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articles given below. The report of a special committee of an association of electrical engineers, given at its convention in Philadelphia, furnished a writer with material for an article on "Farming by Electricity," that was published in the Sunday edition of the _Springfield Republican_. Studies of the cause of hunger, made by Prof. A.J. Carlson of the University of Chicago and published in a volume entitled "The Control of Hunger in Health and Disease," furnished the subject for an article in the _Illustrated World._ Earlier results of the same investigation were given in the Sunday magazine of one of the Chicago papers. From the _Journal of Heredity_ was gleaned material for an article entitled "What Chance Has the Poor Child?" It was printed in _Every Week_. "Golfer's Foot, One of Our Newest Diseases," was the subject of a special feature in the _New York Times_, that was based on an article in the _Medical Record_. That the canals on Mars may be only an optical illusion was demonstrated in an article in the Sunday magazine of the _New York Times_, by means of material obtained from a report of the section for the Observation of Mars, a division of the British Astronomical Association. ANTICIPATING TIMELY SUBJECTS. By looking forward for weeks or even months, as editors of Sunday newspapers and of magazines are constantly doing, a writer can select subjects and gather material for articles that will be particularly appropriate at a given time. Holidays, seasonal events, and anniversaries may thus be anticipated, and special articles may be sent to editors some time in advance of the occasion that makes them timely. Not infrequently it is desirable to begin collecting material a year before the intended time of publication. An article on fire prevention, for instance, is appropriate for the month of October just before the day set aside for calling attention to fires caused by carelessness. Months in advance, a writer might begin collecting news stories of dangerous fires resulting from carelessness;


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