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TIIE LADIES' EL ORAL CABINET. 
Premium Announcements 
For 1884. 
The LADIES’ FLORAL CABINET. 
In accordance with our custom, we send to EVERY 
YEARLY SUBSCRIBER, without any extra cost, 
even for postage and packing, something in the way 
of Floral Premiums, and for 1884 we announce 
below the most attractive premiums we have ever 
given. To get such as would give the greatest satis¬ 
faction has been a study with us, and with the result 
we are well pleased. The two Everblooming Roses 
are truly gems which will delight enthusiatic rosa- 
rians; the flower seeds, fresh, vigorous, and of pro¬ 
nounced value for any city or country home, will, in 
bloom, be, with the Roses, pleasant reminders of the 
LADIES’ FLORAL CABINET. 
PREMIUM No. I. 
TWO EVERBLOOMING ROSES. 
White red, yellow or pink, as the subscriber may 
select. If no choice of color is made, we will send 
Bon Silene and Perle des Jar dins. 
The Rose Premium will be given in all cases where 
seeds are not preferred. 
PREMIUM No. 2. 
FLOWER SEEDS. 
Gaillardia Picta Lorenziana. —Novelty, one of the 
most desirable annuals ever introduced. 
Petunia Nana Compacta Multi /fora.—New. 
Coreopis Lanceolata. —A perennial and constant 
blooming variety. 
Pansy.— All the fancy varieties mixed. 
Balsams.— New and rare colors. 
Mignonette.— Miles spiral. 
Zinnia Haageana.—A beautiful novelty ; deep 
orange yellow, keeping its colors when dried. 
Phlox Drummondii Grandiflora Splendens .— 
Mixed. 
Gladiolus. —Allen's hybrid. 
Morning Glories. —Fine varieties. 
The subscription price is $ 1-25 per year, which in¬ 
cludes every premium. Single numbers 12 cents. 
A sample number 6 cents, if for examination with the 
view of subscribing. Great opportunity to make 
money among your own neighbors, in cash commis¬ 
sion, which we pay. Ask for terms to club raisers 
when you send for sample number. 
N. B.—Persons unacquainted with the LADIES’ 
FLORAL CABINET, but desiring to try it for a few 
months, may remit 25 cents for a three months’ trial 
trip; and at the close of that period a remittance of 
one dollar will entitle them to the magazine for the 
remaining nine months of a year, and the premium 
Everblooming Roses or Flower Seeds, as they select. 
Address 
LADIES’ FLORAL CABINET, 
22 Vesey St., New York. 
NEWSPAPER WAIFS. 
When Clara was asked what she would do if a 
nice young gentleman should ask her hand in mar¬ 
riage, she naively replied, “ I don’t think I’d no.” 
A little nine-year-old Mrs. Partington at a recent 
chuich-wedding asked, “Mamma, are all these 
gentlemen with white boutonnieres the gushers?”— 
Bloomfield Citizen. 
“ I should think that actors would get dread¬ 
fully tired of saying the same things over and 
over again, night after night.” And then Mrs. 
Wordy went oh to tell for the nine hundred and 
ninety-ninth time about the funny thing that hap¬ 
pened to her at the mountains summer before last. 
“ Now, sir,” said a Hamilton aurist to a gentleman 
whose wife’s organs of hearing were being treated 
“ I can safely assure you that one of your wife’s 
ears is as well as ever, and I hppe to soon have the 
other one in the same condition.” 
“ O, don’t mind that, I beg of you,” said the hus¬ 
band. 
“ Don’t mind it! What do you mean ? ” exclaimed 
the surprised physician. 
“ Let her remain as she is now. Give her back to 
me in her present condition. I want her so that 
there will be no danger of what I say to her going 
into one ear and coming out of the other. If she 
keeps one ear stopped up, she will become a very 
wise woman. She will know as much as I do after 
awhile.”— Hamilton Times. 
WINTER: ITS RISKS AND ITS 
DANGERS. 
We are now in the season when a large number of 
persons find it difficult to escape the contraction of 
colds, which too often extend to the throat and lungs 
or result in attacks of Neuralgia, Catarrh, or Rheu¬ 
matism. A special danger having its origin here is 
in Acute Pneumonia , whichnumbers so many victims 
every winter. How to certainly guard against colds 
is considered an unsolved problem, even in the 
medical profession. 
Writers on hygiene give various rules and sugges¬ 
tions, some of them excellent, through the careful 
observance of which people are promised exemption 
from colds. But do what we will, be as careful and 
prudent as we may, colds will be taken, the “ how ’» 
and the “ when ” being often a mystery, as every one 
who reads this knows too well. 
Now. from our experience of over thirteen years , 
we can confidently offer Compound Oxygen as an 
almost certain protection from colds , and as a sure 
means of breaking them up when contracted. 
In that rapidly developing and too-often fatal dis¬ 
ease, Pneumonia, we are warranted from this expe¬ 
rience in saying that it can be arrested and cured , in 
nine cases out of ten, if a prompt resort is had to 
Compound Oxygen. 
In Neuralgia our treatment rarely fails to give 
immediate relief, and, if its use is continued, to 
eradicate the disease. 
Another of the diseases to the contraction of which 
we are exposed in winter is Catarrh. An ordinary 
“cold in the head” is an acute attack of nasal 
catarrh. The mucous membrane lining the nasal 
passages at first becomes congested, and so swollen 
that the passages are filled by it; the “ nose is stuffed 
up,” the passages are dry and heated, and, of 
course, very uncomfortable (sometimes a scalding 
water runs from it). In a few days the inflammation 
subsides, a reaction takes place, and the engorged 
glands relieve themselves by flooding the membrane 
with a thick, opaque semi-fluid, which is very 
different from the transparent normal mucous. Other 
changes take place in the direction of health, and 
the parts return slowly toward their natural state, 
which they may completely attain; but if conditions 
favor it, the increased secretion of mucous may con¬ 
tinue for a long time; and this is Chronic Catarrh. 
Catarrh presents different phases, according to 
the locality of the membrane affected. This fact 
has given rise to many names of diseases which are 
supposed to be very unlike each other. 
Almost everybody understands by the word Ca¬ 
tarrh an affection of the mucous membrane which 
lines the passages of the nose. This is because that 
form of it is not only the most prevalent, but also the 
most apparent to the senses. The other varieties of 
catarrh take different names a’ccording to the differ¬ 
ent parts of the body affected; hence, we have 
laryngeal, bronchial, intestinal, gastric catarrh, etc. 
This affection of the mucous membrane, wherever 
located, is a sluggish disease, as any one who re¬ 
members the tedious process of getting well over a 
severe influenza can testify. Hence, the tenacity 
with which it sometimes resists the action of the best 
medical application is truly wonderful. 
The results which have followed our treatment of 
the disease with “Compound Oxygen” are of the 
most gratifying character. Cases which had for 
years defied all other curative agents have yielded 
quickly under the effect of Oxygen. 
As in the case of throat and lung disease, neu¬ 
ralgia, and rheumatism, our treatment will not only 
put the system in a condition to prevent in mos 
cases the taking of a “cold in the head,” but, when 
taken promptly, will arrest its progress. 
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.?:' 
If you are liable to take cold you can have the ounce 
of “ prevention ” if you will. 
With a “ Home Treatment” of Compound Oxygen 
in the house, to be used whenever any one contracts 
a cold, the members of almost any family may pass 
through a winter and escape the many risks am 
dangers from disease that attend that inclemen 
season. In saying this, .we speak as well from oui 
knowledge of the peculiar action of the Treatmen 
as from the results in hundreds of cases which hav< 
come under our care. 
Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen is sent free oj 
charge. It contains a history of the discovery, 
nature, and action of this new remedy, and a record 
of many of the remarkable results w'hich have so far 
attended its use. Drs. Starkey & Palen. 1109 and 
1111 Girard St., (between Chestnut and Market), Plnla 
delphia, Pa. 
A German dermatologist says that baldness is 
catching. Yes, gentlemen with bald pates complain 
that they catch it from all quarters.— Boston Tran¬ 
script. 
A Hoosier" at dinner on a Mississippi palatial 
steamer was about to reach out for something before 
him, but the waiter, checking him exclaimed: 
“That, sir, is a dessert.” “O,” said the Hoosier, 
“I don’t care if it’s a wilderness. I’m going to eat 
it all the same.— Philadelphia Call. 
A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY. 
One of the most useful things lately brought to the 
notice of the public, is “ Actina,” a new and remark¬ 
able means of restoring the eyesight of those who 
have been unable to see without glasses. It will 
enable anyone to read the finest of print in a few 
weeks use. The inventor and proprietor, Mr. Wm.j 
Wilson, invites any one interested to call at his 
parlors, 286 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., where he 
will be happy to meet them, and will give a free 
trial of this discovery for thirty days, without deposit 
or security. Physicians are particularly requested 
to investigate the merits ami working of this dis¬ 
covery. The inventor will gladly explain its action, 
and take patients in hand for treatment. 
MAGAZINES 
AND NEWSPAPERS. 
Send for onr Catalogne of Prices for 1884, just issued. 
EVERYTHING AT CLUB RATES. 
We make Foreign Periodicals a Specialty.] ] 
HARPER’S MAGAZINE, Per year, $3 45 
ATLANTIC MONTHLY, “ 3 45 
THE GARDEN (London), Colored 
Plates, . . . Per year, 5 00 
REVUE DES DEUX MONDES, “ 12 00 
PARIS ILLUSTRE, . . “ 3 50 
LONDON TIMES (Weekly), “ 3 00 
PUNCH AND ALMANACK, “ 3 60 
GRAPHIC or LONDON NEWS, “ 8 20 
SATURDAY REVIEW or SPECTA¬ 
TOR, . . Per year, 7 20 
HOUSEHOLD, . . 95 
Catalogue free to any Address. 
A. H. ROFFE & CO., 
11 Bromfield Street, Boston. 
