People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — What is Beauty? "Question of a Blind Man!" [ARTICLE]

What is Beauty? "Question of a Blind Man!"

Replied Aristctle. But Mrs. Sherwood says that it is “dynamite” in hor article which opens the interesting pages of the July Cosmopolitan. Beauty is always a fascinating subject, and Mis. Sherwood’s 1 discussion is an especially interesting one. That the July Cosmopolitan is a midsummer number is shown in many directions. Three short stories, including one of sport and adventure, two travel articles, and other light matter, make up 128 pages of charming summer reading.

The July Cosmopolitan marks the close of the first year since the revolutionary announcement was made that the price of that magazine, already low, had been out to one-half of three dollars a year. All sorts of predictions have come to be unfulfilled during the year—it would be impossible to maintain the rate—the quality would be lowered—the size would be decreased. But even severe critics admit that with each succeeding number there has been a betterment in the quality of articles and illustrations, and the size has remained unchanged, except the always growing advertising pages. The magazine printed, for the six months embraced in Volume XVI, one million four hundred and nineteen thousand copies, an entirely unapproached record, and has doubled its already large plant of presses and binding machinery. Tho walls of the magazine’s new homo are rapidly rising at Irvington-on-the-Hnelson. Artistically designed by McKim, Mead & White, the .new building, with its eight great porticoes, will bo 27!) feet long by 7(3 feet wide, and one of the most perfectly lighted buildings in the •irprld, having 160 large windows, each nearly double tho size of the ordinary window opening.