Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-01-03
LITERARY NOTES.

The Housewife, of New York, is a
monthly no woman will feel like doing
without, for the freshness and worth OF
its contents. 1t is evid, ntly edited by
a genial and decisive hand, and its con.
tents written by women who know
their business we'll. The fashion, fancy
work and decorations are in excellent
taste, while either the health or house.
keeping department would make the
reputation of a magazine, being full
OF fresh, trustworthy matter.
The Christmas number is surpris-
ingly good, opening with a piquant
serial and stories much above the level
of ordinary domestic reading. Fancy
work and Home Decoration reflect the
prettiest Christmas novelties in q pro
fusion of graceful and well drawn
designs. Mothers are told how to train
Pretty Children to have soft curling
hair and shapely features. The Toilet,
edited by Shirley Dare, tells women
"How to Grow Plump" and How to
Keep Young" ''Home Dressmakers
are taught how to make and hang the
newest skirts, the test of a well dressed
woman today. The Garden is full OF
delightful suggestion on decorative
plants and flowers for the dinner tabl,
for holidays; Cake for Christmas
Boxes" goes into detail for young
housekeepers, while the winter de-
licacies and desserts are too much for
a hungry man to read. Good sense or
comment and suggestion throughout
will make The Housewife welcome in
all cultivated families.
Published at 81 Warren Street, New
York City. 90 cents a year.
We take pleasure in noting that
The Housewife, the Ladies' Home
Monthly published at 81 Warren street,
New York City, has been greatly i'm
proved by its new owners and is the
best 8 cent monthly that comes to our
exchange table. 1t contains trust
worthy advice on the vital interests of
home, on health, housekeeper, educa-
ton and things which make life pleas
ant. Readers will find no better work,
or better writer's in their special de-
partments anywhere than those ap
pearing in the Housewife monthly.
Subscription price for this magazine 81
but Oh cents a year. Agents and sub
scribers receive acceptable premiums.
christina is coming and many of our
lady acquaintance will have a good
chance of procuring some valuable
presents with very little work.
We are sure the publishers, The
Housewife Corporation, will be pleased
to send sample copies to any one asking
for them. Send them a postal card.
The second edition of the December
Worlds Fair Cosmopolitan brings the
total up to the extraordinary figure of
4OO, 600 copies, an unprecedented result
in the history of magazines. Four hun
dred thousands copies-200 tons-nine-
ty four million pages-enough to fill
200 wagons with 1000 pounds each-in
a single line, in close order, this would
be a file of wagons more than a mile
and a half long. This means not less
than 1900, 900 readers, scattered tnro
out every town and village in the Uni
ted States. The course of The Co.'S
mopolitan for the past twelve months
mag be compared to that of a rolling
SNOWFALL; more subscribers mean more
money spent in buying the best articles
and best illustrations in the world,
better illustrations and better articles
mean more subscribers, and so the two
things are acting and reacting upon
each other until it seems probable that
the day is not far distant when the
magazine publisher will be able to
give SO excellent an article that it will
claim the attention of every intelligent
of every intelligent reader in the coun
try.