Ladies' Home Journal

==Features==
[[File:Ladies' Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper Vol.6 No.02 (January, 1889).pdf|thumb|upright|''Ladies' Home Journal'' issue from January 1889]]
The most famous cooking teacher of her time, [[Sarah Tyson Rorer]], served as ''LHJ's'' first food editor from 1897 to 1911,<ref>{{cite journal |year= 2008 |title= 125 Years of 'Ladies' Home Journal': Food |journal= Ladies' Home Journal |volume= 125 |issue= 8 |url= http://www.lhj.com/style/covers/125-years-of-ladies-home-journal-food/  |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100413173848/http://www.lhj.com/style/covers/125-years-of-ladies-home-journal-food/ |archive-date= April 13, 2010 }}</ref> when she moved to ''[[Good Housekeeping]].''

In 1936, Mary Cookman, wife of ''[[New York Post]]'' editor [[Joseph Cookman]], began working at the ''Ladies' Home Journal.'' In time, she was named its Executive Editor, and she remained with ''LHJ'' till 1963.<ref>NY Times Obituary September 8, 1991{{full citation needed |date= April 2014}}</ref> She was known throughout most of her career as [[Mary Bass]]. Cookman died in 1991.

In 1946, the ''Journal'' adopted the slogan, "Never underestimate the power of a woman", which it continues to use today.<ref>{{cite journal |url= http://www.lhj.com/style/covers/125-years-of-ladies-home-journal/ |year= 2008 |title= A Look Back in Covers |journal= Ladies' Home Journal |volume= 125 |issue= 1  |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090803070938/http://www.lhj.com/style/covers/125-years-of-ladies-home-journal/ |archive-date= August 3, 2009 }}{{page needed|date= April 2014}}</ref>

The magazine's trademark feature is '''"Can This Marriage Be Saved?"''' In this popular column, each person of a couple in a troubled marriage explains their view of the problem, a [[Relationship counseling|marriage counselor]] explains the solutions offered in counseling,<ref>Traditionally, the wife's side of the story is told first, followed by the husband's side.</ref> and the outcome is published. It was written for 30 years, starting in 1953, by Dorothy D. MacKaye under the name of '''Dorothy Cameron Disney.'''<ref>{{cite news  |last= Weber |first= Bruce |title= Dorothy D. MacKaye Dies at 88; Ladies' Home Journal Columnist |newspaper= The New York Times |date= September 8, 1992 |url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE0D9113BF93BA3575AC0A964958260}}</ref>  MacKaye co-founded this column with [[Paul Popenoe]], a [[Relationship counseling|founding practitioner of marriage counseling]] in the U.S. The two jointly wrote a book of the same title in 1960. Both the book and the column drew their material from the extensive case files of the American Institute of Family Relations in Los Angeles, California.<ref name="Popenoe (1960)">{{cite book |last1= Popenoe |first1= Paul |last2= Disney |first2= Dorothy Cameron |name-list-style= amp |title= Can This Marriage Be Saved?   |url= https://archive.org/details/CanThisMarrageBeSaved |edition= 1st |year= 1960 |publisher= Macmillan |location= New York |oclc= 1319285 |id= Library of Congress number: 60-8124}}{{page needed|date= April 2014}}</ref> MacKaye died in 1992 at the age of 88. Subsequent writers for the feature have included [[Lois Duncan]] and Margery D. Rosen.

The illustrations of [[William Ladd Taylor]] were featured between 1895 and 1926; the magazine also sold reproductions of his works in oil and [[Water colors|water-color]].<ref name="Taylor">{{cite web |url= http://www.wltaylor.info/bio/bio.htm |last=Chapman |first= John III |title=William Ladd Taylor: Biography |work= W.L. Taylor, American Illustrator |access-date=April 16, 2010}}</ref>