McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908Various
General
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908
Various
American literature -- Periodicals; Literature -- Periodicals
The slight mistake occurred four years ago and he could not
remember about the things. But Mr. Ladd told me that he knew
it was only not set down in a coherent way for in other
parts of the book he could trace where it was put down in
all probability, but not orderly. When I can get a
Christian, as I know he is, and a woman that can fill his
place I shall do it. But I have no time to receive company,
to call on others, or to go out of my house only to drive.
Am always driven with work for others, but nobody to help me
even to get help such as I would choose.
Again, MOTHER.
[Illustration: GEORGE WASHINGTON GLOVER
MRS. EDDY'S ONLY SON]
While Mrs. Eddy was working out her larger policy she never forgot the
little things. The manufacture of Christian Science jewelry was at one
time a thriving business, conducted by the J. C. Derby Company, of
Concord. Christian Science emblems and Mrs. Eddy's "favorite flower"
were made up into cuff-buttons, rings, brooches, watches, and
pendants, varying in price from $325 to $2.50. The sale of the
Christian Science teaspoons was especially profitable. The "Mother
spoon," an ordinary silver spoon, sold for $5.00. Mrs. Eddy's portrait
was embossed upon it, a picture of Pleasant View, Mrs. Eddy's
signature, and the motto, "Not Matter but Mind Satisfieth." Mrs. Eddy
stimulated the sale of this spoon by inserting the following request
in the _Journal_:[3]
"On each of these most beautiful spoons is a motto in bas
relief that every person on earth needs to hold in thought.
Mother requests that Christian Scientists shall not ask to
be informed what this motto is, but each Scientist shall
purchase at least one spoon, and those who can afford it,
one dozen spoons, that their families may read this motto at
every meal, and their guests be made partakers of its simple
truth."
"MARY BAKER G. EDDY.
"The above-named spoons are sold by the Christian Science
Souvenir Company, Concord, N. H., and will soon be on sale
at the Christian Science reading rooms throughout the
country."
Mrs. Eddy's picture was another fruitful source of revenue. The
copyright for this is still owned by the Derby Company. This portrait
is known as the "authorized" photograph of Mrs. Eddy. It was sold for
years as a genuine photograph of Mrs. Eddy, but it is admitted now at
Christian Science sales-rooms that this picture is a "composite." The
cheapest sells for one dollar. When they were ready for sale, in May,
1899, Mrs. Eddy, in the _Journal_ of that date, announced:
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