Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-07-29
THE LADIES' HOME JOUR
NAL FOR 1897,

r Anevcn excellence makes tne 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 cx-residcnt Harrison is to write. No has
ever done what General Harrison VIII DO IN these
articles: show us what "A Day With the President
Al his Desk means i'll one article III another tell Of
The Social Life of the President and in third ar
ticc describe upstairs Life in the White House.
Each of the articles viii be prnfuscy illustrated. An
other series equally fascinating is the called
Great Personal Events, in which some Of the great
est cnthuSiasms 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 Henry Ward iieecher electrified his
congregation by selling slaves in his pulpit; when
Grant went round the world: when Henry Clay badc
farewell to the senate; when John Wesley preached
in Georgia, OF which SO few know. All these mem
orablc events and others will be wildly recalled,
told more graphically than ever before and ustrat-
cd with pictures which have occupied twelve artists
over year. 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 a Hundred American Homes and carefully re-
produce pictures Of one hundred completely furn"h
ed rooms in homes in this country-tro Maine to
CafornIa-wherc taste has gone farther than money.
Two new department writers have also been cxcus-
lively engaged by the JOURNALS Mrs 5. I. Rorer,
who will hereafter have charge OF the domestic de-
partmcnt 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-
partmcnt entitled MIR. MoOdv's Bible Class The
artist Charles Dana Gibson who crcltcd the Gibson
girl, will present six full page pictures showing"lh
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 religion, in bust
ness, in summer, in the home, and 4 mother.
Mary f. wilkins the New England writer, will re-
vvc the old qutingparty, the ancient slnglngschool
and the apple pairing bee in The Pleasures of Our
Neighborhood." Sir Henry Irving is to tell how to
study, read and present Shakespeare in Small Com
munities." Philip Sousa has written waltz. while
Ira d. Sankey has composed hymn which he con,
siders greater than his famous Ninety and Nine
Ian Macaren will have story, while Herbert ID
Wards numerous sereal, "The Burglar Who Moved
Paradise" will run through the year. Jenny Linds
while George w. Smalley is to show 1.-THE Personal
Side of the Prince of Wales in lavshly 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 fads sensible
The JOURNAL is published by The Curtis Publish
in Comnanv. of Phladcnhia.