Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-06-10
THE LADIES' HOME JOUR
NAL FOR 1897,

Ancvcn excellence makes the good things which
THE LADIES HONE 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 article,
which cXPtesdcEt Harrison is to write. No man has
ever done what General Harrison vii, do in these
articles: show What "A Day With the President
at his Desk means in one article, III another tell OF
"The Social Lie OF III" President, and in third ar
ticlc describe "UpSIairs Lii" in the White House
Each of the articles will be pr0tusCly illustrated. An
other series equally fascinating is the one called
"Grea, Personal Events, IN which some OF the great
est enthusasmS which have occurred in America viii
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 Bcccher electrified his
congregation by selling slaves IN lis pulpit; when
Grant went round the world; when Henry Clay babe
farewell to the senate; when John Wesley preached
in Georgia, of which few know All these mem
orab.e events and others Will be wildly recalled,
told graphically than ever before and illustrdt-
ed with pictures which have occupied twelve artists
over a. year. third series IS unique and valuable
from the fact that il will give 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 furnish
ed rooms in homes in this country from Maine TO
Catornla-where taste has gone farther than money.
Two new department writers have also been eXClu,
lively engaged by the JOURNAL: Mrs. $ T. Rorer,
who will hereafter have charge Of the domestic de
partmcnt and give series Of cooking lessons, ard
Dwigh, l.. Moody, the famous evangelist who is to
put the result Of hi; Ike study Of hb the 6.s IN de-
artist Charles Dana Gibson, who creoted the Gibson
girl, will present Sin full page pictures showing lie
People OF Dckcns,' while Alice Barber Stephens
will alternate with Mr. Gibson and present her idea
OF "Six ypcs Of American Womanhood' showing
the American woman in society, III religion, IN bust
ness, in summer, in the home and a. a mother.
Mary +. Wilkins, the New England writer, Will re-
vvc the old quilting party. the ancient sngnEschool
and the applc-parIng bee in The Pleasures OF Our
Neighborhood.' sir Henry Irving is to tell how to
study, read and present "Shakcspcarc in Small ON.
munitieS." Philip Sousa has written waltz, while
Ira d. Sankey has composed hymn which he con,
siders greater than hlS famous Ninety and Nine
Ian Maclaren will have a story, while Herbert ID
Wards numerous screal, The Burglar Who Moved
Paradise" will run through the year Jenny Lind 5
daughtc is to sketch My Mother as Recall Her
while George w Smallcy is to show The Personal
Side OF the Prince of Wales in lavisly illustrated
article If it has become fad II seems, Tor every
girl and woman take this magazine, it is an excel
lent one. and unlike many olhrr fads, sensible one
The JOURNAL is published by The Curtis Publish
ing Company, of Philadelphia