New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1927, Page 10

10 LIGHT LITERATURE ONGE STIRRED C1TY Library Once Gonsidered Barring | Noted Authors From Shelves | Banned from the New Britain In- stitute! 'What? “Oil, or “Elmer | Gantry,” or “Circus Parade?’ No! “Tempest and Sunshine,” by Mary J. Holmes, “The Opening of a Chestnut Burr,” by E. P. Roe, and other works by these authors and by Amanda N. Douglas and Rosa N. Carey. This action came very reality in 1902, and, in fact, was taken by some libraries in other cities. Such steps could hardly be taken on grounds of immoral con tent in the volumes, but the books in question were scorned by the literati of the period as silly and frothy, unworthy of the time of | even a casual reading. These perior personages held out for the classics as opposed to th light | literature and started agitation here to have the works of these four authors removed from the shelves of the Institute. The clamor assum- | ~d such proportions the follow- ing questionnaire was sent out by the library to its patrons and the answer awaited with ominous si- | lence: ome librarians think that public | libraries should not keep the works ot M A. M. Douglas, N. € P. Roe. They call them silly and poorly written and ¢ that people will read betrer them “Will you help the Institute by giving your opinion? Write the an- on the paper below each question or on the back: “1, Should the Institute give kesping the works of any or close to | su- k that these au- tter and teach | or do they only amuse ass away time?"” Are not the works of George Eliot, Dick J. M. Barrie, Wey- man, Hawthorne, Scott, Duman and Thackeray just as (a) restful when is tired (b) entertaining (c) helpful (d) full of people worth knowing? 4, Tt almost as hard to tell why one Jikes a hook as it is to fell why one likes roses or strawherries. 1f you can think of any res vou like Holmes, Roe, and o give them. Please name whose works the Institute does not keep which you think should be fill out and return soon} to the library. Sincerely vours, | “ANN/ ROCKWELL"” | Needless to say, the book found too man; to have the threatened action taken. Now, what sort of books these to draw the ire of the cen- cors? How did they compare with ! modern works which are forbi a4 other Puritani ns, is any authors were Soston nded citic The books, written for that c fn the main, < of girl which novels. The dif- girls of those ming of rich aptivated by married them, were “princes” who: were their heauties and while the girls of today are more | concerned with the fmn te pleasures of dancing, drinking, petting. So there were no roadhouses or wild parties in 1902 nove Most of them were variations of the same theme, the romance of a dry goods counter girl or simple country lass with the owner's son of a biz horse- and-carriage man from Syracuse. And. like the northwestern mounted policemen, these long-ski sels always got their men. Bound in paper covers and for 15 or 2 s aple hooks were fairly devoured by the working girls of the period. They were the feminine companions of —well, perhaps not exactly Dead- wood Dick and Old Sleuth, but at least of Horatio Alg ed with sentiment were they t it a most oozed right out from betwes the pages. There w: “dear” a weethear n honest Kiss to every page. The couple may have met with obstacles from their par ents or some scheming villain, he end v were married . they always married in st chapter in those days. Thero rever was any »stion that 1 couple might be ed and then separate, or, worse yet, might not marry at ail. Or perhaps T Sunshine,” there would be who were rivals for t “sunshine’ ten ol to to every B e as in mpe he last tempest be made a h while the “sun ot uprightness ¢ adventures tame to he read As for sex, th wo thos where the her ized as iain as ha Ther mioral charac possibly fiendi anything from t1 trie chair on the final p a5 too watehful of t time and time, hrary nythin 1. The cha uplift” movements if and v m of noti wing, improve vorthy erature, ey folt they o « hookease st when tire effort In home: Cistinetion, ks of thes thors hecame ndard and read nnashamedly. Women remember their many thrilling ! Wi today mo { much to do with | living one's life. | At | ed round her body, kirted dam- |y ments as they sat wrapped up in the unfolding of Mary Holme's love stories and put themselves in the places of the heroines. Some of them laugh now when they re- member those #imes, but others | still insist that the old love stories were “simply grand.” | Perhaps this is being unfair to the good old best sellers. At any rate, E. P. Roe stood somewhat | about his three female contempor- arles. He was a minister and his books were designed to be sermons in print, just as are those of Harold Bell Wright, another retired clergy- | man. While there was no great depth to any of his productions, they were all “elean” beyond doubt and, coming from a clergyman, had breaking down | church prejudices against fiction. Every one of his hooks had a mor- | al, whatever good that did. And, after all, they certainly in- spired young peoplq with higher ideals than the hooks of to These latter-day novels, while per- ps closer to the truth than their | predecessors, deal mainly with things in life which are to be avolded, while those of the ridiculed | earlier writers pointed a rather un- | exciting, but certainly safe, way of WEARS CORSETS 0UTSIDE Newest English Fad Includes “Coats of Mail” Black Chifford, Fm- broldered and Silver Creations London, Aug. (A1, r newest fad is the wedring of cor- ‘ts outside instead of undernecath the dress. These fashionable corsets ire made from costly materials such as the lowly ‘“‘coat-of-mail” corset of the past never dreamed of nsing. The most popular fashion fs a black chiffon evening frock, corset ed in the new manner with dia- mante embroidery and silver lame. first glance it looks as if the er has a glittering girdle elasp- laced down the | Lack in the old-fashioned wa 1 er string. The scintil silver ornamentation of the 5 however, is quite pliable, despite the r ism of its design and shape. A London dressmaker said of the new fashion: “The corset style for evening dresses is much more sttractive than it sounds. It lends itselt to many ideas and cmpha- sizes a good figure line, makin woman look far more ‘dressed’ | than some of the recent all-down- alike modes.” FRENCH T0 STRIVE FOR TOURIST TRADE Much Alarmed Shoulder Shrug-| ging at Loss of Visitors wed of trimmi con Paris, Aug. 27. —The tourist sea son this year has been such a di mal disappontment that steps already being taken in goverment circles to put - back into its preferen Even the American Legion con- vention will not bring the that nticipated. Hot taurant and storekcepers are great- | ly dismayed. Many of them now | lize that their expectations tased on former seasons With a | more advantageous exchange, i too high and that they went too far. Begin Campaign It is too late now to recoup this but a determined movement | been started, headed by M minister of public wor the tourist business he An extensive propa- | campaign in foreign coun- particularly the United States crmany, being planned interests will work with | | ot re | | was were | zanda tries and Lo steamship a taken the prob- | who has to the vari- exploiting r lands. It is now that the useful propa- countries Ttaly, w ing to Dring busi- has doing not ness, has diverted travel from country. Advert | 1t is that The 1 adopt comp tourist titive s will he encour 150 such capi- hzen in American cities Copen- mountain resorts tour: ronage. | rkable ch to take rather far This s maneuver the sinee the lion's The Tn vears past, espreially has had rons To Plac Tri vo- into A ic READ HERALD CLASSIFIED FOR YOUR WANTS ADS | Mis. | mother, aged 78. | around, and she stop at 109 on the | i old babie ®EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1927. Has Two Grandmothers, Grandfather And Two Great-Grandmothers Living { | | | | dowagers. number of American hos | many hoste FOUR GENERATIONS ' ‘ Kenneth I Tuiile, father; C. F. Sheldon, great-grand- | months, Mrs. Burbara Arthur Jane Tuttle, aged R. Tuttle, grandmother; {smile on the faces i | | ANOTHER FOUR GENERATIONS | ruttle, moth ~grandmof Barbara Jene Tuttle, aged 22 months, Mrs. Kenneth . W. Fodt, grandmother; Mrs, Anna Milkey, gr Another Great Grandmother To few people in a lifetime come: such distinction as that 1 by | Barbara Jane Tuttle. Barhara months r. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Tuttle of 7 Carlton street. i oth parents and three living g , Barbara Jane also is bless- cd with thre living great-grand- mothers. Children who have only | one grandparent are hereby reques ed to take notice and envy Barbar Jane. Two grandmothers, a grand- | father and three great-grand- | mothers still living. What a wealth of cookie and other goodics one | usually finds in grandmother’s larders, this young woman can look forward to. When Barbara Jane leaves her | home at 207 Carlton street and| starts out with her parcnts to visit | her numerous grand and indparen she can very ider her: Britain. She calls Jane old daughter or sesides T 1 | on her grandmother, | L. W. ¥odt of the Monroe apartments at Arch and Monroe then she procceds to Win- throp street where she her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Tuttle at number 117, brief t. because all her visits must_ be | brief if she is going to get IJ 0to by Johnson & Peferson Tattle, Aged 71 To Ask Abolishment of Death Sentence in France Paris, Ang. 27 (B) — Pierre Re- naudel, socialist leader and former minister, has served notice of his intention of introducing nediate- Ily upon the resumption of sittings |of ihe.Jrench parliament a bill {abolishing the death sentence in France. In a preliminary the bill Re Mrs. Ellen same street to call on grandmother, Mrs. Ellen So as not to discriminat: call: wold str her great- J in her| t where a vi: andmother, . Anna the way home she for a chat (oh yes, s can chat, ndmother will s andmother, Mr don at 216 nsnally 2 months and great- ), WHR her |ya ey C. F. Shel- ori Jassett street, : Anytime the young woman fecls like checking up on her ancestol all she s to ‘liO is to call a fs ily council. stops Ao ation of wudel said: Suceo- air, although neither | ted nor terminated in France, 1s shown that the death causg universal arise wheTl fum hs failed | and partiality of judges or the in-| |tolerance of chiefs of state have | replaced the absolute certainty of | NEWINGTON NEWS " | Repairs to the Newington Center | it entenc, may opinion to 1 justice school house are being completed in preparation of the opening of school nest month. Two rooms on the ond floor of the building have been venovated and entircly repainted. All the corridors in the building have also been painted.” New elec- tric lights have been installed. The flag pole on top of the build- ing which was damaged in a rec electrical storm has been repaircd Ventilators have also been put on 1l windows throughout the build- ing. irman of the tow . has called a meot- sission for Monday night at the town hall. A map of the town, which has been made by Arthur W. Bacon of New Britain, will be looked over for a final in- D. K. Pe plan commiss SOCIAL ASPIRANTS TAUGHT T0 AMUSE Must Be More Than True Blue- Ribbon Pedigres London, Aug. 27. P—The good old days are gone when a bluc-rib- boned pedigree was enough to “crash the gate” on London society. To get through the sacred pertals of Belgravia one must now be amusing. That elimipates a lot of It also weeds the old out a ses who came over this season with a bank | Lcok In one hand and an invitation | list in the other. At>the climax of the social seasom, now in sight, es are weighing their Lank balances ugainst the salver of visiting cards collected during the last three months. wondering whether it was worth while. The barricades of London soclety can now only be stormed, they have discovered, not by social impecca- bility, but by one’s ability to amuse. It one can raise the flicker of a of tired Bel- social for- who have gravia hostesses one's tune is made. Persons spent small fortunes on charity balls and entertainments and who have meandered through the whole lugubrious length of them have not vet been able to turn the magic Wheel that spins one with society. Yet people with reputations of being merely young and amusing, like Edyth Baker, the American pi- anist, entertainer, Fred and Adele aire, who entertained Prince George in their hotel suite, and Ilorence Mills, negro show girl of New York, entertain the best so- clety. People come to their par- ties who would not bother even to answer invitations from persons in the social register. PROBE SHOOTING STORY New Taven Police Inclined to Dis- believe Account of Accident Told by Wounded Man Shot in Leg. (P —Work- | ¢ that Charles Cameron, of George streef, was shot in this city Thursday night ond not on the state road be- tween Naugatuck and Waterbur, as he claims, detecti ing to check up on his movements hefore he staggered into Grace hos- pital early vesterday morning with | hlood flowing from a bullet wound in the calf of his leg He told the police that he was returning from a dance in Water- bury and that he was driving ilong the state road, he espied a car parked across the road about 200 feet ahead of him and directly in his path. He said that he sound- ¢d his horn several times when there was no sign of the moving, left his own machin tarted towards the ked car. Two shots suddenly flashed from the occupants of the car who were hid- len from his view in the darkness of the night, and one took effect New 7 on Haven, the in his leg. As he fell to the ground the car drove off. According to his story, Len crawled to his car | and h in great pain, man-| d to drive to the hospital. | Brother Edmund Dead | At Newport, Is Report | w York, Aug. 27 (P—Brother | Edmund, 68, for 12 years treasurer of the New York province of the| Christian Brothers, died at New-| port, R. yesterday, according to word rec a here, | While at Manhattan | more than xri years he conducted classes which attende Cardinals | Hayes of New York and Mundelein | of Chicago. ‘ Last November, Brother Edmund celebrated his 50th year as a mem- ber of the Christian Drothers. T city List of Patents Issued To Connecticut People Patents issued by the U. 8. Patent Office August 23, 1927, to Connegti- cut Inventors. (List compiled weekly . from the Official Gazette by the office of Harold G. Manning, Walk-Over Shoe Store, 211 Main St.. New Brit- ain.) John T. Austin, Hartford, assign- or to The Austin Organ Co. (2 pat- ents). Organ action; and Organ stop action. William L. Bean, West Locomotive smoke box. George R. Bott, Stamford, assign- or to Norma-Hoffmann Bearings Corp. Mounting for antifriction bearings. Albert F. Breitenstein, New Hav- en, assignor to The Geometric Tool Haven. | Co. Self-opening die head. George W. Campbell, Hartford, assignor to Underwood Typewriter Co., N. Y., N. Y. Typewriting ma- chine and case. Harold D. Chufch, Fairficld, as- signor to Packard Motor Caf Co., Unless the Gas Range has 6 RED WHEEL it is NOT a LORAIN JEWEL Detroit, Mich. Motor Vehicle. Roy L. Danks and M. L. Baker, New ven, assignors to The Regal Silver 'Mfg. Coys Spoon or similar article. Willlam C. Hoover, Norwalk, as- signor to The Norwalk Tire and Rubber Co. Tire. Daniel A. Keating, Bridgeport, as- signor to The American Tube and Stamping Co. Varlable-speed rolling mill. 3 Willlam Nicholas, Bridgeport, as- nor to The Black Rock Mfg. Co. Rubber-tube trimming, wrapping, and rolling machine. stant compression internal-combus- tion engine. : Royce M. Striekland, New Haven, assignor to The Geometric Tool Co. Self-opening die head. George B. Wright, South Norwalk, assignor to Nash Enginecring C6 Device for fllustrating the operation | of rotary pumps. Trade-Marks Registered Columbia Phonograph Co., Inc., Bridgeport. Phonographs, phono- Andrew L. Riker, Fairfield. Con- | v sraphs adapted for combination with radio receiving sets, and parts for such phonographs. Willlam L. Gilbert Clock Co, ‘Winsted. Clocks. The Perkins Flectric 8witch Co., Bridgeport, assignor to The Bryant Electric Co. Electrical switches. Stanley Rule & Level Co., New Britain, assignor to The Stanley Works. (2 registrations) Measuring instruments; and Planes. 3 The Union Metallic Cartridge Co., assignor to Remington Arms Co. Inc., Bridgeport, and Ilion and N. 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CLARK oas JORAIN New Britain Gas Company ug.27thtoSept. 1st MOVING TIME spection The map shows the street lines of all hizhways in the town an the of fire s which have been installed Hill fire district and district will be 4 to supplement The commission ap m after agitation roused by the uncertainty t lines of several high- e map in at that t ntiquated which ar show position the D one he If you have an apartment or house for' Rent——Advertise It NOW! v years previous Martin former pulpit of Thre pastor her. the New tional s to- vas e anding is at the Rev morning servi Mr. Martin itation by th committes spending of in Mrs. Alb Triangls rscction vith the ha rt fil of in, owner tion at the rlin turnp of Main is planning to move to Sonthington Miss . ark, N Netileton N wnd Washington, Conn., i spene a few days with her sister, Mrs. T. H. Cogswell of Theodore | street, Maple Hill | HERALD CLASSIFIED SECTION Call 925 A Well Written Ad in the Herald Always Brings Results