Life and Health

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 5, 1908

The Good Cheer, or Don’t Worry Number

A VERY appropriate number at this season, when so many persons think “the melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year.”

The two leading themes this month are joy and peace for the adult, and proper play for the child. Dr. A. B. Sperry’s article, “Fear as a Cause of Disease; and Faith as a Therapeutic Agent,” shows how a hopeful, trusting spirit tends wonderfully to maintain health. The leading article on the question of play, by Henry S. Curtis, the secretary of the Playground Association of America, gives an account of the opening of playgrounds in the various cities of America, and points out the good results that have already come from them.

Under this heading a double page, illustrated parable graphically presents in verse the folly of spending vast sums of money to alleviate the suffering caused by intemperance, while nothing is done to prevent the trouble at its source—the saloon.

is begun in this number by George E. Cornforth. In a fascinating manner are presented some of the principles of healthful cookery as related to the vital processes of digestion. Plain instruction is given for cooking starchy foods of several common varieties in a manner to produce uncommon results.

Helpful instruction in the management of the home is given in the department for mothers. “It is such a nice thing to deal with human minds, to mold and not mar, that we need to study and pray much, and guard against overdoing as carefully as underdoing our work.”

It contains much of importance on such questions as Mussels and Typhoid Fever; The Cigarette Habit Increasing; School Hygiene; Tuberculosis From Cattle; New and Dangerous Form of Stimulation; Art and Phonograph Used for Instruction in the Prevention of Tuberculosis; Food Preservatives, etc.

One agent in Massachusetts writes: “In four hours I sold the fifty copies of Life and Health you sent me.”

Another from Georgia writes, after selling 500 copies of the October issue, and ordering 300 more: “I have no big thing to write, but the work with the periodicals is going forward.”

A young lady handling Life and Health in Minnesota, in thirty-two hours sold 305 copies. This shows what may be done by persons who put energy into this work.

The largest order of the October number, for one individual to sell, was 1750 copies.

Single copy, 10 cents; 2 to 25 copies, 5 cents a copy; 25 to 500 copies, 4 cents a copy. Special rates on orders of 500 or more copies. The regular subscription price is 75 cents. Ten or more copies, one year, to one address, one order, 45 cents a copy. Foreign subscriptions, including Canada, $1 a year.

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