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THE PEOPLE’S HOME JOURNAL.
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PUBLISHED MONTHLY.
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
35 Cents Per Year, in Advance. |<
In Clabs of Four, 25 Cents,
Average Circulation for the Past Twelve
, 313,750 Copies Monthly.
Advertising Rat $1. per agate line per une: Jers
15 per cent, on Featly, 10 er ce sent of six months’, aod
6 per cent oa three months’
‘TRUCTIONS TO SUBSCRIBERS.
names of all Subseribers are registered
as soon as Tecelved, and papers and premiums are
always promptly forwarded,
Subscriptions to “The Peoples 30
nal” are Commenced as follow teat nabscri-
TANT aeelved Dewees November 25th and April Ist are
mmenced with the January number; all subscriptions
ived between April Ist and July Ist are commenced
ith the April number; all subscriptions received be.
tween July Ist and Septe hare commenced with
October numb
is arbitrary and cannot be c!
Postage.—The posts ui part United
Staten, Cauada and Mexico, is eit By the ‘publisher,
City subscribers
oad
coler doilvery charwes. fu a Countries
requ ents ‘to they yearly subeription Dries: to
bacribers in Fore!
paper, or 24 cents for the year,
com-
oe dle or
rt h
Pts of a dollar, and in any sinount
ble lis. We
paver
ar bhatcal bo
Efould be renewed at your earlient Monrenlence:
that there may be no delay in the receipt of the
next issue.
ange of Address.—Subscribers wishing thelr
aditrestes changed must staie their former as well as new
Numbers,—It occasionally happens that
st ar paper sent to ee are lost or stolen
mails. a ease. you do not receive any number
hen “ane, write @ postal card, and w
forward gis licate. ot the folasiog pum
We Always Stop the Ina
oe iin paid nie aa hives a. renew
Fhose whose rapteriptions Dave ext
cere to conriaae to receive. th paper unless they 8 end
Sree etney to pay for It another ven
Rout kmportant of All In every letter thas you
write re iL to your fall nudress plainly
wre "bane pontoitice, county and Sta
wie i ul eed “slows:
F. ‘M. LUPTON, Pub!
P.O, Box 1983, 23, 23 & 27 City Hall Pee New Ye York.
re will cheertully
NEW YORK, MARCH, 1898.
Special Notice
TO THOSE WHOSE
SUBSCRIPTIONS EXPIRE
With this Issue.
A CONSIDERABLE number of subseriptions to
's Home Journau expire with this
soribed f for the paper a year ago.
received, in instruction and entertainment,many
issue
send usa renewal of hie or her § se renpaon
for the coming year, and that as many as fet
disposed to do go will get aclub, and thus
coming ye d that ifyou get # 0
friends to join you in subscribing, thus making
up a club of four, each will gel @ paper a
whole year for oul; ty-five cents, 01
will get a nice premium to pay for your trouble.
For larger clubs we @ Vi ti m0
A partial list of the premiums which are offered
for getting up clubs will be found on the 19th
page.
‘EOPLE's Home Jounnat for 1598 will be
fr better and more {ptprestin g than it was dur-
g 1897. ert no more intresting
paper published at any price than THe Peopie’s
[OME JOURNA! AL The
stories which we shall
be far more intro then those we have pub-
lished durin, Bont
procarable. rhe
asa regular feature. Our paper for 1898
be just as near perfect as itis possible to
make
lo not Wish to lose a single one of our
present subscribers, and do not see wh;
should, It is such a trifling sumo that the oper
coste that it does not 6
Tue PeorLe’s Home
with amusement, ‘nlersnmeat and instraction
fora whole year to
pene tere the first of April should
be particular to 81 at itis a renewal and that
y sire to ne ith the ,
as we commen e subscriptions received befor re
April with the January number unles
pressly ‘tinected otherwise. “After April lst thisis
not necessary.
jhe reverse 8:
Bit, to take
swere ed,
u
be ev: -
the capital °!
ing the nat
in this enter
is allo
chan, ed as
required to tal
ths
wh
prefers.
The medal
board, gil
case of ties,
thought on t
warm weal
from six h
travel in two
steps, at on:
storehouse!
line is neithe:
e State the guest is’ to re]
es Or DO. 18)
question ai correctly a8 po oseible, but may algo
me iney m
represent Minnesota, “One of the Safodost of
ch gues
upon entering the hou:
rm
one of iron or leathe:
tention to those mang the fewest good guesses
8 yucca are
nam nes o the States, with a req
capital cities opposite, and o1
wed for this exercise.
e any ence as needed, and there w
hey ar are not told previously hh
have been ised the cards hel
ite a number shoul:
The diplomas may
2 designe and fancy iotiting or it mi
Tae industry of ants is proverbial.
Lubbock says that they w
ground, as it
MODERN ENTERTAINMENTS.
BY EFFIE W. MERRIMAN,
—A Geography Party.
» Sateriainment it is a good idea
vi ta iona on paper decorated with small
es, or you may draw
ide, ‘The invitation may be worded
something as fo
& Wi 1Lsams presents compliments to
alta 1 Siarsgobenltny aud ri
of bis ‘Tuesday evening, March
part ‘in the festivities of the United
This will be likely fo cause considerable ex-
vitations may
must be jnstracted that they are not to
te they are supposed to represent,
answer any question
it, excopt_ono that may 1
must ans
d, What
ot ment ‘on
appen to
For instance, if asked,
f your State ?” instead
ay reply, if they
is provided with a card and pencil
80, and it is explained to
‘tainm:
, given cards bearing the
west to write their
imited tim
®
fore, the correct answers are
read t by | the hostess, and again medals are dis-
ee Iroshments follow, and then the guests are
ieblesux, before the curtain, for there are to be
tableaux.
abbre’ ite the
tableaux or charades, whichever may be chose!
or instance, there is a scene ing a sick
n, bis friends gathered about, and the
loctor feeling his pulse, That, of cours
should be essed ‘iL.,” and thi brevia-
ion written 0) posite the tableau. Then o1
@ seen with a number of chil-
le
ot pbreviations decided upon
the audience
ore the medals are
8
awarded. ‘Then the one holding the largest
bumber of medals is given a diploma, with ap-
s aro eimply round pieces of card-
Ided or silvered, or cut from leather.
8 prepared, so that,
ave one.
with re
each contestant me
le pret;
cture or other
on earranged to suit the fan
ii ha
ney.
e reserve cards with que:
at
She part of moot pe people who
been out of school even for a short time.
re
THE INDUSTRY OF ANTS.
Sir John
work all day, and in
ther, if need be,
hed an ant from six in the morn-
houeand sees The:
distinct lines ov ver rough or smoot
may happen, even up and down
e regular pace. The returning,
bo laden ants invariably salute the burthened
‘6 making their way to the general
but it is done so promptly r that the
x broken nor their progress im-
poded by the salutation.”
a
THE largest theatrical building is the Grand
Opera of I
‘aris,
It covers three acres of ground.
THE QUESTION BOX.
Ixquintes for this department must be distinct and se
arate from all other correspondence, ang must be
dressed: Mr. 0, J- Victor, care of The PEOPLE'S Troms
uRNAL, P. 1983, New Yor
—The lamps are sold in tin supply
‘They use gasoline and kero-
sene. @ storekeeper you eall upon has
none, jen will ae one for you.
N. D. lady writer lived in Brooklyn,
ew Yor rh she has bee mn dead several years 5
he wrote under eal name. “Sho was,
thin English orn, and about 55 years of age
a W, A. a ope ore “< deflection” can be cor-
ted by an 8 some competent
spociaist Ste air of Den eptionslly
but the Otago oF the city (6,000 feet)
face it somewhat light, or thin, for weak
ence with ‘he person. ‘Suing a stranger to you,
Ui
@ their reception. ‘That i
for sear othe only wal safe procedure,
AsLeicH R. — Ral bbit skins now taken are
send the skips t nery.” Indeed, if any
rrier will instruct you, you can very easily do
the tnoine: The process is simple.
. G.—Clara Barton is at the head of the
i Grose Society in this country. A letter
care of Rev. ie er Newton,
City, will reach her. e
her home davess, She willno 5 doubt be
bear from you and to give all required infor-
A, A, W.—Bartlett does not give the source
of the ex} onan “A skeleton in every gloset
ie ab aueriats to i
aggar ‘i the
m_ Lond
He did live for a time in Vermont. His wife ia
an American lady, and he is about forty years
oF
&
M. R.—It the lady is pleased with your atten
tions you will readily perceive it. If you wish
to props to her it is manly to do so, in a direct
way. “I uke you so much, miss, Shay. tie my
bn wish to make you my wife. Ma: hope
for your accept ance of my hand and heart?
That is all you need say, and say it a thont any
hesitancy.
x J. F,—No one knows how old London
ma. it was **sottled.” Tt
Green’s “ History of the English Pe ames It
is a capital book for every person to read, mark
and mentally digs
‘A Reaper.—When the gentleman leads you
to @ seat and thanks~you for the dance, you
reply: “Ti 8] 6 pleasure, I aes
° entle-
nD
“Thank you, Mr. G.,
will thea a proper for him to make request to
Go x
f he does not di can do no more
than ay. “ il be pleased to meet you
again,” but cannot properly ask him into ‘the
house then, or ask him to
Rector St. ANxr.—We know of no data other
00 as to the relative strength
ari
mbership a!
Pri resbytorians, 1, Diels,
ig a fai owing as to their several. ae
7a to the Proventant Episcopal, it is wa
foym in comparative strength, being but 592.
@ difference is slight; Eng-
ish is the same i in England an ani nd America. Only,
each cor ountry hag its i d “slang” words
or or phrases, which, of course, "are strongly local-
t is not strange a fresh-arrived i
man i puzzled by much of our speech ;
is not the speech of the dictionary.
our slang, which every foreigner
he would a
and in daily use. Asa tea
to use any slang word o: pl
classes or Spapile It is really Vonrcheneibie to to
80.
Datsy.—Be governed wholly by what you
are sure the person’s motives and character
are. If he i aman of probity, and i is of kindly
heart, do not repel his courtesi advances,
"ier provea that a prefers you too
we say, r caine, otice in a pleasant and
couragin| and after awhile you can the
better decide a8 to whether you wish him fora
life compani
F THE SoctaL SIxTEEN.—No trouble
lentiful information on the ‘“ Pe-
riod of the Poets,” as you term it. Almost
everything you require will be found in Gris-
wold's Posts and oetry.”” All Libraries hava
copies of the o © list,
would be Lon: sfollow, Whittier, Poe, ‘Willis, Ent
T Julia Ward Howe, Mrs.
in securing
ice and Phaebe Ca
» Siggurmey tt "the Fuller Sisters, A.
6,
i:
Mrs. Lydia
Street, Joe a
H. Dugan
Cook, W. Gilmore Sims, Pou twa,
Harsh.” Of wourso this list ie but pay vail ‘bat it
names the best of the generation 1840 to 860.
Mysric.—You are like hundreds of others who
Bs ten
wish to be heard of in print. our wings—
exploit your powers. Editors are ever on the
alert for what is new and bright a nd likely to
“take” with readers. There is, of course, &
deal of value in a oll-esteblisted be e—wh;
should there not be, pray? and the name hai
won the right to higher pay. Young or untried
authora must force their own recognition by
the merit of their work, just as an artist, does,
o Your
ur m rit is not of “the least i importance. You
simply weighed in the common literar:
gealos, and rated for what you prove yoursel
i ee
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