Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-09
The Ladies' Home journal for 1897.

An even excellence makes the good things
which The Ladies Home journal promises I'M
usually interesting and strong, The list is
long and sturdy. One series of papers alone
would sell the magazine: that is, the three
White House articles which ex-President
Harrison is to write, No man has ever done
what General Harrison will do in these ar
ticles; show us what "A Day with the Presi-
dent at His Desk" means in one article; in
another tell of 1.-The Social Life of the Presi-
dent" and in third article describe Up
stairs Life in theWhite House." Each of the
articles will be profusely illustrated. Another
series equally fascinating is the one called
Great Professional Events" in which some
of the greatest enthusiasts which have Oc-
Cured in America will be revived; those
wonderful times when Louis KOssuth rode up
Broadway; when9th young Prince of Wales
was here; when Jenny Lind sang in Castle
Garden; when Henry Ward Beecher electri-
fed his congregation by selling slaves in the
pulpit; when Grant went around the world;
when Henry Clay bade farewell to the senate;
when John Wesley preached in Georgia, of
which so few know. All these memorable
events and others will be wildly recalled,
told more graphically than ever before, and
illustrated with pictures which have oc-
cupied twelve artists for over year. A
third series is unique and valuable from the
fact that it will give women scores OF IDEAS
for their homes. 1t will reveal what there is
Inside of Hundred American Homes, and
carefully reproduce pictures of one hundred
Ompletely-turnished rooms in homes in this
country-from Main to California - where
taste has gone farther than money. Two
new department writer's have also been ex-
clusively engaged by The Journal: Mrs. 3,
I. Rorer, who will hereafter have entire
charge of the domestic department and give
series of cooking lessons, and Dwight l..
Moody the famous evangelist who is to put
the result of his life st0dy of the bible in
department entitled Mr.. Moody's Bible
Glass" The artist Charles Dana Gibson,
who created the Gibson girl, will present six
full-page pictures showing THE People of
Dickens" while Alice Barber Stephens will
alternate with Mr.. Gibson and present her
idea of six Types of American Woman
hood" showing the American woman in
ciety, in religion in business in summer, in
the home and as a mother. Mary E. Wilkins,
the New England writer. will revive the old
quilting-party, the ancient singing-school
and the apple pairing bee in THE Pleasures
of Our NeighborhoOd." Sir Henry Irving is
to tell how to study, read and present
Shakespeare in Small Communities Tosti.
the song writer, will give his first piano COM
position. Sir Arthur Sullivan is to present
the first true and correct copy of The Lost
Chord" ever printed in America. Reginald
Dekoven, John Philip SOusa and Jakobowski
(who wrote "Ermnie'), have each written
waltz, while Ira ID. Sankey has composed a
hymn which he considers greater than his
famous Ninety and Nine" Ian Maclaren
will have story, while Herbert d. Wards
humorous serial, THE Burglar Who Moved
Paradise" will run rous h theyear, followed
by Hamlin Garland's new novelette, The
Spirit of Sweetwater." Jenny Lind's daugh-
ter is to sketch MY Mother as / Recall Her.
while George ". Smalley is to show The
Personal Side of Bismarck" and 1.-The Per
sonal Side of the Prince of Wales" in
two lavishly ILLUSTRATED articles. Alto
gether, no magazine gives list OF attractions
so interesting and promising as does The
Ladies' Home Journal. and certainly no per-
iOdical does it, as does The Journal, for only
one dollar per year. If 1T has become fad,
as it seems, for every girl and woman to take
this magazine, it is an excellent one, and I'M
like many other feds, a sensible one. The
Journal is published by The Curtis Publish
ing company, of Philadelphia