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- THE BVENI V " NG WORLD, WEDNE 48 Christmas Number SDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1920. 20c the Copy Yi, “Is it really helpful?” is the test each LaptEs’ HoME JOURNAL article must pass before I publish it as a service to women in social, civic, commercial, indus- trial or professional life. “Ig it wholesome, inspirational, of the highest ® possible quality?’ must pe answered in the affirmative before I finally select the ten or twelve stories in each number. Tales contrived for their ‘‘sex lure’’ anti low appeal have no place in The Journal. “Is it art; will it encourage a love for the beautiful; is it worth framing?’’ I ask when selecting a painting for color reproduction. “Is it practical; in good taste; does it apply in the modern home?” is the criterion by which I judge each of the new ideas worked out in the development of the departments for which The Journal is famous, whether Paris fashions, needlework, entertainment or house- hold management. . Incidentally, we are building up a new department, to be called.PRACTICAL POLITICS, which I feel confident will be of extraordinary value to millions of-our readers. I try to make each separate, single feature worth the whole price the reader pays for the entire contents of the number, : linge Hie Mime Tram, Will You Journey.With Sir Philip Gibbs “Through Enchanted Seas”? The world war produced no greater war correspondent than Sir Philip Gibbs. Mil- lions of Americans read his dispatches daily through a long, dreadful period of anxi- ety. Now this gifted writer has turned his pen to fiction and has written for the Decem- ber Journal a story that has all the thrill and vividness of war news, although it is not a ‘‘war story.” A beautiful Armenian girl set“out after the war to find the man she had met in Asia during the war. He was not her lover, but when she meets him, during a remarkable voy- age on the enchanted seas of the Near Bast, what happens will hold you breathless to the last line. A Hundred Ideas . or Christmas Gifts How to make them, how to choose them for every member of your family! Almost a complete magazine by itself is the material we offer to help you plan for a real Christmas. Here are the titles of Christmas articles that fill many pages: Presents to Please the Most Fastidious Maid. Handmade Gifts That are Proofs of Real Friendship. Gifts One Girl Can Make for Another. Christmas Cakes Make Dainty Gifts to Send Our Friends. Gifts for the Woman Who Likes Things for Her Room. Presents —Useful and Simple. Gifts That Add to Housekeeping Joys. Santa Claus Designed These Toys for You to Make. Gifts Children Will Treasure. Py A Page of Christmas Toys. Dainty Remembrances for the Guest's Room. Easily Made Lingerie with a Festive Christmas Touch. Some New Christmas Candies.,, Safe Motherhood Fourteen foreign countries have made motherhood a safer privilege for their women than it is in the United States. And in ten foreign countries it is safer to be a baby than it is here. Every year fourteen thou- sand mothers af inchildbirth; every year we lose two hundred and fifty thousand babies be- Mother Tried So Hard to Make Them See She had been a rare mother of a large family, now grown up. She had saved the Noah's Ark and all its vividly painted inmates for years. At the Christmas reunion of the family her heart burned with a great longing to revive through theold Ark some of the Making a Community Happy Mary Holt had reached the age when a woman wonders if a reference to old maids is meant to be personal. She lived in a small town and was bored. She was beginning to mildew; but she didn't! In- stead, she hit upon a fine plan and did wonders for her com- munity. Her plan is worth a lot of imitating. THREE OLD WOMEN WITH BRIGHT RED HAIR dictate what women will wear throughout the world—and the Callot sisters now decree that the day of the flapper is over, If there is a flapper in your home—daughter, wife or mother—see that she reads Mary Brush Williams’ de- scription .of her visit to the great Callot dressmaking es- tablishment in Paris. Why Not On the Way Home? “On November 10th I went to 30 news-standsin New York You Will Want to Frame It Ask your art dealer his price fona full-color reproduction of one of Maxfield Parrish’s paintings eight and a half by fourteen and a half inches in size! A Florentine Féte is one of Parrish’s finest works. He has lavished on it the wondrous coloring for which his brush is famous, he has painter into it a romantic grace, and a gor- geous richness that will lend beauty and warmth to any room in which it is hung. This picture has been beautifully reproduced in the December HOME JOURNAL, in true color, on fine paper, ready for fram- mg. Many will be glad they have bought this issue for the painting alone. Something Worth Real Money to You A page full of colorful pil- lows gives you a splendid sug- gestion for Christmas pres- ents. You see the pillows just as they are in the full beauty of all their colors, and’ the article tells just how to go about making them at very small cost. “Life , Is Cheap” Said the Bolshevik Woman “But could you, could “Sentence a man to die? Why not, if he deserves it? . + « If the war and the rev- olution have taught us any- thing, it is that life is cheap.” She was not more than twenty-two, but she was one of a Bolshevik tribunal, the Tchezvochrika, that con- demned no one knows how many suspects to death at Baku. And it was.at Baku that Maude Radford Warren met her and got her story, some- what harrowing but true .in every last detail. Its vivid pictures recall the terrorist women of the French Revolution. Keep your car from catch- ing cold! Use it regularly throughout the winter months. There is only one way to make sure that the’ water in your cooling system will not freeze; and that way is fully described in the Christmas Journal. “The Horrors of a Deserted Home” Page the “Anti’’ Who Said That! Were you amazed at the num- ber of women who voted at the election last month? You would not be if you knew more about the younger generation of lead- erswho assisted the suffrage cause to victory and are now steppingoutinto the first rank wherever women are organiz-~ ing to make the best of their 100 percent. Before You Learn What Happened at Bath you will have read one of the most fas- cinating stories of mystery, romance and amazing adven- ture that E. Phillips Oppen- heim has ever written, This is one of his series of SevEN ‘ConunpruMs —each a thrill- ing story in itself. , citizenship. Elizabeth Jordan, in a splendid article, illustrated with numerous photographs of well-known organizers, tellswho TheNew Women Leadersin Poli- ! tics are, and why, It is one of ‘many Journal features that will keep wo- men alive to the duties and oppor- tunities of their new political sfreedom. fore they have had half a chance to get a hold on life. How the Children’s Bureau is helping to wike out the charge of criminal negligence in America is told by William Harper Dean in his article, “Safe Motherhood,” in the December Journal. What Better Christmas Gift At Any Price? This One Costs Only $2.00 Every year more and more folks learn that one doesn't have to spend a purseful of money to’buy Christmas gifts that are cer- tain to please and sure to give a whole year of enjoyment. They give a_subscription for THE Home JourNaL to the women on their Christmas lists. Buy the December number and then ask yourself: “Where can I find a $2.00 present more satisfactory than twelve such magazines, each as full of color, inspiration, helpfulness and entertainment as this?” A Full-Color Maxfield Parrish Gift Announcement GIVEN With Each Order On Christmas morning each person for whom you order this ideal present will receive by mail a rarely beautiful announcement of the gift sent in your name. One of Maxfield Parrish's richest paintings, Caséles in the Air, has been reproduced especially for thisannouncement, with absolute fidelity to the gorgeous colorings of the famous original. The announcement includes a beautifully printed page devoted wholly to a seasonal Christmas message in your name. There is no charge’ whatever for sending this announcement to each person for whom you send us an order. The Hundred Best Recent Books Do You Know the Why of a Dog? What book, of all those printed this winter, would you like best ‘to’: read—or to buy asa gift for a friend? To help you select just such books, the Editors of THe HoME Journat asked Louise Maunsell Field, a well-known book reviewer, to select the one hundred best recent books. Her list will help make this Christmas a happy one for you—or for your friends. Women Executives In Movie and Drama You may know all about the movie queens— what they wear, eat, think, dream—but do you really know anything about the big women executives of the movies and drama—women who write, stage and direct great production In this new profession women are already at the top. You will find a fund of startling news in Henry MacMahon's article, Women Directors of Plays and Pictures—in the Christmas Journal. $2.00 the year by mail trom The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia; Pa. si 4 Why does your pup chew up the premises? Why does a dog wag its tail when happy and a cat wag igs tail when angry? Did you know that the dog is the only animal with intelli- gence enough to dream? Why does one dog set all the dogs in the neighborhood bark- ing? You will find the answer to all these questions and many more you may often have puzzled over, in Al- bert Payson Ter- ra hune's inter- ol i esting 4h ‘<The Why of 7 a Dog” ph | to buy a November Journal. They were all sold out. So I crossed the river to Jersey City and borrowed my sister's.” Your Christmas copy is ob- tainable today. mother-happiness of the far-off Christmasses when her sons and daughters were young. She had a further idea, too. But when children grow up and growapart . . . “The Noah's Ark,” by Elsie Singmaster, is truly a big Christmas story. Can Kindness Ever Be Cruel? Perhaps not; but kind cruelty is nevertheless prac- ticed, both consciously and unconsciously, by many em- ployers of women, There was a case of the sort in Temple Bailey's story, “‘Wait—For Pririce Charming.” The girl was secretary and stenog- rapher, to a rich man who cherished beauty in a strange way. THE OFFICE DOG has been rummaging about in out-of-the- way nooks and crannies, and he's picked up many a curious bit of humor and many a whimsical dash of verse that will delight and amuse the whole family. Christmas Menus Times may have changed in many ways, but Christmas still holds pride of place as a time for hospitality and festivities of all kinds. On the shoulders of the housewife for a week or so before the Holiday season rests such a multitude of duties that she is “worried sick" for fear one little overlooked detail will spoil the Holiday cheer. The Christmas Journal takes away much of the worry. Five big articles by nationally known experts tell how to plan all the dinners, how to serve the turkey, chicken, duck or goose; how to make new Christmas Candies; how to make delicious Con- fections from Canned Fruits and how a Luncheon for the Holiday America’s Most Popular Author gadits 20 Cents ————— ES Guest can be quickly prepared. On March 4, 1921, when Hard- ing takes the oath of office as President of the United States, if your newsdealer should begin to sell over his counter an edition of THe Home Journat, at the rate of one copy each minute, twenty-four hours a day, every day in the year, the last copy would not be sold until the end of Harding's four-year term, in March, 1925! Yet month after month the, huge editions of The Journal are sold during the first few days of One Each Minute While Harding Is President the month— because the editorial content includes all that women want at a price all can pays ‘The copiesare sold either for 20 cents (in Canada 25 cents), or at thé full advertised yearly sub- scription price, $2.00 the year (in Canada $2.50). Premiums are never given to induce Journal readers to send their subscriptions. Journal subscriptions are never offered “in club” with other publica- tions, and never sold on the installment-payment plan. The Billie Burke Exhibits This Winter's Clothes Very smart and wearable is Miss Billie Burke's black vel- vet afternoon frock, for it is cut along most approved lines. You really shouldn't miss the charming photographs of Miss Burke, wearing the latest winter designs created by Harry Collins. Fashion, it seems, has returned to lace arid embroidery. Simple and practical—nevertheless stun- ning—are all the Journal’s selections from Cdllins’ winter stock. ZANE GREY'S books are- now selling by hundreds’ of , thousands more than those of any other American authors. More than 2,000,000 of hie books will be sold this year in the United States and British . possessions. That is probably the record for any writer of the present day. Read Zane Grey’s story, ‘The Great Slave," in the Christmas Jour- nal and you will not wonder at his unprecedented popu- larity. It is beautifully illus- trated in bright color. ,yyiiansetll Clothes for Your - Children Whether they are just out of Igng dresses or “old and six,” you can get from the pat- terns pictured in the Christmas Jornal La eyy and ae wi rou have sought— those that peso attrac- tiveness with serviceability. Cut-Outs For Kids There is delight for the oungsters in “Little Mr. Squirrel’s Christmas Party"”— not only in the beautsfully colored cut-outs, but in the story Harrison Cady has writ- ten to go with his pictures, + Journal never carries any sub- scribers in arrears. ¢ No other monthly magazine has ever reached a “net-paid” circulation approaching that of Tre Home JourNAL on anysuch basis, No cut rates, no premiums; no "schemes"; no “deferred pay- ments.” Just the magazine itself at its advertised price. THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY Independence Square Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ‘$2.00 the year by mail from The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pa.