1/1, October, 1902-1910. $1.00 a year. 4 1/2 x 6. 30-32 pp. (supplemented by inserted pages of advertisements touting copper mining stock in which the editors had an interest, and offering discounts on the books of Lois Waisbrooker and New Thought offerings on “How to Command Money and “Letter to a Friend on Sexual Development,” and inviting visitors to Reid’s “Eatatorium”—a bunk in his barn and his “Table de Hoax” with self-grown vegetables. The journal was an eccentric and frequently humorous exponent of the anarchism and radical individualism blossoming in the Northwest at the period—tinctured with the reform side of New Thought. Rader (1864-1910) was a poet and former state legislator in Washington who starved to death as a result of following the fasting regime of Linda Burfield Hazzard, the “Starvation Doctor” (or “Fasting Specialist,” depending on what one thought of her medical theories) who ran a sanitarium in Olalla on land he had given her. He weighted less than 100 pounds when he died. His contribution to the decades-long reform debate on sex and society was Woman and the Race, “a plea for sex-understanding, sex-freedom, sex-purity, sex-power, sex-permeation of all earthly activities.” From January 1905 into 1908 the journal ran a notable “Sex Symposium” with contributions on the subject by Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish (Otto Hanish or Hanisch, on whom see the note under Mazdaznan), Nancy McKay Gordon (see the note under Free Man and The Temple), Alice B. Stockham, Leroy Berrier (see the note under Purity Journal), Lois Waisbrooker (see the notes under Our Era and Clothed with the Sun), Harry Gaze (on whom see the note under Life Culture), J. William Lloyd (see the note under Free Comrade), William L. Garver, Theodore Schroeder (see the notes under Alienist and Neurologist and Azoth), Elmer Ellsworth Carey (see the note under Suggestion), Mabel Gifford (Mabel Gifford Shine, on whom see the note under Occult Review of Boston), M. Trueman (or “M. Trueman,” since this is a pseudonym of Mabel Gifford Shine, see the note under Occult Review of Boston), and others. The journal was listed among the exchanges of Otto Hanish’s The Mazdaznan in 1904, and the advertisement in Self-Culture, January 1904, pleads: “If you love me, send me two bits for a six months taste of Soundview, that Bright Pacific Coast Breezelet; and if you don’t love me send me a quarter and I’ll teach you to love me. I am not a ‘healer,’ neither am I very well ‘heeled,’ but I’ll bet you’ll like the stuff (and nonsense) I send out.” Regular contributions by and advertisements for the works of many of the sex-as-the-engine of psychical and spiritual transformation: Nancy McKay Gordon, Alice B. Stockham, A.E. Newton, Edward Carpenter, Mazdaznan, Theodore Schroeder, Eleanor Kirk, A.J. McIvor-Tyndall, Rev. C.A. Hall, Julia Seton Sears, et al. The journal also advertised that it would sell reprints of some of its articles under the title An Evergreen Quarterly.

Category: New Thought, Sexual Elements, Reform.