Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-07-10
LITERARY NOTES.

An idyl for summer days, full of
brightness, yet trimming with senti.
ment of healthy sort, is the complete
novel in Lippiocotts Magazine for
July. Il is called THE Pretenders. ."
because the two main characters pretend
they are in love, and it is by Ina Bre.
WORT Roberts. who wrote that memoir
able novel, 1.-The Lifting Of Finger"
Light without heat is the kind of glow
for July reading, and LippiIcotts has
this time found it Enthusiastically.
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The well known home and fashion
magazine, rhe Designer, published by
the Standard Fashion Company of New
York City, has been reduced III price
from 81 90 to so cents year. The great
aim Of The Designer is to help women
along all practical and beautiful lines by
gathering for them and giving to them
the fullest information on all fashion
and domestic matters,
Chauncey Thomas has written many
good stories for McClure's, but none
better than the one in the current mum.
Der, "Ruggles' First Case" Ruggles is
a young lawyer in Denver, briefiess and
almost breadless. His first client is a
trusting young Englishmen who has
just parted with his last penny to a
Yankee syndicate In exchange for
sailed mine Ruggles takes his case and
forces a settlement, but by procedure
considerably more strenuous than the
ordinary processes Of law. A good
story of good bluff never fails to ap.
peal.
The July Woman's Home Companion
opens with highly interesting article
by Mary Annable Fanton on Keeping
House With High Explosives" Louis
Joseph Vance has an amusing article on
THE Terrible Danger of Being Alive"
Myrtle Reed writes of THE Courtships
Of George Washington, and Dr. j. NJ.
Buckley tells Of 1.-THE Methodists and
Their Good Works" The fiction which
is unusually strong, includes stories by
Eden Phillpotfs, Hermon Lee Ensign,
L. L. Sabin, Elliott Flower and John H.
Jewett. Special attention is paid TO the
children and TO short stories, games and
amusements for the youngsters. Mrs.
Herrick tells how to give July picnic,
and Miss Gould has some very smart
touches for summer girls. Published
by The Crowell Publishing Company,
Springfield Ohio; one dollar year ten
cents copy
Accordion plating and shocking will
again aid in identifying garments for
women and children. To know sll
about either process one should read TIE
Designer for August. which, in addition
to illustrating and describing the above,
pictures all that is stylish in millinery
and fashions for this season OF the year
How and where perfumes are made, ="
by Katherine Louise Smith, Women
Who Make Money" by Landon knight.
and Floral Stands of Honolulu" are
three interesting articles to be found in
this issue, which also contains three ex-
cellent short stories, "a Srnf1ower
Drill" illustrated pages on "Womau's
Fads and Fancies, I" Fashions and Fab
RIGS" and "Fans and What TO Make Of
Them"
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The series How to Administer q
Household" now running in The Cos.
mopolitan, is attracting wide comment,
because Of its aim to be practical rather
than revolutionary. Dividing the Ex.
penses" is the title Of an essay in the
July number which deals with a suc-
cessful experiment in co. operative house
keeping.