1890-01 Ladies Home Journal Magazine Contents

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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