The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 5, 1919, Page 9

20,000 Persons Couldn't get The Government has lifted the re- strictions on paper. Tue Lapis’ Home JouRNAL last month: it sold Now, I can give magazines of a size I never dreamed of before. a teak. I used to think a 100-page Ladies’ Home Journal a marvel: this month it is 184 pages. It Will Probably Sell Out Even Faster Instead of 4 stories, we are giving 8. This Month Instead of 40 articles, we are giving 60 and 65 in each issue.. ie Cay Tey bei B es ing 1 ae We gave our wonderful war pictures in full colors. Now, we give not only those but the pictures to our stories have started in full colors. JovawaL Almost double in size is the magazine: yet the price is the same: 15 cents. Brtard Roh — batter of, thu haduc Homa pournal Did You Know They Were Making Pictures With the Typewriter ? a the May Lapies’ Home Jovrwac. Now, Mother Really Would Not Behave! So thought her big daughter and bigger son, and they didn’t know Does a Wife what to do! For mother would be young—she would be happy: she Vote would push back her yellow locks of hair, smile at her big girl and boy, ' ‘Like Her Husband? =| _ 2% then she would do something ‘Thousands have said this would hap- | le One day out went every old dry dusty book in the house: the next day, old pictures would go and new ones would appear. New colors ran riot over the house. Old wall papers went and new cretonnes came. Then dinner parties began. And mother would go to the games. She would go and live in the college town where her children went. But the climax came when'‘the daughter came home to find her mother swapping chocolate peppermints with her dignified Professor of Eng- lish Literature. That was too much! The daughter was in despair. The boy merely said “Gee!” It’s just pure comedy in this story—deliciously fresh, rol- licking with fun. You'll feel after reading it as if you had a bath of laughter. if women got the vote. Now, is it ? A woman has gotten at the facts, she tells them, just as they are, in May Lapis’ Howe Journar. * When Paderewski Closed His Piano To become the Premier of Poland ‘wesaw one of the most dramatic and Tomantic pictures of the war. How id it come about? Why did he give up an income of $200,000 a year? What did he say himself just before }} fe lett America? Here is the com- 4 plete story from information from his own stepson. It’s in the May Lapres’ Home Journa. How I Wrote Americanization is Everywhere in th Ai The Battle Hymn ae ae of the Republic But what do they mean by it? We ought to know. It is already a question, and it’s going to be a bigger question. The man who knows more about it than anyone else is Secretary of the Interior Lane. That’s why Tux Lapis’ Hour Journat asked him to explain it. And he does in the May number. Read this brief article and you know. Do you know? The story is very in- teresting. Not at all in the way you would think such a masterpiece might be written, JGlia Ward Howe, in her own words, tells it in the May Lapies’ Home Journat. ‘ y4 ‘a: The Two Men in Her Life Many a girl has to make the choice that Lillie did. But it isn't easy. And other girls don't find it easy, either. Per- haps they can get help from the story of “Lillie: of theValley” in the May Lapigs’ Home Journat. Keeping Step With Your Husband— A Wife Must in These Days Vow can she?” What can she do so asked a woman to find out, and she did. that her wifehood will not be a failure? And she tells it in the May Lapres’ Of course, it is possible—and easy. We Home JourNat. ee ee As a Tribute to Our Boys What is the wise thing for a community todo? What is a good memorial? What is a wise tribute? A community house? A clock tower? A playground? A town library? Which? Here are 12 pictures of suitable ideas. They're in the May Lapizs’ Home JournaL. , On What Week-Day Was I Born? ‘Thousands ask it. Or, on what week- day will such and such a day fall? There's the best perpetual calendar ever invented, given complete, so that you can cut it out, in the May Lapres’ Home JournaL. = THE ewan STA R—MONDAY, Girls Who Won Out Not once, but three times. The cream + of the girls of 10 states, What did they do? It's told in the May Laprzs’ Home Portraits of the American girl, of Clemenceau, and, of all things, a land- seape! Every typist can be an artist. See the pictures given on a full page in Vit Ledisd iy A, Over Two Million copes of the May Number Four Full-Color Peace Pictures No finer souvenirs of the great Armi- stice Day can be imagined. Thousands will frame them. You get not one—but four—all for 15 cents, in the May Lapras’ Home Joumnat. “Honest: They Let Me Lie Here And Rot—That's Wot They’re Doin’” That's what our wounded boys in the hospitals write home. Is it true? We have the right to know the truth, And the truth is here: in an article you can believe. Every one of us who has a boy in the service who is wounded or may get sick should read this story. It is in the May Lapras’ Home Journar. Does Housework Prevent Childbirth? A Man Says“‘Yes” Here és a startling question. A great Englishman says.that all but the glass- eyed will answer “ Yes." So Zona Gale went into this throbbing question, in- vestigated it, and her article fairly spar- Kies with interest. It's in the May Lavies’ Home Jovrnar. What are We Women Going to Do? So busy were women in war days. But the war is over. Now, what? Hun- dreds of women are asking this. One woman in Washington has the answer, for she sits at a great gateway of women's industries, and thousands of ‘women write and talk to her. She has dug deep. Read her article that points the way in the May Lapres’ Home Journat. through when her boy comes home Superlatives cannot do it justice. and woman who reads it. Only an Uncle Sam’s Bluebirds Do you know who they are? The Army Nurses. It's a wonderful story about them—the finest-dressed girls in the world. The bravest, too. Read about them in the May Lapras’ Home Journat, AND IT COSTS “ONLY 15" CENTS MAY 5, 1919. “I Tell This Intensely Personal Story Only for One Reason” Says an American War Bride “Because I may convince some girl or wife that her job is not have begun"—-And then she tells a story that words cannot describe. girl's story that has come out of the war: under such an experience: only an American girl could tell it as she does. Itis, of itself, worth your buying the May Lapres’ Home Journat. We Ought to Laugh More That is what the radiant rollick Two Millions of One Magazine Last month the public pushed THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL beyond the 1,900,000 mark. Yet over 20,000 persons were disappointed because they couldn’t get the magazine! ‘ ing stories in the May Lavres’ Hom Journat make you do—you feel as if you have had a bath of laughter. happy! 8 Short Stories and Serials Each bright and happy, and just full of pictures; some of them in full color. Stories That Will Make You Feel Young Try them—and feel This month we not only touch the wonderful « 2-million mark but go over it —a figure that no monthly magazine has ever reached: an un-, charted land! The magazine this month reaches the high mark of 184 pages: 60 pages more than any May number in its history. The 1-Cent-A-Week Man A man refused a job at the rate of 1 cent for the first week—2 cents the next—double each succeeding week. The employer then figured out how much he would have earned at the 52d week. No corporation could pay it: the United States Government couldn't. No one could. How much do you think it was? It's in the May Laptes’ Home Jourwar. That means the printing of 368 millions of pages of one issue of one magazine—an edition 80 gigantic as to be almost unbelievable. It required a month of all-nights and all-days to print it. A Man Z Shaves 20 Miles Vac Curtis Rbbshing Grpangs During his lifetime. That is, if he is fair-skinned. If he is dark, he shaves even more. You don't believe it? It's all figured out for every man in a little table, as the razor goes over his face, in the May Lapias’ Home Jovrnat. What America Did What Great Britain Did What the People of France Did What the King of the Belgians Did When the Famous Armistice Was Signed Want, Really, to Laugh? Then do read about the Professor who ‘really didn't want to kill Germans, but killed and captured them on every hand. He just couldn't help it. The story is in the May Lapres’ Home owns, A Whole Spring Dinner on One Plate __ Why not save steps, plates, di dish- washing? And the plates are made so that you can do it. Look, too, what you get on them and what to put on. Beauti- {ul pictures show them to you in the May Lapres’ Home Jovrnat. The world went wild with joy.” But'four gi standing events occurred, each the expression nation. These four great events have now served in four superb full-color paintings; so to be treasured of one of the greatest days in & world’s history. Thousands of dollars have spent to make and print these remarkable pai that you buy for a dime and a nickel. I Whacked Him in the Face:\ The First Time I Met My Future Husband — Think of starting a courtship in that fashion: a marriage that was to last for fifty years and give to one woman the greatest experiences that could come to hef. She really lived the most thrilling romance that a girl could read of or dream of in her wildest dreams. She married Buffalo Bill! And out into that trackless West she went with him. Dangers on every side. And she met them. One after another. What we formerly read in “dime novels” we now read as actually happening, and to a woman. For in the May Lapres’ Home Jourwil Buffalo Bill's widow begins her autobiography by, telling what it meant “Being Courted by Buffalo Bill.” Why Her Women’s Society; Went to Pieces , Mrs. Elliott was president, and her “society” just wouldn't “go.” She wanted to give it “all up.” She couldn't get at the trouble, Then, all of a sudden, she did: a trouble that exists with a Want to See Your Boy Come Home? exactly how your boy feels, what he and what he thinks about coming h It's in the May Lapres' Home Jou with striking pictures, ~ great many women’s men’s clubs and sec! There's a lot in this article for women. It's in the May Lapies’ Ho Journat, and it reads like a story, and interesting. from the war, but that it may just It is the most thrilling American it will stay with every girl American girl could have stood up ¢ Wouldn't you like to go and see your boy land when he docks in New York? If you can’t, let us take you there through clever Edna Ferber's pen. She tells you Can a Woman Run Her Home as a Man Runs His Business ? But, is that so? At least, here is the man who has gone into this subject deeper than any other man in America. Read what he says. He shows It’s in the May Lapis’ Home JourNnat, Most women say ‘No: It can’t be done.” how it can be done.