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Show A Mammoth Holiday Issue. The December Delineator, (Christmas Number) represeuts tho high water mark of beauty and utility, and possibly possi-bly of Circulation also, in a woraan'a magazine, having a first edition of more than a million copies. It contains con-tains 240 pages. To produce this mammoth mam-moth edition 723 tons of paper and 40 presses, working 05 days were required. In addition to exquisite color work, clever fiction and strikingly Illustrated articles, tho number includes a display of charming Winter fashions covering fortv-two pages, letters from the foreign for-eign fashion centers and Illustrated articles ar-ticles on tho fushionablo fabrics and trimmings, millinery, etc. Among tho notable contributors are: Rtehard Le Galllenne, with a delicato romance, A Wedding Ring in tho Garden, contain-ing contain-ing lyrics In the author's best vein; W. A. Frazcr, with an Indian talc, tho Net. of Leo; Albert Biglow Paine, with a delightful sketch founded ou tho foibles foi-bles of the collector; Harriet Prescott Spofford, with a loyo story of uuusual intorest; Andrew Lang, with a clever travesty on the usual fairy tale; und Gustav Kobbe, with an Interesting paper pa-per describing tho life of Mino Erainn Katncs in her Italian home, with her portrait In colors. Thero is also the third installment of tho Evolution of a Club Woman, tho piquant narrative of clubdom by Agues Surbrldge, and a remarkable photographic article by J, 0. Hemment. Thero are many beautiful beauti-ful art features, among them four pages in colors representing Babyhood, Child-hood, Child-hood, Girlhood and Motherhoodthe work of Rcrnard J. Rosemcycr. For tho children there nro entertaining gams and stories, and for tho housewife house-wife maDy practical suggestions in cookery, and many other departments of the hoine, for the Christmas season, |