The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-24
LIBRARY Is AGAIN OPEN
TOMMY BAREFOOT AND OTHER
BOOK LOVERS OUT IN FORCE
YESTERDAY
NEW QUARTERS COMMENDED
Facilities Are Much Better Than
the Old LOcatiOn-one Change
Made In BOok-Drawing
Regulations,

There was fat volume tucked snugly
under Tommie's shabby coat sleeve:
there was an anttcipatory smile on Tom
mics pudgy little face; bare toes, which
also belonged to Tommie, clawed in boy
FASHION their mates on the other foot as
Tomm1e, warm and weary, waited. And
Tommies was rewarded! The long line
that stretched from the librarians desk
In the juvenile department. Of the new
public library yesterday to the very door
ana that was formed of boys and girls
or all sizes, compilations and classes,
moved slowly down until Tommie's head
eobbed up before the librarian and the
line paused there until Tommie's heart
was gladdened by another fat volume,
just such one as he had brought back.
It would tell, as Tommie very well
knew, how Fritz, the plucky, by COM
bining goodness with boarded ntckels.
was able to abandon bootblacRing for the
more restfu1 role of the philanthropic
millionaire. 1t was exciting, therefore it
appealed to Tommie; it pointed a beauti-
rul moral, therefore it appealed to Tom
mics mother. Hence Tommie's beatife
smile
But Tomnte wasn't the only one made
happy yesterday by the opening of the
pubic library. In the reading rooms
gray heads bent over papers and maya
zines; bent forms settled into comfort
abe chairs with q sigh of satisfaction
10 tnose whom habit or some book
Wormish trait, or, perhaps. a friendlesa
condition had brought, day after day
month after month, to the reading room
IN the old building, it was something of
hardship to be banished from that ac-
customed haunt. Yesterday at the oDen-
ing they We're there promptly on the
stroke Of to begin again their not un-
peasant task of killing time with read
ing. Inc librarians recognized all the old
cuentele 1t was promptly at the stroke
OF also that Miss Bostonese, prtm. spec-
tacIed and demure, tripped into the ref
erence room to bury her youth, for the
morning al least amid musty volumes
mere are all my clubs to be looked
UP, she conflded to feminine Achateq
as she emerged at noon, blinking near
slghtedIy, and I've just neglected things
ureauIully. Life Is so short, don't you
tnlnK, and there Is so much to learn -
Miss Bostonese sighed and Achates look
ed impressed
Inc old lady that had become a fea-
ture of the other library because of a
pleasant little habit she had formed of
bringing a bunch Of garden flowers to
the employees during the summer months
was not absent yesterday She tripped
IN about 10, her face wreathed in smiles
her hands filled with the scarlet flames
they call nasturtiums
Il don't care to read" she conf,ded to
the librarian. as she had confided n1anv
times before, but just love the smei,
OIL DOCKS: And shifting contentedly. she
presented her flowers and passed out.
mere were scores of readers who can
dldly expressed their satisfaction AT tba
new quarters. The reference rooms tha
reading room, the stack rooms were ali
admired. perhaps not audibly, but plainly
for all that R-''-tii'
The rules and regulations ara almost
tne same as those in the old library
one small change has been made. and -
resulted In a little confusion YESTERDAY
In the "grown-ups' department the men
whose cards all bear odd numbers go tn
one nprar1an's desk, and the women.
VINO nave even numbers on their cards
10 another This divides the work and
tacilltates the distribution.
The employees Will be unusualIv busv
Tor week at least, for judging bv yes-
terday $ crowds, the little wait has whet-
TED the public's taste for reading and
almost everybody in ST. Paul who makes
the slightest pretense to being ntera ~,
VIII PROBABLY want a book.