Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-02-14
fHE HOME Journal The Home

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There are few families of cultivated habits
II lew OF those who seek to enliyen and
make home the most intelligent and at
iractive place who do not now receive it.
1t Is read We believe wherever run the gold
threads Of domestic happiness and true
moral refinement, which are woven SO thick
~ into the stronger and coaIser web of our
country's industry and energetic prosperity.
Tie Home Journal is the speaker to the
hearts Of this busy nation, in the hours
gwen to happiness and relaxation
Our increased subscription enables US to
command both more material and more
assistance than we have heretofore used
upon the paper. We are now able to trans
Ter some of the merely laborious department
TO other ha.ds. This enables us to Try
out very cherished design OF our own
ope of which we have long seen the value,
but which We have deferred, simply and
only from not having the time and labor to
20 justice to it. We now announce it,
however, and will endeavor in some mea-
sure to describe it under the head of
NEW FEATURE.
Every one knows how a tea table or even.
Ing circle is enliyenel, by the coming in of
an Intelligent man, who knows all the new
ideas afisat, and tells them briefly. happy.
aud off hand, in the way Of ordinary con
versation.
Such person gives you the substance
of"nii the daily papers, in three or four
sentences-tells you the plan and mora, of
Il new book III Il dozen wnrds-gives tue
essence OF a sermon, the core OF a public
speech, the key to public charac CT, the
spirit of an article in a review, the novelty
iii fashion, the last turn in politics-al
briefly, and all without detail or fummery
leaving it with you, as material for your
own discussion and gossip. We mean to
jot down, for readers, in the fcwest words
possible, every new idea that falls in our
way. AS We read, us people drop in and
talk as we look about in our walks, we shall
be On the look out for ideas and novelties
giving them III the hrietest shape under the
head of MEMS. or GOSSIP.
Formerly we used to lay such memoranda
aside, to write about If we should find time
how, we shall give them to our readt rs,
to discuss FIR themselves. In this way. the
subscriber to the Home Journal will stand
Il chance to get hold, in some way or other,
Of every new idea that is going.
Tie other popular features Of the paper
viii be continued ;-SketcIes OF Bellies,
Portraits Of public Characters, descriptions
Of stirring events in New York. news Of
fashion and manners, pha es Of gay and
literary society, any new fun OF foly-in
short, :; PICTURE OF THE WORLD AS IT Passes.
We have scarce thought it necessary to
mention, however, what our readers well
understand, that we take care also to
chronicle and advance every interest OF
benevolence and moral Improvement, and
strive hard to make the Home Journal no
less useful AID improving than it is enter
tanning and original.
As Il New Years Present from a Gen
tleman TO Lady, the Home Journal is one,
of which the remembrance is renewed every
week, and it is unsurpassed as gift in
good taste.
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