Editorials

A wellspring of joy in every house is this admirable periodical. "Do you take it for your children?" is our inquiry of friends from Kansas.

This is the title of a book of 222 pages, by Henry Wood. The body of it is excellently printed and well punctuated.

Some months ago Miss Phelps published, in a monthly, a pathetic story. Jack is a sailor.

Why do some contributors persistently write on two sides of a sheet, instead of one? Why do they use the short and (&) instead of spelling the word out properly? Why do they contract yours into yrs, and month into mo and Jesus Christ into J Xt ? These abbreviations are all very well in private correspondence, where cd, wd, shd, wh, weh, can be understood as standing for could, would, should, with, which, and your friend can jump at your meaning; but when you write for the press, your manuscript should indicate precisely what you wish to appear in print. Spell your words correctly.

How they come all at once, these holidays. Birds of a feather flock together.

A very interesting class of about thirty members, among whom were the students of thirteen Normal Class graduates, entered the Normal Course of instruction at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, October 3. To show the interest there is in Christian Science all over our land, and the people's appreciation of the correct instructions given by the Discoverer and Founder of this system, of Mind-healing, it may be mentioned that the members of this class were from the following States: Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Georgia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Colorado.

Under this head Mrs. J.

This is the title of a charming book, written by Mrs. Sophie M.

Her many friends and students will be glad to know that Rev. Mary B.

In The Housekeeper, a well-read sheet, published at Lacquiparle, Minnesota, is an article, entitled Some Mind-cure Notes, but encroaching upon Christian Science, brightly written but not always accurate,—at least so far as New England is concerned. It affirms that all the healers and healed are women.