July, 1910 



THE GAR 1) E N M A G A Z I N E 



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PROGRESS AT GARDEN CITY , 



As this issue goes to press, the concrete foun- 

 dations of our new building at Garden City, 

 Long Island, are rapidly rising — to the accom- 

 paniment of a chorus of spring robins and 

 orioles; a contractor is leveling off a baseball 

 diamond; a thousand young trees have been put 

 into the ground, and some thousands of others 

 have been arranged for fall delivery; architects' 

 drawings for decorative details are being passed; 

 and there seems no doubt but that we shall be 

 able to welcome our friends in our new country 

 home on our tenth birthday. We have some 

 ambitious plans for developing the Country 

 Life Press into a permanent exhibit of real 

 interest to everybody who cares for the things 

 that Country Life in America stands for and 

 we believe that the smell of the real soil will be 

 much more noticeable in our outdoor publica- 

 tions when these plans have a chance to ma- 

 ture. Anyhow, we can now report some visi- 

 ble progress. 



THE WAY TO HEALTH 



The whole nation has been waking up in the 

 last few years to the significance of what the 

 scientists have discovered regarding the terrible 

 amount of unnecessary disease and premature 

 deaths which have resulted from a disregard of 

 the laws of health. The World's Work has for 

 a long time been busy in an attempt to focus 

 these new and old facts for the benefit of the 

 ordinary every-day man — for not one out of 

 ten gets as much out of life as he should, just 

 because he is not physically as well as he might 

 be. 



In the October number was published an 



"To business that we love we rise betime 

 And go to 't with delight." — Antony and Cleopatra 



article on "How I Got Well" — written by the 

 man who did it, and telling where he went, 

 what he did, the mistakes he made, and telling 

 his story in every-day language. Up to April 

 the writer of the article had received more 



Starting the foundations at Garden City 



July cover of " Country Life in America " 



than two hundred letters asking for further 

 information, and twenty of his correspondents 

 had already gone for treatment in the region 

 where he had been cured. 



To give intelligent, helpful information to 

 people with crippled lungs was well worth while, 

 but that article was but one of many that The 

 World's Work has arranged for. Since October 

 the following have been published: 



"The Consumptive's Holy Grail" — Decem- 

 ber. 



"The Pace of Business Men" — January. 



"Should Doctors Tell the Truth?" — Feb- 

 ruary. 



" Getting Well at Home " — April. 



"Quarantining the Home Against the Dis- 

 eases of Summer" — May. 



"Curing Blindness Before It Happens" — 

 May. 



"What Not to Do for a Headache" — June. 



"Gardening as a Cure for Mental Break- 

 downs" — June. 



"The Drug Clerk a Poor Family Physician" 

 -July. 



And here are some of those which are yet to 

 come: 



"What a Man of Forty Should Look Out 

 For" — the warning signals that flash at this 

 period; how a man may detect grave trouble in 

 time to avert it. 



"Some Stomachs I Have Known" — a com- 

 mon-sense article by a specialist, written in lan- 

 guage that everybody can understand. 



"How I Got Rid of Rheumatism" — the 

 personal experience of the man who did it. 



"What to Keep in the Family Medicine- 

 case" — a list of the best household remedies 

 for the average family, and how to use them. 



"What to Do Before the Doctor Comes" — 

 some simple ways in which ordinary emergen- 

 cies may be met while expert assistance is on the 

 way. 



"How to Keep Out of a Sanitarium" — how 

 to know when you are on your way to that 

 institution, and what to do to avoid it. 



"The Increasing Army of Pill-Eaters" — 

 the growing practice of taking widely advertised 

 remedies that lead directly to the forming of 

 drug-habits. 



This July issue is the annual UPLIFT NUM- 

 BER: it makes inspiring reading for every right- 

 minded, optimstic American. 



And, by the way, Mr. William Bayard Hale, 

 whose interviews with notable men have 

 reached such a high level, has just returned with 

 Mr. Roosevelt — so that you may shortly expect 

 an article of extraordinary insight, following 

 the impressive symposium on "the most inter- 

 esting American" in the current issue. 



An old wistaria on the Garden City site 



