The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1883-01-05

THs subject ~ entertaining Rnd whole
some reading fer the family circle is one Of
I practical interest in every household. It
: cannot be denied that the tendency OF the
American press Is in too large q degree sen
/ sationalsm, aud IN some instances even the
sentiments OF purity and sseredness prove
4 an insufficient barrier against the all-prsTRd-
/ ing desire OF being novel and startling in the
7 presentation OF news. The exceptions to the
common rule among the metropolitan Jour
mails Of the day are so few as TO he worthy OF
/ notice when encountered. The Chicago
Weekly Nss0s is one of the few papers OF
which it may be strictly said that nothing OBJ
jectiOnabls 10 pure thought and morality
ever appears in its columns It Is an enter
pTisiDg papeT-none IN the west more sO-but
more than that II is a clean paper, one that
is safe to take into the family circle. The
Chicago Weekly NslVs ana the CAMBRIA
FREEMAN will both be sent TO any ADDRESS,
foI 81 90 a year, postage incladed. send ali
subscriptions to this offiee.
A=CHRIsT1IAs GIFT For several wears the
london Graphic and the London illustrated
Netcs have each sent oBt q costly Pictorial
Christmas Number which have been eagerly
bought by the people at large in both hemis-
pheres srd these great.pictOrials have come
TO be regarded as part OF Christmas. and
are considered very suitable and much-to be
coveted Christmas gifts.
This year Americans hsye taken up the
Idea, and tie two largest houses IN the book
trade, Messrs. d. LsthTOp & Co. OF Boston,
each sent out Christmas" " which far eI-
cels anything that London publishers have
ever attempted. There Is 3 greater refine
ment and beauty in The illuStrstions and the
stories, poems and articles are all hiCh-clEss
literature, Both are in simple black and
white" but IL is said that the letter press
and Illustrations OF the Lothrop'S Christ
uaas"-the Christmas WIDE-AwAKE (Dec
No. cost over So 900, and that authors
and artists. here and abroad have been busy
8 N = III nd fha
IS well summed up by the Boston TTdnscripr
when it says THE holiday number OF the
WIDE-AWARE, Just out, is the wonder OF all
she wonderfully beautiful magazines and
books OF America. Without dispute, the lsrg-
est, bRndsOmest and most artistic aud best
number OF young peoples periodical ever
Issued" Bound In e rev cover in cOloTs
pronounced the finest magazine cover IN sx-
istencei 1t contains IA pages and so pictuT-
es. OF the letter press the Boston TrcUellsr
says mo such store OF high h-cass literature
was ever gathered into one number Of any
periodical before :" and the critic OF the Bos-
ton Times says OF the Illustrations "They
are genuine works OF art some OF them eX-
qulsitely ideal :" and the Boston Journal
adds, enumeTsting the authors-Hrs A d.
4. Whitney, Miss Phelps Rose Terry Cooke
Margaret Sidney, Rose Kingsley, Mrs Mary
ID. Brine, Arthur Gilman, George Cary Eg-
gleston, Celia Thsxter, Edward f. Hale n
Z. b., Mrs. Harriet BsecheT Stowe Norah
Perry, Mrs. Clara Doty Bates, Mrs. Dlaz,
EIeu u. ODeIt CuTlsJluA ho2setti, hEG- n a
lock-Craik, Philip Bcurke Marstou, Susan
Coolidge, Marion HarlAnd Margaret Pres
ton. Prof. D. A. Sargent and a dozen or
twenty otbers-'"This & brilliant galaxy to Be
got together between the covers Of = single
number OF young peoples magazine, and
when Santa Claus understands that thic
richly laden number Can be bought for TWEEN
ty-fve cents il would not be strange In he
were 10 order special edition for his tweu
tY-hfth-of-D -Dece NJ beT uses;' and we ourselves
mn DF -
WIDE AWAKE be examined by parents who
feel anxious to put into the hands Of their
young folks q magazine OF higb literature as
pure and stimulating Rs II is gay and enter
tanning, they would secure the periodical for
the year at once especially rs they may be
assured that the same distinguished authors
and artists will contribute OF their best to
the succeeding eleven Numbers.