The Weekly register., 1844-03-16
The Cheapest and best La
dy's Magazine!
The Ladics National EEaSa-
zine,
EDITED By MRS. ANN S. STEVENS AND c. ].
PETERSON

PETERSON.
Permanent contributors:- l.. Ii.
Sipournev, Mrs +. S. Osgood, Mrs. A.
M. F. AMMAN, Mrs L. c. Embury, Mrs.
C.. f. Orne, Miss Mary Davcnant, Mrs.
C.. Lee Hentz, Mrs. VI. l.. Lawson, Mrs.
Alb. Welby, Mrs. l.. J. Pierson, and
other females oil the first rank as authors.
This elegant and popular monthly pc
riodical was established in July, l843,
by the union of the "WorId Of Fashion"
and +. Quarrc's Artist" and has al
ready attained the reputation in our
great cities of the Text Book of Fash
ION and Literature. In the correctness
and beauty Of lis fashion plates; in the
novelty. splendor and cosl!lness Of lis
other embellishments; and in the chas-
tened tone and peculiarly refined leml-
nine character Of its literary department.
it is conceded that this magazine has no
SUPERIOR Fully equal to the best three
dollar magazines in these respects, il is
yet but little more than halftheir price
The astonishing success has induced the
publisher to begin the new year with
great and costly improvements. Accor-
dinghy ne has determined 10 employ a
corps 0 female contributors whose uni
ted talents are such as have never been
before employed any magazine for The
sex. The work will not be the reflex
Of any one mind. The names of the
permanent contributors are guarantee
for the variety, talent and worth OF our
pages for 1914. Ours will be The only
Magazine sustained by the sex.
The editorial department will still re-
main with Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, author
Of the celebrated $500 prize story, "Ma
ry Derwent," and acknowledged 10 be
the most powerful writer Of her sex ir
America. Her story Of "Anna Taylor
in our volume for 1343, has had an as
,onishinc run, and will be followed BY
others more thrilling. Assisted by hel
sister authors, she will be enabled Il
make this book surpass all others intend
cd for the ladies'. Every thing of inter
est to the sex will find an early inser
tionin our pages. Among other distin
gushing characteristics of this book will
be a series of criticalreviews, or
Portraits of our Female Poets,
accompanied by autographs of each in
vidual. These will be ofgreat value, a
presenting facts all would wish TO know
The Home Department.--To rende
this Magazine as useful on the work-ta
bic as in the parlor, the publisher ha
secured the servicesof an eminent au
thor to furnish Notwithstanding witt
the January number--a Home Depart
ment. in which directions for knittin,
the newest styles Of lace, working Ber
lin and Persian work and needle work
and embroidery ofall kinds will be givel
together with recipes for acompoundin,
cakes and sweetmeats of every variety
and in general, whatever may be use(u
to the housekeeper, whether daughter
wife or mother, to know. This depart
menl will form, at the end Of the year
volume in itself, worth twice the sub
scription price.
Our colored Fashions.-is this wor
is intended for the boudoir as well as tn
domestic hearth, great pains have bee
taken to secure the earliest reports {
the Lsndon and Paris Fashions. AccorC
ingly this department has been entrus
cd 10 Madame Quarre, who receives fror
Partisan correspondents designs in &C
vance, enabling US to anticipate every r
val, as has been done constantly durin
the past volume. But while the corret
Partisan Fashions are given, care
taken, in the letter-press description, /
point out how far these costumes ar
suited TO our climate, necessary cat
ton observed by no other cotemporary
In word, this department is manage
thoroughly, and not used as mer