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The cost of building a home, furnishing and decorating it, remains the same over the 24 hours whether we light that home poorly or brilliantly.

But, the precious two or three hours of evening when the fullest meaning of the word "home" is realized, these are the hours when that home should be made brightest, most attractive, most appreciable, most satisfying and comforting.

Sunlit days are well-known to bring cheerful, hopeful thoughts, cloudy days bring gloom,despondency.

For the same reason a brightly lighted home promotes cheerfulness, which is another name for happiness.

And a badly lighted home per contra induces melancholy, -dissatisfaction, grouch.

Many Farmers fail to realize that this latter condition has much to do with desertion of the Country for the City by the sons and daughters they would gladly retain at their otherwise comfortable homes.

Light up the Country Home in the evening as cheerfully as the City is lighted and conditions would be promptly different.

The additional cost of so lighting would be a small matter in the year compared to the additional cheerfulness and additional enjoyment of every dollar already invested in home-building, furnishing and decoration, the additional health, improved eyesight, and improved temper of the whole family.

In no other way can so much more comfort be had for so little more money as in brilliant home-lighting.

And no other outlay will go so far toward making young people in the Country stay at home and enjoy it.

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But, you say, more light means more lamps, and the daily cleaning, filling and wick-trimming, with the attendant smell of stale Kerosene, is now one of the most disagreeable duties around the Countryhome.

More lamps mean more of this work, you say, and how will the young people like that!

True enough, and it is also true that more Kerosene Lamps mean more vitiation of the air in a home,-more burning up of oxygen, more giving out of poisonous carbonic acid to be breathed.

A Kerosene Lamp of 24 candle-power eats up all the life-giving Oxygen in 30 square feet of air every hour it is used and gives out instead 28 square feet of poisonous Carbonic Acid Gas which latter, if breathed pure, would kill in five minutes.

So that there are even better reasons than the daily cleaning, trimming and filling, why as few Kerosene Lamps as possible should be used.

But, why use Kerosene at all for Home-Lighting? Why are Kerosene Lamps practically no longer used in American Cities or Towns for house-lighting? Why was Kerosene discarded for Gas? Ist-because of its soot, and smell. 2nd-because of the daily cleaning, filling, and trimming of each individual Lamp used with the constant breakages of chimneys, globes and lamps. 3rd-because, with all these drawbacks, Kerosene costs more than Gas, which needs no attention but the turning on of a tap to light up.

A City Gas jet of 24 Candle-power light costs 1⁄2 a cent per hour, with Gas at $1.00 per 1000 feet. The same light (24 candle-power) from a Kerosene Lamp would cost ten per cent more, or of a cent per hour for Kerosene alone, at 12 cents per gallon, with nothing figured in for the unpleasant daily cleaning, filling, snuffing, and chimney-wiping of each Lamp and for the average breakages.

So it is easy to see why City people and Townspeople cut out the Kerosene Lamps and sent them to the Country.

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But, now it is time for the Kerosene Lamp to move from the Country Home too.

Because, the same reasons that caused City people and Townspeople to discard their Lamps and use Gas instead, must now cause people in the Country to do likewise.

The same reasons that brought the Rural Postal Delivery to the Country-dweller's door, and the Rural Telephone into his home must bring Rural Gas-lighting there also.

Because, all three of these things are not only

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City conveniences, made possible in the Country by progress, but they are proven by use to be economies as well.

Economies of time, comfort, and money. Now" what is this Rural Gas-light?" you question. Well, it is the perfected form of Acetylene Gas-light.

It can be installed and connected up to every room in the average home in two days' time, without the slightest damage to walls or floors.

Then the fixtures and Generator will last a lifetime, or as long as the house.

When Acetylene Gas Light is once installed there will be no more lamp cleaning, filling, snuffing, chimney-wiping nor breakages.

Instead you will have the most beautiful Light

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Acetylene Light is so clear and pure, so free from color-fog that you can see pale blue or pale pink by it at night as clearly as you could in daylight.

It is so diffusive (farcarrying, wide-spreading) that you can read a newspaper 18 feet away from it when you could not read that same size of type 14 feet away from a Kerosene Lamp or Electric Light of the same identical candle-power.

Acetylene is so brilliant, so free from color-fog and soot, that only one-tenth as much flame is needed to give the same amount of light as would be needed of Kerosene light, Gasolene light, or City Gas light.

This means that Acetylene light produces only a fraction of the heat given off by Kerosene or Gasolene Lamps,-that it consumes only a fraction of the Oxygen in the air, and produces only a fraction of the poisonous Carbonic Acid Gas given off by Lamps in lighting.

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Over Two Millions of Americans use Acetylene Gas Light to-day in their homes and not a child's life has yet been lost through it.

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It needs no wicks, chimneys, nor mantles, daily cleaning, filling, snuffing, nor adjusting.

You simply turn a small tap on a pretty wallbracket or hanging Gasolier and light up brilliantly or moderately, according to how much you turn the tap.

To put out the light you merely turn the tap a little further around and thus cut off the Gas entirely.

Once or twice a month only you refill the Generator.

And, if you should blow out the light, by accident, this Acetylene Gas is so harmless that you might sleep all night in a room where it escapes without having even a headache in the morning.

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Moreover, Acetylene Gas Light will cost you less than common Kerosene Light, for the same candle-power, when once installed.

A 24 candle-power Acetylene Light will cost you only I cents per night, from 8 o'clock till 11 o'clock.

A Kerosene Lamp of the same (24) candle-power will cost you for Kerosene alone (without reckoning breakages and the constant daily cleaning, filling, snuffing, chimney - wiping, etc.), 24 cents per night, from 8 till II o'clock.

A 16 candle-power Incandescent Electric Light will cost you 3% cents per night (from 8 till 11 o'clock) when the carbon filament is new (and about twice that when it is burnt down to a breaking point).

The Acetylene Light will be brilliant, white, soft, spreading, cool, steady, and free from soot or smell of any sort.

The Kerosene light will be yellow, hot, sooty, smelly and air-consuming.

The Electric Light will be wavering, alternately rising and sinking, thus tiring and straining the eyemuscles through constant readjustment.

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Which Light would you have at the same cost? If you are interested in knowing how little it costs to instal the most brilliant, beautiful, coolest, steadiest and most economical of all Lights in home, hotel or store, write us today for figures and facts. Tell us how many rooms you've got or how large your store, and address Union Carbide Co., 158 Michigan Ave., Chicago.

How to Paint
a House Cheap

And Have It Guaranteed to Look Better, Wear
Longer, and Cost Less Than Any Other Paint.

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The Waldorf-Astoria and many of the magnificent hotels in New York City are painted with the world-famous Carrara Paint, and this is also true of many of the famous clubs and public buildings of the great metropolis. Most all of the great railroad, palace car, telephone and electric companies use Carrara Paint in preference to any other, because they proved it best by trial. Field Museum, Chicago, covering over seven acres of ground, is painted with Carrara Paint.

From railroad box car to elegantly furnished general offices of the great railways; from plain brick walls and stone fences to tin roofs and interior finish of stately hotels; from country barn or hay shed or cheap outbuilding to farm residence, suburban home or luxurious city residence, Carrara is used because it lasts longer, does not fade, doesn't crack, blister or peel, and covers more surface than the highest priced paints. It costs less than the cheap mixed paints that injure instead of protect. There is but one Carrara. It is made by the Carrara Paint Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, and anyone having a house to paint should send; for 50 sample colors, free, of this great paint that has stood the most rigid tests for 25 years, and bear in mind that it is the only paint ever manufactured that is backed by a positive guarantee in every case. Write today and save half your paint bills in the future, by filling in this coupon in your name and address on dotted lines below.

FREE OFFER

Cut out this coupon now and mail it to the Carrara Paint Co., 174 Fourth National Bank Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio.

Please send me FREE by return mail, prepaid, 50 Sample Colors and handsome booklet showing many buildings in colors, just as they are painted with this great paint.

Give full address-write plainly.

We absolutely prove to every property owner that Carrara Paint will cost less, look better and wear twice as long as any other paint.

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BRENLIN

Brenlin

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Won't Wrinkle!

Won't "Crack!"
Does Shade!

Compare these three window shades and you will understand why Brenlin is the greatest advance in house-furnishings to-day.

Holland shades wrinkle, let in a glare, don't really shade because they haven't "body" enough. Opaque shades "crack" because they are filled with chalk which breaks as the shades are handled. Brenlin is made without filling of any kind and has a natural body that makes it hang straight and smooth. It won't wrinkle; won't crack; won't

And Brenlin gives just the light you want. It is made in all colors; in cream, ecru, ivory-white, etc., it softens the light to a delightful, mellow glow. With the dark colors, green, etc., you can shut it out entirely.

Leading dealers have Brenlin in all colors. Any But dealer can easily get it for you.

Don't Be Deceived

Look for BRENLIN in the margin when your shades are delivered. Every yard has the name "Brenlin" perfor ated in the edge of the material in small letters like this You can only see it by taking the

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it closely-but be sure it is there. It is your protection
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If your dealer basn't Brenlin write us and we will
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Write today for samples and "The Treatment of
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Chas. W. Breneman & Co.
2049-2059 Reading Road

Cincinnati

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A Miniature Grand Piano

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Not in Twenty Years has there been invented a successful new musical instrument, until the introduction of the Dolceola about one year ago. And its reception has been a hearty one.

Music lovers (which includes nearly the entire human family) wanted something new, something easily understood, easy to play. The Dolceola bas met the demand.

The Dolceola's captivating harmony and original construction give it instant popularity, and the hearty endorsement of musical experts everywhere.

The Dolceola, with its four full octaves, embodies the exquisite tone value of two guitars and two mandolins. Its action, while similar to that of the piano, is quicker and more simple, permitting effects impossible with the larger instrument. Any class of music can be played. Music lovers are delighted with

You must have one.

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The Greatest of all Musical Inventions

Chiclets DUPLEX

FRANK H. FLEER & CO., Inc. 510 No. 24th Street, Philadelphia, U.S. A.

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FREE CATALOGUE

will explain fully the superiority of The Duplex. Don't
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Save all the Dealers' 70% Profits
The Duplex is not sold by dealers or in stores
We are
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the best phonograph made for less than one-third what
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All the Latest Improvements The Duplex is equipped with a mechanical feed that relieves the record of all the destructive work of propelling the reproducer across its surface. The needle point is held in continuous contact with the inner (which is the more accurate) wall of the sound wave groove, thus reproducing more perfectly whatever music was put into the record when it was made.

The Duplex has a device by which the weight of the reproducer upon the record may be regulated to suit the needs of the occasion, thus greatly preserving the life and durability of the records. These are exclusive features of the Duplex and can not be had upon any other make of phonograph. Plays all sizes and makes of disc records. Our Free Catalogue explains everything.

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Dioxogen the Pure

Delightful

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A Hundred Uses

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Nothing else is the same as DIOXOGEN. It bubbles whenever it is cleansing. As a mouth wash DIOXOGEN bubbles into tooth cavities, about the teeth, under folds of the tongue, thoroughly cleansing the whole mouth. As a gargle DIOXOGEN bubbles. When applied to open injuries or non-healing tissues, it bubbles. You don't have to "imagine" that DIOXOGEN is cleansing. You can see it work. You know it is cleansing. Its many uses are explained in "The Third Kind of · Cleanliness' in each package. DIOXOGEN is sold only in sealed original packages, three sizes, 25c, 50c and 75c. It is not a new product. You will find it everywhere.

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Some dealers may offer you something which they say is "the same as" DIOXOGEN. It is not the same. Don't be imposed on. Always ask for DIOXOGEN. Demand the original sealed package bearing the name DIOXOGEN. Imitations of DIOXOGEN have a disagreeable odor, turn rank, spoil, are unpleasant to Imposition taste. It keeps. It is pure. It is harmless. use and sometimes explode. DIOXOGEN has a clean wholesome delightful

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Against

There is Beauty

in every Jar

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"Just a gleam of ivory in
her smile."

Miss Adele Ritchie
One of America's Most
beautiful Artistes, says:

"Zodenta will impart a radiance of dazzling white to the teeth that no other dentifrice can give."

ZODENTA

Is for particular people, for those who care about the little things which add to the appearance of the well groomed

man or woman.:

It is a dentifrice in paste form, different from the ordinary pastes because the ingredients are blended together by intense heat, so that Zodenta is always the

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It dissolves all injurious. deposits which discolor and in time ruin the delfcate enamel, causing de cayed teeth. It prevents the formation of tartar and destroys all poisons and germs, which cause softened and diseased gums.

If your druggist does not keep Zodenta, send us 25 cents for a large (3 oz.) tube postpaid. Your money returned if you don't like it.

Write for Tooth Brush Holder, mailed free. F. F. INGRAM & CO.

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KEENKUTTER

KEEN KUTTER

Men's Friends

Perhaps you've had a knife you wouldn't sell for twice its cost-the old-serviceable-friend kind-the oncein-a-lifetime kind. Then there is the old razor friend-the one that is chosen for a comfortable shave from an assortment of several that were perhaps newly honed. Such friends are

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The finest, strongest blades that could possibly be foundtempered exactly right for a keen, lasting edge-avoiding brittleness but extremely hard.

In construction, every detail is given careful attention, so that springs, joints, rivets, linings and handles will last as long as the almost indestructible blades.

Every knife and razor bearing the Keen Kutter trademark is guaranteed perfect. Sold for nearly 40 years under this mark and motto: "The Recollection of Quality Remains Long After the Price is Forgotten."-E. C. SIMMONS.

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"One Touch of Nature

makes the whole

world kin"

The Japanese are nature lovers and their national flower festivals

are public demonstrations of their
sentiments.

You cannot understand these inter-
esting and progressive people by read-
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Take a Trip to Japan

and study the race on their own ground. The odd customs, beautiful gardens, unique temples and hospitality of the people will be a source of pleasant memories for years to Better go on the next sailing of the

come.

Steamship "Minnesota "

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Largest, most comfortable steamship on the Pacific. lows the mild Japan current, Seattle to the Orient. Write for folder descriptive of trip to any representative of the Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railway, or

Great Northern Steamship Co.

A. L. CRAIG, General Passenger Agent, St. Paul, Minn.

W. C. THORN, Trav. Pass'r Agt., 209 Adams St., Chicago, Ill.
W. A. ROSS, Ass't General Passenger Agent, Seattle, Wash.

BOSTON-201 Washington St. and 207 Old South Bldg.
NEW YORK-319 and 379 Broadway.
PHILADELPHIA-836 and 711 Chestnut St,
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Cook's Printed Linoleum

overcomes the objections urged against ordinary printed lino-
leums. In place of harshness of surface, Cook's has toughness-
making it easier and more comfortable to the tread, superior
in wear-resistance, and more enduring in pattern and colors.
Instead of brittle, Cook's is pliable and not subject to chipping
off or cracking: Advantageous to dealer as well as user-
Cook's is easier to handle in the store, easier to lay on the
floor. Examine Cook's Printed Linoleum side by side with
any other printed linoleum and the difference described will
be readily distinguishable.

In buying either Inlaid or Printed Lino

Cook's Inlaid Linoleum

is strictly modern and sanitary. Made by our up-to-date
process of molding, and not formed in the old inlaid way
of stamping out by dies the various color shapes, then join-
ing the individual pieces on burlap. Cook's Molded Inlaid
1S a continuous texture. end to end, edge to edge. There
is not a joint or seam, depression or weakness in the entire
piece. No place dirt can accumulate. No interstices scrub-
water can enter and rot the linoleum, or disease germs can
lodge and propagate. No part of the pattern in Cook's
Inlaid can ever rise up or be torn off.

leum, look for the name on the back- Cook's Linoleum

Beautiful color book, free Simply write and ask for "Cook's Linoleum Book P."

Complete information on linoleum; including
color plates of the newest patterns; suggestions for hall, library, dining-room, kitchen,
laundry, playroom and chambers; and hints on how to buy.

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