Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-10-26
WOMAN.
The New and Different Magazine for
Women, Which Makes Its First lp.
pedrdnce With the November
lSSue-NOW on the News
Stands.

HCtiu, IDcy are ueferIUeleSS EN-
phatically similar in. general
scheme-a smattering to fiction a
few articles some fashions and a
considerable percentage of small
talk.
This is al! right in its way and
doubtless furnishes a very good
model for a woman's magazine;
but it is not the only model on
which a magazine can be made
that will be welcomed into the
home by women.
Women are the great readers of
the world, and this is especially
true with regard TO fiction. Men
read more or less felton, some
books, a good many articles in the
magazines, but chiefly. con6ne
their reading to the daily papers.
They are much greater readers of
daily papers than women. Wo.
men have more time for reading
than men, and the story dealing
with the human heart, and with
the joys and sorrows and struggles
and triumphs of life, interests
them most keenly.
1t is this element good, whole
some, absorbing fiction, and in
great big measure-that will
diferentiate Woman from all the
other woman's magazines. To
make room for all this fiction
say, four or five, or even six
serial stories, and a large number
of short stories, and perhaps now
and then a complete nOvel-there
will be published no fashions and
no illustrations. Every illustra-
ton and every page of fashions
cut just..so much out of the read
inge.space.
You cannot get something for
nothing, and get it for a very
long time. If a magazine gives
you in, fashions and illustrated
pric-a. brac, and in its depart
ments, all that its price will co, err.
it is clear that It cannot give in
addition a ton of fiction.
This magazine will concentrate
on fiction. Fiction will be is
fourteen inch gun. 1t may be
that this isn't as good model for
a woman's magazine as the con-
ventional one but it has the merit
of being different. If there we're
only one woman's magazine in
the field the other model would
probably be preferable. But
with several hundred such period.
Gals, and all built on practically
the same lines, it would seem that
something radically different in
conception, though equally close
to the nerve centers of human
interest, would be able to pre-
empt corner of the woman's
filed and hold it.
All fiction would be absolute
concentration, but that would not
measure up to the purpose in his
magazine. The aim is to make
it independent of its great
volume of fiction, Just as much of
a home magazine in all the essen.
tials as any woman's magazine on
the markets. publication that
shall outrank.all other magazines
for women in the way of enter
tainment, and, in addition. shall
have the substantial qualities that
60 to help people to live better
and be wiser.
Woman is very big magazine
1872 pages. which gives it we'll
nigh double the reading space
of the various woman's publica-
tions. By reading space is..meant
the space given to reading and
not occupied by advertising.
Whatever advertising this
magazine may carry will appear.
on additional pages-pages in
serted especially for advertising,
and not taken from the reading
section ALI this-its bigness'and