Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-09-23
THE LADIES' HOME JOUR
NAL FOR 1897,

Aneven eycellenee 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 sci! the
magazine: that is, the three White House articles
which ex-Presidcnt Harrison is to write. No man has
ever done what General Harrison will do in these
articles: show what "A Day " it'll the President
at his Desk means in one article in another tell Of
THE Social Life OF the President, and in third ar
ticle describe upstairs Life in the White House.
Each OF the articles will be proiusey illustrated. An
other equally fascinating is the one called
Great Personal Events, in which some of the great.
est cnthuSiaSnlS which have occurred in America VIII
be revived: those wonderful times when Louis Us
suth rode up Broadway; when the young Prince of
Wales was here; when Jenny Lind sang in Castle
Garden; when Henry Ward Beccher electrified his
congregation by selling slaves in his pulpit; when
Grant went round the wor Id; when Henry Clay babe
farewell to the senate; when John Wesley preached
in Georgia, OF which so few know. All these mem
orable events and others will be wildly recalled,
told more graphically than ever before, and ustrat-
ed with pictures which have occupied twelve artists
over year A third series is unique and valuable
from the fact that 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
Californra-where taste has gone farther than money
Two new department writers have also been cNcus-
lively engaged by the JOURNAL: Mrs. s. T. 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 lite study Of the Bible in de-
partmcnt entitled mir. Moodv's Bible Class The
artist. Charles Dana Gibson, VINO created the NbSon
girl will present six full page pictures showing he
People OF Dickens" while Alice Barber stephens
will alternate with Mr. Gibson and present her idea
OF six Types Of American Womanhood," showing
the American woman in society, in 2gion, in bust
ness, in summer, in the home, and as Il mother
Mary Z. wilkins. the New England writer, will re-
vive the old quitng-party, the ancient singngsChoo
and the appc.paring bee in The Pleasures Of Our
Neighborhood,' Sir Henry Irving is TO tell how to
study. read and present Shakespeare in Small Com
muntjes.' Philip Sousa has written waltz, while
Ira D. Sankey has composed hymn which ne con-
Ian haClaren will have story, while Herbert ID
Wards numerous scrcal, 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 lavishly illustrated
article. If it has become lad, as it seems for every
girl and to take this magazine, il is an excel
lent one, and, unlike many other fais sensible one
The JOURNAL is published by The Curtis Publish
ing Company, OF Philadelphia.