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THE HOUSE WE LIVE IN

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Apr 25, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 17.

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"THE HOUSE WE LIVE IN."

By Editor

OUR CHILDREN! What more important subject presses upon the heart of the parent than the welfare of his offspring—the best and highest good of the children God has given him? Stocks and bonds and lands and mortgages sink into insignificance compared to the true parent's interest in his children. Yet how often are they forgotten, or, rather, not truly remembered!
We will inquire: What is the best food for a colt? What is the best way to train him? Under what circumstances will he best develop? Yet, as regards our children, we give these matters little thought. We are content to follow custom; and our children sicken and die. Oftentimes we feed the body and let the mind and heart hunger. We pamper the physical and starve the mental and spiritual, leaving these to the teachers, public libraries, and chance books—nearly always hurtful works of fiction. Sometimes we do not know what books to get for our children.
There are many good ones, but we feel that we do parents of small children a benefit when we recommend another—helpful to the physical, mental, and moral child. Its title is "THE HOUSE WE LIVE IN," by Vesta J. Farnsworth, of Australia, formerly on the staff of Our Little Friend.
By the old-fashioned, Biblical, beautiful illustration of the house, the wonders, uses, functions, etc., of the human body, in all its various parts, are interestingly and instructively set forth. The plan of the book is conversational—a mother talking with her children. It is a book for home reading, for the "children's hour," and will prove of great assistance to mothers in teaching children how to care for themselves physically and to avoid the evil effects of narcotics and stimulants. Its 26 chapters are nicely illustrated with nearly 150 pen drawings. Neat cloth cover, printed in blue and red; 218 pages. Price, 75 cents. Address Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.