WHAT THE BOY IS MADE OF by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 24, 1910

WHAT THE BOY IS MADE OF

By Editor

H. T. MUSSELMAN discusses in a forceful article in March LIFE and HEALTH some of the vital features of Boyhood. W. H. McKee tells the story of the Byron Center Home. The Hookworm—What It Is, and What It Does; Good News for the “Meat Strikers;” Tuberculosis Infection; How Cottonseed Oil Is Made—These constitute a partial contents of the March number of LIFE AND HEALTH.

Some time ago the editor of LIFE AND HEALTH attended a series of lectures by H. T. Musselman, editor of the YOUTH’S WORLD, and was so deeply impressed with the speaker’s principles that he requested him to contribute a series of articles on “The Boy” to LIFE AND HEALTH. This Mr. Musselman consented to do, and the series is now running, and will continue for the entire year. In the March number Mr. Musselman deals with the subject, “What a Boy Is Made Of,” outlining the elements which go to make up the character of our future generation of men.

This series of articles was introduced in February, but the writer fairly gets launched into his subject in the March issue, and the series promises to be one of unusual importance. Every Seventh-day Adventist parent should make it a point to get this magazine and follow these articles very closely. Mr. Musselman’s closing paragraph this month indicates the trend of his discussion:—

“We have tried to point out the essential elements in the soul of your boy. All these elements are vital, and are nature’s forces for the making of strong men out of real boys. If we take time to understand them and see their combination with other particular elements in each individual boy with whom we work, we shall be able to aid the boy in his unfolding manhood. If not, we shall hinder him rather than help, and only God knows what the end will be. Take time to know what the boy is made of.”

Mr. McKee, superintendent of the Byron Center Home for Girls, tells the story of the founding of this institution in the March LIFE AND HEALTH. None who are interested in the uplifting of the fallen, should fail to get the March LIFE AND HEALTH and read this and other interesting articles which it contains.

Hookworms

You have heard about the hookworm, the little parasite which is as small as a fine needle, but which was big enough to set all of the South a-tremble when it was discovered not many months ago. We have been waiting to have some one who knows tell us about this wonderful little creature. We have such an article in the March number of LIFE AND HEALTH, by Dr. Newton Evans, himself a practitioner in the South and instructor in two medical colleges in the city of Nashville, Tenn. Dr. Evans has made an extensive study into the subject of the hookworm disease, and presented a paper at the recent hookworm conference at Atlanta, Ga. His article deals mainly with the doings of this conference on the hookworm disease.

For Meat Strikers

The vegetarian has plenty of company these days and is not the lonesome individual he has been painted, for there have been vast additions to the ranks of the body which they represent. Vegetarianism is the fashion to-day with great numbers, owing to the celebrated “meat strike.” Down in Cincinnati a few weeks ago, the foreman of the factory was discussing at the table the present high prices of meat. As the discussion grew tense and heated, he carelessly scribbled on a piece of paper a resolution which soon after he had typewritten and circulated throughout his factory, with the result that some scores of people swore off eating meat until the prices should drop. It was like a match applied to dry tinder. From hundreds, the numbers of “meat strikers” quickly grew into thousands. The agitation was rapidly carried from Cincinnati to other cities, and at once the movement spread throughout the country, and to-day there are thousands of “meat strikers” in all parts of United States.

Though the principle which actuates this strike is not food reform, but rather price reform, the situation nevertheless presents an unusual opportunity, and this opportunity has been seized by the Editor of LIFE AND HEALTH to present to the readers an excellent article by Geo. E. Conforth on “Meals Without Meats.” Whether you are a “meat striker” or not, this article can not fail to interest you.

Tuberculosis

The first thing that we want to know about any disease is how to keep from taking it. We have read a great deal about tuberculosis and tuberculosis conventions. The whole country has been stirred up in a general campaign against the horrors of the white plague. The magazines have bristled with articles on tuberculosis, and the articles in turn have bristled with facts, statistics, and percentages. All of these have been to good purpose, but one of the most practical things that have been written, is the article in the March LIFE AND HEALTH by Dr. Achard, of Ravenswood, Chicago, on “The Paths of Tuberculosis Infection.” Dr. Achard’s article is more than usually instructive upon a subject regarding which every one should be thoroughly informed.

Cottonseed Oil

With butter at 40 cents a pound in most of the large cities, and other shortenings at proportionate prices, the housewife to-day has to take as much interest in the subject of shortenings as a banker takes in current financial news. For this reason, we know that few women who receive LIFE AND HEALTH will miss reading Dr. Godsmark’s article on “How Cottonseed Oil Is Made,” in the March number.

The above are only a few of the leading features of this excellent number. There are a great many others of equal interest.

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