People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-12-17
LITERARY NOTES.


number on a great variety Of topics
of national aud International sig
niticance. After deyOting several
paragraphs to lucid and instruc-
tive analysis Of the results of the
president ial election, the editor pro-
ceeds to review the history of the
efforts to obtain arbitration of tn
Venezuelan boundary dispute with
Great Britain, which have fnanlly
resulted successfully, explaining the
attitude of tue United States in the
controversy; discusses the merits
and dement's of the Cleveland ad-
ministratiOn now drawing TO close
crtlcising with especial vigOr the
Presidents Turkish policy: describes
the latest phases Of the European
situation, with reference to the
Eastern question and the Franco
Russian alliance; comments on Lord
Rosebury's resignation and the re-
sultiug complications in English pol
itics-making altogether most in
teresting aud valuable summary
Of the worlds important d0iDgS for
the month just past.
YOUTH'S COMPANION.-The Youths
Companion will celebrate its Sc Jenty-
first birthday in 1897. Among the
many attractive announcements of
the Companion for the coming year
is an article Of exceptional value by
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, on Habit of
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negieS paper with readable, praCti-
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as 0t0 the young. Stories will be !
given by Ian Maclaren, Rudyard |
Kipling, Stephen Crane, Harold !
Frederic and Clark Russell. Speaker |
Reed, Secretary Herbert, Senator |
Lodge. Hon. Carl Schurz, POstmaS- |
ter-General Wilson, DR.. Lyman Alb
bett. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt
these are few of the two hundred |
names that figure in the latest list |
of Companion contributors. The
nOn-partiSan editorials and current |
events and nature and ScieOce de-
partmentS are Of especial interest to
students and to all who wish to
keep Informed Ct the dOingS of the
world. As reference book a file of |
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for It's reputation is founded on
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THE DELINEATOR.- The January |
Number of The DelinedtOr is called |
the Winter Holiday Number, and |
its preSentment of weather |
dress modes and millinery is supple |
mented by the group Of lithograph,
half-tOne telegraph cOlored plates
which are now feature of every is
sue Those who have not yet made
choice of their holiday gifts will
find helpful its records of what the
shops have to offer in this line, as
wei 6lS the review Of new books cal
endSTS and juvenile literature suit.
able for presentation. With the new
year is begun a feature of personal
interest to women in the series of
"Talk on Beauty" by DR.. Grace
Peckham-Murray a recognized au.
thOrity on this subject. Mrs. Mary
Cadwalader Jones gives a cOmpre-
henSive glance at Social Life in
America" treating of the big cities.
At the Bayou, 7. g. de Leon, in
short story of the South, by one of
its best known writes. and The Divi-
sion of the Income is suggestive
consideration of how to make both
ends meet financially. Mrs. A. B.
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graphical sketch of Miss StimsOn,
the noted Maine mill owner and
lumber dealer. In her rehearsal of
the Six Important Days in a WO-
mans Life, Maude c. Murray-Miller
describes the Debut in society.
Emma Haywood tells how to en-
6rOider fancy screens, and there is
an illustrated article on the Mount
mellick work now so popular. Mrs.
Witherspoon's January Tea-Tablp
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the pages devoted to SeaSOnable
Cookery will all be found entertain
ing, as will also the usual depart
mentS OF knitting, tatting, lace
making, etc. A subscription to this
sterling magazine for year will be
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THE LADIES HOME JOURNAL For
lS97.-An even excellence makes the
good thing which the Ladies' Home
journal promises unusually inter-
lying and strong. The list is loug
and sturdy, One series of papers
alone would sell the magazine: that
is, the White House articles which
EXPIRES. Harrison il to write. No
man has ever done what General
Harrison will do in these articles:
show US what "a Day With the
President at His Desk" means in
one article; in another tell of "The
Social Life of the President and
in a third article describe upstairs
Life 10 the White House" Each of
the articles will be profusely illus
trated. Another series equally faS.
cinatiDg is the one called Great
Personal Events" " in which some of
the enthusiasts which have &C.
CURED in America will be revived:
those wonderful times when Louis
Kossuth rode up Broadway; when
the Young Prince of Wales was here: