The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-18
CYRUS CURTIS, 82
 TODAY, MADE FORTUNE
 FROM PRINTERS INK

Eminent psychologists have alleged
 that women like to be beaten. MT. Cyrus Hermann KotZschmar Curtis Is not professional psychologist, but
 he knows more about lady folk than
 any college professor. As publisher
 of the Ladies' Home Journal, Mir Curtis spent thousands of dollars for newspaper space to advertise a poem by British author which was de- scribed as 'like a lash across the face ward to have their pretty counten- ances dashed? They did. And yet the aforesaid poet had the effrontery to say that 'the female of the species is more deadly than the male." Pish Also, tush!
 An eminent statesman once wrote,
 and the Ladies' Home Journal pub. lished, this statement: Even if every woman should exercise the suffrage
 the vote of the thoughtful and con- Scientious would almost certainly be largely outweighed by that of the dis reputable, the ignorant the thought Jess, the purchased and the coerced.' .
 In other words, the majority of wo-
 men are either ignorant, diSreputa ble, purchaseable, or spineless nonentities and to think that we wise, incor-
 ruptible. and virtuOus males have to
 have such shameless creatures as our
 wives and mothers! Reading this
 that the large majority of their sex
 were either vicious iOr lacking in in telligence, did the ladies arise in wrath and indignation and voice a
 mighty protest? Not so. And yet stis said that the female of the spec
 ies is deadly" The ideal! Such a
 droll notion.
 MT. Curtis, who is celebrating his
 sixty-second birthday today as the owner of what is probably the great est periodical publishing house in the world, owes his success largely to daily newspaper advertising. Born in Portland, Me-, June IS, 1850, he early
 acquired taste for printers ink, anl
 as boy conducted small job print ing establishment. A boys paper,
 called Young America, was his first publishing venture. Ut is coin cidence that Frank A. Munsey, the only American magazine publisher who might challenge MT. Curtis SUI premacy in the field, was also born
 in Maine, and commenced his career
 with the Golden Argosy, a juvenile paper.) Young America was a fail-
 ure, as was also The Independent, a
 publication established by MT. Curtis
 in Boston. Financially lon his np- pers," MT. Curtis was for a time an
 advertising solicitor, but he saved every cent possible for another ven
 ture into the publishing field. In
 
 Tribune and Farmer. For time il
 lowered on the brink of failure, but
 1t was saved by MT. Curtis wife, a
 bride of a year, who started de
 partment for woman and the home
 and scored an immediate success
 That gave MT. Curtis his great idea
 and with his wife as editor and staff
 he started the Ladies Home Journal
 Managing to establish a credit of a few hundred dollars with an adYer-
 Using agency, he risked his entire capital and prospects on a newspaper
 advertising campaign. Subscriptions fairly poured in and the new publi-
 cation was shortly floating high or
 the tide of success. Later MT. Cur
 tis built up a publication for men that has become the leader in cir culation in it's field. small. quiet forceful man, MT. Curtis is known as
 the Napoleon of publishers" and jt is a title well deserved. His only daughter married Edward William Box, a naive of Holland, who has been editorTn-chief of the Ladies Home Journal since 1S89