ST. NICHOLAS ADVERTISEMENTS
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begins with this number another great year and a program that insures happiness and profit to all children fortunate enough to have it for a comrade. The twelve splendid numbers mean untold entertainment, unfailing wholesome and inspiring comradeship, a rich mine of real information.
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reading for young people now available. Estimated at its true value as comrade, teacher, and beloved friend, $3.00 a year seems a small sum for insuring its influence and helpfulness in the home. The age of four or five is none too early for beginning a subscription, and at seventeen most readers have no thought of giving up the magazine.
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“The St. Nicholas is a monthly magazine or book, for it is more of a book than anything else. It has a low price and a high quality. It contains continued stories and many others. It has prize contests every month. Verses and pictures for smaller children. I like the St. Nicholas because it has good reading and plenty of it. There is enough to last from one month to the next unless you read day and night, which a person feels like doing. The St. Nicholas contains things to work for. It has the St. Nicholas League and it gives badges to every member. Boys and girls all over the United States take St. Nicholas. It is a good Christmas gift. I got it for Christmas.
Arthur V. H.
, Texas.
Arthur and all the other readers of St. Nicholas will find the numbers during 1913 even more fascinating than those of 1912. There will be—
More stories, more articles, more pictures, more rhymes
More delightful competitions in prose, verse, drawing, and photography
More splendid articles full of new ideas
Turn to the next page and see!