The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-12-16
The Ladies Home Journal fOr 1897.

An even excellence makes the good
things which The Ladies' Home Journal
promises unusually 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 artic-
les: show us what "a Day With the
President at His Desll' means in one ar
ticle; in another tell Of 'The Social Life
of the President - and in a third article
describe ''Upstairs Life in the White
House" Each of the articles will he
profusely illustrated. Another series
equally fascinating is the one called
''Great Personal Events in which some
of the greatest enthusiasms 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 here when Jenny
Lind sang in Castle Garden when Hen
~ Ward Beecher electrified the congre-
CATION 10y selling slaves in his pulpit /;
when Grant went round the world; when
Henry Clay bade farewell to the senate :;
when John Wesley preached in G eorgia,
of which so few know. All these memo
rable events and others will be vividly
recalled, told more graphically than ever
before, and illustrated with pictures
which have occupied twelve artists over
year. \ third series is unique and val
liable from the feet that it will give wo-
men scores of ideas for their homes. 1t
will reveal what there is Inside Of a
Hundred American Homes" and care
fully reproduce pictures of one hundred
completely rooms in homes in
this country-from Maine to California
where taste has gone farther than mon
ey. Two new department writers have
also been exclusively engaged by the
Journal: Mrs. s. r. Rorer. who will
hereafter have entire charge OF the do
mestic department and give series Of
cooking lessons, and Dwight l.. Moody,
the famous evangelist, who is to put ia e
- his life study of the Bible in ~,
result ofowei '-itlgfe srrt,s decisi2n ves
department enefthr Air,. iooGys' Bible
Glass; The artist. Charles Dana Gibson,
who created the Gibson girl, viii present
six full-page pictures showing ''The Peo-
pie Of Dickens" while Alice Barber Ste
phens will alternate with Mr.. Gibson
and present her idea Of ''Six Types of
American Womanhood.' showing the
American woman in society, in religion,
in summer, in the home, and as mother.
Mary Z. wilkins. the New England wri-
ter, 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 10 study, read and present
shakespeare in small communities"
Tosti, the song writer, viii give his first
piano composition Sir Arthur Sullivan
is 10 present the first true aud correct
copy of .srhe Lost ChOrd'' ever printed
in America, Reginald DeKoven, John
Philip Sousa and Jakobowski (who
wrote "Erminie"l, have each written a
waltz, while Ira ID. Sankey has composed
a hymn which he considers greater than
his famous Ninety and Nine.r Ian
Maclaren viii have a story, while Her
bet n. Wards humorous serial, 1.-The
Burglar Who Moved Paradise" win run
through the year, followed by Hamlin
Ce-land's new novelette,, "The Spirit Of
Sweetwater." Jenny Lind's daughter is
( Il sketch my Mother as Recall Her."
while George w. Smalley is to show "'The
Personal Side Of Bismarck" and ''The
Personal Side of the Prince of Walesn in
two lavishly- articles. Alto
gother, no magazine gives a list
of attractions so interesting and
/ promising as does The Ladies' Home
journal, and certainty no parioli-
cal does it, As does the Journal for only
one dollar per year. Ifit has become a
I fad, as it seems, for every girl and woman
/ to take this magazine, il Is an excellent
one, and unlike many other fads, a SEN
sihle one. The JoGrnal is published by
The Curtis Publishing ComPany, Of Phil
adelphia.