Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1902 — The January Designer. [ARTICLE]

The January Designer.

The art features of The Designer for January, 1903, are effective to a marked degree, and are typioal of the progressiveness of this popular publication, whioh is always the herald of up-to-date fashions and interests essentially feminine. Edited by women, it caters especially to womanly tastes. Most charming and original are the fanoy oostumes, and stylish and seasonable are the millinery designs, the latter being acoompanled by a practical article on hat making. “In-door Exercises for Children,” by Dr. Sarah A. Frenoh-Battey, and “Toilet Table Chat” are of real hygienic value, and the departments of “What Women Are Doing” and “Helps Along the Way,” both edited by the readers of The Designee, are helpful and deoldely novel. The literary features comprise two short stories, “At Heron’s Crag,” by Elizabeth Roberts Macdonald, and “Mr. Coyote,” by L. O. Lennart, “The Domestic Side of the White House,” by Waldon Fawcett, “The Feast of the Kings,” by Q. W. Jacobs, and a parlor comey, “A Sudden Inspiration,” by Mary Dawson. Mary Kilsyth furnishes “Attractive Corners,” Josephine Yates, “Some Employment for Busy Fingers.” and Ila Earle Fowler tells us what to do “When the Stocking Bag is Full.” Peacil and Paper Games,” by Mrs. 8. P. Carusi, supplies numerous instructive and jolly entertainments for young folks and their elders, all of which may be arranged at trifling cost. •“Points on Dressmaking,” “Fashions and Fabrics,” “Etiquette Hints,” “Book Notes,” “Floriculture,” “In Motherland” and “The Kitchen Kingdom” are departments some one of which will appeal to some one member of the family. The verse in this number is supplied by Florence Gertrude Ruthven.