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Devoted to Housekeeping, Household Elegancies, 
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Every number is a perfect gem. Full of exquisite 
illustrations of flowers, gardens, floral elegancies, and 
delightful home pictures of society or ho usehold conveniences for the ladies. 
Full of good sense, and invaluable to e very lady for its refinement, elegance and rare value. 
35 Cents pay for trial trip 3 months, including chromo “ Gems of the Flower Garden.” 
55 Cents pay for trial trip 6 months, without chromo. 
65 Cents pay for trial trip 6 months, including chromo “Gems of the Flower Garden. 
75 Cents pay for trial trip 6 months, including 2 chromos, “Good Night” and “Good 
Morning.” 
90 Cents pay for trial trip 6 months, including all three chromos. 
ZPZREIVIIITXIMIS FOB OLTJBS. 
1. For Club of Five, 6 months. Premium of “ Every Woman her own Flower Gardener. 
2. For Club of Ten, 6 months. Extra copy of Cabinet, 6 months, and chromo, “ Gems of the 
Flower Garden,” free. 
3. For Club of Fifteen s 6 months. Extra copy of Cabinet, 6 months, three chromos, and premium 
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4. For Club of Twenty, 6 months. All above premiums together with book, “ Window Gardening. 
TV. X5.— A. 6 months subscriptions begin with July number. B. Members of a Club need not be 
all of same prices nor of same place. C. 3 months subscription must begin with September or October, as 
we see fit. 
Address HENRY T. WILLIAMS, 
P. 0. Box 2445. 
46 Beekman Street, New York. 
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AVILTJDB; 
Or, Game of Birds. 
THE GEM OF CARD GAMES. 
Of all the games In market, none are so happily 
adapted to amuse and instruct children at one and 
the same time as Avilude. In it are thirty-two 
beautiful pictures, and thirty-two scientific descrip¬ 
tions. It is the best possible incentive to the study 
of natural history, and the only game ever pub¬ 
lished in the interest of science. Thousands of 
Children have been made happy and had 
stored up for them a whole winter of enjoyment 
and instruction by the present of a game of 
Avilude. 
“Avilude is an admirable conception, thoroughly 
in sympathy with the most advanced ideas of ju¬ 
venile instruction. * * * Theile Birds go on a 
good mission and will find their way to the hearts 
of a host of children.”— Prof. A. H. Dams. 
“ An excellent addition to our home amusements.’" 
— Christian Union. 
“ Must have a large sale and deserves it too.”— 
Harper's Weekly. 
SENT POSTPAID, on receipt of seventy-five 
cents, by 
HENRY T. WILLIAMS , 
46 Beekman Street, N. Y. 
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FUN for, the Boys AND qirj-S! 
Just the thing for you. Send for it. 
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on each Sheet and each Envelope; handsomely 
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from the publisher. 
Price 50 cents per Box, postpaid by mail. For a 
Club of Ten at 50 cents, an Extra Box is given free. 
Address, 
HENRY T. WILLIAMS, 
Publisher T iie Ladies 1 Floral Cabinet, 
46 Beekman St.. N. Y. 
YOUNG FOLK’S FAVORITE. 
2he prettiest paper for the Young Foils 
in the United States. A beautiful illustrated 
Journal, devoted to the interests of the Young Folks, 
their amusement, improvement and instruction, at 
home and at school Full of pretty pictures, entertain¬ 
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pieces, and helps to school studies. Pure, sensible, 
useful. Parents, take it for your children. 
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Price 60 cents per year, including beautiful chromo. 
cc Try your yVings, Birdie Price 3 cents for 
specimen copy. 
Club agents wanted. Send for Premium list. 
HENRY 1 ¥» WOULDAMIS, PuMislAr, 
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BOOKS OE GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS. 
What Shall We Do To-Night: or, Social Amusements for Evening Parties— This 
elegant book affords an almost inexhaustible fund of amusement for evening parties, social gatherings, and 
all festive occasions, for young gentlemen and ladies ; including complete directions and text for performing 
Charades, Tableaux, Parlor ’Pantomimes, &c. It contains over too engravings, and 366 pages. Price, 
$ 2.00 (Premium for club of 15 , or 20 with extra copy of paper free). 
The American Home Book of In-Door Games and Recreations.— Containing Amuse¬ 
ments for Girls, Boys and Little Children, Musical Games, Forfeits, Games of Memory, Natural Magic, 
Solitaire Games, Holiday Games, House and Home Amusements, &c. 380 pages. Illustrated. Price, 
$1.50 (Premium for club of 10 , at $ 1 . 30 , or 13 , with paper and chromo free). 
Social Charades and Parlor Operas. —A book really needed, containing the favorite operettas of 
“College Ned,” “ Diamonds and Toads,” and a List of Charades, Allegories, and Musical Pieces, never 
before published. Price, 75 Cents, postpaid (Premium for club of 6 , at $ 1 . 30 ). 
Home Arts for Young and Old. —This little work is a Compendium of all the best known methods 
of making time pass profitably as well as pleasantly at home, and includes Flower Work, Wax Work, 
Needle Work, and general home ornamentation. Price, 75 Cents, postpaid. (Premium for dub of 6 ). 
Home Games for Young and Old. —This work is an epitome of all the known amusements for 
homes, from “ Puss in the Corner” to “Acting Charades,” and will be found an excellent assistant on all 
occasions of festivities. Price, 75 Cents, by mail, postpaid (Premium for club of 6 ). 
The Sociable; or, One Thousand and One Borne Amusements.— Containing Acting 
Proverbs, Dramatic Charades, Acting Charades, or Drawing-Room Pantomimes, Musical Burlesques, 
Tableaux Vivants, Parlor Games, Games of Action, Forfeits, Science in Sport and Parlor Magic, and a 
choice collection of curious Mental and Mechanical Puzzles. &c. Illustrated with numerous engravings 
and diagrams. The whole being a fund of never ending entertainment. Nearly 400 pages. “The Socia¬ 
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much animation and delight. It is impossible for any company to exhaust all the sources of irreproachable 
mirth and mutual enjoyment produced in this volume. Price, $1.50 (Premium for club of to). 
Book of Biddles and Five Hundred Home Amusements. —Containing all kinds ol Curious 
Riddles, Amusing Puzzles, Queer Sleights, and Entertaining Recreations in Science, for Family and Social 
Pastime. Illustrated with 60 engravings. Price, 50 Cents (Premium for club of 5 ). 
The Art of Dressing Well. By Miss S. A. Frost.—This book is designed to offer such suggestions 
as will be valuable to those just entering society; to brides, for whose guidance a complete trousseau is 
pescribed ; to persons in mourning ; indeed, to every individual who pays attention to the important objects 
of economy, style, and propriety of costume. Price, 50 Cents (Premium for club of 5 ). 
Book of Household Bets- —Containing valuable instructions about the Diseases, Breeding,Training, 
and Management of the Canary, Mocking Bird, Parrot, Fancy Pigeons, Poultry, and Domestic Pets 
Illustrated with 123 fine woodcuts. Bound in boaids, cloth back. Price, 50 Cents (Premium for club of 5 ). 
The Book of Fireside Games. —Containing a description of the most Entertaining games suited to 
the Family Circle as a Recreation. Price, 50 Cents (Premium for club of 5 ). 
Howard’s Book of Conundrums and Biddles. —Containing over 1,200 of the best Conundrums, 
Riddles, Enigmas, Ingenious Catches, and Amusing Sells ever invented. Bound in boards, cloth back. 
Price, 50 Cents (Premium for club of 5 ). 
How to Amuse an Evening Party. —A complete collection of Home Recreations, including 
Round Games, Forfeits, Parlor Magic, Puzzles, and Comic Diversions, together with a great variety of 
Scientific Recreations and Evening Amusements. Profusely illustrated with nearly 200 fine woodcuts 
Bound ill boards, with cloth back. Price, 50 Cents (Premium for club of 5 ). 
How to Shine in Society; or, the Science of Conversation. —Containing the principles, 
laws, and general usages of polite society, including easily applied hints and directions for commencing and 
sustaining an agreeable conversation, and for choosing topics appropriate to the time, palace, and company ; 
thus affording immense assistance to the bashful and diffident. 161110 . Paper cover. Price, 25 Cents 
(Premium for 2 subscriptions at $ 1 . 30 ). 
The Parlor stage. —A collection of Drawing-Room Proverbs, Charades, and Tableaux Vivants, by 
Miss S. A. Frost, These plays are intended solely for performance by a small party of friends, in private 
parlors, and require but little trouble or expense to render them effective. The plays are all new and 
original. 36 S pages. Price $1.50. (Premium for club of 10 at $ 1 . 30 ). 
The Play-Ground; or, Out-Door Games for Boys. —A Book of Healthy Recreations for 
Youth, containing over a hundred Amusements, including Games of Activity and Speed, Games with Toys, 
Marbles, Tops, Hoops, Kites, Archery, Balls; with Cricket, Croquet, and Baseball. Splendidly illustrated 
with 124 fine woodcuts. Bound in cloth, gilt side. Price 75 Cents. (Premium for club of 6 ). 
BOOKS OH HOUSEKEEPING. 
Common Sense in the Household.—A Manual of Practical Housewifery. By Marion Hariand 
author of “Alone,” “Hidden Path,” “Nemesis,” &c. One of the finest volumes and aids to laches’ 
household management ever issued. Price, $1.75 (Piemium for club of 35 ). 
The Yankee Cook Book.— A New System of Cookery. Containing hundreds of excellent receipts 
from actual experience in Cooking; also, full explanations in the art of carving. Price, 50 Cents 
(Premium for club of 4 ). 
How to Cook Potatoes, Apples, Eggs, and Fish, Four Hundred Different Ways.— 
This work especially recommends itself to those who are often embarassed for want of variety m dishes 
suitable for the breakfast-table, or on occasions where the necessity arises for preparing a meal at short 
notice Price, 50 Cents (Premium for club of 4 ). ... 
How to Cook and How to Carve —Giving plain and easily understood directions for preparing and 
cooking, with the greatest economy, every kind of dish, with complete instructions for serving the same. 
Price, 50 Cents (Premium for club of 4 ). 
Mrs Crowen’s American Ladies’ Cookery Book.— Containing over j, 20 oS|gir>alreceiptsfor 
preparing and cooking Soups and Broths, Kish and Oysters, Clams, Muscles, and Scollops, nobsteis, 
Crabs, and Terrapins, Meats of all kinds. Poultry and Game, Eggs and Cheese, Vegetables and Salads, 
Sauces of all kinds, Fancy Desserts, Puddings, and Custards, Pies and Tarts, Bread and Biscuit, Rolls and 
Cakes, Preserves and Jellies, Pickles and Catsups, Potted Meats, &c., &c. Together with valuable and 
important hints on choosing and purchasing all kinds of Provisions, and preparing Ripe Fruits for Table, 
Bills of Fare for the relief of young housekeepers, Arrangement of the Table for every variety of dinner 
Parties, Etiquette of the Dinner Table, Cookery for Invalids, Carving Made Easy, &c., &c. The whole 
being a complete system of American Cookery. By Mrs. T. J. Crowen. Illustrated with several diagrams. 
Mrs. Crowen gives directions for making all sorts of economical dishes, baking all kinds of cakes and pies, 
manufacturing every variety of confectionery, preserving, pickling, &c., so plainly that the housekeeper of a 
week’s standing can easily act upon her directions. All the receipts in this book have been carefully tried, 
and may be relied upon as the result of actual experience. 474 pages. Price, $2.00 (Premium for club of 15 ). 
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