Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 13, 1921, Page 7

“I have to work like a slave,” said a good woman, weary with her worries, but the answer came from @ more way-wise comrade: “Oh, but, my dear, you can work like a queen.”’—Frances. Willard. National Preserves, Especially Those in Rocky Mountain West, Offer Ideal Vacation Oppor- tunities at. Very Little Cost—More Than Five Million Annually Adopt Old Slogan By FREDERIC J. HASKIN, WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 12.—Roughing it is rapidly becoming the accepted antidote for overdoses of business, housekeeping, hot weather, worry—even running a govern- ment. President Harding was the last notable recruit to camp life, though any one reading of his necessarily de luxe camp with its half-hundred attendants, and its movie men catching Mr. Edison in fine act of brushing a fly off his nose and the president reading a paper, must feel that Mr. Harding scarcely pad a chance to get the real flavor of pre without a necktie. The everyday citizen is in this more fortunate. If he aspires to build a log cabin in the woods and fish, hunt, take pictures, tramp, study nature, or merely sit, he can enjoy these rec- reations undisturbed for as many weeks as he likes, at the price of a few days at any fashionable resort. Five Million Back to Nature. Back to the forest is now the an- nual slogan of over 5,000,000 people who have solved the problem of a restful, cheap vacation by using the national forests, There probably would be very little forest left to get back to by this time if the reckless cut- ting and burning of timber had not been restricted some twenty years ago and a national forest system built up. "since then, 147 forests, containing 156,000,000 acres of land, have beer dedicated as playgrounds for the peo- le. Pi{n one way, the national forests are of necessity a one-sided propos!- tion. Of the 147 forests all but 20 re in the west. In the east which so much needs camping grounds there is left comparatively little forest land which could be set aside for the peo- ple. But the back to the woods germ is too contagious and virulent to be checked by difficulties of distance. We are told that the Colorado forests, which are perhaps the most famous in the country, attract people from every state in the union.and from ¢ number of. foreign countries. The other national forests are rapidly be- coming Known as practical — play- ground, and automobiles, the wander- lust, good roads, nerves and high prices ate all contributing to the pop- ularity of the public playgrounds everywhere. Trackless Forests. The 5,000,000 people who have got the habit of using the national for- ests are only a beginning. Some of the western forests are so extensive and so comparatively unused by camp- rs that a party may travel for days it a time through them without meet- ing any other vacationists. The west is honeycombed with these vast forest stretches, with snow- topped mountains, lakes hidden among the pines, shady streams stocked with fish, and smooth roads and traiis all at the service of the people. The east has its national forests too, in Florida, the Carolinas, Ar- kansas, Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Maine, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. These forests, set aside, most of them, long after the states were well built up. are limited {n area, compared to the big western forests. The smallest of these eastern forests, for instance, Boone Forest, in North Carolina, {x only 1,000 acres, while the largest, the Arkansas forest, is some 600,000 acres. In the west there are a number of national forests with 1,000,000 or more acres, and one, in New Mexico with 2,500,000. . In all of the national forests ex- cept a few in the east any one who wishes to build a cabin or cottage may lease a camp site of from a quar- ter of an acre to five acres of ground for from ten to twenty-five dollars year. Timber for the house may be bought where available, at cost Price off the stump from the forest service, and the camper can cut it and build his own house or hire some dne to do it for him. The land once leased may be released in succeeding years. Not all the persons wko patronize the national forests build quarters, many prefer to pitch camp in terts, which requires no permit, or no motor from place to place. Rangers Help Vacationists. Forest rangers have headquarters at intervals through the forests and at these headquarters, marked by the American flag, campers and travelers can obtain information, use a tele- phone, and get help in an emergency. The different forests have their own special attractions. Pikes Peaic is in the national forest of the same name. Olympic elk, once almost ex- tinct but now protected and increasing may be shot—with a camera—in the Qismpic forest in Washington ‘state. ne trout abound in the streams of most of the forests. Deer, bear, el’, Brouse, and otiter wild game are to be found in the various forests and may be hunted under state game laws. ; In the Suiattle river forest in Wash- ington the full-blood Indians of the @auiattle river tribe never fail to inter- et campers, while in the east, tic White Mountains boast of their lakes Old Man of the Mountains cut by nature in the side of a cliff. Of them all, the forests in Colorado and California are the most popular as vacation retreats. A, million peo- pie visit the Colorado forests, and 1,- 500,000 the California forests every year. In the east the White Moun- tain forest is probably the best known. Conduct of Eastern Forests. The eastern forests have to be con- ducted along somewhat different lines from the more extensive; western Playgrounds. In three of them public camping grounds have been carefully Surveyed and Gesignated. No one may. lease a lot in them because if monop- olies were granted, a few people would quickly take up all the land. These three forests, the Pisgah in North Carolina, the Wichita forest and game preserve in Oklahoma, and the White Mountain forest in Maine and New Hampshire, are being used by picnic parties, for boy scout and moun- taineers camps, and by campers, who are permitted to stop for several weeks without charge. Hotels and inns located at picturesque spots help to make the forests accessible for people who cannot conveniently pitch camp. The forest service, with the help of all those who use the national forests is protecting and managing them so that the American people can have woodland playgrounds for generations to come. Four million dollars a year for the last three years have been appropri- ated by congress for roads through the national forests, and the states using the fund aro required to put up an equal sum. Over 12,000,000 trout fry are put into the streams and lakes of Colorado alone every year. Rare animals and birds are protected against hunting. Timber nurseries are maintained by the for- est service and millions of , young trees—2,000,000 mfor™ Washington and Oregon alone—are set out in the for- ests every year to replace losses by fire and trees cut for timber. Red _tape"is eliminated as much ai possible in issuing leases and. per- mits. In return, all that is‘ msked of the camper or autoist is that he be careful with his camp fires, put out or report any fire that he may find, and leave his camp ground clean and neat with all trash and refuse burned or buried. Ble Shoe oh When does the 5:30 train leave? shouted a belated passenger, bursting in at the station door. “Five-thirty,” replied the porter. Well, the postoffice clock is twenty-eight minutes past 5 and the town clock is thirty-two minutes past. Which am I to go by?” re can go by any clock ye want, put ye can't go by the train, because it’s gone.” American Legion Weekly. Social Club Great ed elie Forests Bec ome Havens ‘ Of Rest and Recreation for Millions Employs Airplane to | Oversee Her Ranches ! ‘The day of airplane limousines is no longer a thing of the future. It ts a reality. “Home, James." That is what Mra. W. A. Keddie, owner of a string of valuable Nevada ranches, told her alr chauffeur the other @ay when she suddenly decided to return to Reno, Nev., from San Francisco, Cal. Mrs. Keddle, who acts as man- ager for her several ranches and calls Fallon, Nev., her home, pur- chased te machine some time ago to be used in traveling between her ranches. She found it so suc- cessful that when she deemed it necessary to remain in San Fran- cisco on business she telegraphed for the plane, that she might fin- ish her affairs there ‘and still re. return to Reno in time to meet business appointments there. At each of the ranches she has in- stalled a landing field and a sys- tem of lighting has also been es- tablished to aid night flying. Two Old Creole Recipes Are Good For Supper Menu Rice Dish and Creole Beef Of- fer Delicious Changes for Light Evening Meals Following are two supper menus in which the principal dishes are old Creole recipes: They will add pleas. ing variety to the customary menus and are well worth trying: Creole Rice Dish: Put into your fry- ing pan two tablespoons of drippings and half a cup of finely chopped un- cooked onions. Fry the onions until cooked, then add one cup of rice which hi been washed and boiled (moasure the rice before cooking it) and two eups of canned or freshly stewed tomatoe: son with one tea- spoon of salt, cook all together for 10 minutes, then spread the mixture on a platter; cover with one cup (or quar- ter of a pound) of finely chopped American cheesé, and slip the platter into the oven until the cheese is melt- ed. Then sérve hot (setting the plat ter on a thick, folded napkin) and, if desired, with the top of the dish sprinkled over with minced parsley. Creole Beef: Melt in a saucepan three tablespoons of butter and cook in it one tablespoon of finely minced onion and 1 tablespoon qf finely cut green pepper, when onion is tender, add thee taviespoons of four, stir ring unti! smooth, then one cup of broth or thinned brown gravy (from fa previous meal) and half cup of to- mato juice. Season with half teaspoon of salt, a dash of pepper, quarter tea- spoon lemon juice, and, last, add two cups of cooked and diced beef. Let all boll up until piping hot, then turn the mixture out onto a plater and en- circle it with a hot rice border. CONGRESSWOMAN RECEIVES ROSES FROM SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLIC Member From Oklahoma, the First Woman Ever to Preside Over a Session of a Branch of the American Congress, 5 Receives Expression of Gratitude From Peru Diplomacy ‘Women have long been diplomats at home. Now they're entering the dip- lomatic service of Uncle Sam, for Miss Mota Hannay, the first woman ever to take the examination of the state department for a diplomatic post. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—When Representative Alice Robertson pre- sided over the house recently during the adoption of a resolution authoriz- ing the United States to participate in the one hundredth anniversary of Peruvian ‘independence, Ambassador F. A. Pezet of Peru sent to the first woman who has ever swung the house gavel a great bouquet of Arherican Beauty roses. Republican Leader Mondell stopped proceedings in the house to spread in the record the official letter which accomnpanied the flowers for Oklaho- ma’s Republican woman member. “My Dear Congresswoman,” Am- bassador Pezet wrote, “For the first time in the annals of history a lady representative in the parliament of a great nation became speaker pro tem- pore, the motion under debate being the passage of a joint resolution of the senate and the house of repre- sentatives of the United States, au- thorizing the president to appoint a special mission to represent the gov- ernment .and people of the United States at the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the procia- mation of independence in the sister republic of Peru. : ‘As the represetative of the Peru- yian government and nation in this capital, I wish-to express to you on this day my gratification in that the first event of a lady presiding over one of the branches of the legisla- ture should have coincided with the taking of a vote in reference to a par- ticfpation in my country’s celebration. I wish in the name of the Peruvian government and peop%e to present these flowers to you, bound with the colors of Peru, as a token of our re- spect and admiration for the great American democracy, the beacon light which guides the other free na- tions of America. * “Very sincerely yours, “FP. A. PEZET, “Ambassador of Peru.” | Catches a Real Gleam Of Spirit of America WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Speak- ing of interesthg women—and Wash ington is undoubtedly the mecca in | the course of a twelvemonth of mans | of them—tew have attracted more at-| tention than the petite little French woman, Mme. Anie Mouroux, on her recent stay in the capital. Mme. Mou roux has attained fame as a medalist | and she was designated by the French government to make a por. trait of President Harding, Hence, her visit to Washington. In an im- Promptu address at the Arts club she told a most interesting story of how she came to be inspired to make a medal depicting the real spirit of tho American soldier and the American nation. In so doing she paid a tribute to the stars and stripes equal to many which have attracted nation- wide attention. She also told in a touching way of the emotions caused by a visit she made to the cemeteries in France in which rest the bodies of 80 many American soldiers. Womens Activities Newport Woman Is Last Survivor Of Original D. A. R. Is Only Living Granddaughter of a Signer of the Declara- tion of Independence NEWPORT, R. 1, ta Channing Ellery of this city has the distinction of being tht last surviving grandchild of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. She the Aug. 12.—Hen grar ter of Willam El Miss Etlery was born April 8, 1838, and has lived her entire life in New . r she nor her sister » long since deceased, ever mar gr ars they ade their home in alery home d on Thames eet, the home their grandfather, but thid house is no longer standing. at_many he H If Guided Arigh tion is named after this signer of the Declaration of Independence. It was at the invitation of Miss Ellery that the chapter was formed in her house in 1896. She has always been deeply interested in the chapter and kept up her active membership in it The trunk that Wiliam Ellery took with him from Newport ta, Washing ton when he went there to sign the declaration, is in possession of the D. A. R. chapter, a gift from the Misses ry. Opposite the old homestead the ly owned a three-cornered piece of land at the apex of which stood the Liberty Tree. A few years ago Miss Ellery presented this land to cit for park purposes. It has been im proved, beautified and the city has T Newport c? Daughters the apter American of the of Revolu- honored the donor by christening it “Ellery Park.” unters! Yes, Women and Baby, Too! Tney don't look it, but tourist-like persons have just left Now York for central Africa to hunt gorillas! , famous naturalist (at extreme left), is going to stu party, headed by Carl I abtain specimens for the Mrs. Herbert Bradle the picture. cilla Hall. Akele New York Natural History of Chigago, and heir fiv In the center, lem to right, are Miss Martha Miller, . and’ get mou Alice. etary t museu eat-old daughter he y the life and habits of gorillas ion pictures. In the party are Mr. and She and her father are at the right of © Akeley, Drs. Bradley, and Miss Pris Knowledge of the Elemeats Contained In Stains Renders Their Removal Easy The following jsuggestions for the removal of various kinds of stains, as given in the Scientific American, are worth ,retaining: Fruit—Fruit stains can readily be removed by treatment with javelle water; for that reason the stains ap pearing in cotton and linen garments fare said to be removed in the stand and washing process. Silks and wools are to be treated with the regeanjs given in the chart that are not detri- mental to them. Grass—This stain js also removed from cotton ahd linen by treatment with javelle water. Silks and wools are treated with a mixture of equal parts of ethyl alcohol and ethy! ether. This is a solvent for the green dye present in grass. Grease—The average grease stain is removed in the standard washing process. Any stain that survives this treatment may be softened with oleic acid and lard and washed in 2 hot solution of soda ash. If the grease has contained a mineral stain agent lke iron or some type of dyestuff it can be treated specially as described under these headings. The best treat- ment to be accorded to silk and wools is with one of the many grease sol vents given on the chart. The solu- bilities of the different types of grease vary with the different solvents, and it is often necessary to experiment with several solvents before the most efficacious one is found. Cocoa and Chocolate—These stains occur in most cases on white table linens and when too deep to be re moved by the water and soap, are re- moved by the bleach bath. Coffee—Javellé water, applied in the bleach bath, removes this stain effectively. Cream and Ice Cream—the princi pal ingredint that causes trouble in this type of stains is the butter fat present. When titis is removed with hot water and soap the stain is us ually gone, completely. In the case of an ice cream that has fresh fruit juice or a food dye present as color: = matter the stain will be removed B javelle water. Dyes—The treatment for a dye stain has always to be determined by a few tests on some portion of the stained fabric. The first trial may be made with jayelle water; then with permanganate solution, then with so- dium bisulphite solution and zinc. The kind of material involved and the dye itself have to be taken.into consid- eration for the successful treatment of this type of a stain. The removal of hat dyes is facilitated by treatment with 95 per cent thyle alcohol in which the greater portion of the dye is solub’e. A residual stain may to be treated with one of the oxidizing or reducing agents prescribed on the chart. Egs—This stain Is partly albumi nous, partly fatty, and, in most cases will be removed by a formula that in- cludes a lukewarm first bath and hot suds. Mildew—These stains are usually removed !in the standard washing pfo- cess, but heavy stains may have to be treated alternately with javelle water and oxalic acid. Mud—The mud itself {s removed in the regular washing, but a residual stain if iron is often encountered. This is treated as all iron stains are, with warm oxalic acid. Paint and Varnish—These stains are best removed before laundering. They may be loosened by treatment with oleoic acid and then laundered or they may be treated with one of the Lending Books Is Only Incident At El] Paso’s s Library Librarian Catches Spy While Her Assistants Make Cap- ture of a Burglar EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 12.—The public library of this city Is a public service library socially as well as in. teDectually, The Ubrary went along about like solvents that are given in the table of reagents. The character of the paint determines the treatment ap- plied. Paints are composed of some vehicle and a pigment; the vehicle hardens or sets by the evaporation of some volatile ingredients or by the absorption of oxygen from the air, de- pending upon its chemical nature. The pigment can be removed mechan- ically after the vehicle carrying it ts dissolved again. Perspiration—This stain, being wa- ter borne, is usually removed by sim- ple soap and water washing. If it is connected with the running of a dye treatment for the dye must be applied, Colored goods that have been discol- ored by perspiration may sometimes be restored b; sponging with weak acid or alkaline solutions. Ink—Iron inks are best removed by treatment with warm oxalic acid. If such treatment does not remove the stain completely it is possible that the ink has been a mixture of iron and an aniline dy in which case a sec ond treatment with javelle water is necessary. India ink and printers’ ink ‘are both suspensions of carbon in a gum like medium, and should be removed in the regular laundering process. If such treatment is not ef fective the stain may be loosened with lard and laundered again. Silver ni trate inks have to be treated with sodium thiosulphate or with jrvelle water. Javelle water converts the silver to an insoluble colorless salt that has to be removed by treatment with diluted ammonia water. If this precaution is not taken the silver may again oxidize to the colored salt and the stain reappear. Indelible pen- cils contain both graphite and an ani- line lye; the dye can be removed by treatment with javelle water, while the graphite will be washed away mechanically. Iron—The specific treatment for fron stains is warm oxalic acid solu tion. Leather—Javelle water has been other libraries until the war hap- pened. One day Mrs. Mona F. Mc Ghee of the reference department caught a spy. Then the library b came an informal, unofficial branch of the intelligence department, The brary has frequently lent first aid to the injured, although it did not discover it until recently. A woman asked repeatedly to have a copy of Haeckel’s “Riddle of the Universe" renewed. Asked what the particular interest was in the book the women said it just fit her husband's knee. He had injured his leg in some way and the book was the only thing that would rrop up the injured limb at just the right angle. One day a woman came to the li brary and said she wanted a hook with a green back, “I have read all of the red-back books and now I want to start on the green ones, she said. So Mrs. Maud D. Sullivan. librarian, anxious to please, sees to it that the color scheme in binding is not overlooked. The library assistants, all of them} young women, crowned their achieve- ments recently by capturing a bur glar. He was promptly turned over to the police. What he was doing tn the library the assistants say they don’t know. To increase efficiency of the serv Ice the library has been remodeled with outdoor reading rooms, so pa. trons need not come insidy if they don’t want to. Occasionally the staff of the library, with Mrs. Sullivan as impressario, gives a pttlic play. A future project Is a museum. | BEI LS In the linen room of Buckingham palace is a beautiful hand-woven tablecloth that was made for the cor- onation of Queen Victoria and is large | Business I am sure it is a great mistake always t ome misses a when it rains. and dry by o know enough to go in One may keep snug uch knowledge, but one world of loveliness.—Ade- line Knapp. t, Most Material Designed For Reading by Children Is Worthless—Liiterature Abounds With Material Which, When Selected, Has a Strong Appeal HEN children read, as most children naturally love to do, why should not they read good books, espe- tially when there is so much in good literature which can be made to the child as worthless stuff that much of the reading 1 for children? Lilian Whiting in World Beautiful in Books” offers some valuable sugges tions along this line. ‘The following is taken from the first chapter of her book: attractive quickly as const material prepar tutes ‘There is much in even the greatest literature that the child in the nur- sery may easily le to appreci: ate and love. Familiarity with noble thought aad beautiful expression in- ffuences tt b-conscious nature to & degree of ssed potency, and irresistibly leads the spirit thus finely touched onward to all fine fasuea Numbe the passages in akespear ne description of Cleopatra's the scene of the witches’ Macbeth,” the for um in -whilch will enth: of the child and er leeper interest than os thi nd Meaningless rhyme too often upon juvenile read. ers. arn ro ur health Julius ¢ the ist a silly thrus in ue imagination Ane ere ware are passag ents and Moderns. cantos of Homer; in Virgil, as that, for Instance, descriptive of the Cave of the Winds; there are beautiful lyrics of Longfeflow, Lowell, Holmes, and Tennyson; of Louise Chandler Moul ton, Aldrich and Whittier; and even Smerson has many. a stanza that the childish mind would appreciate, espe- cially if him under the beautiful by Charles Malloy the lines— there given. to retation . ake the 1 ind man who seeks a noble but divinities attend.” ne heroic ballads of literature. vit, Macaulay, Holm: Wh many another--among the always be included the im “Battle Hymn” of Mrs, Julia Howe, and the stately and im- “Recessional” of Rudyard Kipling—will leave their influence on the youthful mind in a way of in aleu spiritual —_ inflorescence. ind Mrs. Browning's poem, “King Vic sbscure as he has stanzas that may well be selected for the child; and Mrs. Brownin's poem, “Kind Vic. tor Emmanue Entering Florence, 1860," is one that may easily appeal to the juvenile imagination. Lyric on Abraham Lincoln. Richard Henry Stoddard’s noble lyric on Abraham Lincoln should be aniversally fumillar to every boy and girl; as might well be Louise Imogen Guimey’s sonnet, “On Entering West- minster Abbey" and the opening lines of her “Sanctuary,” which are good to enshrine in memory— as ler, im- of Se and should nortal urd wsive “High above Hate I dwell, © storms, farewell!” The description of nature's moods as found in Wordsworth Bryant, By- ron, Scott and numberless other poets—such lines of these of Whit- Uer's— “We rose and homeward turned down the West burned, And in its light, hill, wood and tide And human forms seemed glorified. slowly While the sunset “The village homes transfigured stood, purple wood Across the waters leaned, to hold he yellow leaves like lamps of gold.” And bluffs, whose belting @ lines— oon above the eastern wood at its full; the hill-range stood in the silver flood.” Or thi “The Shone ansfigured And the rich color and pictorial im- ssiveness of the lyric— ‘The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story. The long light shakes across the lakes And the wild catarart leaps in glo: The exquisite music in that line— “The horns of Elf-land faintly blow. ing;"—the color and the power felt in the words— let us hear the oplying: bugle; answer echoes, ay dyin: Such uring as Tennyson gives tot wonderful lines offers 1 und stimulus to the Blow, purple glens Llew, dying, fine mire Importance of of Early Reading. most perfect and ex works for children Servants," by France lone dwell 3 from lines fror y and Wordsworth from William Blake. Tales,” and a both from his peeutiarly “Marimon” One the Keats and and man Kipling great di poems “Tungte of Scott, ance, enough to cover a table for 200 diners. It has only been used on five occa-| found to remove these stains from the cotton and linen’ fabrics, but in the case of silks and wools the stain is permanent. sions. There is a legend that wine has | never been spilt on the cloth, and that foreci il-luck ie sts spills wine on it to anyone whol! peal to many portions Last Minstrel,” an best be rr of “The Lay of $ well as * ny early youth. This with a large propor. rature of the past for rize the mind tion of that li Children’s Reading Will Be Source of Great Good to Them Woman’s Club At Deaver Chooses lts New Officers Club Studies American Litera- ture and Art—New Year Begins in September Election of officers for the ensuing year was held by the Deaver Woman's club at & regular meeting held on Tuesday afternoon. August 2. The election resulted in the choice of Mra. R. J. Schwendiman as leader, Mrs. William P. Lee as custodian and Mra. E. M. Beaver as auditor for the club year, which begins tn September. The business session was followed by @ carefully arranged program on American literature and art, Mrs. George HMl and Mrs. L. A. Christen- sen reading interesting papers on the subject. Refreshments were served by the hostess, Mrs. C. V. White The next meeting, which wil com- plete the work of the club year, will bo held August 16. Personal Worth, Not Sex, Is What Counts In considering, in the August Book- man, the question of “American Wom- an, and the Intellectual Life," Mary Austin remarks: “Thirty years ago the question whether a particular young woman ledicated herself to the intellectual life or not, depended on the Mkell+ hood of her expensive preparation for it being, as our mothers phrased it, ‘thrown away on some man.” In those days, before the problem,ot marriage or a career had been euper- seded by the perplexities of marriage and a career, freedom of decision for & particular young woman was a po lite fiction, and brainy girls were dis- Unguished from others by hair brushed straight back from the fore- head and by he wearing of sensible That conventions of women collegians are no longer composed ex- clusively of women whose shirt waists stick out as much in the back as the front must be charged to that deve! opment democracy which makes years means of justifying your exist- nce shoes, in society identical with your method of maintaining yourself in it. What women have learned throuch the correlation of honors and Incomes is that high place is not so much « question of sex as !t is of person- ality.” which the crowded years of later lite have lttle leisure The stories of the lives of great men are recognized as a part of the mental culture of youth, and to these an be added those of the impressive figures of art and literature. ° The lives of Bruno, Savonurola, st. Francis of Assissi, and muny ofthe early Italian painters and poets, as Cimabue, Giotto and Michael .Angelo, as Dante and Petrarcha—will appe: to children with tho vividness of fie tion, and would easily replace a vast amount of that ‘erly worthless reading which is too cftua allotted xo the young. Any teacner or mother may easily prove this theory by ac- tual experiment. Bible As Good Literature. An imaginative child will be led into the enchanted spell of “The An- cient Mariner” * * * He will feed on Shakespeare—skipping in part, un- comprenending in part. and still ac- quiring an exquisite and unconscious sympathy with noble thought and ex- pression, that will transmute itself into character. The bible, of all books, when tenderly interpreted to the young mind, becomes a source of infinite culture and joy. * * * Dr. Ed- ward Everett Hale's “Ten Times One Is Ten” has fairly become a classic in American literature and is one of the indispensable books for childhood, youth, and for later years. The story itself of Sir Launfal'’s quest of the Holy Grail is one easily “ppealing to the childish mind, and its life lesson— “The Holy Supper s kept, indted, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare.” Nor is the finest prose less rich In jources than poetry in offering se- lections adapated to children. There are portions of Hawthorne's “Mar- ‘le Faun" which charm the juvenile reader and afford as much interest at the age of ten as at twenty. © * © Hawthorne's “Wonder-Book” tales, The Gentle Boy,” and his biogra- phies, especially adapted for young ders, suggest themselves; but the arger proportion of the best reading Yor children is that which has not een written for that purpose. Literary Groundwork at Sixteen. Many of the monographs on great men by Edwih Percy Whipple; pass- ages in the “Autocrat and the ‘Poet at the Breakfast Table”; much f Thoreau, and the biographies of Lincoln, especially that by Nicolay ind Hay; those of Longfellow, of Tennyson and of Phillips Brooks— are, in portions, peculiarly adapted be skilfully presented to childish sympathy. If comprehensive lnowl- dge of what is best in the world of books united with judicious selection nd unfaltering attention but lead a child onward into literature, any gitl or boy should, by the age of 16, be well grounded in all the va- rious branches of literary activity. can have fitted the music of the song Syne" with words of their own, and it is common- ly sung by pupils of the schools the conclusion of the eghool term.