1890-06 Ladies Home Journal Magazine Contents

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.