Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1921, Page 10

PRESIDENT LAUDS WORK + ‘/OF 'LIBRARY FOR BLIND —— ' Pivector of National Organization, at Convention in Iowa, Receives Letter of Commendation. work of the National Library rome Blind is indorsed by President ¥arding in a letter written to Miss {Ptta Josselyn Griffin, director of the organization, in connection with the ninth biennial convention of the American Association (lv{ Workers for nd, at Vinton, lowa. "k."l'lh”al Hdea of a National Library for the Blind,” said the President’s letter, made public here tonight,” has always seemed a particularly feasible au considerate method of serving these unfortunate people, for, more than anything else, the privilege of - ing means a great deal to them.” “Please express my great sympath and Interest to your fellow workers in_this excellent cau: 4 . The library was organized in 1911, §ts main object being to provide Jiterature for the enlightenment and entertainment of the blind and to furpish them employment i scribing books. into “Braille'—the most generally used blind alphabet. A fine collection of books of all kinds —fiction, history, biogr: travel, etc.—has been as mewcatalogue has just been comp giving a complete list of all book: available for circulation, including list of musical works, thesc being transcriptions of vocal and mental pieces which the musi can use for their pupils or fo work. All of this material i published both in a printed catalogue and in the Revised Braille alphabet. The National Library for the Blind has made fine proxr it is said, | ce its incorporation in 1911. du great part to Mrs. Rebeeca McManer . who provided headquarters at 1729 H street northwesi, and funds for ‘buying books and nec ¥ apparatus, €0 marked has been the growth of tho organization that it outgrew thes quarters and now housed in I temporary structure at 1800 D stree is to form the basis for & permanent endowment. “Litrachure.” Edward Yeomans in the Atlantic Monthly. “The class will please take their readers and turn to page forty-three. John, what is the subject of the story on that page? “Now stand up and read till I tell you to stop: stand up straight, please, and hold vour book In your right hand. Speak clearly. hold your head up. There—that's the first sentence; Dow tell us what mood the verb i in. What is for the subjunec tive mood? v or that is something you must efore you go on to the next She writes: The subjunctive mood is used in a subordinate proposition when both contingency and futurity ex- pressed or when the contrar: implied. i “ . The children look at it somewhat as a puppy looks at the house cat with its back arched and tail inflated; they look at it reproachfully, and turn away sadly “Now go on reading. please. “There, stop there. Caroline, what would you say was the particular feature of this story far as we have gone? Caroline says, “Well. T should cali f4—sad—or—I don't know—I don't care much about it. “Oh, that's not what I mean,” the teacher. “I mean its literary fea ture. Don’t you think it is the way | the adjectives are used? Hugh had| a_ great reputation in s for adjectives. He seemed to know mors of them than anybody eise, and this! is an excellent example of his style “And don’t you notice, too, hnw! short his sentences are? ' Now. why | did he use such short semtences?| Why. every author has his sty Hugo chose thi hi { 1 it makes his writings so Jer| Do you know anvthing else thatl Hugo wrote besides this pieec we are | reading Nobodv knew and there was every chance that nobody ever would know. | read pieces—rare- were trained to read pieces. —_— The Peaceful (?) Countryside. Prom the Boston Transcrip:. It is becoming increasingly difficult In Massachusetts to find a rural re. | {reat “far from the madding crowd's | noble strife. Gone are th i ignob the. davs “The plowman homeward plods his weary way And leaves the world to darkness e plowman is likely to finis Dis elght-hour day by riding home o the tractor, and borrowing the flivver 0 g0 to the “movies,” while the dark ness is intermittent, coming in mo- ments of black in the midst of the glare of lights on automobiles that tear bv country churchvards at express-train speed. The lowing herd may still wind “slowly o'er the lea,” but it is in imminent danger if it be- takes itself to the highway. Times have changed. “The cool. sequestered vale of life” may be sought in vain in regions within motoring distance of the cities. Tt is suggestive of irony to' speak of “the noiseless tenor” of or coun- i H i 1 The invasion of the countryside by the army of automobile riders who have succeeded to the handful who once rode in chaises, would not be a thing to be deplored were all the in- vaders law-abiding folk. The great majority, of course, are good citizens, | but the minority are showing the | ability to cause much loss and trou- | ble in the rural regions, and among them are persons guilty of very se- rious crimnes. —ee Heerd in Court. ¢ From the Bostor: Transcript. Judge—You say the prisoner Is not insane, and yet he is not in his right mind. ' How is that? Witness—Lots of people. your hon- who, are not insane are wrong- led about everythi ZENS ClsleGS BANK 1336 N. Y. Ave. History in Stamps. From the London Time: Stamp collecting affords, not in frequently, a glimpse tc unfamil- far bypaths of history. botk ancient and modern. Portraits of famous Cossack hetmen who are Identified h the history of Little Russia find The likeness of Bogdan Kheml- nitz’:i, the renegade Polish office hy led the Cossack revolt of 1832, a after vain atlempts to establish him- self as “Monarch aend Autocrat of Rus,” finally entered the service of the Tsar twenty years later, adorns the ten grivinl stamp, printed in rose carmine. Ivan Stephanovitch Ma- zeppa, the hero of Byron's poem. is portrayed on the next value—viz., 15gr., light brown. Originally a page at the Polish court, he escaped after the discovery of his intrigue with the wife of a nobleman to the Ukraine, where he became secretary to the hetman Samoilowitch, whom he final- 1y succeeded in 1687. By Peter the Great he was created Prince of the Ukraine, but after conspiring with Charles XII agalnst his benefactor, fled to Bender, where he died. in igns constituting a history of rhia in cpitome are found on three postage stamps to hand from Bel- grade, which are sold at a premium in aid of the national fund for dis- abled soldiers. The first value, 10 paras, red, records an incident of the battle of Kossovo in 1389, from which dates the foundation of Serbian unity. It represents the young girl of Kos- 80vo, one of the legendary heroines of Slavonic folklare, seeking her betrothed among the slain on the historic “Field of Blackbirds” (after the celebrated painting by Krstitch.) The next episode (on the 15 paras, brown) is six centuries later, and perpetuates the memory of the Great Retreat of 1915. An ‘allegory of the consummation of the ‘Yugo-Slav king- dom is typified on the.25 paras, blue, by a group composed of a Serb, a Croat, and a Slovene. upholding the national crown. ~ Simple Finance. From the New York Sun. “Let's go in here for luncheon. You don’t have to tip. the waiters.” “How do they manage 1t?" “Easy enough. You pay twice as much for your food.” —_— Personal Exemption. From the New York Sun. Mrs. Henpeck—Herbafter, bring me your pay envelope as it 18 handed you, unbroken. There's a shortage here. Explain. Mr. Henpeck (bravely)—I took out | my car faye and lunch money, which | under the income tax law I Interpret as my personal exemption. —_— Mrs. Mabel R. Brown is rounding out a period of twenty-one years of continuous =ervice as a member of the school board of Portland, Me. O The Javelin and the Discus. From the Boston Transcript. In the light of our weakness in these events in past O''mpic contests, the decision to add th. javelin thro and discus throw to the 1922 program of the Intercollegiate Athletic Asso- clation’s track meet is a wise one. It was somewhat disappointing to see our athletes, who so brilliantly rep- resented the United States at Ant- werp last summer in the dashes, the hurdles, and most of the fleld events, give way to the Finns and Swedes in the javelin and discus throws. In the former, the first four places went to the sturdy athletes from Finland, the fifth place to an Esthonian and the sixth to & Swede. In the discus, we fared a little better, Americans win- ning third and fifth places. But here again the redoubtable Finns won first and second prizes against the com- petition of the world's best. Now that American college athletes are going te take up the discus and the javelin in good earnest, our Olym- pic team should make a much better showing in these two events in 1924 | then we did last year, or at any pre- vious Olympiad. Javelin and discus DR. CLAUDE S.SEMONES 400410 McLachlen l&u 10th and G Sts. N.' Phons Main 781. R | throwers will be trained in scores of { colleges and universities; and here and there, let us hope, will appear a prospective Olympic champion. To win success in modern athletics, 1oi and scientific preparation is Indis- ensable. For America to enter the avelin and discus contests in the 1924 Olympiad with fair hopes of sucoess. we must now begin our campaign, and putting these two events in the Inter- collegiate Athletic Assoclation’s pro- gram s @ move, at least, in the right direction. 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