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Folding Megaphone.
The megaphone has come into almost
universal use at athletic and aquatic
races and contests because it enables
the judges and other officers to make
announcements that can be heard all
over the field. Its adoption has been
somewhat hampered by the size of the
instrument, which is too bulky to be
conveniently transported, but this has
been overcome by making them collaps
ible like the drinking cup made for
travelers and picnickers. The folding
megaphone is made in sections, one fit
ting in the other, and when not in use
the horn collapses into a package about
the size of a hat box.
WllAT WILL BMOMI OF
CHINA.
None cun foresee the outcome of the quarrel
between foreign powers over tl.e division ol
China. It Is interesting to watch the going to
pieces of this ancient but rm progressive rui’e.
Many people in America are al-o going to
pieces because of dyspepsia, constipation,
blood, liver and stomach dl-earu-s. We arc
living too last, but strength, vigor and good
health can be retained if we keep off and dure I
the above diseases with Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters.____________________
Naples is to be connected with
Mount Vesuvius by a direct railroad
line, which will conncet with the cable
line running to the top of the volcano.
TRY ALLEN’S
FOOT-EASE.
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A powder to be shaken into the shoes.
At this season your feet feel swollen, ner
vous. and hot. and get tired easily. If you
have smarting feet or tight shoes, 'try
Alien’s Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and
makes walking easy.
Cures swollen and
sweating feet, blisters and callous spots.
Believes corns and bullions of all pain and
gives rest and comfort Ten thousand tes-
timonials of cures. Try it todat*. Sold by
all druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Sent
by mail for 25c in stamps. Trial package
FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le
Boy, New York.
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there weie “robin-roosts” as well as
“pigeon-roosts.” Onlv within the last
few vears was the fact brought out
that a bird more familiarly known than
the passenger pigeon followed this
mode of spending the night, although
it adopted spring instead of fail for
massing by hundreds in a high, shel
tered wood for a night’s protection
from cold, or because it is the period
before pairing time, or for some other
reason at present beyond man's ken.
With what stealth must this well-
known and much-observed bird have
found its way in such numlters to the
same patch of timber night after night
in the early months of the year, accord
ing to locality, coming from all direc
tions so swiftly that a secreted ob
server could not count, keeping up a
chatter that could be heard for a long
distance, until the last bird, somewhat
belated, perhaps, found shelter in the
darkening grove, when all became si
Hay Rack for ’keen.
lent as thousands of wings were folded
The Breeder’s Gazette gives a de to rest.—Lippincott's Magazine.
scription of this sheep feeding rack.
The animals cannot rub the wool off
Is It Possible?
their necks trying to get at the feed;
That the barn roof leaks?
neither will the seed, dust and rubbish
That tools were left where last used?
fall Into the wool, and they cannot pull
That fences are never repaired until
the hay down and mess it over so they stock gets out?
will not eat It afterward. The rack is
That there are no shade trees in the
easily made. With It you can have pasture field?
lambs running about the feed lot with
That sheep and cockle burrs are al
out tlielr getting on top of the hay, lowed in the same field?
which ordinarily cannot be done.
That all grain bags are not marked
Make the frame out of 2 by 6's edge with your initials In ink?
wise. For block at bottom saw 2 by G's
That the supply of fuel for winter Is
diagonally. Nail a 12-ineh board along not being hauled, while the roads are
the bottom lengthwise; then take three good ?
10-lneh boards and nail up the front.
That slioats are allowed the privilege
Set liottom 10-lnch board level with the of a ten-acre field without rings?
12-inch or about one Inch higher. Make
That the same variety of wheat has
the rack with a frame about every four been on the farm for fifteen years?
feet, omitting crosspiece except at the
That an abundance of small fruit for
family use is not raised on the farm?
That noxious weeds, such as ox-eye
daisy, white top, etc., are allowed to go
to seed?
That stock is turned out where there
is barbed-wire fence, without first lead- .
Ing up to It?
That many farmers got rid of their
sheep a year or so ago. and have none
on the premises to-day?
That farmers do not realize that we
have heretofore had periods of depres
SHEEP HAY BACK.
sion, and that better times are coming.
center, and this Is not necessary unless
you are going to move them about. For —Stockman and Farmer.
The Russian pood, a measure oi ca- [ rack to feed only one side make 18
pacitv in handling grain, is equal to inches between studs. You can make
the sides separate and set them against
86.1 pounds.
FITS Permanently Cured. No fitnor nervousnes light posts. Do not nail, but wire so
• 11» after llrut .luv’s use ol Dr. Kime's Great you can raise them.
Nerve Restorer. Sen.l lor Fltr.hr Si.oo trial
bottle and treatise. DR. R. IL, KiANs: .Ltd., jau I
Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa.
The waters of the Grand Fall of Lab- I
rador have excavated a chasm 30
miles long.
Try Schilling's Best tea and baking powder
It is asserted that plate glass will
make a more durable monument than
the hardest granite.
Piso’s Cure for Consumption is the best 1
of all cough cures.—George W. Lotz, |
Fabuclier, La., August 26, 1895.
It is announced that Italian ex
periments on vegetable life with Roent
gen rays have shown that the effect is
identical with that of sunlight.
For t-lie Summer Girl.
A love in soft white straw is just
made for the summer girl.
It has an
airy, fairy fold of white taffeta round
it, and two quills curve back from the
knot in front.
White violets coquet
with Miss 8. G.’s tresses in the back.
It is ideal summer hatgear, all white
and inexpessibly dainty.
In the town of Chile most shops are
open till midnight, and during the
hot afternoons, when everybody takes
a siesta, they are locked up.
REGAINED HEALTH.
Gratifying Letters to Mrs. Pirk'
ham From Happy Women.
"I Owe You My Lifo.*
Mrs. E. WooLmsF.R.
Mills, Neb., writes:
"D ear M rs . P inkham :—I owe my
life to your Vegetable Compound. The
doctors said I had consumption and
nothing could be done for me. My
menstruation had stopped and they
said my blood was turning to water. I
had several doctors. They all said I
could not live. I lregan the use of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and it helped me right away; menses
returned and I have gained in weight.
I have better health than I have had for
years. It is wonderful what your Com
pound has done for me.”
Destruction of Weeds.
A few hours' work in spraying or
dusting plants in order to destroy in
sects or disease may not only save
crops this year, but also greatly lessen
the work of next season. But such la
bor must be applied at the right time.
The same with weeds, which produce
millions of seeds. When they are al
lowed to grow until nearly matured be
fore they are destroyed they take from
the land tlie plant food that should sus
tain the crops grown thereon. If the
destruction of weeds is done when they
are small, they are then out of Hie way
before they can harm the crops and
the soil. When the farmer postpones
his attack on weeds he incurs the risk
of not being able to eradicate them at
some critical period of their existence,
and the pests will then have done dam
age by depriving the crop of moisture
and plant food when the season is most
propitious for growth. It is the lessen
ing of the work next year that should
always be kept In view, Profit on the
farm is not made in a year, but in a
series of years. Work done at a loss
to-day may bring a fair profit during
the next season. The most profitable
work Is spraying to destroy insects and
the keeping down of weeds and grass.
—Philadelphia Record.
A Grain Room.
On many farms not a little grain is
fed to the stock. Where no room is set
apart in the stable for a grain, or feed,
room a good deal of inconvenience, and
much extra work, is experienced. In
most barns it is not convenient to pro
vide a feed room from the present ac
commodations. In such a case a small
room can well be added to the stable
Taking Inventory on the Form.
It is doubtful if there is a merchant
in the entire United States, doing a
thousand dollars' worth of business In
a year, who does not begin immediate
ly after the first of January to rake an
account of stock, and by an account
of stock on hand, his sales, his bills
payable, and his bills receivable, he is
able to determine whether the business
has been done during the last year at a
profit or at a loss. He then proceeds
to lay the plans for the conduct of his
business in the year to come. The mer
chant who does not do tills, and is
known not to do this, will speedily lose
credit among the bankers and business
men with whom he deals, and would be
considered in imminent danger of
bankruptcy, for only In this way can he
find out where he stands financially.
We doubt if there is one farmer who
at the first of January or at any other
period of the year regularly takes
stock, casts up his accounts, and finds
out the amount of profit or loss.—Field ,
and Farm.
Cultivation in Dry Weather,
Whenever there seems danger that
corn or potatoes will suffer from
drought all tile cultivation should be
near the surface. That will provide a
slight mulch of dry soil, and will keep
the soil all the molster below it. as
the mulch prevents surface evapora
tion. If there are light rains, as there
will sometimes be even in dry times,
follow witli the cultivator, turning
down all the soil moistened by the rain,
and turning to the surface some of the
dry soil below. When on going through
the field after a rain you seem to leave
the soil dryer than before ft was culti
vated you may know that you are do
ing a good work. The water is put
down where the corn or i>otato roots
will quickly find it. instead of being
left on the surface to evaporate.
Care of th*- Lawn.
A GRAIN ROOM.
in the manner shown in the cut—mak
ing the addition where It can be con
Mrs. G eo . L each ,
veniently reached from the Interior.
1609 Belle St., Alton, Ill., writes:
The door is seen to be placed high up
“ Before I began to take your Vege In this addition, and opening upon a
table Compound I was a great sufferer small platform-. A load of grain can
from womb trouble. Menses would ap thus be backed up to the door and very
pear two and three times in a month, easily unloaded, no lifting being re
causing me to l>e so weak I could not quired. Such an added room would
stand. I could neither sleep nor eat. and be of small cost, and would save many
looked so badly my friends hardly ■steps and much valuable time In dally
bunging feed from a distant building.
knew me.
** I took doctor's medicine but did not —American Agriculturist.
derive much benefit from it. My drug
Hens in ’nmmer.
gist gave me one of your little books,
The cheai>est way to keep a flock of
and after reading it I decided to try hens in summer is to turn them on a
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com range and let them pick up all the food
pound. I feel like a new person. I required, as they will fill their crops
would not give your Compound for all several times a day with bugs, grass,
the doctors’ medicine in the world. I seeds, worms, etc. When fed grain
can not praise it enough.”
during warm weather the fowls are
liable to become too fat. in which con
dition the bens do not lay and are also
Plain or with ( utter. Th? beat needle In th? mar more liable to disease. Eggs may not
ket i ^e<1 by all nark «ewer«. Fur sale by all gen be high in summer, but they can be
eral merchandise stores, or by
produced at a very small cost at that
WILL & FINCK CO.,
season If the hens are made to seek
*50 Market Street. Man Franciem. Cal.
their food.
" PISO S CURE FOR rj
Robin-Roosts
■ ' iwi **1CTr.'in"—i I
For many years naturalists like Au
dubon and Wilson studied and wrote
of thia bird before it was known that
Be careful in mowiDg the lawn dur
ing very dry weather. If the grass plot
is kept too close the grass may die out
should there be a lack of sufficient
moisture. The cutting of grass weak
ens the plant at first, as every succes
sive growth is in the direction of pro
ducing seed. Any plant can be de
stroyed if kept cut close to the ground.
It may make new growth several times,
but sooner or later becomes exhausted.
When moisture Is abundant, however,
the plant has better opportunities to
renew its growth.
-I Feel Like a New Fenoo.-
Garden Seed«.
Where several varieties of plants of
the same kind are grown together, it1
will not he proper to save seed there
from. The different kinds of melons,
pens, sweet corn or other crops have
their pollen distributed by the winds
or by insects, and seed saved under
such circumstances will prevent uni
formity next year. The greatest care
should be observed to avoid mixing
when saving seed is the object.
Hog Fee tins.
Experiments to determine the value
of corn and wheat for producing pork
show that to produce one pound of live
pork with shelled corn costs 1.1» cents,
and to produce one jsiund of pork from
dry wheat the cost is 4.57 cents. The
cost varies, owing to the difference in
the prices of the foods. Pork from a
mixture of equal parts of corn and
wheat costs 2.97 cents. Corn is there
fore much the cheaper grain for pro*
ducing pork.
fnmbatlng S<ina«h Rugs.
Tedious as it appears, the destruction
of the egg clusters and handpicking of
the matured insects is the surest meth
od of combating the odious squash bug.
ITEMS
OF
INTEREST.
You cannot afford to drink
The highest waterfall in the world
it Choloek e.tsoade, at Yosemite, Oil.,
which is 2,685 feet lngh, or just half a
mile.
Not within living memory ha« there
been known so abnormally snowless a
winter in European Russia as the past
season.
A medical correspondent at Faris
writes that Dr. Mosso has established
the fact that the blood ot eels is poi
sonous.
A curious fact has been noted by
Arctic travelers—snow when at a very
low temjieraiure absorbs moisture and
dries garments.
Gun cotton is cotton wool, washed
then soaked in nitric acid and three
parts of sulphuric acid, washed in
water, pulped and dried.
It has been found in Switzerland that
in building a railway, laborers could
work one-third as long at a height of
19,000 feet as a mile lower.
Tho Rhind manuscript now in the
British museum is tlie oldest intelligi
ble mathematical work extant that has
over been deciphered.
The largest theater in the world is
the Grand opera house of Paris. It
covers more than three acres of ground,
and cost 63,000,000 fianos.
The creatures known as ocean hydras
have no heart, no lungs, no liver, no
brains, no nervous system, nor organs
save mouth and skin.
Glaciers vary in length from yeat to
year, and apparently in cycles of years
also, those of the Alps having shown a
general dimunition sinoe I860.
The king of Siam has a bodyguard of
female warriors—i. e., 400 girls chosen
from among the strongest and most
handsome of all the women in tire land.
A recent landslide in China revealed
a pile of money equaling in value 7,-
000,000 cop]>ern. Tire coins were made
about the middle of the eleventh cen
tury.
Porous glass is one of the latest nov
elties.
Tire holes are so small tiiat
neither duet nor draught follows its
use, and yet the ventilation is said to
be excellent.
Great differences exist between the
Arctic and Antarctic regions, and while
there is a polar sea at tire north, it is
believed that a continent exists at the
South Pole.
Seven Chinese war vessels are at pre
sent being built in Germany. Among
them are four torpedo boat destroyers
winch will have a speed of 32 knots an
hour.
The Peruvian Central railroad cover
ing a distance of 10 miles is at an eleva
tion only about 2,000 feet lower tiian the
summit of the highest mountain in
Switzerland.
colored tea.
It undermines health, and the
coloring hides defects.
Schilling’s Best needs no
coloring; it is good enough
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The Trnns-M I bv I mii I ppi Stamps.
Short Pencil. Spllçed.
Of the Transtuisiiiesippi Exhibition
stamps, tiie 50-cent stamp, which is
dark green in color, is fium a drawing
by Frederic Remingtou of a "Western
Alining Prospector,” showing a pros
pector in the mountains with iris pack
mules.
The (1 stump is in black ami
white, from J. MacWhirter’s ‘‘Western
Cattle in Storm.” Tiie |2 stamp is
brown, showing an engraving of "The
Mississippi River Bridge’’ at St. Louis.
Short pencils cun liespliced by meant
of a new device oonsisting of a short
tulw internally threaded and haviDg
bell shaped erxls for the introduction of
the pencils and interior transverse
grooves to form cutting dies for the
threads.
T<» Chalk tiie Cue*
Billiard players will appreciate a
new chalk-liotdor, which consists of a
metal plate to be screwed on the wall
to support a piece of chalk, which is
Gun powder Motor.
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Explosive jxjwiler is used to oj>erate hollowed out in the ceuter to receive
a new motor, a small quantity of the tiie tiff of the cue.
powder being fed into tbe cylinder and
ignited by an electric sjmrk to drive
tire piston rod, the expanded gas escap-'
* ‘4 Perfect Type of the Highest Order of
ing through a valve as tiie piston j
Excellence in Manufacture/*
returns.
Celluloid Balloon.
In an improved balloon the basket is
carried by four air cells adjustably
I mounted on a railing around the basket,
I making it jiossible for the remaining
ceils to support the aeronaut if one cell
should collapse.
Breakfast
Wheel Nut. With Handl»«.
fôcoa
An improved nut for wagons and
other machinery where the nut would
soil the hands if touched lias a project
ing knob on one side which fits in a
hole drilled in one jaw of the wrench
to prevent the nut from slipping out.
WAGONS
Absolutely Pure,
Delicious,
Nutritious.
IMI’KOVED.
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The new improved Stoughton wagons
stand the racket. Three mole car loads are
on the wav
it pays to have the liest.
Write for free catalogue. JOHN 1’001,E,
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sole agent, foot of Morrison sireet, Port <
land, Or.
Be sure that you get the Genuine Article,
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nude at DORCHE8TER, MASS, by
Costs Less THan OHE GEHT a Cap
A microbe that lives and multiplies
in strong alcohol has been diseoveied
by Veley.
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WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd.
E stablished 1780.
The attention of the publio is called * ■v<**v
to the professional work of Dr. T. H.
White, No. 271 1^ Morrison street,
ifb Bishop Scott lcadeny
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A EottrdiiiK and Day School for boys.
Portland, Or.
His electrical appli
Military dwtuipliue hi charge of U. 8.
ances are the most modem, and bis
Army offVier. Primary, preparatory
and iMAihmle deimrtnwnts. Manual
crown and bridge work is of such artis
Training nr Sloytl haa recently been In
stalled. Beys of aU ages received,
tic form and finialt, that bis patients
speelid tiiatruction in nxuaic, modern
“1 bad a strong appetite for liquor are delighted not only with the looks,
langtiHges, stenography. Through col
lege preparation a specialty. Catalogus
which was tire beginning of the break but with the comfort they receive from
on app)ic4UJ(Hi to the principal, J. W.
JI I LU M. D , P. O. Drawer 17, Port
ing rrkrwn of my health. 1 was also a the use of such artificial work. All
land, Or.
Blave to tea and coffee drinking. I took operations are painless under bis meth
the gold cure, but it did not help me.” od». See that your teeth are projierly
BUY THE GENUINE
This is a portion of an interview cared for and that by a skillful dentist.
clip|>eii from the Daily Herald, of Clin There is no need to suffer the discom
ton, Iowa. It might well be taken for forts of broken-down ami stained teeth
the subject of a temperance lecture but when they can be made useful anu
.. MANUFACTURED BY ...
that is not otir object in publishing it. pleasant to look upon without pain.
CALIFORNIA
FIO SYRUP CO.
It is to show how' a system run down
rr-N«xrE the name .
by drink and disease, may lie restored.
We cannot do better than quote further
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from the same :
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‘‘For years I was
II liarfl I gins. Fortuneshave been
Moore's Revealed Itemedy willdoit. Three made on a small beginning by trading in fu
unable to do niv
tures. Write for full particulars. Best of re*-
doses
will
make
you
feel
better.
Get
it
from
work. I could not
erenue given. Several years’ experience on th«
your druggist or any wholesale drug house, or Chicago Board of Trade, and a thorough know
sleep nights or rest
Viom Stewart & Holmes Drug Co., Seattle.
ledge of the business. Send for our iree refer
days on account of
ence book
DOWNING, noPKlNs dt Co.,
Chien
;o H-.»ard of Trade Broker*. Offices in
continuous pains in
Portland, Oregon and Seattle. Wash.
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YOURSELF!
my stomach and
i lit-
I’sri Big W for unnatural
(iisihargcs, nitiam mat ions,
io 1 to S d»va.
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back. 1 was unable
C uarttutKd
irritations or ul<orations
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to
atricsur*.
of iiiiicutiR ineiDbruiitd.
to digest my food.
f. (I)AM'M
Prevents eontagiuo.
Painless, and not astrin-
8topj»ed atone«
Headaches
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T he E vans C hem cal C o . <** nt or
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Chicago,Ill.
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■old by I»ra**iate,
CINCINNATI,0 .
or wnt in plaiu wrapper, M. P. M. L.
No. SI, ’»».
C. S. A,
were frequent, anil
by expr«*M, prepaid, for
•1.00, or 3 bottle», $2,75.
HEN writing to advertiser« pleas«
my heart’s action
Circular sent on request.
mention thia paper.
became increase*!.
I left my farm and
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retired to city life,
for 1 was a con
firmed invalid, and
the doctor said I
would never be well again.
"Soon after I happened to use four
boxes of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for
In order to further introduce ELASTIC STARCH (Flat Iron Brand),
Pale People and since then I have been
the manufacturers, I. C. Hubinger Bros. Co., of Keokuk, Iowa, have
free from all pain, headache and dys
decided to GIVE AWAY a beautiful present with each package oi
pepsia. I eat heartily and have no ap
starch sold. These presents are in the form of
petite for strong drink or tea or ooffee,
ami feel twenty years younger.
"My weight has increased 48 pounds.
I cannot say too much for Dr. Wil
liams’ Pilis and claim that they have
cured nre.
JOHN B. COOK.”
They are 13x19 inchet in the, and are entitled aa follow»:
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this sixteenth day of February, 1897.
A. P. Barker, Notary Public.
To people run down in health from
whatever cause—drink or disease—the
above interview will be of interest
The truth of it is undoubted, as the
Lilacs and
statement is sworn to, and we reproduce
American
Pansies.
the oath here. For any further facts
concerning this medicine write to Dr.
Poppies.
Williams’ Medicine Company, Schenec
tady, N. Y.
Tiie name and address of the subject
Pansies
of above interview is John B. Cook, of
208 South Sth street, Lyon, Iowa.
Gained Forty-Eight Pounds.
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Beautiful Pastel Pictures
An historic landmark of the town of
Hadley, Mass., the old Hooker bouse,
which stood for almost two centuries, |
was burned recently. It was in this I
house that General Joe Hooker was
born in 1814.
BOW’S
THIST
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward forany
*■»«« of Catarrh that van not be cured by Hair a
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY A CO., Props., Toledo, O.
We the underaiaiivl. have known r. J. Cheney
for the naat 15 year«, and believe him perfectly
hono-abie in all bn.fness trenaactloua and dn-
snrial'y able to carry out any obligations made
by their firm.
W zst A Tnvax,
Wbo eaale Driragiats, Toledo, O.
W aiBiso, K isnan A N arvik ,
Wholesale Druggist,, Toledo, O.
HairsCatarrh Cure la taken Internally, acting
directly on the blood and mneoua «urfacea ol
tbeayotem. Price 75c per bottle, told by all
drugebta. Testimoniale tree.
Ball s Family Pilla rc the best.
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Lilacs and
These rare picture», four in number, by the renowned pastel artist,
R. LeRoy, of New York, have been chosen from the very choicest subject»
in his studio and are now offered for the first time to the public.
The pictures are accurately reproduced In all the colora used in the orig
inals, and are pronounced by competent critics, works of art.
Pastel pictures are the correct thing for the home, nothing surpassing
them in beauty, richness of color and artistic merit.
One of these pictures
B ■
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Elastic Starch
jjiL^r^o«
purchased of your grocer. It is the best laundry starch on the market, and
is sold for io cents a package. Ask your grocer for this starch and get a
beautiful picture.
AU. AROCERS KEEP ELAtTIO STARCH. ACCEPT HO SH0ST1THTE