The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-13

deals with leather-making, and points
out the advances that American tan
ners have made in machinery and
methods. The writer is George A.
Rich of the Boston Journal. Mrs. II
Nj. Plunkett contributes a stimulating
educational article on Kindergartens-
Manual Training-Industrial Schools"
showing that these agencies have not
yet been appreciated to their full value,
There is a chatty account of 1.-THE
Ways of the OWL" by Frank Boles,
who writes from intimate acquaintance
with his subject, and gives pictures of
several of his feathered friends. An
other illustrated paper is on 1.-TWO Rare
Monkeys" by DR.. l.. Heck.
SCR1BNER's MAGAZINE contains
striking article about the Poor in Chi
cago," by Joseph Kirkland Che au hor
of those very realistic novels of Western
life, "Zury," and 1.-The McVeys").
Mr.. Kirkland takes an optimistic view
of the conditions of poverty in that
city. The historic momentu this
month is The Resumption of Specie
Payment" by John X. Upton, ex-
assistant secretary of the treasury, and
high officer in that department at the
time resumption was effected. Mr..
Upton's very lucid account Of the diff
culties which were met has been read
and thoroughly approved by Senator
Sherman, who was secretary of the
treasury during resumption. The num-
Der is particularly rich in illustration
the paper on 1.-THE Art of Ravenna,"
by the Blashfields, being one of un-
usual artistic merit. Professor n. S.
Shaler's article on "The Depths of the
Sea " also contains some very curious
pictures of the bottom of the ocean.
THE LADIES HOME JOURNAL con.
tains most interesting description of
"Camp Life in the Adirondacks, ;" writ.
ten by Bret Harte's young daughter,
Miss Jessamy Harte, who thus makes
her debut. The art of giving lawn
parties, and score of new ideas for all
kinds of outdoor fetes, make the SUBJ
| ject of an excellent paper by Mrs. A.
G. Lewis. Mrs. Potter Palmer, presi-
dent of the board of lady managers of
the Columbian Exposition, has an ex-
haustive paper on Women and the
Worlds Fair" Miss Fannie NJ. John.
son contributes sketch, with portrait,
of Mrs. Edward Bellamy, the wife of
the celebrated nationalist, and Alice
Graham McCollin gives the first au-
thentic sketch ever published of Anna
Willess Williams, the young lady who
posed as model in 1878 for the head of
the Goddess of Liberty, which now
adorns the face of our silver dollars.
THE ARENA contains three richly il.
Illustrated papers-one on Africa" by
Mrs. French Sheldon; the second on
"Julia Marlowe;" the third on "Some
Women in the Alliance Movement OF
the West" Among the other contribu
tions to this issue are papers on the
pending presidential campaign by
Congressman Springer, Burrows and
Thomas E. Watson. Annie l.. Diggs
the well-known lecturer and writer or
political, temperance and farmers ALI
ance subjects, appears in paper which
will prove of great interest to those en-
gagged in the agrarian agitation to-day
1t contains graphic description of the
social conditions which made the pres
ent movement inevitable, and why
women from the first played such al
important part in the agitation. This
is perhaps the most interesting article
in the number.