74 Juvenile Literature in the Farm Home 



Look out for trash. There are many papers 

 published, ostensibly in the interest of farm life, 

 which are in fact cheap and trashy sheets made use 

 of almost wholly as a medium of advertising quack 

 medicines, get-rich-quick schemes, and other frauds. 

 A reliable means of testing the value of any one of 

 these so-called "farm" or "home" papers is to 

 examine the advertisements. If there be any con- 

 siderable number of advertisements which offer 

 sure cures for chronic diseases, confidential treat- 

 ments for secret troubles, fortune telling, and at- 

 tractive high-priced articles at a trifling cost, then 

 the whole thing is probably fraudulent and not 

 worthy to come into your home. Also avoid the 

 paper or magazine which advertises intoxicating 

 liquors. It is very low in moral tone, to say the 

 least. 



2. Books for children. In selecting a list of 

 books for farm boys and girls, we should make little 

 or no distinction between them and the children of 

 the city homes. Their earlier literary needs are 

 practically all alike and their youthful minds must 

 be nourished in about the same fashion. In offer- 

 ing the lists to follow we do not pretend to have 

 selected nearly all the profitable books available, but 

 rather to have named a few examples of volumes 

 already found enticing and helpful to the young 

 mind. The majority of them are standard and well 

 known. While the price and publisher are given in 



