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Don't le|#this Christmas go by 
without getting a Victor 
There’s no other gift that will bring so much happiness and good 
cheer into your home, and be so fully appreciated by every member of 
your family. 
The Victor makes Christmas a real Christmas. It gladdens the 
hearts of young and old alike. Everybody shares in enjoying its 
melody and fun. 
The Victor is just the instrument you need in your home, not only 
to make things merry at Christmas-time, but to dispel the gloom and 
dullness that too often overshadow the home on long winter evenings. 
The Victor sheds its joy and entertainment the year around. 
It is the greatest of all musical instruments, and yet no knowledge 
of music is required to play it. And you can buy this “king of 
entertainers ” on easy terms that will never worry or 
embarrass you. 
The Victor plays just as grandly on the easy-payment 
plan, as if you paid cash down in a lump sum—and you have 
the advantage of enjoying it while you are paying for it. 
When you can get a Victor on such easy terms that you 
never miss the money, there’s no reason in the world for 
doing without it; no excuse for depriving your family of all 
the wonderful variety of melody, sentiment and fun that the 
Victor only can give them. 
Don’t miss the pleasure of a Victor in your home. Make 
Christmas a real Christmas. See to it that there’s a Victor 
every purse - y 0ur home when Christmas day rolls around, and every- 
from $10 Up hody will be the happier and brighter for it. 
Buy from your local dealer—He sells on easy terms 
It’s easier and safer and better to buy a Victor on easy terms right in your locality than it is to send your money 
hundreds of miles away. j 
It’s far better to go to your local dealer and pick out just the Victor you want, than it is to be compelled to take any talking- 
machine a far-away or irresponsible concern has a mind to send you. 
There are plenty of other advantages in buying at home from your local dealer. 
You know the man you are dealing with. You know he is responsible. You know he will make good every promise. You can 
see and hear the Victor and find out all you want to know about it. 
You have the full Victor line to select from. You know you are r>aying the right price—Victor prices are the same all over 
America. You can hear the different records played befoi’e you buy them. You encourage and support home enterprise. 
And you get a “square deal.” 
If you don’t know who the Victor dealer is in your locality, we’ll give you his name and address. * 
There is a 
Victor for 
HUMOROUS 
The people people work witli best are often 
verv aueer. 
The people people own by blood quite shock 
vour first idea. 
The people people •'choose for friends your 
common sense appal. 
But the people people marry are the queer¬ 
est folks of all. —Credit Lost. 
Blobbs : “A politician always reminds 
me of a piano.” Slobbs: “How so?” 
Blobbs: “If lie's square lie’s considered 
old-fashioned."—Philadelphia Record. 
Farmer : “See here, boy, what yer 
doin’ up that tree?” Boy: “One of your 
pears fell off the tree an’ I'm trying to 
put it back.”—Brooklyn Eagle. 
“Kitty,” said her mother, rebuking- 
ingly,. “you must sit still when you are 
at the table.” “I can't, mamma,” pro¬ 
tested the little girl, “I’m a fidgetarian.” 
—Chicago Tribune. 
Elderly Gentleman : “Ah, my little 
man. Going to school, eh? And what 
do you like most about school ?” Lit¬ 
tle Man: “The days where there ain’t 
none.”—Philadelphia Record. 
Pa : “You know, Willie, this thrash¬ 
ing is going to hurt me more than you.” 
Willie (sympathetically) : “Well, don’t 
be too rough on yourself, dad. ’Tain't 
worth it.”—Chicago Daily News. 
“Man will eventually go by rail from 
the Atlantic to the Pacific in two days.” 
“I once did it in five hours and then 
kicked about the slow time.” “Where, 
pray, did this happen?” “In Panama.” 
—Louisville Courier-Journal. 
The mother of a conscientious little 
miss, wishing to rid her of the fear of 
some cows in a field through which she 
had to pass, told her to go right by and 
pretend she didn’t see them. “But, 
mamma,” protested the small maid, 
“wouldn’t that be deceiving the cows ?” 
—Chicago News. 
The sociologist, with extra sympathet¬ 
ic leanings toward the “submerged 
tenth,” looked pityingly at the man who 
Was swinging a pick on the road before 
Iv* spoke. “Long hours, my man,” he 
said. “Eh?” “Yes,” responded the man, 
without pausing in his work. “Sixty 
minutes.”—Tit-Bits. 
“So you sold that miserable old mule 
of yours?” “Yassir,” replied Mr. Eras- 
tus Pinkley; “for real money.” “Does¬ 
n’t it weigh on your conscience?” “Well, 
boss, I’s done had dat mule on my mind 
so long it’s kind of a relief to change 
off an’ git ’im on my conscience.”— 
Washington Star. 
Young Surgeon (in hospital, after 
having just removed a patient’s leg) : 
“Does the operation meet your approval, 
doctor?” Plead Surgeon: “Very well 
done, except for a slight mistake.” 
Young Surgeon : “Why, what’s the mat¬ 
ter?” Head Surgeon: “You've ampu¬ 
tated the wrong leg.”—Illustrated Bits. 
The Customer: “When I bought a 
car from you a few weeks ago you 
said you would be willing to supply a 
new part if I broke anything.” The 
Motor Agent: “Certainly, sir. What 
can I have the pleasure of providing 
you with?” The Customer: “I want a 
pair of new ankles, a floating rib, a left 
eye, three yards of cuticle, a box of as¬ 
sorted fingernails, four molars, and a 
funnybone.”—Pick-Me-Up. 
“Son,” remarked Mr. Erastus Pinkley. 
“I done heard you talkin’ ’bout bein’ a 
great hunter.” “Dat’s what I said,” an¬ 
swered Pickaninny Jim, “I’se gwinter 
hunt lions.” “An’ you mentioned bein’ 
er ahtic explorer.” “Yassir.” “Well, 
jes’ by way of practice befo’ you tackles 
any lions, lemme see if you kin git de 
cow out’n pasture wifout bein’ hooked, 
an den as de Winter comes along you 
kin train fob de North Pole by wadin’ 
out in de snow to de wood pile twice 
a day. An’ don’ lemme hyah no mo’ 
’bout not incouragin’ yoh youthful am¬ 
bitions.”—Washington Star. 
You can’t tell the Victor 
from the actual human voice 
The Victor reproduces the voices of the 
world’s greatest grand-opera singers so true 
to life that you can’t tell the difference 
between hearing the artists sing and hearing 
their beautiful voices on the Victor. 
In the opera-house corridor scene in “The 
Pit” at Ye Liberty Theatre, Oakland,Cal.,the 
famous quartet from Rigoletto was sung by 
Caruso, Abbott, Homer and Scotti on the 
Victor, and the delighted audience thought 
they were listening to the singers themselves. 
Every day at the Waldorf-Astoria, New 
York, ( lie grand-opera stars sing, accompa¬ 
nied by the hotel orchestra of six teen pieces. 
The diners listen with rapt attention, cran¬ 
ing their necks to get a glimpse of the 
singer. But it is a Victor. 
In the rotunda of Wanamaker’s famous 
Philadelphia store, the great pipe organ ac¬ 
companied Melba on the Victor, and the peo¬ 
ple rushed from all directions to see the 
singer. 
Even in the Victor laboratory, employees 
often imagine they are listening to a singer 
making a record while they really hear the 
Victor. 
No other instrument 
like the Victor 
The Victor stands alone as the one perfect 
instrument of its kind. 
It is no more like the old-style talking- 
machine than the improved harvester of the 
present day is like the old-style reaper. 
The Victor is not only the highest type of 
talking-machine, but the greatest musical 
instrument the world has ever known. 
Victor Records are far superior to all other 
records. They are records of quality—works 
of art from the recording of the artists’ 
voices to the finished records. 
You don’t need to be afraid to touch Victor 
Records. You can pick them up any way 
you want without injuring them. 
The King of Entertainers 
The Entertainer of Kings 
The King of England, the Emperor of Ger- 
many.the Kingof Italy,the King of Portugal, 
the Queen of Spain, the Shah of Persia are 
among the crowned heads of Europe and Asia 
who use the Victor for their royal pleasure. 
With all the money at their command, these 
rulers can secuie nothing that gives them so 
much pleasure as the Victor. 
You can enjoy the same music and enter¬ 
tainment as these sovereigns. You can 
entertain your friends in the same manner 
as they entertain princes and dukes and 
other royal personages. 
His Holiness, Pope Pius X, has a Victryr. 
And right here in our own country. Presi¬ 
dent Roosevelt has a Victor in the White 
House, and President-elect Taft is also the 
possessor of a Victor. 
Even a child can play the Victor 
It’s just as easy as anything can be, and there’s nothing to get out of order. 
You wind up the Victor the same as you do a clock. Turning the handle winds up 
the motor that makes the turntable revolve on which the record rests. 
Then all you do is to put on the Victor Record you want to hear, start the 
turntable revolving, place the reproducing needle on the record, and immediately you 
hear the music you have picked out, played so true to life that you imagine the 
performers themselves are standing before you. 
The Victor brings the greatest artists 
right into your own home 
As you sit at home in your easy chair you can hear the stirringmusic 
of the world s greatest bands and orchestras, the side-splitting jokes and 
comic songs of the funniest minstrels; the latest song hits, dialogues and 
sketches by the most popular singers and comedians of the vaudeville 
stage; the magnificent voices of the foremost grand-opera stars; the 
beautiful gospel hymns by noted soloists and celebrated choirs. 
All these artists are at your command on the Victor to sing 1 and to 
play for you whenever you want to hear them. You can pick out your 
own talent and arrange a program to suit yourself. 
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Not a Victor 
without the dog 
Be sure that the Victor dog is on 
the horn and cabinet of the Victor 
and on every Victor Record you buy. 
The Victor is certainly an ideal 
Christmas gift, and is sure of a 
hearty welcome in every home. 
You owe it to yourself to hear the 
Victor— in no other way can you 
appreciate what a wonderful mus¬ 
ical instrument it really is. Use 
the coupon in the corner of this ad¬ 
vertisement and get the Victor cat¬ 
alogues together with name of your 
nearest dealer. Then go to his 
store and hear the Victor. He will 
gladly play any Victor music you 
want to hear. This places you 
under no obligations whatever. 
Remember, it’s to 
your advantage to 
buy from a dealer in 
your locality. 
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Write to-day for 
Victor catalogues 
They show all the different styles of the Victor— from $10 up—and tell you all about A •*’ 
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They give you a complete descriptive list of the 3000 and more Victor Records, including 
everything from popular songs to grand opera. And we tell you how you can get any -O' A V 
style Victor with a list of records of your own selection, on the easiest kind of terms. 
Fill out the coupon today 
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You don’t need to go to the trouble of writing us a letter 
coupon, cut it off and mail it to us to-day. Or if you want, you can just drop O 
us a postal card. But whatever you do, don’t delay. Do it to-day- right/y 
now while you are thinking about it. Remember, every day without a N> 
Victor is a loss you can never make good. Don’t put it off. u 
Victor Talking Machine Company 
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Berliner Gramophone Co., Montreal, Canadian Distributors. 
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A complete list of new Victor Records for December will be found in the December number 
of Munsey’s, Scribner’s, McClure’s, Century, Everbody’s; and January Cosmopolitan. 
