Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-12-18
The Ladies' Home Journal For
1897.

An even excellence makes tho good
things which The Ladies' Home JcurDsl
promises usually interesting and strong.
The list Is long and sturdy. One series
Of papers alone worii sell the magazine
that is three White House ARTICLES which
sx-Presid' mt Harrison is 10 write No man
has ever done what GeneTal HARRISON will
10 In these articles show IN what "A
Day with the President M His Desk"
means in an article; in another tell Of
The Social Life of the President" AMI
IN a third article describe Upstairs kife
in the White House." Each of the nrti-
cles viii be profusely innstra,ed Anoth
er series equally as fascinating is the one
called Crest Personal events" in which
some of the greatest enthusiasm which
have occurred in America will be revived
those wonderful times when Louis Kos
suth rode up Broadway; when the young
Prince of Wales was here5 when Jenny
Lind sang in Castle Garden; when Henry
Ward Beecher electrified his congregation
by selling slaves in his pulpit; when
Grant went round the world; when Henry
Clay babe farewell to the Senate; When
John Wesley preached in GeorSia, OF
which so sew know. All these memora-
bic evonts and others will lie wildly re-
called. told more graphically than ever be-
tore, and illustrated with pictures which
have orcupied twelve artist for over vera,
third series is unique and valuable from
the fact that it will give women scorrs IL
ideas for their homes. 1t will reveal whag
there is Inside of Hundred Amer can
Homes" and carefully reproduce pictures
of one hundred completely. furnished
rooms in homes in this couniJy-from
Maine to California-where taste has ro q
farther than money. Two new depart
ment writers have also been exclusively
engaged by the journal: Mrs. S. I. Ror-
er, who will hereafter take entire charge
OF the domestic department and give a
series Of cooking lessons, and Dwight l.
Moody the famous evangelist, who is to
put the result of his life study of the Bible
In department entitled Mr.. Moody's
Bible Class" The artist, Charles Dana
Gibson, who created the Gibson gill, will
present. six full page pictures showing
The People of Dickens" while Alice
Barber Stephens will alternate with Mr..
Gibson and present her idep of six Types
or American Womanhood Showing the
American woman in society, in religion,
in business, in summer in the home, and
as mother. Mary E. wilkins. the New
England writer, will revive the old Quilt
ing party, the ancient singing school and
tue apple pairing DO in THE Pleasures of
Our Ncighboahood Sir Henry Irving
is to tell how to Stnuy, read and present
'Shakespear in Small Communities. !"
Tosti, the song writer, will give his first
piano composition Sir Arthur Sullivan
Is to present the FIRST true and correct copy
OF The Lost Chord" ever printed in
America. Reginald DeKoven, John Phil.
Up Sousa and Jakobowski (who wrote
" Erminie' have each written a waits.
while Ira j.. Sankey has composed n
hymn which he considers greater than his
famous Ninety and Nine" Ian Maclar-
en- will have story, while Herbert ID.
wards hume-ous serial, 1.-The burSIer
Who moved Paradise" will run through
the year. followed by Hamhn Garland's
new novelette,, THE Spirit of Sweet wa
t"r." Jenny Mnd's daughter is to sketch
MY Mother as l Recall Her" while
George W. Smalley is TO show The Per-
sonal Side of Bismarck" and The Fer
sonal Side of the Prince of Woles" in tv,o
lavishly illustrated articles. Altos Gather.
no magazine gives list of attractions SO
interesting aud promising as does The
Ladies Home Journal. and certainly no
periodical does it, as does the Journal. for
only only Que dollar per year If it has
become fad, as it seems, for every girl
and woman to take this magazine, il is an
excellent one, and unlike auy other fads,
sensible one. The Journal is published
10y the Curtis Publishing Company, OF
Philadelphia.