For the period from January to October, the magazine carried 521 pages, a 2.8 percent increase over 2000.

The sports section carried five pages of coverage and four ghost-written celebrity views.

Family Circle, its main rival, carried 1.850 pages of advertising in 1988 and 2,008 in 1989.

Money executives said that the April issue would carry 122 pages of advertising, one of the largest in the last 15 years.

In its heyday, the magazine often had issues that carried 300 pages, about half of which were advertisements.

That section carried 60 pages this year, down from 132 a year earlier.

The Echo carries five to six pages of household-help classified advertising a week.

Publishers at both those magazines said they did not consider Islands, which carried only 504 pages of advertising in 1991, to be competition.

Travel & Leisure, for example, carried 1,373 pages of advertising last year at much higher rates.

But the magazine carried only 382 pages of advertising in 1989, down from 555 in 1985.