Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-07-01
THE LADIES' HOME JOUR
NAL FOR 1897,

Anev excellence makes the good things which
THE LADIES HOME JOURNAL; promises unusu,
ally interesting and strong. The list is strong and
sturdy. one series OF papers alone would sell the
magazine that is, the three White House articles
which ex-Presdcnt Harrison is to write. No man has
ever done what General Harrison will do in these
articles: show us what IA Day With the President
at his Desk in article; in another tell of
"The Social Life Of the President, and in third ar.
tcle describe 'UpstarS Life in the White House,
Each OF the articles will be prouscly illustrated An
other series equally fascinating is the one called
Great Personal Events, in which some of the great
est cnthusias:ns which have occurred in America VIII
be rcviv,3: those wonderful times when Louis KOS
! suth rode up Broadway; when the young Pri0Ce Of
Wales was here; when Jenny Lind sang in. Castle
Garden; when Henry Ward Ble-hcr electrified his
congregation by selling slaves in his pull pitt when
| Grant went round the world; when Henry Clay babe
ia ia OF of w sit So few Know All htse
orable events and others will be wildly recalled,
told more graphically than ever before, and illustrate
ed with pictures which have occupied twelve artists
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 re-
produce pictures OF one hundred completely furnish
| ed rooms in homes in this country from Maine to
Caforna-where taste has gone farther than money.
Two new department writers have also been eXcIus-
| lively engaged by the JOURNAL: Mrs. s. I. Rorer,
who will hereafter have charge OF the domestic de-
partment and give 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 de-
partment entitled Mir M"odys Bible Class" The
artist, tIldrleS Dana gibson, WHO
girl will present six full page pictures showing" he
People OF Dickens while Alice Barber Stephens
will alternate with MIR. Gibson and present her idea
OF "Six Types of American Womanhood, showing
the American woman in society, in religion, in bust
ness, in RUNNER, in the home, and as mother.
Mary E. Wilkins, the New England writer, will re-;
vive the old quilting party the ancient sinclnGschoo
and the apple-,parng bee in The Pleasures Of Our
Neghborhood." Sir Henry Irving is to tell how to
study read and present shakespeare in Small Com.
munitics." Philip Sousa has written waltz, while
Ira D. Sankey has composed hymn which he con,
sdcrs greater than his famous Ninety and Nine
Ian Maclaren will have story, while Herbert ID
Wards numerous serea, The Burglar Who Moved
Paradise" will run through the year. Jenny Lind $
daughter Is to sketch My Mother as Recall Her,
while George w Smalley is to show The Personal
Side of the Prince of Wales in lavshly- ustratcd
article If it has become fad, it seems for every
girl and woman to take this magazine it is an excel
lent one and unlike many other ads sensible one.
The JOURNAL is published by The Curtis Publish