1890/06 -- ITEM DESCRIPTION:
30-pages plus outer covers, plus 40-page Premium Supplement section offering goods for attracting subscribers (some cool stuff, toy trains, magic lantern, lots of books). This is just the sixth issue edited by Edward W. Bok towards the start of his long history with Curtis Publications and the Ladies Home Journal audience (brief history below). Issue measures appx. 11" X 16". Vol. VII, No. 7.

Contents as cribbed from the outer cover:

  • Myrtle's Mistake - Part I - by Kate Upson Clark and illustrated by Frank T. Merrill
  • Useful Things Worth Knowing
  • A Progressive Conversation Party by Mrs. E.C. Allis
  • Out-Door Sports for Girls by Ellen Le Garde
  • Closing House for the Summer by Florence Howe Hall
  • The Eternal Will, a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Summer Widowers by Percy Vere
  • The Story of a New York House
  • Are Women Careless of Money? by Junius Henri Browne
  • Sunrise on the Nile by Mary J. Holmes
  • Her One Talent -- A Story for Girls - by Fay Huntington and illustrated by C.T. Hill and F.S. Guild
  • Early Summer Fruits by Feliz L. Oswald, MD
  • A Patagonian Child Doctor
  • Ascutney Street -- Chapters VII - VIII -- by Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney and illustrated by W. St. John Harper
  • Some Questions I Am Asked by The Editor (Bok)
  • Under My Study Lamp by T. DeWitt Talmage, DD
  • Side-Talks With Girls by Ruth Ashmore
  • Letters to Beth: Manners in Public by Kate Tannatt Woods
  • Trusting Our Children by Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher
  • Notes for Young Mothers by Elizabeth Robinson Scovil
  • By-Low Song by Annie Hamilton Donnell and illustrated by C.J. Budd
  • How to Dress Baby
  • Helps to Literary Success by Edward W. Bok
  • Memoirs of a Tranquil Life
  • Reading Clubs in the Country by Marion Harland
  • Poets and Editors by Wolstan Dixey
  • Jamie, a poem by Elizabeth W. Cambell
  • Good Just for Spite: A Story by Emma C. Hewitt
  • A Mother's Influence by Felicia Holt
  • Hints on Home-Dressmaking by Emma M. Hooper
  • For Woman's Wear by Mrs. Mallon and illustrated by Victor F. Newman
  • In the World of Fashion by Mrs. Mallon and illustrated by Redfern
  • All About Flowers by Eben E. Rexford and illustrated by W. Hamilton Gibson
  • The Practical Housekeeper by Mrs. Louisa Knapp
  • A Few Appetizing Dishes by Anna Alexander Cameron
  • Old-Time Cookery
  • Three Household Novelties by Dinah Sturgis
  • Some Asked For Recipes
  • Just Between Ourselves by Aunt Catharine
  • A Paper Picnic by Lina Beard and illustrated by Lina Beard
  • Phillida -- Chapters XVII - XIX -- by Maud Howe
  • Questions and Answers
  • Artistic Needlework by Mary F. Knapp
  • 40-page Premium Supplement

    • Advertising includes smaller display ads and is becoming more prominent than in earlier issues.