Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-04-01
THE LADIES' HOME JOUR-
NAL FOR 1897.

Aneven excellence makes the good things which
THE LADIES HONE JOURNAL promises unusu.
ally interesting and strong me list IS strong ana
sturdy One series of papers alone would sell the
magazine: that is, the three White House articles
which ex.Presdent Harrison is to write. No man has
ever done what General Harrison will do in these
articles show US what "A Day With the Presden,
at his Desk means in article: in another tell OF
"The Social Life of the President. and in third ar.
ticlc describe Upstairs Life in the White blouse.
Each of the articles will be prousely Illustrated An
other equally fascinating is the one called
Great Personal Events, in which some of the great.
est enthusasns 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 Beecher electrified his
congregation by selling slaves in his pulpit; when
Grant wen, round the world; when Henry Clay bade
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 ustrat'
ed with pictures which have occupied tive I've artists
over year. third series is unique and valuable
from the fac, that it will give women scores<t ideas
for their homes II will reveal what there is Inside
OF a Hundred American Homes" and carefully re-
produce pictures of one hundred completely furnish
cd rooms in homes in this country from Maine to
Calfornia-where taste has gone farther than money
Two new department writers have also been exclus-
who will hereafter have charge of the domestic dc,
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-
par,mcnt entitled mir. Moody's Bible Class" The
artist Charles Dana Gibson, who created the Gibson
girl will present full page pictures showing Inc
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 as mother
Mary f. Wilkins. the New England writer, will re-
vivc the old quilting party the ancient singingschool
and the appe,paring bee in The Pleasures Of Our
Ncighborhood. Sir Henry Irving is to tell how to
study, read and present Shakespeare in Small Com
munties." Philip Sousa has written waltz, while
Ira d. Sankcy has composed hymn which ne con,
siders greater than his famous Ninety and Nine;
Ian Maclaren will have story, while Herbert u
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 avishly illustrated
article Ii it has become fad, as seems, for every
girl and to take this magazine, 1t is an excel
lent one and, unlike many other tads, sensible one
The JOURNAL is published by The Curtis Publish
ing Company, Of Philadelphia.