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Standard Oil Company
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Board covers, $1.00
Cloth covers, $1.00
Board covers, 50 cts. Art edition, 75 cts.
Board covers, 25 cts.
Cloth covers, 50 cts.
Pleasant Work with Small Books
By Editor
Board covers, 50 cts.
Fine cloth, 75 cts.
BEGIN NOW TO PLAN to introduce this beautiful line of small books in your neighborhood. The new loose-leaf prospectus perfected late last year was the means of encouraging many to try the work for the first time in their communities, and excellent success and most pleasant experiences followed. Five hundred of the prospectuses were used during the weeks preceding the holidays. The efforts resulted in placing thousands of these good books in the homes of the people.
Cloth covers, 50 cts.
Cloth covers, 75 cts.
THE COVERS and sixteen pages of each book, conveniently grouped in the prospectus, really give you all that is needed to awaken an interest. Each sample carries a printed description of the entire book. The samples may be arranged in any way you like, or a portion may be eliminated.
Last year the campaign opened late, and only a hasty work was done. This year, let us take hold early and plan to work every bit of territory within reach.
$1.00 sent your tract society will bring you the prospectus, when you will be put in touch with your state canvassing agent and receive the necessary helps to make you succeed. The commission on most of these books is 40%.
Address your state tract society or
# Pacific Press Publishing Assn.
Mountain View, California
Portland, Oregon
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Kansas City, Mo.
Year Book of the United States Brewers’ Association
By Editor
"Year Book of the United States Brewers' Association, 1911," containing the proceedings of the fifty-first annual convention, held in Chicago, Illinois, November 19, 20, 1911. Published by the Association in New York City.
We would not notice this book at all, did we not believe that it would be a real help in the hands of temperance workers. It shows to what tremendous power the brewery interest has grown, and the increase of the traffic. This is illustrated by statistical tables, by well-written articles, and by charts and diagrams. The fact that some of the popular patent medicines are shown to have more alcohol in than beer is not a particular argument in favor of beer. It is a tremendous argument, however, in the hands of the true temperance worker, who ought not only to include among his foes whisky, etc., but the liquor-charged patent medicines as well. For instance, American lager beer, according to the diagram, contains 3.8 per cent of alcohol, while "Hop Bitters" contains 12 per cent, and Hostetter's Stomach Bitters 45 per cent, almost equal to brandy, and a larger percentage than is in Scotch and American whisky.
Wanted
By the Paradise Valley Sanitarium Training School for Missionary Nurses, twenty consecrated young men and women who are willing to devote their lives to the Master's service.
This school affords a most thoro and up-to-date training in all departments. Its location is ideal. Its climate is the very best, warm and sunny in winter, and cool in summer. New commodious home for nurses just completed. Class begins October 1, 1912. Write at once for illustrated booklet. Supt. of Training School, Paradise Valley Sanitarium, National City, California.
Mountain Sage Honey
By C. W. Dayton
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C. W. Dayton, Chatsworth, California.
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Books on Hygiene and Social Purity
We have before us four books by Dr. E. B. Lowry, "Herself," "Confidences," "Truths," "False Modesty." All of them pertain to hygiene and social purity. The price of the first named is $1.00; of each of the other three, 50 cents.
"Herself" is talks with women concerning themselves. The book is a straightforward, clearly written, delicately phrased book of instruction to women in regard to the very things that they would most like to know about themselves. The author is himself a practising physician, one that is qualified to speak upon the things of which he writes. There is a full and complete index, which will be helpful.
"Confidences" is placed in the form of talks with the young girl concerning herself, explaining the origin and development of life in language which is intelligent to young girls, and yet delicate and adequate. And it is believed that the knowledge imparted in this way will prevent shipwreck in later years through ignorance, indiscretion, or evil companions. It is a book which ought to be read to the young girl by the loving mother, or one who has an interest in the spiritual welfare of the child.
A companion book to this is "Truths," or talks to the boy concerning himself, and is designed to be for the boy what "Confidences" is to the girl. These books should be placed in the hands of those who need them, but as before remarked, the better way is that they should come into the lives of the children through loving parents, or guardians, or spiritual friends. It will be of real help to the parents themselves to read these instructions on the subject of life with their own children.
The fourth is the condemnation of that "False Modesty" which protects vice by ignorance. The chapters of this book were first written and published in a prominent magazine, as a sequel to the series that first brought the white slave traffic to the attention of the world in general. It is to show fathers and mothers that ignorance often leads to vice, and that if proper and early instruction were given to boys and girls in matters pertaining to his or her sex, they would save at least many of these children from later ruin and corruption. The subject-matter of the volume is discussed under "The Results of Ignorance," "The Virgin's Sacrifice," "The Father's Duty to His Son," "Rural Pitfalls," "Woman's Inhumanity to Woman," "The Homeless Girls," "Teaching the Science of Motherhood," and "The Coming Educational Reform."
These books are published by Forbes & Co., 443 Dearborn St., Chicago, or they may be obtained from the Pacific Press, Mountain View, California.
Jinks’ Inside
"Jinks' Inside," by Harriet Malone Hobson. Price $1.00 net. George W. Jacobs & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia.
It is a very interesting story, told in an interesting way. Jinks is a child of the gutter, tattered, rough, untutored, but has an inside, as he calls it, that compels him to do or not to do certain things, and this "inside" is exceedingly troublesome. He suffers much because of this "inside," and one really sympathizes with the brave little fellow as he tries to follow the teachings of his conscience. Jinks falls in with a big, hearty Irishman, Mr. Flanagan, who loves the boy, having no children of his own, and does all he can to help him, and the real principle of his own life takes hold of the boy's heart,—he confesses his sins, his wrong-doings. All at once he disappears. He has been caught by one of the gangs of robbers of the city, who have tried to use him as their tool. Others have tried to make Mr. Flannagan believe that the boy has failed, but he still has faith in him. The outcome of the story is that after the boy has been fearfully used by the gang of burglars who have tried to impress him into their service, he comes back again, after having been inhumanly beaten and shot, to the home of his friend and protector. The object of the book is to show just what minds and hearts there may be in the gutter after all, and how men with love in their hearts may be able to win those who are in such pitiful surroundings to a life of honor and loyalty. The book is illustrated in color.
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By Editor
(Entered Sept. 15, 1904, as second-class matter at the Mountain View, Cal., post-office, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.)
Editor ............................... Milton C. Wilcox
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