Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-04-20
THE HOME JOURNAL,-The Home

Z Journal has now become universal
There are few families of cultivated habits
flew of those who seek to enliven and
make home the most intelligent and at
tractive 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
ly into the stronger and coarser web of our
country's industry and energetic prosperity.
The Home Journal is the speaker to the
hearts of this busy nation, in the hours
given 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 hands. This enables US to carry
out very cherished design of our own
one of which we have long seen the value,
but which we have deferred, simply and
only from not having the time and labor to
Go justice to it. We now announce it,
however, and will endeavor in some mea-
sure to describe it under the head Of
A NEW FEATURE.
Every one knows how tea table or even
ing circle is enlivened, by the coming in Of
an intelligent man, who knows all the new
ideas afeat, and tells them briefly, happy,
and off hand, in the way of ordinary con-
versation.
Such person gives you the substance
of all the daily papers, in three or four
sentences tells you the plan and moral of
a new book in a dozen words-gives the
essence of sermon, the core of public
speech, the key to public character, the
spirit of an article in a review, the novelty
in fashion, the last turn in politics
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 fewest words
possible, every new idea that falls in our
way. AS we read, as people drop in and
talk, as we look about in our walks, we shall
be on the lookout for ideas and novelties
giving them in the briefest shape under the
head of MEMS. or GOSSIP.
Formerly we used to lay such memoranda
aside, to write about if we should find time
now, we shall give them to our readers,
to discuss for themselves, In this way, the
subscriber to the Home Journal will stand
a chance to get hold, in some way or other,
of every new idea that is going.
The other popular features of the paper
will be continued sketches of Bellies,
Portraits of public Characters, descriptions
of stirring events in New York, news of
fashion and manners, phases of gay and
literary society, any new fun or folly-in
short, a PICTURE OF THE WORLD AS 1T 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 and improving than it is enter
tanning and original.
AS New Years Present from Gen
tleman to Lady, the Home Journal is one,
of which the remembrance is renewed every
week, and it is unsurpassed as a gift in
good taste.
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