1889/09 -- ITEM DESCRIPTION:
24-pages plus outer covers as edited by Mrs. Louisa Knapp (brief history below) While Knapp is still listed as editor of this issue it does include writing by Edward W. Bok. Issue measures appx. 11" X 16". Vol. VI, No. 10.

Contents as cribbed from the outer cover:

  • If Our Old Clock Could Speak by Will Carleton
  • The Mistakes of the Nineteenth Century by M.E.W. Sherwood
  • Modern Divorces by Evelyn Blake Harvier
  • A Coming Out by Susan Coolidge and illustrated by Graves
  • Homely Homilies - The Handy Man by Robert J. Burdette
  • Talks With the Doctor by Laury McHenry
  • An Advertisement and What Came of It by Marigold
  • Eight Little Housekeepers by Rachel True
  • English Home Life by Mary Barrett Brown
  • A Woman's Hands by Emma J. Gray
  • Fancy Work Patterns by Mary F. Knapp
  • What Our Girls Eat by Helen Jay
  • One of Bobby's Troubles a poem by Eben E. Rexford
  • Editorial: A Plea for Boarding Schools by Felicia Holt and The Evils of Boarding Schools by E.C. Hewitt
  • Books and Book Makers by Annie L. Ramsey
  • Literary Leaves by Edward W. Bok
  • New Fashions by Mrs. John W. Bishop
  • Hints on Home Dressmaking by Emma M. Hooper
  • Lunches for School Girls and Clerks by Eliza R. Parker
  • Aids and Accessories by Lillian S. Wells
  • Vegetable Salads and Their Dressing by Aunt Chloe
  • A Plea for Cabbage by Janet E. Runtz-Rees
  • Talk About Flowers by Eben E. Rexford
  • Vacation Flirtation by Felicia Holt
  • Inelegancies and Affectations of Speech by Florence How Hall
  • September poem by E.C. Hewitt on the outer covering.

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