MAKING HOME CHEERFUL. FRE | AN EASY WAY OF PROVIDING AMUSEMENT FOR YOUNG AXD OLD, | Fun and Entertainment for All-A | Concert or Minstrel Show at Your) Own Fireside. The editor of this magazine has | frequently urged his readers to do all | they can towards making the home | as cheerful possible for all the family. Now I want to teil you how you ~.can cheer and brighten your bowe lu a simply wonderful way, Read what Thomas A. Edison the world's greatest inventor “the wizard of the 20th Century” has “1 want to see a phonograph every American home.” If you have never had a genuine phonograph in your home you can- not imagime what a wouderful pleas- ure it wilk be to you. “What pieces can I hear on a phono- graph?’ sowe may ask Well, you can hear almost anything, There are 1500 genuine Edison gold moulded records and you can have your cholee of these. Suppose you get some vaudeville records reproducing to absolute per fection the greatest comlie artists, Then take some band music, Sonsa's Marches, Waltzes by Strauss, soul stirring lively music; then grand opera concert pieces as well as the finest vocal solos; also comic songs, ragtime, dialogs, ecomie recitations, piano, organ, violin, banjo and o* fnstrumental music; all kinds of sacred music, duets, quartettes, full choruses. | The Edison records are perfect— absolutely natural--and unlike the In- ferior though higher priced records of | others the Edison records never be- come rasping and seratchy. The smooth, round sapphire point of the Hdison Reproducer does not | require changin it does not wear [ft self or the record 'with which it comes in contact. Consequently, Edison Gold Moulded Records lust for years. This is a feature that merits the ost care ful attention of the prospective pur- chaser, Possibly as in you have heard “talking machines” and have not eared much for them, but remember that there are machines that reproduce only sound and noise; the sweetness, and the perfect expression for which you | prize music are reproduced only by the | modern Edison Phonograph and Edison Gold Moulded Records, These ] distinguish tip Edison Phono quaiitie graph from all its imitations. y h 4 the| » mn every Contralto Solo—-Migs Corrine Morgan, 8439 Intermezzo from “Cavalleria cana '=Edison Orrhestra, 8304 Violets, Transcription— Piano Albert Henzler. 8066 The Shade of The Solo=Frank C. Stanley, 7456 Ther You'll Remember Chas. 1)’ Almaine. wg Anvil Chorus, Milivary Band. A Sunday Concert. 8854 Ring The Rells of Heaven—=Chimes 30 Hallelujah Chorus rom = “Messiah' = Rusti Solo w= Palms~DBaritone Mews V iol ifm “II Trovatore"==FEdigon and Gloria Patri—=Men- elle Miracles Attila" ~=Metropolitan *Stabat Mater” Quartets Male (Juar J nd Har. risor 8422 Refuge—Mendelssohn Mixed Quartette, Or if you like dancing youn can ar- range a dance in your home or In any hall; for the Edison phonograph is loud enough. Furthermore with thé Edison plono- graph you can make your own records reproducing to perfection your own voldes and the voices of your friends and children. These records yon ean keep for years and years, having the voices of the absent ones always with you, If you do not own an Edison, you do not know what you have missed; if you have never heard one entertain, you do not kuow what a treat awaits you. FREE to ail owners of plicnographs who state sfyle and number of thelr machine, we will send free prepaid, copy of the Bdison Phonogrmm Month. ly (subseription price 20 cents) telling you how to make your machine play better, how to ofl It. how to make your own records, ete, Many valmable pointers free We also exchange genuine Ed phionographs “for old talking machines, on OLD MAINE ROW YOUNG. (Continued from Preceeding Page.) in mind in almost every instance, re- lying upon the “back-haul” for their profit. The farmers as well ag the paper: mill workers and others in moderate circumstances are intelligent, thrifty people; wgny of them owning and occupying thelr homes which are mod- elg of their kind, At Rumford Falls, above referred to, almost an ideal con- dition: exists, according to a writer ty pe NEN) a ON EE — Aa i der this arrangement every man has & personal interest in keeping the tax rate of the town down to the low- est possible figure and also in taking the best care of his premises. But one man Is responsible for this beautiful city which is situated upon an island in the Androscoggin River, and he owns almost the entire busie ness section of town, less than twenty years ago Hugh J. Chisholm saw the {mmense possibilities of Maine, and although without money at that time, he managed to interest the LAN. fn the Review of Reviews. Beautiful winding streets have been Jaid out and attractive cottages with splendid lawns and shade trees erected for the paper-mill employees. These cottages are rented for an amount that little more than pays taxes, interest and a charge for maintenance, and should the amount pald more than meet these re- quirements the surphes is retupned to the tenant at the end of the year. Un- HAULING A BIG FELLOW TO THE MILL people of means and built the great paper mills of Rumford Falls. The Falls at this point are ten fect higher than those of Niagara and, as has been sald, develop a magnificent amount of power. Mr. Chisholm cer tainly made no miscalculation when he selected this place as a spot es pecially adapted for the purposes of paper-making The city contains splendid hotels, our family and visitors, if you want to make your ome more cheer- ful, BESURE to read every word of this reat offer! Hove fs Me, Bat. son's signature widely on will find Songs and band pieces and danoe music to fll the air, earrying she sound over and lake. Don't you want a phonograph to enliven your picnics this summer? - This wonderful! instrumenf, we think, is far better than a plano or gh costing only one-fourth ne-eighth ns much wr it gives yon less variety, It always plays per etly and anybody ean play it. { With an Edison phonograph in your | home you can arrange concert at | any time with just such a programme | as brings £1 and £2 a seat in the f a big city. Lhotises O03 Wing are some opera Fol imen grammes for entertainments, hundreds of others may be made up from the catalogue that Mr. Babson will send you free oun request: wpe pro- A Minstrel Entertainment, 612 Uncle Sammy—March—Fdison 4 Dance we rrtro. ] IPA TNE ee . pod Jagan 1 Dear Old Girle<Tenor SoloMac- ‘Unele ra Georgia Minstrels<Introduc Je Edison g§ Drean joke and Minstrels 18 Characteristic kL artette S060 My bar Bg16 ler *332 Kat} 8126 Feb Minstrels An Evening Concert. i 57 Overture To Willi — | Con- ce) Paes o William Tell--Edison R129 Roosevelt's * Rough 1 Edison Military Band. ue Rider 1574 Sing Again That Sweet RefraineTenor : Barry MaeDonough. 0 Selection from the Chi 1 - moon" «Peerless Orchestra. nese Pony 7948 Little Darling, Dream Of Me—Edison Male Quartette 7281 Polonaise PBrilliantClarinet William Tuson 7724 Barn Dance from “Florodora” Orchestra, gotg Good Night, Beloved, Fdison Male Quartette 8751 Without Your Love, Ah, Let Me Die m Negro Medley Je | Little Dinah Lee—Barit accompaniment-RBob Roberts Bellis Solo—"'Beaumarie” Albert Benz. N00, leen Mavourneen—Male Quartette, wes of Minstrelsy— Edison Modern Marche 8 S0lo w= Peerless Good Night «= Cut off This Coupon NOW! You will readily see how this Pree Trial Offer is crowding the Edison factory where 6.000 Edison Phonographs are now made ©. every week, and If you want prompt shipment, % in case you s 2 write (or free EQ. Ka - son chtalags today. | NG " Coupon Gustavus Babson Mgr. Edison PhonographDistrs, 149-159 Michigan Ave, Oept. 456 6G Chicage, Ii, Without any obligations to me pleas send me your mplete oatalog of Pdison Gem, Edison Standard, ison ome and Bdison ph rapha, {=on circulars of New Special Kd Unt Nts and Complete of gold moulded records, all free, prepa While this Offer lasts cvery responsible, reliable person can get on free trial a genuine Edison Phonograph Outfit, including 12 Edison genuine gold-moulded records, direct from us to your home: posi/st no bother with C, O. D.—no formality of any kind. your home; and in rural districts up to a week if necessary for convenience of patrons. Try the fnstrument at your home, Nay the stirring waltzes, the two-steps, concert sous music, beawtifnl vocal Flay all these Pieces, minstrel dialors, old-fa solog, operatic times what we ask. Read what the A hioned hymns and oti airs and other beantiful Edison gold-movwlded records, and if thea you do not care to keep this wonderful Edison outfit, send the instrument back at our expemse — and we will charge you absolutely nothing for the trial, We make this remarkably liberal offer to all responsible, reliable parties because we know that after trial hardly anybody ever returns an Edison outfit, superiority of the gennine Edison, particularly our mew special Edisqp outfits, over ordinary talking machines; you and your family and everybody that calls at your house will be more than pleased ~~ constantly amused and entertained and you would not part with the instrument if it cost twice or three ditor of this paper says in first column of this page. Mr. Edison “I want to see a Phonograph American home.” The Phonograph is Mr. Edison's pet and hobby. invented hundreds of other wonderful patents he has retained his inter est only in the Phonograph Company, of which he owns practically every share of stock. Mr. Edison knows of the wonderful pleasure bis instrument has provided and is providing in thousands of homes. HERE IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY! If you love music, if you like to entertain Though he has i ay FY al rrea ly not a cent in advance—no deposit We allow 48 hours’ free trial at When trying it you will ses at once the vast YS. ~ : READ, WHAT OTHERS ‘SAY ) Here are just a few of the hune dreds of letters constantly reaches ag os from those who have accepted the Free Trial Ofter— just a few letters to show how satisfied, bow avthusiastic the people are when they get the Ldison Phonogrash on free trial. Find enclosed my first payment on raph. Avept py many tha and highest appreciation for ye wonderful machi oe, ¥ to the lstter of you Orn PR ees In Aelfverir 0 every partion iar J eha answering sll letters ae 4 Your Inston ments EB Baie, Webater Oroves, Ma 1 reasived the Plison Phonograph ordered a ghort Sime ago, and will say 12 Je more than setistact ry in every way, | am a farmer, and It some good 10 hear such good music and pong after a hard day» work ls ended. 1 think we shoud oii thant Mr. Kwon for the great pleasure his masiosd Music ¢ for : Your = Home! Entertainment for the old and the young! No end of pleasure for all the fame fix! An Ellison Phonograph means endless variety: It is far better than a plano or an or pa and every. y ean play It perfectly, on cannot how much pleas ure you will ges from an pide hb raph une 11 you Dave tried the Instrument in your home. wondor ords ue E A. Pie, Rowe, Mas, 1 have tried the Standard Edison Phonograph and it lea “dandy By fatherdiniaw has another well kncen make of talking machine out. AL, and a rather expensive one, bon, but since be heard my Edison machine be won't Play his machine 41 all James W. kine, Bedford, lad. OF all the other talking machines we hive Jnrd Way we think » triad yours beet. John Kent, $2.00 including one dozen genuine Edison gold-moulded records. Er larger outfits. The great Edison Outfit No. 5 for only $3.50 a month! This Easy-Payment Offer places a genuine Edison known as the luxury of the rich — wand because we charge only the lowest net cash prices without even inlevest on monthly payments, thé rich are also taking advan tage of this modern method of saving and are bu Edison instruments on the EASY-PAY MENT PLAN. CUT OFF THIS COUPON NOW! order, dud son cat advance—Free Trial— 00 deposit! Clip the coupon mow and mail it today. — GUSTAVUS BABSON, Mgr., Edison Phonograph Distrs. | upward Phonograph — lon within the reach of ever pt shipment in case T ONCE for the free ~fi0 money in To assure Now Pays For a Genuine Edison Phonograph Datfit $3.00 a month and Your Phohagraph shoud he found in every home, | would not think of belong without my ma line sow | have tried It Hans ( . Variand, No Discount for again to sa count, for the lowest Dot oan throughout the country are hibited from selling genuine patrons will cannot agord B80 many ohasers are taking ad or aes por. vantage of this - tunity to secure direct the finest Faison outfits that wo are often asked what di we oan allow for onah. Wa are, that we can give no foes In our gata) prices establish Edison himself, and as the retail d tively pros ison Phono. catalog prices, our wiles that we violate this rule. bg 3 ~ 3 Re an “oy a y 5 "ere BJ. Carver, Rpring Lake, X, ¥. The No. 8 Outfit recetved In ae are the by Mr, dealers Dept. 4560 149-150 Michigan Ave., CHICAGO, ILL, WE le Tha Rlktor of fia paper pannel foo Ap of Rr BE ”~ banks and publie bufldings, Many of the persons employed in the city re side in the “suburbs” which are reach- ed by means of bridges. Were it not for the fact that Rum- ford Falls is an uptodate busy, bust ling place with all the life and activ ity of a western boom-town, one could almost Imagine himself in Ven- Tee, From your hotel window you may look down upon the river and canal with great quantities of logs floating down to be devoured by the mills and later to be sent out in the form of news The elity tants Di ‘ papers, ahont al vond contains and almost be avaliable | taken but doubt new tions will he opened be connected by bridges space fie constantly i trects ———— New Golf Rale. Deanig O'Flannignn was nlong ft rond b i¢ { If lin} he suddenly shoulders b of the blow nln When he re golfer ranning “Are yon “Why didn't “An' way?" walking whens hetweon the The foree ked him do wine ost knot vii. 4 covered he obsereved toward | hart 7 the player, You get out of the way?” why should 1 get out of the asked Dennis, “I didn't know there were any bloody assassins round here.” “Dut 1 ealled ‘fore'™ said the player, “and when I say ‘fore’ that is a sign for you to get out of the wav.” “Oh, it Is, is it? sald Dennis. “Well thin, whin I say ‘foive, it is a sien that you are goigg 0 get hit on the nose. ‘Foive.™ AFRICAN PYGMIES. LONDON INSPECTS SIX INDIVIDUALS FROM THE CON- 60 COUNTRY, 1sked Men Average Four Feet Six, and Women About Four Feet in Height- Without Reiigion, Go Naked and have Peculiar Customs. } | London town fs very much interest. ed In six small human beings who nave recently arrived from Africa { Colonel Harrison, an officer in the | British Army, bas brought with him | from the Ituri forests of the Belgium | Congos a half dozen pyemies Colonel Harrison went last year into the Ituri forest, also known as { Stanley forest, hoping to capture one | or more okapis. This part of his ex- | pedition was a failure. On the other hand, he succoeded In Mviag four months amid the pvgmies and per mea and two women of suaded four {the tribe to accompany him to Europe T™ OH le ng journey } as } Pe six dwarfs on ascomp in tha jes Colonel legos were de iater at Calro in English INE carnest- / . n. The ex- rer was obliged to prove to the British Covernment that the dwarfs were with him voluntarily. The six pygmies wore of course duly measured by the English anthropolo gists on thelr arrival in London. Their mean height was 4 feet 6 Inches for men and 4 feet 1 finch for women. The Congo Pygmics are very strong and also brave without being gener y aggressive, although Colonel Har son reports that last winter, during is stay in the forest of Ituri, a party face ceria : } f pyemies attacked a Belgian cara an, killing sever and ring the goods. They are ads, having neither fields nor houses i fruits limited | which an carriers and live only on gathé and wil heir housel 1 utensils to a few « : | they cook game without ta) the trouble to skin it. They eat skin as well as the meat, even breaking the bones with their teeth are in ing the Are Sons of Nature. They walk {clothed. Only among ti {live on the confines of the forest { have relations with the greater stat do the women girdle of leaves, Both the men and women s! head partially; some cut straight paths across their = hair; ot} ireas with birds’ feathers r squirrel tails qu They have absolutely no relig! stincls and in ne God nor devil, They generally practice polyg amy. As with the Chinese, the birth of*a girl Is regarded as a calamity Strangely enough, the young mothers sometimes steal the new-born children of the neighboring tribes of normal stature, leaving their own babes in exchange, Last of a Great Race. “The Pygmies do not live to a great age,” said Col. Harrison. “Life is hard in the somber Congo forests; nature is a pitiless task-master Lo this rempant of the race that once peopled the greater part of Africa. The rain that falls in torrents for eight months transforms the ground into a marsh It may be added that the pygmies about compietely un- tribes that and of wear a NEETOes ure, ave the 00ly 1TH it LR ous in- believe appear to have the gift of language to an Incredible degree, that they excel in the art of extracting iron from the ore, of forging it, and of making arrow- heads of it without other tools than round stones, " San PII —— Electricity to be Cheaper. An invention of the greatest im- portance, which will effect a revolution in the industrial world, has been made by a Roman electrician, Adolph Tome, who has snceseded 1h solving the prob lem of storing electrical energy. His Invention will make it possible to transmit an electric current with a lost of a Nttle less than 2 per cent. no matter how great the distance, It will be possible, for Instance, tO supply heat, light and power for all purposes to the eity of Paris with electricity generated by the waterfils of Switerland at a price shat evil] drive all the present electric companies out of business, An American syrdimte js sald to have offered the inven $1,000,000 for the American patent, but the offer has not been prev 7000 {Bhab- | ana’ SMALL | | above it BO- | 11 t el { utes, | ne feels are remarkably intelligent, that they | IN ICY GREENLAND SH ss— — Boyhood Customs in the Cold North A Good Hunter at 8ix Years of Age. Truly it fares strangely with the: "Hitle man,” far beyond the bounda- ries of Uncle Bam's own laud, So strangely, indeed, that he i really a Hitle man years before the Americ mothers “lit an « Las devel sped i ! ’ into her “big Just ther bad pl bird darts and Busienance of the faunil For next five with a cunning brea no one the KNows how many zen ers crept noiselessly upon small birds bringing them down with stones | he tired of plying his darta His {in this direction grew go wonderful that his little hands goon learned te throw unerringly his diminutive har. poon at birds swimming in the inlets or into the black bodies of seals {towed by his father, coming home in | his kalak from the bunting fields of the sea. The Littie Eskimo Man. The boy ‘Is now eleven years ald. For two years he has spent a large past of his time playing kalak-man ig his fath- er's kalsk. Now his father, having proudly watched his son Eradually gain a good working knowledge of the boat | bas decided to have a kaiak bulit for the boy. 50 the father takes his son to the shore ani they walk along it for a | distance of several! miles, gathering drift wood, the boy meanwhile being in- | structs | of selecting the | proper kind of material for the frame jo a kalak That after ier whe d in 1} a vt i$ Al ae a noon, with the little mas , ) ping hand now and be Dig man puts {the boat right | BE morning the 1 | friend cuattering EaLly over a fine seal skin mad | pliable much Qiligent chewing on { the moth rt As they stret they sew |t last stitel | everywhere: th | detail. | The father is he shows it | fee to all t then, together the ribs of and early the follow oy & mother and her skin | o kalak perfeet in ev mightily pleased passing around we Who have work cal tehild able din over i : his boots trouser exposed is L By this he father Las in their respective positions kaiak biadd« ed oun 10s harpoon harpoon line, kalak knife, bladder iart, birddart, throwingsticking harpoon. The boy lays hold of the kaiak, and with a lusty shout hauls it to the water's edge. He thrusts his legs in the round hole in the middle, meant for the purpose. He finds, as should be the case, that the opening is just the circumference of Lis thighs. In a ify be fastens the bottom wholejacket to the kalak ring the rim of¥ihe hole and raised in Jance He makes a quick mo : ded paddle Al VOyage in with far } Value of His Training. Rough is 1 4 man attics waves fo ri unex pecledly 5 ing then he : lhe Bea Kalak ollom side up and hanging head downward in | trough of stant the the boy | the water ite But the man has not played about his father's kalak in vain. As the boat capsizing he seizes | one end of his paddie in his right band {and with the left, he grasps the shaft jas near the middie as his short arms will let him. As he holds his breath |for démr life, he places the paddle ng the kalak's side, with the pad- ile's free end pointing toward the bow Pushing this end sharply out to tbs tide and bending his body well for ward toward the inverted deck, he | makes a strong, circular sweep of the paddle-—~and presto: here he is again right side up and with not a drop of water in his kaiak or beneath his skin clothing. For this dry condition he has to thank the chap who long ago con- ceived the idea of fastening the bottom of the wholejacket to & kalak ring, and to his mother for lovingly making his seagoing garments waterproof. Twice more, before he points his craft, built somewhat like a scull, not {a whit broader, and even more diffi cult to keep afloat in the rough water, toward the watchers on the shore, he goes under, but rights himself each time in a moment. Te lands expertly, unfastens his wholejacket, lifts him- self proudly out of his boat, and, shak- ing himself like a puppy, runs gaily toward his father and mother, “In a short while,” says the father proudly, “thou wilt be able to right thyself with nothing except thy tongue «thy hands, thy lance, anything, if thou shouldest lose thy paddie.” The boy's eves brighten wonderfully at the words of great praise. Two days later they are even brighter, ag he [paddles away with his father to the hunting grounds of the seal far out on the dark sed. Life har now begun in éarneat Sr him. He lz a litle oan from Dow on li Cogent Reasoning. Teacher—*“Now a monologue is # recitation In which one person takes part; a dalogue Ia one where two persons take part, Can anyone give another example? Bright bar—"T've got one. A oat aloppe ig where a eat goes in for a night serenade, with other oat”. “vhile you're tryin’ to sleep.
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