The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-28
THE MAGAZINES

Story Of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy
The first installment of McCIure's Mao
azine's promised story Of the life of Mrs
Mary Baker g. Eddy and of the Chris
tian Science church appears in the Jan
| uary McClure's. It is almost needless to
say it is interesting reading. If criti-
cism is to be made it is that the story
does not go sufficiently into detail. This
one 1nstallment covers the first forty
years Of Mrs. Eddys life, which mani
testify does not give the author oppor-
tunity to discuss many things the reader
would like to know about. For example,
there is mentioned a quarrel between Mrs
Eddy, then Mrs. Glover, and her sister
Mrs. Ttlton, which resulted in Mrs.
Glover's leaving her sisters home; but
no reason for the quarrel is given. How
ever, the author sheds much light on
Mrs. Eddy's early career which the nom
Christian Scientist is glad to have placed
at his disposal, and succeeding chapters
will be awaited with eagerness.
In the same number Of McClures, Bur-
ton j. sHendrick writes Of 1.-THE Great
Jewish Invasion" in which he says that
at the present rate New York In ten
years will have a Jewish population of
million and a half. The. magazine also
offers an unusual amount of unusually
| good fiction. 4
The Small Town Versus the City
William Allen White In The American
Magazine for January gives a. look at
the differences and the similarities be-.
tween city and small town life from a
somewhat unusual angle. He contrasts
and compares New York and Emporia,
Kan, his home town, with it's scant
10000 INHABITANTS, and the conclusions
are by no means all in favor Of New
York. He says:
1t is curious thing about human nature that
two in a building twenty -fve-foot lot
they are impeled to hold one another at arm's
length; but when they live as we live here in
Emporia, every family on Its ftty-foot lot
they feel the need of drawing one another
together. And SO no one ever starves to death
in Enporia even tho we have more food to
give than New Workers.; but we have what is
more essential than food in the human partner
sh1p-we have strong social sympathy.
In that IS something that the young
man in the country with a strong desire
to get into the city would do well to re-
member. There Is something more in
this world than making q living; It is
making a life and social sympathy is a
good ingredient in making the latter.
In the same magazine Miss TarbelI
continues her history Of the tariff, which
grows In interest and value: F. Marion
Crawford begins a new serial which
promises much; Washington GLADDEN.
writes Of the negro crisis, and Ray Stan
nard Baker tells of a visit to the Theo-
sophical institution at Point Iona. Cal.
Rubber from Wheat.-Wheat and hogs.
hitherto regarded by the farmer Of the
Mississippi valley simply as food prod
ucts, have assumed new CONNER
cial Importance. In brief, wheat and
hog spittle will produce rubber. In
an article entitled Rubber Made
from Wheat" William T. Walsh,
writing in reference to this mat
ter in the Technical World Maqazlne
for January, says: '"The Importance of
the discovery can scarcely be overesti-
mated, coming as it does at time when
the world is anxfously asking from where
its future supplies Of rubber are to come.
1T was by accident that Mr.. Carr, the
English inventor or discoverer Of the
substance, made the first step in his
great discovery. He was but a small
boy then. Passing one day thru field
Of wheat, he plucked few grains of the
cereal, and, chewing them, formed the
glutinous compound so familiar to every
country lad. Many years later, recalling
his early experience, he began putting
his theory to the test. His first labora-
tory was small shed inshfs back yard;
his apparatus a coffeegrindcr and a ket-
tie Of hot water After years of expert
mentation he has achieved success
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