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12 Logan had enriched the nation's honor roll more than her statesman pay roll had enriched him. So Mrs. Logan bravely determined to test her talent in the literary world. While gathering her mental poise after the shock of General Logan's death, she took the two charming daughters of the late George M. Pullman, of Chicago, on a tour of Europe, but her serious work was taken up immediately upon her return. She began her literary career writing for a number of periodicals, and then for six years she edited, in Washington, The Home Magazine, almost a pioneer in that type of helpful, entertaining, literary journals devoted to the interests of the women of the country. In this work Mrs. Logan scored a success which left even her most ardent admirers breathless, working up an ardent patronage of three hundred thousand subscribers and giving it a standing by the absolute reliability of its household information, and literary merit which no magazine of that order has been able to outdo. Into this work Mrs. Logan threw herself with all the ardor of her vital, vigorous nature. In every one of the several departments of the Home Magazine she imprinted the stamp of her brilliant individuality. She herself worked indefatigably to make it a journal of the very highest class in its realm, and she gathered around her a corps of special writers who gave of their varied intellectual gifts to lend a charming variety of knowledge and color to its pages. Mrs. Logan's wonderful executive ability was ably evidenced in the office of the Home Magazine, and to work with and for her became a labor of love and enthusiasm. The Home Magazine was a phenomenal success during the half dozen years she remained at its helm, but when she gave up her place, for good and sufficient reasons, it suffered at other hands the natural reverses of fortune which inevitably attend neglect and mismanagement.

Mrs. Logan's specialty, however, in literary work has been