The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-07-28

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ment's work for you to compare box OF
"Our Special Line or 1.-THE Glendale
writing paper, which is selling at the
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some for which you have paid 25c or SOC
a box. 1t will show you where to buy
for i9c that for which you have been
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R-To be convinced that tho Tariff is
not tax, or at least not one on writing
papers, you should try box of that
choice paper now selling for 10 cents, at
the Banner Stationery Store. For a
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up in such handsome shape, it is sold as
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featured by respectable makers.
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Bennington, VT. 1Stf
IB-People entertaining at their
country homes will welcome with de-
light the full accurate description of the
receiving and entertaining of a house
lull vi WnlSu ulSs JOu Mugs
land gives in practical article on EN-
tertaining in the Country" in the Au-
gust Ladies' Home journal. The mag
azine is made still further interesting be-
couse of the publication of the music
and words of the beautiful song, my
Star" by Kate Llewellyn Fitch--one of
the famous Journal compositions for the
encouragement of American musical
composition. A full-page poem by Mad
cline S. Bridges, illustrated by Frank o.
Small, entitled The Docks at Night"
is followed by an illustrated sketch of
ga Niece of Robert Burns" the only
near surviving relative of the poet Mrs.
Hamilton Mott contributes a valuable
article on Sending Girl to a Board
ing School" replete with information on
every point connected with boarding
school life. Younger mothers will find
Doctor Powel's timely article on "Chil-
dren at the SeashOre," and Miss Scovil's
on Children in the Country" full of
seasonable and useful suggestions on
the care of their little ones during the
summer outing Children of larger
growth are remembered in daiptily
illustrated page, entitled Dressing a
Growing Girl" G. Lauron Hooper con-
tributes a pleasantly written history of
How Kissing Came into the World"
and Mary Holbrook Chappell describes
IAN Afternoon Tea in Japan" Edward
w. Box discusses the question of mod
ern housekeeping and its effect upon
women, and Mr.. Howells gives particu-
larly fascinating installment of his
charming novel, "The Coast of Bohe
mia" Dainty Lingerie of To-day" is
daintily written by Isabel A. Mallon,
and Harriet Ogden Morrison gives an
illustrated page of Ecclesiastical En-
broidery." Palmer Cox with his mimi
table "Brownies," Eben E. Rexford,
with his valuable midsummer in the
Garden" Margaret Sims with a page of
designs in Mould Crochet" Miss
Parloa in Everything about the
House." and Miss Hooper IN "Home
Dressmaking," all contribute to make
this August Journal, with its exquisite
cover, designed by Frank o. Small, par
ticularly attractive, and worth many
times its modest price of ten cents. The
Ladies Home Journal is sold by the
Curtis Publishing Company, of Philadel-
phia for ten cents per number or one
dollar year.
Ge"Islington Cream" writing paper
only 20 cents per pound, each pound
containing nearly 100 sheets of smooth
finish, ruled or plain writing paper. 1t
is bargain that is found only at the
BANNER Stationery Store.
R- Fiction and illustration are feat
ures of the August Harpe's. Besides
instalments of William Blacks, THE
Handsome Humes," and Miss Woolson's
"Horace Chase" there are five short
stories and One-scene play by W. D.
Howells, called "Brlde Roses" Richard
Harding DaYis's "His Bad Angel will
rank among the best works of this
writer, and, AT the Hermitage" by E.
Levi Brown, the wife of cOlored minis
ter in the South, is strong tale of negro
superstition and the peculiar relations
of the black and white races at the
South. "A Landscape. by Constable"
by f. Mary Wilson, and "a Cast of the
Net, "by Herbert d. Ward, will command
attention even in the midsummer season
of fiction. In addition to these tales
Howard Pyle has contributed narra-
tive of 1.-THE Cock Lane Ghost" an APP
partition which startled London more
than century ago. Mr.. Pyle has en-
bellished his story with thirteen draw
ings. Other illustrations in the number
are by Luc Olivier Merson, William
Small, G. d. Gibson, v. H. Hyde, VIM.
Hamilton Gibson, w. A. Rogers, H. D.
Nichols; Jacques Reich, w. T. Smedley,
Frederick Remington, G. 5. Reinhart, A.
B. Frost and George duMaurier. These
do not include the handsome engravings
which appear with Charles A. Platt's
Italian Gardens and which were made
from photographs prepared for that ar
ticln