Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1920-11-04

was tWenty-slx years of age he be-
came Editor of the Ladies Home Jour
nal. The way he made it a success
beyond precedent and a powerful in
strument for practical and artistic
education and reform, as he has told
it, is one of the most fascinating life
stories that has appeared in recent
years.
The large range of interests in this
will appeal to the reader
by the names of those who figure
prominently in its pages.
You will think still more favorably
of Henry Ward Beecher, Mark Twain
Phillips Brooks, Kipling, Jane Adams,
Cleveland and Roose-
welt and many others. You will take
from your book shelf your volume of
Eugene Fields oftener after you read
what Mr.. Box has to say about him
and the practical jokes he played up
on him.
Our boys from sixteen to twenty
will read the first forty or fifty pages
to learn how he spent his early school
days, the notable men he met, talked,
and dined with while collecting auto
graphs. The boy scouts will be in
terested in knowing what offer he
made to Theodore Roosevelt and the
salary he would pay him.
| can believe our Editors and pub
fishers will all want to read this book
certainly chapter fifteen; Successful
Editorship," Chapter eighteen Build
ing Up a, Magazine" Chapter thirty
three 'How Millions of People Are
Reached
He talks in a very interesting way
in other chapters on how he met re-
verses and his adventures in civic
and private art.
His chapter nineteen personality
Letters" are full of new interesting
biography and history.
All the ladies who have read the
Ladies Home Journal for thirty one
years or less during Mr.. Bok's Edit
orship will want to read Chapter six.
teen "First Years as a Woman's Ed
tor; Chapter twenty-seven, "Wo
mems Clubs and Woman Suffrage; ant
Chapter Twenty-nine can Excursion
Into Feminine Nature"
Lovers of good music will be in
terested when reading Chapter Thirty
two, "a Bewildered Box"
Every young clerk and stenographel
should read the book beginning will
! Chapter Eleven, ''The Chances TO,
! Success"
Mr.. Box entered the employ O
fCharles Scribner's Sons as stenograph
er at twenty-one years of age ant
thirty-six years latter they became
his publishers.
The last number of the Ladies Hom
Journal under Bok's editorial contro
was the issue of October 1919 with {
i
and carrying between it's covers Owe
one million dollars in advertisements
Another autobiography that is /;
really noteworthy story a Profound.
touching story is "My Mother and l.
by E. G. Stern. This too is stor!
of Americanization, thet Americana
cation of young girl.
So many biographs and autobiogra
phies have been published recently
can only mention briefly some of thu
most interesting.
The education of Henry Adams i.
one of unusual interest and informa
ton.
Also Andrew Carnegie's which ha!
been ordered and will soon be ready
for circulation.
Read can American IdylP' by Cor
nelia Stratton Parker. 1t is a splen
did record of young man and his
wife
Do not forget "The Story of a Pi
oneer," by Anna Howard Shaw.
And all you lovers of all or nearly
all that O. Henry wrote must reac
his biography by c. A. Smith. Reao
chapter six ''The Swallowed Years
and then ask yourself if you would
have left the country as he did. II
you had been one Of the jury would
you have been one of the II to send
him to the penitentiary?
"fhe Worlds and l." by Ella Wheel
er Wilcox is mighty interesting
book. It is the life story Of a Wis
consin girl. Her parents were poor.
For a short time she went to coun-
try school near Madison, later she
studied at the state university, and
hen completed her education by travel
ing all around the world Though We
may not approve everything she says
we think better of her after reading
her book written and published short
ly before she died October 80, 1919.
And don't forget 'The story of
OpaP' the Journal of an understanding
heart" a diary printed by her from
some time in her sixth year and con-