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Walk Walk (1:4)

The Puritan (1:8)
A Question (1:12)
The Room At The Top (1:8)

The Sands (1:5)
Shares (1:9)
"Sit up and think!" (1:10)
The
Socialist and the Suffragist (1:12)
Steps (1:2)
Thanksgiving (1:1)

Thanksong (1:1)
Then This (1:1)
To-morrow Night (1:11)
Two
Prayers (1:4)
The Waiting-Room (1:11)
A Walk Walk Walk (1:5)

Water-Lure (1:5)
We Eat At Home (1:9)
When Thou Gainest
Happiness (1:6)
"With God Above" (1:3)
Worship (1:13)
ADVERTISEMENTS AND MISC.
Editorial: The Editor's Problem (1:10, 1:11)
Editorial: A Friendly
Response (1:13)

Editorial: If You Discontinue (1:12, 1:13)
Editorial:
If You Renew (1:12, 1:13)
Editorial: Letters From Subscribers (1:14)

Editorial: Our Bound Volume As A Christmas Present (1:12, 1:13)
Editorial: Suffrage (1:7)
Editorial: To Those Specially Interested...
(1:12, 1:13)
Erratum (1:5)
From Letters Of Subscribers (1:11, 1:13,
1:14)
Masthead tags (1:1, 1:3 - 1:7)
Quotation: Eugene Wood (1:7)

Advertisement: Books by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1:9 - 1:14)
Advertisement: Calendula (1:1 - 1:3)
Advertisement: Confidential
Remarks About Our Advertising (1:3) Advertisement: The
Co-Operative Press (1:14)
Advertisement: The Crux (1:12 - 1:14)

Advertisement: Fels-Naptha Soap (1:1)
Advertisement: The
Forerunner (1:1 - 1:3, 1:6 - 1:11)
Advertisement: Holeproof Hoisery
(1:1)
Advertisement: Lowney's (1:1: 1:2)
Advertisement: Moore's

Fountain Pen (1:1)
Advertisement: Soapine (1:2)
Advertisement:
Some Of Our Exchanges (1:11 - 1:14)
Advertisement: Success
Magazine (1:14)
Advertisement: A Summer Cottage (1:6, 1:7)

Advertisement: Things we wish to Advertise (1:3)
Advertisement: A
Toilet Preparation (1:1)
Advertisement: Woman's Era (1:2)

Advertisement: Woman and Socialism (1:14)
Advertisement: The
Woman's Journal (1:12 - 1:14)
WORKS REVIEWED
"The American Magazine", illustrations (1:1)
Jessie H. Childs, "The
Sea of Matrimony" (1:3)
Stanton Coit, "Woman in Church and State"
(1:9)
"The Common Cause," magazine (1:11)
Lavinia L. Dock,
"Hygiene and Morality" (1:13)
"The Englishwoman," magazine (1:10)

"The Ethical World", magazine (1:9)
Cicely Hamilton, "Marriage
as a Trade" (1:13)
Alexander Irvine, "From The Bottom Up" (1:11)

Mary Jonston, "The Wise Housekeeper" (1:13)
Ellen Key, "The
Century of the Child" (1:14)
Ingraham Lovell, "Margharita's Soul"
(1:2)
"Philemon's Verses" (author unknown) (1:5)
Sarah Harvey
Porter, "The Life and Times of Anne Royall" (1:2) "The Progressive
Woman," magazine (1:11)
Gerald Stanley Lee, "Inspired
Millionaires" (1:7)
Prince Morrow, "Social Diseases and Marriage"
(1:6)
Meredith Nicholson, "The Lords of High Decision" (1:5)

William Robinson, "Never Told Tales" (1:6)
Thomas W. Salmon,
"Two Preventable Causes of Insanity" (1:10) Nancy Musselman
Schoonmaker, "The Eternal Fires" (1:9)
Molly Elliot Sewell, "The
Ladies' Battle" (1:14)
Ida Tarbell, "The American Woman" (1:8)

"To-day's Problems," various authors (1:13)
"The Union Labor
Advocate," magazine (1:11)
"Votes for Women," magazine (1:11)

Lester F. Ward, "Pure Sociology" (1:12)
H. G. Wells, "Ann
Veronica" (1:3)
Harvey White, "A Ship Of Souls" (1:12)
"The
Woman's Journal" (1:3, 1:10)
THE FORERUNNER, VOLUME ONE

THE FORERUNNER
A MONTHLY MAGAZINE
BY
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
OWNER AND
PUBLISHER
1.00 A YEAR
.10 A COPY
Volume 1. No. 1
NOVEMBER, 1909
The Charlton Company, 67
Wall Street, New York
Copyright for 1909, C. P. Gilman
Said the New Minister: "I shall not give you a text this morning. If you
listen closely, you will discover what the sermon is about by what I
say."
THEN THIS
The news-stands bloom with magazines,
They flame, they blaze
indeed;
So bright the cover-colors glow,
So clear the startling
stories show,
So vivid their pictorial scenes,
That he who runs may
read.
Then This: It strives in prose and verse,
Thought, fancy, fact and fun,

To tell the things we ought to know,
To point the way we ought to
go,
So audibly to bless and curse,
That he who reads may run.
A SMALL GOD AND A LARGE GODDESS
The ancient iconoclast pursued his idol-smashing with an ax. He did
not regard the feelings of the worshippers, and they, with similar
indifference to his, promptly destroyed him.
The modern iconoclast, wiser from long experience, practices the
kindergarten art of substitution; enters without noise, and dexterously

replaces the old image with a new one.
Often the worshippers do not notice the change. They never spend their
time in discriminating study of their idol, being exclusively occupied in
worshipping it.
The task herein undertaken is not so easy. We can hardly expect to
remove the particular pet deity of millions of people for thousands of
years--an especially conspicuous little image at that, differing from
other gods and goddesses; and substitute another figure, three times his
size, of the opposite sex, and thirty years older--without somebody's
noticing it.
Yet this is precisely what is required of us, by the new knowledge of
to-day. We are called upon to dislodge what is easily the most popular
god in the calendar, albeit the littlest; that fat fluttering small boy,
congenitally blind, with his haphazard archery playthings; that
undignified conception, type of folly change and irresponsible mischief,
which so amazingly usurps the name and place of love. Never was
there a more absurd misrepresentation.
Suppose we worshipped Fire, the great sun for our over-lord, all lesser
lights in varying majesty, each hearth-fire as the genius and guardian of
the home. So worshipping, suppose we chose, as ever present image of
the great idea, to be pictured and sculptured far and wide, to fill all
literature, to be accepted even by science as type and symbol of the Fire
Divine--a match-box!
So slight, so transient, so comparatively negligible in importance, is the
flickering chance-sown spark typified in this pretty chimera of flying