Suppose a book canvasser should come to your door and offer you two
volumes as large as Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, containing nearly a
thousand pages in each volume, and illustrated with ten thousand
pictures that interested you; and suppose that within the limits of the
volumes there would be the equivalent of a book on dressmaking
(carefully illustrated), a book on millinery (carefully illustrated), a
book on dress fabrics, a book on fancy work, a book giving all the
latest news of New York, London and Paris as related to fashions, a book
of Stories and Pastimes for Children, a book of Cookery and Kitchen
Information, a book on House-building and House-furnishing; and then
suppose that, in addition to all this, the book canvasser should point
out that in his two large volumes there were over six hundred pages of
stories, poems and literary articles, the latest advice regarding Club
Women and Club Life, and, above all, three thousand pictures of styles
for all the family, and of hats for women and children, the whole
beautifully printed, with many pages in colors on excellent paper; then
if this book canvasser should tell you that these two great volumes--a
real cyclopedia of all that a woman wishes to read about--could be yours
for a dollar, wouldn't it almost suggest to your mind a doubt of his
sincerity?
But you cannot doubt our sincerity--and for a moment we are this
supposed book canvasser.
The next twelve issues of The Delineator, covering one year's
subscription, give you all (except semi-annual binding) that we have
described above, and much more that is unspecified.
_JUST ONE DOLLAR A YEAR_