Hammock-spreader. Price 35 cents a pair; for 50 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 25 cents.
A hammock is twice as good with a spreader.
There is an outside door-mat so good that every civilized door where muddy feet have to come—there are thousands of such—will have it sooner or later. And one is enough; for it lasts forever.
There is nothing else a tenth so good. It almost keeps itself clean. A jar dislodges the worst and thickest of mud.
The Hartman steel-wire mat. An open springy texture of wire to scrape on—galvanized spring-steel wire—no rust, no wear—like a wire mattress but thicker and closer. You scrape on it, step on it, stamp on it, tramp on it fearlessly. The stickiest mud becomes innocent dust underneath and is swept away next morning. A pretty full account of it sent on request.
The price of the mat is $4, more or less according to size. The $4 size is a good one, 22x30 inches. You earn it by getting $4.50 in new subscriptions. To save express we send it from the manufacturer’s nearest office nearest to you.
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The makers are doing their best to supply the quick demand from the cities. They would be overwhelmed if the country were equally ready. But where is a perfect mat most useful, where there are pavements or no pavements?
Postage-stamp holder inside your pocket-book. Price 15 cents; for 20 cents in new subscriptions.
Nickel; the picture shows it open inside a pocket-book. Handy out of all proportions to its cost.
Bissell Carpet-sweeper. Price $3; for $3.25 in new subscriptions.
Not a housewife rich enough to own a carpet would do without a sweeper if she knew how great relief a good one brings on sweeping and dusting day.
It sweeps cleaner than a broom and easier, makes no dust, and does nine-tenths of the work, leaving only an inch or two along the sides of a room and little corners—these must be swept with a broom—and it drops the dust with a touch on a spring as shown in the picture. That band around the sweeper is a rubber cushion to keep it from bruising furniture.
Three-fourths of all the carpet-sweepers in the world are made by one factory, the Bissell Carpet-Sweeper Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Of course they make good ones. The fact is, they control the really useful inventions and nobody else is allowed to make good sweepers at all. But their prices are fair.