The September Issue of "The People's Home Journal"

1916

Most illuminating are the glimpses into the hearts and minds of the People's Home Journal's great family of readers. Letters by the score are received in every mail, graphic, spontaneous, a running fire of comment upon stories, pictures, the cover designs, department topics, etc., all vital and helpful to an editor who wishes to know of what his many millions of readers are thinking.

Because the Journal stories are "alive," every character in them has personality, which Journal readers are quick to discover. On the "Let's Talk It Over," page for September a recent Girl on the Cover is discussed. She is so "real" that readers have even given her a name — "Ruby," "Ariadne," and "Ruth." One enthusiast declares that "capable kindness is the keynote of her nature. The sweet solemnity of her big gray eyes prophesises that the strength and wisdom of her as well as her love, will guide the man of her choice steadily and safely through all the labyrinth of life." Quite as bewitching is the September Girl on the Cover.

The first autumn issue of the Journal concludes an absorbing serial by Agnes Louise Provost, "The Woman in the Case," and caters to the lover of mystery in a thrilling novelette, "Old Rodney's Will." Josiah Allen's Wife" in "A Fortunate Mistake" tells a rollickingly funny story about a pair of bashful sweethearts. Arthur Preston Hankins contributes a genuine small town chronicle in "The Silent Witness," the story of an absentminded doctor, the laying of a town-hall cornerstone and a mix up in town records which eventually straightens out financial tangles for a young man who wants to marry the only girl in the world. Armiger Barclay in a hold-up-story, "Into the Lion's Mouth," and Agnes Louise Pratt, in "The Extract Man," round out a well balanced ration of wholesome and appetizing fiction.

There are poems by Nancy Byrd Turner, Anna Porter Johnson and Daisy D. Stephenson, and a capital Green Meadow Story for the children by Thornton W. Burgess. The Fashions, Cookery, Interior Decoration and Care of Children departments are well edited and helpful. (Fifty cents a year.) New York.


World War I Humor

"We've learned a lot from the present war."
"Yes, indeed. Everything except what it's all about." — Detroit Free Press.