The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-31

The June number of The Ladies' Home jour
nal Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia)
Is very charming publication, and especial in
terest attaches to its dainty pages for the brides
OF June, Florence Howe Halls an Church, or
at Homer" Mrs. Mallon's suggestions for
brides and their maids, and Ella Wheeler Will
cox's clever comparisons between women and
flowers. Quite as timely, also, are the portrait
sketch of Lady Agnes Macdonald, the wife OF
Canada's premier; Sister Rose Gertrudes de-
scription of "Life Among the Lepers at Aolo-
kali" Charles J. Dumars article on "Women as
Typesetters," and William Fl. Rideing's
"Hints on House Building Those whose
thoughts are turning toward summer out
ings win find helpful suggestions in
"Horseback Riding for Women" by Carl A.
Nyegaard, of the New York Riding Club, and
Miss lie Garde's slow TO Dress for Bicycle Rid
ing; Helen Jay and Kate Epson Clark have
treated very acceptably the two sides of the
farmer vs.. summer-bosrder controversy, and
the breezy outdoor spirit pervades also the
usual department pages. Mrs. Whitneys "a
Golden Gossip" and "a Soul from Pudge's Cor
ners," Jessie T. O'Donnell's strong serial, are
both continued, and "Buck" Ewing, of the New
York baseball club, contributes an article which
will delight the boys.
Henry Loomis Nelson, in an article on clown
and Village Government" to appear in Hdrpe's
kocczfae for June, argues, from a comparison
of the state constitutions, that il is In the town
meeting that the essential elements of democ-
racy preserved, and that it is to this feature
of their government that the New England
states owe much of their pre-eminence and
prosperity. III Mr.. Nelson's conclusions are cor
rect, il would appear that the Southern and
Western states should profit by the example of
New England, and return to the more primitive
method by which the local affairs of each COM
muuity are placed entirely under the control of
the popular primary assembly.
The work OF George du Maurier as an artist
has long been familiar 10 Americans through
the burlesque illustrations of English fashion
Harper's Aasd-tas In England he is famous as
and "Henry Esmond," and his weekly drawings
in Punch have made him one OF the best known
and most admired of contemporary artists. His
full name Is George Louis Pamela Busson du
Maurier, and he was born in Paris little more
than dfty-seven years ago He went over 20
London in his seventeenth year, where
he remained and became s British sub
iect. II was s. first intended that
he should become 8 chemist, and he
studied for some time under the famous DR..
Williamson, at University college, London.
Afterward he studied painting at various places
on the Continent under the best masters. His
first drawings on wood were made for Once
Week and for the CornAiE Magazine. Mr.. Du
Msurier, encouraged no doubt by his success IN
art, has but recently entered the field OF ltera-
ture, and the opening chapters Of his first novel,
''Peter Ibbetson," are announced 20 appear IN
the June number OF H1rpe-'s MG2c=tHs
The plans and purposes OF the new expedition
20 the Arctic regions sre well set forth in the
current number OF Horper's Weekly by Iieuten-
ant r Z. Pcary, L. : y. the protector and leader