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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 23, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 51.

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The Work—and—the Workers

By Editor

“I DO NOT KNOW of any paper I appreciate as much as I do the Youth’s Instructor. I would want it were I seventy-five years old.”
THE Indiana Reporter of November 10 says: “Are any questioning the propriety of giving their influence and help to the temperance work on account of its being associated with the National Reform movement? We recommend that such read ‘Liberty in Prohibition,’ in Liberty for the fourth quarter.”
ONE young lady who has had considerable experience in the periodical work paid her way from the last General Conference to her home in the Central West by selling the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor. In speaking of her experiences she said: “I think it is the best-selling paper I ever worked with.”
HAVE you seen it?—that new tract order list. It’s free; send for it. It contains the titles of many new tracts recently published; just what you want to use in missionary work among your friends and neighbors, also in your correspondence. Get the list, then get the tracts, and by and by get the reward for well-doing.
THE Youth’s Instructor seems to appeal to the fathers and mothers as well as to the children. In fact, the grandfathers and grandmothers demand it. We have many names upon our Instructor list that represent men and women in their seventies, and they assure us that they derive much benefit from the Instructor. The following is from a father: “Our boy is away at school now, and we thought we would drop the Instructor for a season, but we miss it so much that we have concluded to renew the subscription.”
THERE is much in a name, especially in the name of a publication. Oftentimes the mere title of a book sells it. The name Protestant Magazine, so some of our agents say, immediately interests both Catholics and Protestants sufficiently to cause some of them to purchase it without any explanation.
WE do not know whether the following is from a Protestant or a Catholic, but he acknowledges that the magazine aroused his curiosity at first, and finally interested him enough to secure his subscription. He writes: “Gentlemen: The Protestant Magazine came into my hands a few days ago accidentally, and I was curious enough to read it from A to Z. I am enclosing twenty-five cents for the magazine. I suppose this is the first issue. If not, send me the first one, or as many as have been printed; and if the amount I enclose is not sufficient, please let me know. I desire to subscribe for the Protestant Magazine.” Let each reader of these lines subscribe for this magazine for at least one friend.
IN behalf of Christian Education T. L. Copeland cites a good example for all other tract societies to follow. He says: “We have received a sample copy of Christian Education. It certainly is a valuable magazine, giving helpful suggestions for properly educating the youth. We are writing to each family in our conference, asking them to subscribe for the magazine.”
THE January number of Life and Health begins the new year with a feast of good things upon a large variety of social and health topics.
As we examine its contents, we find ourselves questioning the possibility of its editor bettering it, and thereby maintaining the reputation he has justly won through making each number better than the previous issue. It begins with nine short, crisp, and highly instructive editorial comments upon as many of the leading health topics of the day.
The contributed matter of this number is unusually strong, and contains some of the most needed and very practical instruction upon vital social and health topics; such as, The Girl as a Factor in the Social Fabric, by Mrs. W. H. McKee, matron of the Michigan Home for Girls; A Plea to Mothers, by John M. Connolly, A. M., M. D.; The Maintenance of Health by Physical Culture, by Herbert M. Lome; Bread Making—how to properly produce the “staff of life”—by George E. Cornforth; Anemia, or poverty of blood, by D. H. Kress, M. D.; and Pellagra, or corn-meal disease, by O. C. Godsmark, D. D. S., M. D.
The Current Comment department is filled with such timely topics as: The Effect of Tobacco; The Cause of Leprosy; Rabies Due to Indifference; Make a Business of Getting Well—of tuberculosis; Home Treatment of Scarlet Fever; Roller Skating; and Bovine Tuberculosis.
The abstracts made from various articles written for the profession, deal principally with the important topics, the Alcohol Question from Various Standpoints, and Starch Digestion in Babies.
The Editorial department deals with, Coal-Tar Remedies, The Tropics and Health, and Scarlet Fever Infection.
The thirty-four news notes on current health topics, published in the January number are, in and of themselves, worth more to any adult than the price of the magazine. Being short, they present in condensed form facts upon such important questions as, Evils of Poor Ventilation; Pure Food Law Enforcement; Adulteration of Olive Oil; Ill Health and Poverty; Instruction in the Care of Babies; Scarlet Fever From Udder Disease; Communicable Diseases in Rural Schools; A Movement to Abate Tenement Evils; Contributing Causes of Pellagra; Amebic Dysentery Gaining a Foothold; Hospitals Using Less Drugs; Typhoid Epidemic Traced to Milk; Early Treatment of Insanity; Camphor in Pneumonia.
The January number of Life and Health, in general information and practical application, sets a high standard for its succeeding issues during the year 1910, but the outline for—

The February Number

reveals an apparent possibility of possessing an excellence not yet attained in any previous issue. In that number will be the beginning of a series of articles on “The Boy”—his life and needs. All who have to deal with the “Boy Puzzle,” and who have been at a loss to know what to do with “That Boy of Mine,” and who desire to have the best condensed suggestions obtainable upon “The Boy Problem,” may find much in these articles that they would not exchange for many times the price of Life and Health during the entire coming year.

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OUR Liberty agents, who are so faithfully circulating this magazine, may be sure of favorable results following their efforts. The following, from J. B. Wright, is an illustration: “Dear Sirs: You will find enclosed 25 cents for one subscription for the magazine of religious freedom—Liberty. I purchased a copy from a lady. I heartily approve of every sentence, and I wish to do what I can to advertise and assist the magazine and the great principles it contains. They should be brought to every American citizen’s attention. Will you give me some information in regard to your prices? I may be able to get several subscribers for you.”
THE following from Mrs. C. G. Bunnell illustrates how Life and Health is meeting favor wherever it goes: “Enclosed please find a money-order for $1 for one year’s subscription to Life and Health. Have taken this magazine one year, and feel that I can not get along without it. I am going to take subscriptions for it as soon as I can, and God bless the health reform movement.”