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A PROGRESSIVE DEPARTMENT 
Some years ago we began a department for 
encouraging people to act as our representa- 
tives in securing subscriptions for Doubleday, 
Page & Company’s magazines. The results 
of all this work are now beginning to show in 
a fine way. Here are three stories: 
I. There is an eighty-four year old lady out 
in Kansas (she doesn’t mind our telling tales 
out of school), who has been a very large factor 
in her community for many years. She began 
to take a few magazine subscriptions and now 
has a large business that is all cash down. She 
has simply made use of her knowledge of people 
to get subscriptions. 
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II. A woman in Orange, New Jersey, picked 
up over four hundred yearly subscriptions for 
one of our magazines in two months and it 
was her first attempt! She selected her people 
—that was the whole secret of her success. 
As she smilingly says: “The magazine sells 
itself if I just show it to the right people.” 
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‘To business that we love we rise. betime 
And go to’t with delight..—A xtouy and Cleopatra 
III. Not long ago a young man came in to 
see us and get information as to how to 
begin work. He is now, after a few months 
experience, supporting his family from this 
work alone. 
It isn’t hard to go in business for yourself. 
The first plunge, perhaps, looks difficult, but 
it is easier than one thinks. If you will write 
us, we will gladly send detailed information and 
a copy of some useful “Hints.” You will be 
interested in them for yourself, maybe, or for 
someone you want to help. 
MR. ROCKEFELLER’S REMINISCENCES 
This month we begin in The World’s Work, 
the publication of the most important magazine} 
serial that has been offered for many years. ' 
There will be at least six parts, and there is 
not a dull line in any of them. Mr. Rocke- 
feller’s story concerns a life that has been full 
of wonderful incidents. It has the’ saving 
grace of humor, and is told in the simple and 
straightforward manner of one who has real 
things to say. The first chapter will include 
these subjects: 
The Reason for Preparing the Reminiscences. 
The Standard Oil Company. 
The Facts about the “Oppression” Stories. 
How the Business Has Been and Is Conducted. 
The Modern Corporation; Its Regulation and Future. 
The Opportunities of To-day, as compared with those of 
a generation ago. : 
The American Business Man. 
The Story of Neighbor Foley. 
The Principles of Business Conduct. 
Knowing the Facts of a Business. 
The Trite and the Obvious — and how often overlooked. 
The Responsibilities of the Business Man. 
THE BUILDING MANUAL— COUNTRY LIFE IN 
AMERICA 
Color photography has actually come. Our 
photographic expert is making color plates in 
the open every week, and one of them is repro- 
duced in the October issue of Country Lije in 
America. 
So far as we know this is the first instance 
of the use of this process as an actual illustration 
—to illustrate —not merely a specimen of 
color photography. 
The Annual Building Number is full of real 
building information. As we have said before, 
a person who is intending to build can probably 
get ideas to save hundreds if not thousands of 
dollars by studying this manual of building 
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information.. ‘The most important feature is 
the subject of economical building. 
‘Now is the time to build statistics indicate. 
If you contemplate building a home much 
money can be saved by doing it now, when 
labor and material are from 10 to 30 per cent. 
cheaper than they were a year ago. ‘The cost 
of building in practically every section of the . 
country has not been so low for several years 
as it is to-day and this is one of the facts that 
will be strongly put forth in the Annual Building 
Manual of Country Lije in America — the 
October number. 
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|, THEGARDEN MAGAZINE DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. 
133, 135.6137 EAST 16TH ST. NEW YORK 
& 
DouBLEDAY, PacE & Company, 
New York City, 
Circulation Department. 
Please send me information concerning 
acting as your representative in securing sub- 
scriptions for your magazines. 
Addressi.. oss2ect Ae ee eee Giseeaage 
