in last number of

#New Occasions#

A magazine of Reform; 96 pages; $1.00
a year; 10 cents a copy. No free samples,
but to any one sending us 6 2-cent
stamps we will mail a sample copy with
several reform books; over 300 pages
in all. Agents wanted.

Charles H. Kerr & Company, Publishers,
56 Fifth Ave., Chicago.

Buy Only the Best Presents for Children.
THE FINEST BLACKBOARD MADE.

IMPROVED
[Illustration]

Indispensable as an element for the general
education of the children. This is not a toy,
but an Educator for the home. Contains Sixteen
Lessons on heavy cardboard, Writing, Drawing,
Marking-letters, Music, Animal Forms, etc.
Frame made of oak, 4 feet high and 2 feet wide.
The Board is reversible and can be used on both
sides. Has a desk attachment for writing. Weighs
10 pounds, packed for shipment.

#Price $3.50# Agents Wanted.
Send for Agents Prices.

THE VAN-BENSON COMPANY,
84 Adams Street, CHICAGO, U.S.A.

The "OLD Reliable" House of
#"ANDREWS"#
FURNISHES
Everything
for Schools

Rugby School Desks, Teachers' Desks and Chairs,
Blackboards, Erasers, Dustless Crayons, Globes,
Maps, Charts, Apparatus, etc., etc.

#The Jones Model of the Earth# shows the
reliefs of the land surface and ocean bed, 20
inches diameter. Used by the Royal Geographical
Society, Cornell University. Normal, and other
schools of various forms and grades.

#The Deep Sea Globe.# This new 12 in. globe
shows all that is seen on the common globe, but
in addition the varying depths of the ocean bed,
by color shading, also 500 soundings by figures.

#The A. H. Andrews Co.#
CHICAGO.

(Next Auditorium) 300 WABASH AVE.

Also Manufactures Office, Church and
Bank Furniture.

Please mention "BIRDS" when you write to Advertisers.

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LITTLE BOY BLUE.

Boys and girls, don't you think that is a pretty name? I came from the
warm south, where I went last winter, to tell you that Springtime is
nearly here.

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