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Show Woman's Home Companion for April. As spring comes around again the "Woman's Homo Companion lifts its own standard another degree with its Easter Issue. The covei design, by Fanny Y. Cory, strikes a true April note which is faithfully carried out in the entire magazine. A full page painting by Balfour Kor, is one of the tendorest subjects ever attempted by this artist, and "Old-Time Gardens in tho Connecticut Valley" by Charles Edward Hooper, with illustrations illustra-tions by Herman Pfeifer, is an unusually artistic feature "The Campaign of Hope," the tireless tire-less light against tuberculosis, is waged with undiminished enthusiasm en-thusiasm and is awakening people throughout the country. "The Empty House," a story in two parts by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, has its first enthralling instalment in this number. It is a story for every woman with a busy, self-sacrificing husband to read. "Tho House of Healing" Heal-ing" by Juliet Wilbor Thomp-kins Thomp-kins is gaining new friends with every chapter, and short stories of unusual humor and charm and power fill out the list of fiction. Never was the household so well taken care of: Margaret Sangster, Woods Hutchinson, M. D., Kate V. Saint-Maur, Doctor .lean Williams all gave their best work. "May-Pole Dances " "Wood-Block Printing," Print-ing," 4A Perfume Garden," "Happiness C h e s t," Miss Farmer's Kecipes, Evelyn Parsons' Par-sons' Summer Embroideries, Music, Art these arc just some of the contents of this surprising surpris-ing magazine-. Tho regular departments, de-partments, Miss Gould's big fashion Section and 'the pages dovoteu to tho Younger Header, are all bettor than over. |