Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-08-05
THE LADIES' HOME JOUR
NAL FOR 1897,

Ancvcn excellence makes the 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-Prcsdcnt Harrison is write. No man has
ever done what General Harrison will do in these
articles: show US what ~ Day With the Presidcn,
At his Desk means in article; in another tell Of
The Social Life Of the Irc,dcnt, and in third al.
ticlC describe 'UpStairS Life in the White HOUSE.
Each of the articles will be profusely illustrated An
o'E"r series equally fascinating is the callc'
Great Personal Events, in which some Of the great
est cnthuslaSms wlt~h have occurred in America viii
be revived: those wonderful times when nuis Kos
suth rode up Broadway when the young Prince OF
Wa!es was here; when Jenny Lind sang in Castle
Garden; when Henry Ward BccChCr 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 So few know. All these men,
orable events and others will be wildly recalled,
told more graphically than ever before aud illustrat
cd with pictures which have occupied twelve artists
over year. third series is unique and valuable
from the fact that will give women of ideas
Tor their homes 1t viii reveal what there is Inside
of a Hundred American Homes and carefully
produce pictures OF one hundred completely furnish
ed rooms in homes in this country-trum Maine to
Californa-where taste has gone farther than money
Two new department writers have also been cxcluS-
lively engaged by the JOURNAL: Mrs. s. T. Rorcr,
who will hereafter have charge of the domestic de-
partment and give a 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 MIR. Moody's Bible Glass; The
artist, Charles Dana Gibson, who created the Gibson
girl will present six full page pictures showing he
will alternate wkh Mr.. Gibson and present her idea
OF "Six Types OF American WumanhOod,N showing
the American in society, in religion, in bus
ness, in summer, in the home and as mother.
Mary f. wilkins, the New England writer, will re-
vive the old quiItngparty, the ancient sing uOl
and the appe-parlng bee in The Pleasures OF Our
Neighborhood." Sir Henry Irving is to tell how to
study, read and present "ShakcSPcarc in Small Com
munties." Philip Sousa has written waltz, while
Ira D. Sankey has composed hymn which he con
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Ian Maclaren 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. Smalley is to show The Personal
Side of the Prince of Wales in lavshy illustracd
article. If it has become fad ii seems, for every
girl and woman to take this magazine it is excel
lent one. and, unlike many other tads sensible one.
The JOURNAL is published by The Curtis Publish
ing Company, of Philadelphia