Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-12-02
THE LADIES' HOME JOUR-
NAL FOR 1897.

Anevcn exceenee makes the good things which
ally interesting and strong. The list is strong and
sturdy. One series Of papers alone would sell tho
magazine: that is, the three White House articles
which cx-President Harrison is 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 third
tcle describe ~ pstairs Life in the White House."
Each of the articles will be profusely illustrated An
other series equally fascinating is the called
Great Personal Events, in which some of the great
est cnthusiasms whch have occurred in America will
be revived: those wonderful times when Louis Kos
su,h rode up Broadway; when the young Prince of
Wales was here; wien 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 Georgia, Of Which SO few know. All these MEM
orable events and others will be wildly recalled,
told graphically than ever before and iluStrat-
ed with pictures which have occupied twelve artists
year. third series is unique and valuable
from the fact that it will give women scores of ideas
for their homes IL 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 10
Caiforna-whcre taste has gone farther than money.
Two new department writer's have also been CxClus-
lively engaged by the JOURNAL; Mrs. S. 7. Rorer,
who will hereafter have charge of the domestic de-
partncnt 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 MI. MOODY S B1Dle I lass me
artist Charles Dana Gibson, who ere lted the Gibson
girl will present six full page pictures showing The
People OF Dickens" while Alice Barber Stephens
will alternate wi III MIR Gibson and present her idea
OF "Six Types OF American Womanhood," showing
the American woman in society, in religion, in bust
ness, in summer, in the home. and as a mother.
Mary Z. Wilkin". the New England writer, will re-
vive the ola qutingpa the ancient sinsngschool
and the apple pairing bee in The Pleasures Of Our
Ncghborhood." Sir Henry Irving is to tell how TO
study, read and present Shakespeare in Small Com
munities.' Philip Sousa has written a waltz, while
Ira b. Sankcy has composed hymn which he con-
sldcrs greater than his famous Ninety and Nine"
Ian Macarcn will have story, while Herbert d.
Wards numerous scrcal, THE Burglar Who Moved
Paradise. will run through the year. Jenny Lind's
daughter is to sketch My Mother as Recall Her.
while George w. Smaey is to show The Personal
Side Of the Prince of Wales in lavishly illustrated
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 fds a sensible
The JOURNAL is published by The Curtis Publish
ing Company, Of Philadelphia.