WHAT OUR BOYS AND GIRLS SHOULD KNOW.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1186, 18 December 1913, Page 4

WHAT OUR BOYS AND GIRLS SHOULD KNOW.

Tbe aim ot the modern magazine publisher is to specialise, not to scalier. He does not, if be is wi.se, try to cover all eartb and sea and sky with bis contents bill, or to appeal to every class and age. Two magazines that illustrate this point have just arrived. They are Life and Everylady’s Journal for December. The former appeals specially to busy men, and tbe latter to busy housewives; and together they provide a perfect complement for any home, however large or small. This particular issue of Life happens, however, to be specially wide in its appeal; for every member of the household, from the father to the small boy,, will be profoundly interested in the moving story of Captain Scott’s last, greatest, and, alas ! fruitless struggle to reach his base of supplies. The story of tbe desperate battle, the pictures of the doomed party, taken at the South Pole, and the photos of the grim relics ot the lost fight, are things to be engraven on the memory. This is but tbe keystone of a magnificent arch of reading provided by the editor in the December issue of Life, Everylady’s Journal, is, as usual, replete with good things. Notable, this mouth, are the pages devoted to the fashion review and forecast, the admirable Australian stories and articles, the money-making and labour saving devices set forth, and the third ot the adventure stories in that world-famous series ; “What Happened to Mary ?” The editor of Everylady’s Journal has been fortunate in securing the sole Australasian rights of tbe “ What Happened to Mary ?” stories, and we shall look with interest for the continuance of tbe series. In Everylady’s Journal for December appears a striking symposium by noted Australians on “What our boys and girls should be taught,” that we commend to thoughtful parents. A shilling spent in buying both Life and Everylady’s Journal will provide the whole family with much good reading.