Catoctin clarion., 1899-12-07
THE LADIES' HOME JOUR-
NAL FOR 1899,

Aneven 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-Presiden 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
his Desk means in one article in another tell of
"The Social Life of the President, and in third ar
tcle describe upstairs Life in the White House"
Each of the articles will be profusely illustrated An
other equally fascinating is the called
Great Personal Events, in which some of the great
est enthusiasns 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 bade
farewell to the senate; when John Wesley preached
in Georgia, of which SO few know. All these mem
oTable events and others Will be vivdly recalled,
told more graphically than ever before and uStrat
ed with pictures which have occupied twelve artists
over year. third series is unique and valuable
from the fact that it will give women of ideas
for their homes. 1t will 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-from Maine to
Californiawhere taste has gone farther than money
Two new department writer's have also been excus-
lively engaged by the JOURNAL: Mrs S. T. Rorer,
who will hereafter have charge of thcdomcstic de
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 III de
partmcnt entitled mir. Moody's Bible Class" The
artist Charles Dana Gibson, who crelted 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 Womanhood," showing
the American woman in society. in religion in bus
ness, in summer, in the home, and as mother,
Mary +. wilkins. the New England writer will re-
vive the old qutng'party,the ancient singing school
and the applc-paring bee in The Pleasures of Our
Neighborhood." Sir Henry Irving Is to tell how to
study, read and present shakespeare in Small Com
munes." Philip Sousa has written a waltz, while
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sidcrS greater than his famous NINETY and Nine "
Ian Maclaren will have story, while Herbert d.
Wards numerous screa The Burglar Who Moved
Paradise" will run through the year. Jenny Lind's
daughteris is to sketch MY Mother as Recall Her.
while George w Smaey is to show "Thc Personal
Side of the Prince Of Wales" in laysly-lllusraed
article. II il has become fad il seems for every
girl and woman 10 take this magazine it is an excel
lent one and, unlike many other fadS sensible one,
The JOURNAL is published by The Curtis Publish
ing Company, of Philadelphia.