. This Valuable 

 Book is beautifully 

 printed on fine tinted 

 paper, with handsome cover. It is entitled " The 

 Ladies' Manual of Fancy Work." But this does 

 not fully express its real, practical, and general 

 value. For fifty cents we will send a copy of 

 the above Book anywhere, post-paid, or we will 

 PRESENT a copy in return for 2 subscrip- 

 tions to The Ames. Garden at $1.00 each, and 

 send an extra copy for every additional new sub- 

 scriber. 



A VERY GREAT CONVENIENCE 



For c^ery House, of Excellent Quality, : 

 only One-third of Former Cost ! 



A thousand times a year every Family finds it 

 convenient to know the accurate weight of some- 

 thing—of articles to be sold aud those bought 

 (to "detect" cheating or "accident" in weight, 

 so common among dealers, butchers, ice-men, 

 etc.); to salt butter, make cake, put up fruit, 

 etc., etc. Steel-yards are very inconvenient ; 

 spring-balances are inaccurate for large weights, 

 and are changeable; when good for pounds, they 

 are quite too large for ounces. Good scales hare 

 been costly and cumbersome. NOW, in the 

 "Little Detective Scales," we have great con- 

 venience, accuracy iu weighing anything, from 

 one-quarter of an ounce (for letters and papers 

 and packages for mailing, etc.) up to twenty-five 

 pounds. (Tens of thousands of dealers are now 



using these on their counters.) They can be set 

 on a shelf, be moved about, have both fine grad- 

 uated brass scale arm and extra weights, from one 

 to twenty-five pounds. Owing to their good 

 quality, great durability, simplicity, and utility, 

 the immense demand makes it possible to supply 

 tliem at one-third the old price for such good 

 scales. 



For $3.00 we will supply the whole complete, 

 with weights, packed safely to send anywhere. 

 We will PRESENT the same for 6 subscribers to 

 Amer. Garden (or -l of them for 10 subscribers). 



