Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1923, Page 13

WASHINGTON, D. ekfwa_};your firfix:a.r.x.able- grandmérfirr used 1o dress in the early days of the Woman's Home Gompanion FIFTY years ago—in 1873—New York was only tenth on the list of big cities of the world, with less than a million population. Barnum’s menagerie was_still on- Broadway Julla Marlowe ‘was three years old; Rudyard Kipling, eight; Paderewski, thirteen. just starting his oil business. Eggs cost ten cents a dozen. Everybody walked in Sacramento because all the street car horses fell sick. The Remingtons started to manufacture ‘typewriters. Men school teachers in Iowa got $36 amenth; women, $29.32. FIFTY years ago—in 1873—in the day of small beginnings of great modern institutions—was founded . the Woman’s Home Companion. John D. Rockefeller was HOME-MAKING fifty years ago was more sentimental than scien- tific. But, from its very beginning, the Woman’s Home Companion found women ready for the best advice to be had on their problems. ITS own fifty years of hefilthy,‘ prosperous growth coincides with the most marvelous period in the progress of woman herself. A half century of leadership has at- tracted to the Companion the most notable staff of experts in the maga- zine field. And to those experts more than 1,750,000 of America’s progres- sive women ‘turn each m¥nth—not merely for help in managing a home —but for inspiration in solving the bigger human problems that mean so much to the world in 1923. (g s k] 50t Year ‘\3 " (1873-1923) Mgt Are You Doing Your Thmklng Alone? ‘I stand in my front door every morn- ing,” writes one young mother, “watch- ing my chicks off to school, and thinking T'ought to be happy with nice children and a good husband and enough to do with—but I’'m not! 1 really don’t get much out of any of them.” Perhaps you . feel the same way about it. The Com- panion is now engaged in a far-reaching new plan to solve this very problem of hopeless drudgery. Read “We Women” in the February number and join this big movement of constructive helpfulness. Good Looks— . from A almost to Z Acharmmg little encyclopedia of beavty, starting with Astringents and Bleaches, and running through to Soaps and Sachets. Fourteen items about your toilet table in the new Woman'’s Home Companion. : Zita—the Last Princess Stranger than any fairy tale is the story of the frail little Italian girl who always got the last bite of the cherry and who suddenly found herself the Empress of Austria with a 2981 carat emerald! It's in Fredrick L. Collins’ series on “What's ; Happened to Royalty.” One of five unusual ‘special articles in the February ‘Woman’s Home Companion. Disposing of Mother Eachyear this countryrahes a crop of “Mother Bradleys” — mothers who brought up large families of children and managed their homes successfully for thirty years, or more itmay be. Suddenly they find themselves, for various reasons, bereft of all lntetnsts and activities, but refusing to be “disposed of.” This strikingly human article, which appears in the February issue; is made the basis of a delightful two-reel film, one of the Compamon s new series of Better Films. A prize of $50.00 is offered for the best two-hundred word letter about it. See pages 2 and 65 in the new February Woman’s Home Companion. “A Line A Day” Austin Lee-had said to his two grand- daughters: “Put down in these diaries the most important event every day. Just five or six words. You must do it seriously. I promise nothing.” Both girls hoped for atleast ashare of their grandfather’s huge fortune. Both girls kept the queer little books. But the things thatreally happened in this romantic and exciting novel by Juliet Wilbor Tompkins were by nomeans the things that could be put down in five or six words. The story begins in the February Companion, . There are Six Splendid Stories in the Feb- ruary Woman’s Home Companion, besides Five Special Articles, Twelve Regular De- -partments, and enough Extras to make a full table of contents of 64 different items! 15 cents a copy $1.50 a year 3 - February Number On Sale Today