Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-09-16
THE LADIES' Hume JOUR
NAL FOR 1897,

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 tho three White House article,
which ex-Prcsidcnt Harrison is to write. No man has
done what General Harrison will do in these
articles: show what "A Day With the President
at his Desk means in article; in another tell OF
The Social Life OF the President and i'll third ar.
ticc describe "Upstairs Life in the White House"
Each ut the articles viii be prousely illustrated An
other series equally fascinating is the called
"Grcat Personal Events in which some Of the great
cst cnthuSaSno whith have occurred in America will
be rcvived those wonderful times when Louis Kos
suth rode up Broadway; when the young Prince of
wales was here; when Jenny Linz sang in Gai Ii
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 50 few know. All these mem
orabc events and others will be wildly recalled.
told more graphically than ever before, and illrstrat
cd 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 Ii will reveal what there is Inside
of Hundred American Homes" and carefully
produce pictures OF one hundred completely furnish
ed rooms in homes in this country from Maine to
Caliiornra-wherc taste has gone farther than money.
TWO new department writers have also been cxclus-
lively engaged by the JOURNAL: Mrs. 5. T. Rorcr,
who will hereafter have charge OF the domestic de-
partmcnt and give series of cooking lessons, and
Dwight t.. Moody, the famous evangelist who is to
put the result Of his life study OF the Bible in de-
partmcnt entitled MIR. Moody's Bible Class" The
artist, Charles Dana Gibson who created the Gibson
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 Sin Types of American WJmanhood,'' showing
the American woman in society, in religion, in bust
ness, in summer, in the home, and mother.
Mary f. WiIkns, the New England writer, will re-
vivc the old quilting-paty, the ancient singingschool
and the apple-paring bee in The Pleasures Of Our
Neighborhood.' Sir Henry Irving is to tell how to
study, read and present Shakespeare in Small Com
muntics.' Philip Sousa has written a waltz, while
Ira D. Sankey has composed hymn which he con
sidcrs greater than his famous Ninety and Nine.
Ian Maclaren will have story, while Herbert ID
Wards numerous screal, 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. Smalley is to show The Personal
Side of the Prince OF Wales" in layshly illustrated
article. If it has become fad, ii seems, for every
girl and woman take this magazine, it is an excel
lent one. and, unlike many other tads sensible one.
The JOURNAL is published by The Curtis Publish
ing Company, OF Philadelphia.