1890/01 -- ITEM DESCRIPTION:
24-pages plus outer covers. This is the first issue edited by Edward W. Bok beginning a long history with Curtis Publications and the Ladies Home Journal audience (brief history below). Issue measures appx. 11" X 16". Vol. VII, No. 2.

Contents as cribbed from the outer cover:

  • Ascutney Street -- Part III byAdeline D.T. Whitney
  • Christmas at Guttormson's by Katharine B. Foot
  • 1890 a poem by Lee C. Harby
  • If I Were a Man by Elizabeth B. Custer
  • An Algerian Wedding Feast
  • A Word for an Old Favorite by Felicia Holt
  • Doors and Windows by Helen Evertson Smith
  • Evil Speaking a poem by Margaret E. Sangster
  • Bonnie's Prayer a poem by Anna R. Henderson
  • What Is Good Form by Mrs. F.M. Howard
  • Phillida - Chapters VII - VIII by Maud Howe
  • Maud Howe Elliot -- A Sketch
  • Editorial: Including An Editorial Change. An excerpt: In the capacity of Mr. Bok to continue the work so auspiciously begun and carried out under Mrs. Knapp's direction, the management has every confidence. With the fullest appreciation of the needs of a representative woman's periodical, a tried experience, and the liveliest sympathy with everything appertaining to the elevation and instruction of womankind, Mr. Bok enters upon his duties thoroughly equipped for the position...
  • Under My Study Lamp by T. DeWitt Talmage, D.D.
  • Side Talks With Girls
  • Books and Bookmakers
  • New Fashions by Mrs. John W. Bishop
  • Inexpensive Gowns for Winter by Emma M. Hooper
  • Hints for Housekeepers
  • Children's Page by Emily Meigs Ripley
  • Mother's Corner by Anna E. Watson
  • The Practical Housekeeper by Mrs. Louisa Knapp which opens as follows: In another column will be foundthe announcement of my retirement from the editorship of The Ladies Home Journal. For the past two years the nervous strain and anxiety in providing copy at stated periods, and the constantly growing demands for additional brain labor have been such that it seemed necessary, in justice to my home and family, that I should limit myself to such work only as can have the thorough oversight and preparation that the Journal demands...
  • Floral Department by Eben E. Rexford
  • Artistic Needlework by Mary F. Knapp
  • Questions and Answers
  • Letters from Our Readers

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