Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1899-06-08
THE LADIES' HOME JOURA
NAL FOR 1899.

An even 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 ex-Prcsidcn Harrison is TO write. No man has
ever done what General Harrison will do in these
articles: show US what "A Day With the President
Al his Desk means in one artclc in another tell OF
The Social Life of the President" and in third ar
ticlc describe Upstairs Life in the White House"
Each OF the articles will be protusely illustrated. An
other series equally fascinating is the one called
Great Personal Events, in which some of the great
est 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 was 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 babe
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 more graphically than ever before, and ustrat-
cd with pictures which have occupied twelve artists
over year. A third series is unique and valuable
from the fact that it will give 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
cd rooms in homes in this country-trom Maine to
talitorna-whcre taste has gone farther than money
Two new Department writers have also been excuS-
lively engaged by the JOu RNAL: Mrs. S. I. Rorer,,
who will hereafter have charge Of .hedomestiS DE-
partrnent and give series OF cooking lesson
Dwight l.. Moody, the famous evangelist VIII
put the result ot his life study OF the Bible
partment entitled MIR. Moody s Bible Class.
artist, Charles Dana Gibson, who created the
girl, will present six fall page pictures showii
People of Dickens while Alice Barber S
will alternate with Mr.. Gibson and present
OF Six Types OF American Womanhood," S
the American woman in society. in religion, Ddsi-'
ness, in summer, in the home, and as mother,
Mary Z. wilkins the New England writer, will re-
vve the old puittngparty ancient singing school
and the apple pairing bee in The Pleasures of Our
Neighborhood.' Sir Henry Irving rs to tell how to
study, read and present Shakespeare IN Small Com
munitics." Philip Soasa has written n waltz, while
Ira D. Sankcy has composed hymn which he CON.
siderS greater than his famous Ninety and Nine
Ian MaCaren will have story, while Herbert ID.
Wards numerous sercal, The Burglar Who Moved
Paradise viii run through the year. Jenny Lind $
daughte, is to sketch My Mother as Recall Her"
Side OF the Prince OF Wales" in lavislyillusrated
article. II it has become fad, it seems for every
girl and woman take this magazine it is an excel
lent ono. and, unlike many other fads sensible one,
The JOURNAL is published by The Curtis Publish
ins Company, OF Philadelphia.