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Show ? T'CiiLJSHERS RKSPOXSI'lILTTY Much demoralizing reading -'s printed on the plea that "the public wants it." A mother might as excusably ex-cusably give her child the glistening arsenic for which it cries. The publisher pub-lisher bears a resnonsiblity to society soci-ety like that of the preacher or toe teacher. This, at any rate, is the view of the Publishers of the Youths Companion. From its first issue to the present it has been a' constant force for character building. And with all that, if has ln so widely edited that no publication py;3ts of more varied charm, more inexhaustible inexhaus-tible and refreshing sources of interest. inter-est. The !)2 issues of the coming year I will he crowded Willi serial stories, short stories, editorials, poetry, facts, and fun. Only S2.;"0 for an amount I of reading equal to thirty-five volumes vol-umes of fiction, humor, etc. ---.THE YOUTH'S COMPANION.... Commonwealth Ave. & St. Paul St Boston. Mass. I a |