Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-03-03
THE LADIES' HCME JOUR-
1!AL FOR 1897.

Ancven excellence make. the good things which
THE LADIES HONE JOURNAL promises unusu-
ally interesting and strong. The list is strong and
magazine that IS, the three White House articles
which ex-President Harrison is to write. No man has
ever done what General Harrison will do in these
articles: show what "A Day With the President
his Desk means in article; in another tell Of
THE Social Life Of the President, and in third ar
ele describe .upsta;1,i Life in The Mhi,s HSuss
other series equally fascinating is the one called
Great Personal Events in which some Of the great.
enthusiasms which have occurred in America will
be revived: those wonderful times when Louis Kos
suth rode up Broadway; when the young Prince OF
Wales wa. here, when Jenny Lind sang in Castle
Garden; when Henry Ward Beecher electrified his
congregation by selling slaves in his pulpit; when
Grant went round the world; when Henry Clay bade
farewell to the senate; when John Wesley preached
in Georgia, of which so few know. All these men,
orable events and others will be vvdly recalled,
told more graphically than ever before and lnstrat-
ed with pictures which have occupied twelve artists
over a 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 hundred American Homes" and carefully re-
produce pictures Of one hundred completely furnish
ed rooms in homes in this country from Maine to
Caiforhta-whcrc taste has gone farther than money
Two new department writers have also been e1cus-
lively engaged by the JOURNAL: Mrs. S T Rorer,
who will hereafter have charge of the domestic de-
partment and give series of cooking lessons, ard
dwight l.. Moody. the famous evangelist who is TO
put the result Of his life study Of the Bible in de-
partmert entitled Mr.. Moody's Eible Class" The
artist. Charles Dana Gibson who crented 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 "Six Types Of American Wor1anhood, showing
the American woman in society in religion in bust
ness, in GUNNER. in the home. and as a mother.
Mary L. Wilkins. the New England wtiter will re-
vyc the OLD quiltingparty the ancient sngingschool
and The apple-paring bee in The Pleasures Of Our
Neshhorhood." Sir Henry living is to tell how to
study, read and present shakespeare in Small Com.
munities.' Philip Sousa has written a waltz, while
Ira d. Sankey has composed hymn which he con-
sidcrs greater than h,s famous Ninety and Nine
Ian Macaren 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 lavishly illustrated
article II it has become fad, it seems, for every
girl and womaa take this magazine, it is an excel
lent one. and, unlike many other fads sensible one.
The JOURNAL is published by The Curtis Publish
inc Company, of Philadelphia.