THE LADIES^ FLORAL CABINET. 
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What Our Subscribers Say. 
the September issue we sent to each suhscri- 
a postal card, asking for an expression of opinion 
•’®^rding the changes made recentiyin the Floral 
f\miKET, and the responses have been such as would 
linden and encourage the heart of any publisher. 
The readei-s of the Floral Cabinet are, most of 
rtiem strangei-sto the present management, but we 
hJme'bya free interchange of views on all topics 
to the highest usefulness and greatest inllu- 
noe of the Floral Cabinet, we may become warm 
Mends, even if we, most of us, never stand face to 
face amid the work and beauty of earth. We have 
many feelings, many interests, in common, and they 
gliould draw us to one another. Let us become, so tar 
ns we can, a large family of people, hoping lor mutual 
good, mutual happiness, mutual prosperity. 
One of the first responses was from one of the larg¬ 
est Seed Growers in the world, who says, among 
other kind words: “The Cabinet is now a perfect 
gem—the improvement is marked.” 
A Connecticut subscriber says ; “ A grand improve¬ 
ment in size over the old one, as that was too clumsy 
to handle with ease. It is now a beautiful thing, and 
must be to many ‘ a thing of beauty and a joy for¬ 
ever.’ ” We hope it may. 
A Pennsylvania Florist writes: “We are short of 
words to express our appreciation of your recent im¬ 
provements. I subscribed for ray sister, but it you 
continue in this ‘ grand style,’ I shall place it among 
my ‘ professional ’ publications. It is certainly the 
neatest and best coming to my desk. ” There is abun¬ 
dant encouragement in such hearty approbation. 
The next letter is from a Canadian Nurseryman, 
who does “not like the change, neither does my wife 
or her sister.” He kindly adds: “I am not one In¬ 
clined to grumble, but as I had spoken to several of 
bur friends on the Cabinet old form, I now can not 
speak of it in ns favorable terms.” We hope our 
friend will find much to enjoy and commend before 
he is many months older. 
In the shadow of New York State’s marble capitol a 
warm admirer of the Floral Cabinet writes: “ A 
great favorite of mine, and I shall try to influence 
others to become subscribers.” That is the spirit we 
are glad to be frequently assured of—the disposition 
to enlarge our family circle. 
From the prairies of Illinois come the following: 
“ Dear Cabinet— Last evening the mail brought me a 
book wearing your name, but it was not quite the 
same little favorite of many years, for you were but 
one twelve-months old when first you began to visit 
me, and from the first number you have been my pet 
and pride. Many very precious memories are folded 
in your pages ; but, come what may, I am ever your 
loving friend, etc.” 
Up in the Wolverine State a subscriber kindly cheers 
us with this declaration: “ Of all fioral magazines I 
have taken, I like the Floral Cabinet best.” 
A Green Mountain wife says: -“ Its illustrations are 
always good, its reading pleasant and instructive, and 
its fancy work is not the least of its attractions for 
me.” 
Now comes something from Ohio, not as compli¬ 
mentary : “ To begin ivlth, I don’t like it at all. I 
would as soon have an almanac. * ’ * * I don’t 
want no more Cabinet. I suppose I will have to put 
up with it till the year is up, and then I am done with 
it. I think I have said enough to let you know how I 
like the Cabinet. Perhaps your other subscribers 
like it; if so, all right.” Now this dear friend evi¬ 
dently is not pleased with the first issue in its new 
shape, and if she, or any dissatisfied person, will so 
request, we will at any time return the unused por- 
fion of any year’s subscription. We do not want any 
enforced members of our family of readers. Divorce 
is free in the relations between publisher and subsori- 
ber. We will give a true bill of divorcement, even if 
our complexion does not. suit any dissatisfied reader. 
Good-bye, and may all n,y ways be ways of pleasant¬ 
ness, aU thy paths paths of pice. 
Away down in Louisiana a friend says: “I have 
era a subscriber ever since the magazine was first 
smrted. I think it a decided improvement in size, 
™ape and type. I thiuh a greater improvement would 
be to exclude all stories, fashion notes, etc., • » * ■ 
niaough such articles as those contributed by M. E. 
Whittemore and Wm. a. Euss are always welcome 
in a * Homo CompimiQQ ’ ” 
Among the busy scenes of Milwaukee a lady wites: 
* I would also like to send you five new patrons, but 1 
am quite an old lady, over sixty-four, and live right in 
the heart of the city where we cannot have any chance 
for flowers, except in window-gardens.” Dear friend, 
may your three score years and four be fully rounded 
out to four score, and then the call of the last, the 
unrelenting messenger, be as fully out of hearing as 
to-day. 
Down, down in the Lone Star State, whose rapidly- 
growing population is beautifying Texan homes with 
flower-gardens fragrant with flowers from Floral 
Cabinet premium Seeds or Bulbs, comes words of en¬ 
couragement: “I thought so much of the old style, 
I can do no less than tiy to get new subscribers for 
the new one. I think all will be pleased wdth it.” 
A dissatisfied friend in Virginia says: ” You have 
left the music out of the Cadinbt, and, to some, that 
was quite an item in its favor.” The music feature 
has not been abandoned permanently. We shall give 
new music from time to time. 
From Iowa’s prairies come pleasant words: ” I am 
away out on Iowa’s wildest praiiies, with all kinds of 
wild flowere around roe, but I still keep some old 
pets in the shape of house plants. I would be very 
lonesome without the monthly visit of the Cabinet.” 
May your prairies bloom with beauty, and bear fruit 
in heaping measure. * 
A Tennesseean kindly writes: ‘‘ Very much pleased; 
would not be without it for anything. I think it one 
of the greatest books for information that I have 
seen.” Thanksl 
A Buckeye wife tells us, “ As a household compan¬ 
ion, I think in the Cabinet w'e have all we can desire.” 
And yet, dear friend, we hope to make it better and 
better. 
From a South Carolina home comes the assurance 
that “ the Cabinet is always welcomed by me, and 
also the rest of the household.” We wont father, 
mother, sister and brother to find enough that will 
interest each in every number to warrant regular 
perusal of the magazine’s pages. 
A Fennsylvanian soliloquizes thus: “ Why shouldn’t 
we be pleased when good things are made better ? 
* * * The Cabinet gives us more without asking 
more.” Of course we want to keep ahead of the rea¬ 
sonable expectations of our patrons. 
One of the Queen’s subjects, in Ontario, has a fa¬ 
vorable opinion of the Cabinet in its new form, for 
she ™tes : “lam highly pleased with the improve¬ 
ments, and shall recommend it to my friends,” 
An old acquaintance, in Detroit, writes: "I was 
agreeably surprised to see the C-abinet appear in its 
new autumn dress.” 
We could keep on for columns with extended ex¬ 
tracts from letters from every part of the country, 
but it is needless. The selections here made from a 
voluminous correspondence, fairly iUustrate the re¬ 
ception the new Cabinet has hod at the hands of its 
thousands of readers. We have published the opin¬ 
ions unfavorable as well as those who cover our enter¬ 
prise with compliments. 
Now the newly-shaped ship is fairly on the waters, 
and is journeying down the stream of Time. May 
every reader who journeys with it ever feel free to 
frankly suggest to the Captain changes and improve¬ 
ments calculated to make our journeying togetiier 
more pleasant or more profitable, and all such sugges¬ 
tions shaU haveres^tful attention, if not always 
acted OR. 
WITHOUT A PARALLEL 
IN MEDICAL HISTORY. 
The remarkable results which have attended the 
administration of Compound Oxygen, the new rem¬ 
edy for chronic and so-called “incurable diseases,” are 
without a parallel in medical history. 
As dispensers of this new remedy, we have, after 
over thirteen years of earnest, untiring and costly 
effort to introduce It to those who need its vitalizing 
and health-restoring influences, succeeded in resting 
its claimS^on the basis of facts and results of so wide 
and universal a character—/acts and resulis on 
record, and open fo the closest investigations—that 
no room for a question remains ns to its warveWows 
action in restoring the diseased to health, 
-The rapidly-increasing number of those who have 
obtained relief from pain, or been restored to health, 
by Compound Oxygen, reaching now to many thou¬ 
sands scattered throughout the whole country, is 
having a wide influence on public sentiment. There 
are no arguments so convincing as w'eli-known facts. 
If a man or woman who has been suffering for years 
from an exhausting disease, which no physician had 
been able to cui'e, tries a newly-discovered remedy, 
and is brought back to health, the fact stands as an 
unanswerable ai'gument In favor of that remedy, so 
far, at least, as this particular case is concerned, A 
resort to the same remedy in another case, regarded 
as “ incurable,” and with a like result, adds a new 
and stronger argument In Its favor. Accumulate 
similar results to the number of hundreds and 
thousands, and in the widest range of chronic and 
“desperate” and abandoned cases, and you have a 
weight of evidence that is irresistible. On this weight 
of indisputable evidence wo rest the claims of Com¬ 
pound Oxygen. 
It is frequently urged against this Treatment by 
persons who have not made themselves acquainted 
with the natural laws governing its action, that the 
same agent is administered for all diseases—for neu¬ 
ralgia or catarrh; for rheumatism or consumption; 
for heart disease or bronchitis; that we offer it as a 
universal specifle. In our Treatise on Compound 
Oxygen., wliich will he mailed free to any one who 
will write to us for it, we liave fully explained the 
nature and action of this remedy, and sho^vn that it 
is not specifle to any disease or class of disease, but 
that It acts directly upon the nervous system and 
vital organs, and thence universally in the whole 
body. It gives new force and a more vigorous action 
to all the life-centres, thus restoring to nature the 
dominant power and healthy action which had been 
lost. This being tbe case, no matter what the disease, 
or where located, it must be gradually ameliorated, 
and, if the central healthy action can be maintained 
finally cured. Every intelligent and unprejudiced 
person will at once see that If the law of action which 
we claim for Comiwund Oxygen be the true one, its 
operation must he universal, and not local or specific; 
and that all forms of disease may be reached by this 
agent. 
To those who wish to inform themselves In regard 
to this new Treatment, we will send free of coat, our 
'‘'■Treatise on Compound Oxygen,'" and our pamphlet, 
containing over fifty Unsolicited Testimonials'' 
also “ Health and Ldfe." our Quarterly Record of 
Coses and Cures, under the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment, in which will be found, as reported by 
patients themselves, and open for verification, more 
remarkable results in a single period of three months 
than all the medical journals in the United States 
can show in a year. 
. Dra; STAKKEY & PALEN, 
Nos. Ilt9 and 1111 Girard Street, 
Bet. Chestnut and Market Bts. PHILADELPHIA, PA 
