The herald., 1893-05-27
LITERATURE FOR THE YOUNG,
The Subject Discussed by the
Friday Morning Club.
Mrs. Hunters Paper on What Books
Children Should Read.
A Lot of Desirable Books for Youths
which Does Not Include Sanford
and Merton--The Dis
cussion.

The Friday Morning club yesterday
had most excellent programme, it be-
ing Magazine day.
Mrs. Mary D. Spaulding presided.
Mrs. Josephine Hunter had prepared q
paper on Literature for the Young. The
paper was read by Mrs. Hunters daugh-
ter, young girl in the high school, who
in her clear, sweet voice and pleasant
enunciation showed careful training and
culture.
Mrs. Hunter deplored the fact that
many o mother, while knowing thor
oughly about the wardrobe of the child,
doesn't know what is in his heart, the
while she is absorbed in the thousand
and one daily duties she does not know
whether her daughter is reading Ouida
or Miss Alcott. whether her sons mind
is being nourished or poisoned. The
writer sketched with much humor the
method employed by the publishers Of
many of our own children's magazines
of writing stories to order-"with a
moral" 1900 words, duty to parents /;
1000 words, kindness to animals; tenn
perance, cut enclosed. Often the puz-
zled writer, with the cut OF strange
animal or plant, takes up the study of
zoology in order to make description,
and moral, to fit the cut.
Miss Hunter read an extract from
Miss Alcott's Eight Cousins, showing
the style of literature boys and girls like
and its effect upon the mind.
In Mrs. Logan's Home Magazine q
prize was understood to be given for the
best selected list of books for young
people under Is years OF age. OF the
700 lists sent in the winning one was as
follows:
Historic Boys, E. s. Brooks; Historic
Girls, e. S. Brooks; Children's Stories
of American History, Henrietta O..
Wright; From Pioneer Home to the
White House Iife of Lincoln), VIM.
Thayer; Freedom Triumphant, Charles
Carleton Coffin; Among the Law
and Girls, edited by John s. White,
LID; Fairy Land of Science, Arabella
E. Buckley; Canterbury Chimes, Fran
bound, J. G.. Whittier; A Child's Gar
Tales from Shakespeare, Charles Lamb ;
Lewis Carroll (Pseud); Go Right On,
Edw. E. Hale; Robinson Crusoe, Danl.
Defoe; Betty Leicester, Sarah Orne
Jewett; Uncle Toms Cabin, Harriet
Beecher Stowe; Little Women, Louisa
Alcott; Timothy's Quest, Kate Doug
lass Wiggin; Sweet Briar, M. E. w.
Sherwood; Against Heavy Odds, H. H.
Boyesen; The Boy Travellers in the Far
East, Thos. W. Knox; John Halifax,
Gentleman, Miss Muloch; Faith Cart
ney's Girlhood, Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
| The selection is good one, and is
varied in the range OF its topics. To this
| should be added st. Nicholas, Harper'e 4
| Young People, Wide Awake and The
Youths Companion.
After some discussion on the subject,
an article was read by Mrs, Knight from
the May number of Donohoe's magazine
entitled, Should Married Women Work :?
This was answered by another article
from the same magazine, What q Mar
ried Woman Thinks, read by Mrs.
Spaulding. g.rn0a a9ao1 NAi. i7e
Next week the subject before the club
will be, The Cosmopolis City Club, a
series of articles by Washington Glad
den in the January, February and March
numbers OF the Century. The subject of
officers for the ensuing year will also be
brought up before the club next week,
and large attendance is requested.
The guests yesterday were as follows: ::
Mrs. H. Judd, Los Angeles; Mrs. Mary
A. Mott, Brentwood; Mrs. 81. M. New
man, Leipsic, o.. Mrs. Edith Furrey,
Los Angeles, and Mrs. Alice j. Blake,
Michioar